Mary Christine Sungaila

June 21, 2024 | National Law Journal

Do congressional statutes provide the Federal Communications Commission with authority to license and regulate a broad range of in-space servicing, assembly, and manufacturing activities? Under U.S. Supreme Court law, the answer is no.

By Mary-Christine Sungaila

7 minute read

February 29, 2024 | Litigation Daily

Comparing the current distributions of male and female judges in both the federal court of appeals and state courts of last resort.

By Adam Feldman and Mary-Christine Sungaila

7 minute read

March 11, 2020 | The Recorder

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit's decision in Zuckerman v. Metropolitan Museum of Art, which held that the equitable doctrine of laches barred a claim to recover a Holocaust-era artwork, even though that claim was brought within the six-year statute of limitations that Congress enacted through the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery (HEAR) Act.

By Mary-Christine Sungaila, William Feldman and Marco A. Pulido

12 minute read

May 30, 2018 | The Recorder

The authors detail the impact of the high court's decision on FLSA claims and outline the decision's implications for the arbitrability of claims arising under California's Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act.

By Mary-Christine Sungaila, Alex Stevens and Marco A. Pulido

11 minute read

May 05, 2003 | Law.com

A California appellate court has taken a sharp turn off the path of hospital liability jurisprudence over the past century. The Fourth District has declared hospitals presumptively liable for the misdeeds of independent contractor physicians under the doctrine of "ostensible agency."

By Mary-Christine Sungaila and Lisa Perrochet

11 minute read