The force majeure defense, and related defenses like impossibility, impracticability and frustration of purpose, are becoming commonplace in the Covid-19 era. While prior case law…
Category: New York
Douglas Toering and Ian Williamson have written an article, Business Courts in Michigan: Seven Years and Counting, on the current status of Michigan’s business courts.…
On December 23, 2019, New York’s Office of Court Administration (OCA) gave written notice of a proposed rule amendment permitting the Commercial Division to require…
We note three 2019 legal research papers focusing on international business courts, all including some degree of comparison with U.S. business courts. In Delaware’s New Competition, set…
A number of business and complex litigation courts have created standardized forms for use by their judges and practitioners. We have previously posted some of…
The New York Commercial Division Advisory Council has proposed a new rule on videoconferencing, and facilitating remote appearances at court conferences and oral arguments. Attached…
As of September 3, 2019, New York’s Commercial Division has expanded into Bronx County. It has been over ten years since the Commercial Division’s last…
In 2013, then Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman created the New York Commercial Division Advisory Council to provide advice “on an ongoing basis about all matters…
As of May 2019, 23 states currently have operational business courts within their borders. Though not yet open for business, Wyoming’s new Chancery Court is to…
Here is a link to a very interesting paper, International Commercial Courts in the Litigation Market. This article observes the development of international commercial courts…