In late 2012, West Virginia’s Supreme Court of Appeals established the Business Court Division of West Virginia’s Circuit Court. The Business Court Division recently made…
Category: Opinions
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.…
Philadelphia’s Commerce Case Management Program (“Commerce Court”) has three dedicated judges who manage all aspects of cases assigned to them from beginning to end. The…
In James D. Morrissey, Inc. v. FedEx Ground Packaging System, Inc., Philadelphia Commerce Court Judge Nina Wright Padilla held that an arbitration agreement only encompassed…
On November 20, 2019, Kentucky’s Supreme Court issued an order detailing the “Rules of Practice for the Jefferson County Business Court Docket Pilot Project.” A…
In 2008, New Hampshire’s Legislature created the Business and Commercial Dispute Docket (BCDD). The enabling statute can be found here. The BCDD is a statewide docket, but…
In a recent opinion, Michigan Business Court Judge Christopher Yates addressed whether a protective order against disclosure in one case could be enforced in a…
Plaintiff brought the case in the Delaware Superior Court’s Complex Commercial Litigation Division (CCLD), Delaware’s law-side business court. The defendant move to transfer the case…
North Carolina’s Administrative Office of the Courts has issued its required annual report on North Carolina’s Business Court for 2018 (the Report). A copy can…
One objective for many business courts is to publish opinions. This falls in line with the goal of creating rational predictability for the litigation community, as…