Some of the risk the Covid-19 virus poses to litigators, judges, and court personnel can be remedied with non-medical technology. Putting aside the more complicated…
Philadelphia Commerce Court Judge Ramy I. Djerassi issued an opinion last week describing the difference between “abuse of process” and “wrongful use of civil proceedings”…
On February 22, 2020, Wisconsin’s Supreme Court issued an order expanding Wisconsin’s Commercial Docket Pilot Project to two additional trial level sets of courts. Under…
Following up on last week’s discussion of who decides arbitrability, Rhode Island business court judge Richard A. Licht recently issued an opinion on the same…
Wisconsin Business Court Judge Michael Aprahamian addressed the issue of whether the court or an arbitrator decides arbitrability. In this case, the role went to…
In this recent Michigan Business Court case, Judge Jon Van Allsburg addressed the interesting issue of whether a former employer might be liable for tortious…
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…
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…
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…