This post will be updated periodically. It includes a selected bibliography of books and articles addressing, in whole or in part, business/commercial courts. These are…
In his November 2018 State of the Judiciary Address, Kentucky Chief Justice John D. Minton, Jr. reported that a Civil Justice Reform Commission had been created, chaired…
I was recently re-reading one of the earliest reports on creating a business court, and thought it would make for interesting reading. This report was…
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…
On April 2, 2019, Georgia’s Legislature passed a statute creating the “State-wide Business Court.” As the name makes clear, under this statute the Business Court’s jurisdiction reaches…
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…
In 2017, Wisconsin’s Supreme Court established the Commercial Docket Pilot Project in the Waukesha County Circuit Court (within the Third Judicial District, bordering Milwaukee County),…
This case involves a financial institution bond issued to a brokerage firm. Judge Nina Wright Padilla’s opinion in Janney Montgomery Scott, LLC (the Firm) v.…
New York Chief Judge Janet DiFiore recently gave her review of “The State of Our Judiciary 2019” for all of New York’s courts. A copy can be found here. In…
Judge Christine A. Ward is a long-sitting business court judge in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and President of the American College of Business Court Judges. Judge Ward…