Litigation

Appellate Law

Beth S. Rose, Vincent Lodato | Sills Cummis & Gross P.C.

In Pliva, Inc. v. Mensing, 131 S. Ct. 2567 (2011), the United States Supreme Court held that state law failure to warn claims against manufacturers of generic pharmaceutical products were impliedly pre-empted by federal law because FDA regulations preclude generic manufacturers from including...

Intellectual Property

Audrey Jing Faber | Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Editor: Please summarize the legal issues pertaining to copyright infringement claims arising from work that a plaintiff alleges was accessed via the Internet. Faber: In order to prevail on a claim for copyright infringement, a plaintiff must establish both ownership of a valid copyright and...

Appellate Law

Robert A. Boonin | Dykema Gossett PLLC

On December 9, 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision providing significant guidance as to what constitutes compensable work under the Fair Labor Standards Act, as amended by the Portal-to-Portal Act. The case, Integrity Solutions, Inc. v. Busk, involved a contractor to Amazon...