12/3/2025 4:13:55 PM SCOTUS Presented with Best Opportunity to Weigh In on Climate Change Litigation By Kelly Becker Jamie Rhymes James Lapeze The United States Supreme Court is currently presented with what many believe is the best opportunity for the Court to provide...
7/27/2023 7:10:36 PM E-Discovery Update: Louisiana Third Circuit Affirms Defendant’s Authority to Govern Its Own E-Discovery Protocols By John Troutman William Heaton The Louisiana Third Circuit recently affirmed a trial court discovery ruling that allowed the defendant to design its own...
6/21/2023 9:09:01 PM Texas Supreme Court Remands Case Involving $15 Million Jury Award for Noneconomic Damages Where Award was Unsupported and Arguments to the Jury Unsubstantiated By Michael Golemi Jonas Patzwall Liskow On June 16, 2023, the Supreme Court of Texas released the plurality opinion in Sarah Gregory and New Prime, Inc. v. Jaswinder...
2/6/2023 8:34:01 PM The Louisiana Supreme Court Issues New Decision Addressing Scope of Claims for Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress Absent Physical Damage By Kelly Becker Liskow On January 27, 2023, the Louisiana Supreme Court issued a ruling involving claims for negligent infliction of emotional distress (“NIED”)...
6/24/2019 3:19:53 PM SCOTUS Decides Dutra Group v. Batterton By Liskow Today the United States Supreme Court issued its decision in this landmark case concerning punitive damages. The six justices in the...
6/17/2019 3:44:59 PM Supreme Court Holds State Wage and Hour Laws are Inapplicable to Offshore Drilling Platforms By Tommy McGoey Jaclyn Hickman In a decision that could have far-reaching implications, the United States Supreme Court issued a June 10 opinion holding that...
3/20/2019 8:24:26 PM U.S. Supreme Court Addresses Circuit Split Regarding “Bare Metal” Defense in Products Liability Action Under General Maritime Law By Liskow In Air & Liquid Systems Corp. v. Devries, No. 17-1104, — S. Ct. —, 2019 WL 1245520 (U.S. March 19, 2019), the U.S. Supreme Court resolved...
5/21/2018 10:01:16 PM Supreme Court Validates Employer’s Right to Require Class and Collective Action Waivers in Employment-Related Arbitration Agreements By Tommy McGoey The United States Supreme Court ruled today that contracts requiring individualized arbitration of employment-related disputes are...
4/25/2018 7:43:01 PM Federal Circuit Holds U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Not Liable for Hurricane Katrina Flood Damage By Liskow The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently issued a significant opinion in a case in which a takings claim was...
1/12/2018 4:31:49 PM U.S. Fifth Circuit Issues CAFA Opinion in Mass Action Addressing Two Issues of First Impression By Liskow In Warren Lester, et al. v. Exxon Mobil Corp., et al., No. 14-31383, ___ F.3d ___ (5th Cir. 1/9/2018), the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of...