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California Litigation Blog
When A Court Grants an Injunction on the Merits No Undertaking Is Required
By Jeff Huron
The Court in Bardasian v. Superior Court 201 Cal.App.4th 1371 (2011) issued a peremptory writ and reversed an order dissolving an injunction because plaintiffs failed to post a bond. The case involved…
Class Action Lawsuit Defense
Supreme Court Limits Use of Injunctions to Thwart Relitigation of Denial of Certification
In an opinion written by Justice Kagan, the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Smith v. Bayer, 131 S. Ct. 2368 (2011) leaves class action plaintiffs with a way in which…
Delaware Corporate & Commercial Litigation Blog
Chancery Grants TRO to Halt Restructuring of Loans Secured by Atlantis Resort and Casino in the Bahamas
Trilogy Portfolio Company, LLC v. Brookfield Real Estate Financial Partners, LLC, C.A. No. 7161-VCP (Del. Ch., Jan. 13, 2012), read opinion here. Issue Addressed Whether the restructuring of a $2.7…
ContractsProf Blog
Craswell on Lumley v. Wagner
Here is today's installment of the first-year course set to music by Richard Craswell. This time it's Lumley v. Wagner, Lumley v. Gye, a case we have not spoken about…
California Employment Law Update
Injunction Against Workplace Violence May Be Supported By Hearsay Evidence
By Tony Oncidi
Kaiser Found. Hospitals v. Wilson, 201 Cal. App. 4th 550 (2011) The trial court considered hearsay evidence in issuing injunctions under Cal. Code Civ. Proc. § 527.8, prohibiting Jeff Wilson…
Texas Bankruptcy Blog
Lifting the Automatic Stay
By Bryan Fears
The bankruptcy automatic stay is an enormously broad and powerful legal protection. The stay is a temporary injunction that prohibits creditors from proceeding with collection actions against the debtor during…
ImmigrationProf Blog
The Injunctions on the Alabama Immigration Law Keep Coming
On Wednesday, the federal district court in Montgomery, Alabama temporarily blocked a section of Alabama immigration law HB 56. A civil rights coalition filed a lawsuit challenging this application of Section 30,…
Corporate & Financial Weekly Digest
Fourth Circuit Holds That Contractual Language Does Not Compel Court to Grant Equitable Relief
Co-authored by Jason Clouser. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit recently affirmed the denial of a preliminary injunction motion by Bethesda Softworks, LLC (Bethesda), finding that the…
The Contingency
Federal Courts Have Power to Enjoin Arbitration, Second Circuit Holds
What do you do if you paid a bunch of money to settle a class action but some of the class members who didn't opt out demand that you arbitrate…
Class Actions Insider
Insights from the ABA 2011 National Institute on Class Actions – Part 1
I recently attended the ABA’s 2011 National Institute on Class Actions. I will try to highlight here what I saw as key points that either I had not heard before…