Mike LaSusa

  • Two former directors of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office joined a pair of retired Federal Circuit chief judges and other prominent figures in signing on to a letter Tuesday urging Congress to pass a law expanding patent eligibility… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • A staffing company and a law firm sued the city of Dallas in federal court on Tuesday over a recently passed ordinance requiring private employers to provide paid sick leave, following several suits challenging similar rules in other major Texas cities… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • A former magistrate in Virginia Beach filed a federal lawsuit on Saturday claiming she was fired for speaking out about frequent excessive alcohol consumption and sexual harassment by her colleagues that she says culminated in a drunken, physical attack on her by one of her co-workers… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that Golden State judges don’t need to require plaintiffs to show how they plan to identify and notify individual class members before certifying a proposed class, saying “due process is not that inflexible”… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • An Eleventh Circuit panel on Monday backed a lower court’s decision to boot an allegedly disruptive juror from an auto insurance coverage case, noting that even a lawyer for the woman appealing the dismissal of her case against State Farm had conceded the juror’s conduct was “horrifying”… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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