For some reason, there is a line of cases about the duty of good faith under UCC § 2-305 involving the prices gas stations pay their suppliers. Today we report on a new that explains the good faith safe harbor nicely.

#law #contracts #UCC #litigation #GoodFaith

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/04/another-good-faith-claim-involving-prices-charged-to-gas-stations.html

Byron Allen’s claims against McDonald’s for discrimination against Black-owned networks in its placement of advertising survives a motion for summary judgment, just barely alleging a claim and just barely overcoming McDonald’s attempts to justify its ad strategies.

#law #contracts #litigation #discrimination #McDonalds

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/04/discrimination-in-advertising-claims-against-mcdonalds-will-proceed-to-trial.html

https://www.europesays.com/1992963/ Oil Majors Could Soon Face a Litany of Environmental Lawsuits #Accountability #Chevron #Cities #CoastalParishes #Environment #EnvironmentalDamage #Lawsuits #litigation #OilCompanies #Precedent #regulations

Many lawyers who argue for #Trump at #SCOTUS are heading for the exit

At least half of the front-line lawyers in #SolicitorGeneral’s office, the elite #DOJ office that represents the Trump admin at the Supreme Court, are preparing to leave or have already announced their departures — an unusually high amount of turnover at a time of intense #litigation involving Trump’s initiatives & as his emergency requests pile up at the high court.

#law #ethics #felon47
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/09/trump-solicitor-general-office-lawyers-departures/

Ontario will be doing away with examinations for discovery in litigation.

Hurrah, because it is a waste of time and money in most cases. Let's get to trial ASAP, if the case cannot settle.

NY’s Court of Appeals sends a claim subject to a default judgment to arbitration because, although Uber failed to answer the complaint, it did update its terms of service and provided that its arbitration clause applies to pending claims.

#law #contracts #TermsOfService #Arbitration #Litigation #Uber

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/04/ny-court-of-appeals-sends-claims-of-injured-uber-user-to-arbitration.html

From time to time, we bring you news from the world of COVID-related business interruption insurance claims (don’t tell my 18-year-old self that this is how I spend my time). They are rarely wins, and this one is a two-time loser.

#law #contracts #COVID #insurance #litigation

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/04/another-way-to-lose-a-covid-insurance-claim-twice.html

Remember when #Trump told people that they’d get tired of winning once he was in office? If you are a Trump Admin lawyer, it surely doesn’t feel that way. Based on the #litigation tracker compiled by #JustSecurity, the admin…has lost in 36 of 56 cases decided so far in the federal district courts & not yet subject to appellate rulings. It has lost in 10 of 15 cases that have been decided at the next level of review, the federal circuit courts of appeals.

#law #felon47
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/has-trumps-legal-strategy-backfired

#GiftArticle

How the #Trump Admin Learned to Obscure the Truth in Court

This is a #litigation strategy born of the first travel ban.

The litigation over the govt’s summary #renditions of foreign nationals to an #ElSalvador prison, w/no #DueProcess of #law, is now at #SCOTUS’s door.

by @LeahLitman

#immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #ExtraordinaryRendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #DualState #AbuseOfPower
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/04/trump-travel-ban-lessons/682259/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxU-uei3SPa1aps8eltAX-44

https://www.alojapan.com/1235532/japanese-boards-could-face-fines-losses-and-lawsuits-for-failing-to-act-on-climate-risks/ Japanese boards could face fines, losses and lawsuits for failing to act on climate risks #Japan #JapanNews #Japanese #JapaneseNews #KnowledgeHub #Litigation #news #PolicyAndRegulation The Commonwealth Climate and Law Initiative says the country’s courts may take a stricter stance than other jurisdictions when assessing director duties Japanese company boards need to be more proactive at integrating climate risks into governance practices, sa…

Relying on recent SCOTUS precedent, 10th Circuit upholds ruling that a baked-goods distributor works in interstate commerce and is thus exempt from the Federal Arbitration Act and that allowing for state arbitration would be “inconsistent” with that act. Zounds.

#law #contracts #arbitration #litigation #SCOTUS

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/04/the-tenth-circuit-rules-on-interstate-commerce-for-the-purposes-of-the-federal-arbitration-act.html

Far-Right Leader Le Pen Guilty of Embezzlement, Banned From Running for Public Office
#News #PoliticsNews #France #International #Litigation #MarineLePen

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/france-far-right-marine-le-pen-guilty-fraud-presidental-ban-1236176308/

Dua Lipa beats lawsuit claiming she copied the song Levitating from a 70s disco song
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-28/dua-lipa-law-suit-levitating-/105107390
#copyright #music #litigation

"A musical style, defined by plaintiffs as 'pop with a disco feel,' and a musical function, defined by plaintiffs to include 'entertainment and dancing'," cannot possibly be protectable," Justice Failla wrote.

To hold otherwise, she said, would "completely foreclose the further development of music in that genre or for that purpose."

Class action brought by textbook authors against McGraw Hill provides insights into the challenges of publishing in the digital age. Some breach of contract claims proceed as publishers push costs onto authors in the form of reduced royalty payments

#law #contracts #publishing #ebooks
#litigation

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/03/second-circuit-revives-some-class-claims-by-textbook-authors-against-mcgraw-hill.html

Court denies motion to compel arbitration by the executive of modeling agency accused of trying to sex traffic a young model, in part because she was a minor when she signed the agreement with the arbitration clause.

#law #contracts #arbitration #trafficking #litigation

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/03/california-appellate-court-upholds-denial-of-motion-to-compel-arbitration-in-sex-trafficking-claim-a.html

'The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a petition filed by young climate activists who argued that the federal government’s role in climate change violated their constitutional rights, ending a decadelong legal battle that saw many of the plaintiffs grow from children and teenagers into adults.

The landmark case was filed in 2015 by 21 plaintiffs, the youngest 8 years old. They claimed the U.S. government’s actions encouraging a fossil fuel economy violated their right to a life-sustaining climate.

The case — called Juliana v. United States after one of the activists, Kelsey Juliana — was challenged repeatedly by the Obama, Trump and Biden administrations, whose lawyers argued it sought to direct federal environmental and energy policies through the courts instead of the political process.

Julia Olson, chief legal counsel for Our Children’s Trust, the nonprofit law firm that represented the plaintiffs, said the impact of the lawsuit “cannot be measured by the finality of this case alone.”

“Juliana sparked a global youth-led movement for climate rights that continues to grow,” Olson said in a statement Monday. “It has empowered young people to demand their constitutional right to a safe climate and future. We’ve already secured important victories, and we will continue pushing forward.”'
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-youth-climate-lawsuit-b90f095046663da0e693b6f2fc46e71e
#SCOTUS #climate #litigation #youth #uslaw #uspol

Google-Backed Chatbot Platform Caught Hosting AI Impersonations of 14-Year-Old User Who Died by Suicide

Google continues to cause harm by funding garbage AI. The only way to stop them is through #legislation and #litigation.

They continue to allow myself and my family to be harmed by not protecting my #daughter after promising they had done so. THEY ARE LIARS.

Have you been harmed by them yet? Have your friends? Your students?

Who will Google and CharacterAI harm next?

These #techbro ghouls CANNOT be trusted. Help us stop them.

https://futurism.com/chatbot-impersonation-suicide

#Google #AI #tech #technology #law #endGoogle #characterai @law @sociology @edutooters @psychology @arstechnica @theguardian_us_technology

'The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a lawsuit from Republican attorneys general in 19 states aimed at blocking climate change suits against the oil and gas industry from Democratic-led states.

The justices acted on an unusual Republican effort to file suit in the Supreme Court over the Democratic states’ use of their own state courts to sue fossil fuel companies for deceiving the public about the risks of their products contributing to climate change.

The Supreme Court typically hears only appeals, but the Constitution gives the court authority to hear original lawsuits states file against each other.

Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito said they would have allowed the lawsuit to proceed for now. The justices don’t have the discretion to reject the complaint at this stage, Thomas wrote in a dissent that did not deal with the merits of the claim.

The Republicans’ complaint, led by Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, asserts that the Democratic states are trying to dictate national energy policy and will drive up the cost of energy across the country.

The Supreme Court also has so far turned away appeals by the energy companies seeking to get the justices involved in the issue.

The lawsuits filed by dozens of state and local governments allege that fossil fuel companies misled the public about how their products could contribute to the climate crisis. The lawsuits claim billions of dollars of damage from such things as severe storms, wildfires and rising sea levels.' https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-climate-change-state-lawsuits-d38a557894276083f94f47cae4127ddd #SCOTUS #Climate #litigation #misinformation #greenwashing