7/11/2025 7:36:44 PM EPA Seeks a Fourth Abeyance to Reassess Its 2024 Designation of PFOA and PFOS as CERCLA Hazardous Substances By Hayleigh Shobar Don Sobelman EPA has been granted a fourth abeyance of pending litigation related to the Biden administration’s designation of PFOA and PFOS as...
7/11/2025 5:24:46 PM IP Terminology: Accuracy Matters By Nate Garhart In the linked article about a trademark dispute, the author notes that the plaintiff claimed the defendant used a “copyrighted name.”...
7/10/2025 7:23:44 PM Well, It Happened: Court's Order Cites AI-Hallucinated Precedent By Nate Garhart We've seen repeated issues where lawyers and others have been caught failing to cite check their work (as discussed here and here and...
7/9/2025 11:20:49 PM The OBBBA - What Has (and Hasn’t) Changed for Individual Income, Estate, and Gift Taxes By Cami Fergus Lauren Galbraith The One Big Beautiful Bill Act was signed into law last week, continuing the applicability of many individual federal income, estate, and...
7/9/2025 5:49:57 PM Profits or Peers: Does Seeking an Accounting in Trademark Litigation Waive the Right to a Jury Trial? By Nate Garhart In trademark infringement litigation, the form of monetary relief a plaintiff requests can determine whether the case is decided by a...
7/8/2025 10:55:21 PM Trusting the Department of Justice By Alexis Loeb The Supreme Court’s recent opinion in Trump v. CASA (the birthright citizenship case) contrasts with two of its opinions from a year ago,...
7/8/2025 5:20:58 PM Like Client, Like Counsel: Lawyers Sanctioned Over AI-Hallucinated Citations Backing False Claims By Nate Garhart Another federal court has sanctioned lawyers for using generative AI in legal drafting without verifying the results. On July 7, 2025, a...
7/7/2025 7:43:50 PM Two's A Crowd: The Pitfalls of Trademark Co-Ownership By Nate Garhart Often, individuals joining together on a project believe they should each own the name they choose. Indeed, it only seems fair. But...
7/1/2025 6:35:10 PM Fair Use Ruling Undermines Related DMCA Claim By Nate Garhart After previously dismissing infringement claims on the ground that using copyrighted works to train a large language model qualified as...
6/26/2025 5:38:22 PM Fair Use Defense Gains Ground as Court Backs AI Training, but the Devil Is in the Details By Nate Garhart Just two days after Judge William Alsup issued a mixed ruling in the Anthropic AI copyright case, a second California federal judge...
6/25/2025 7:46:19 PM Arrrgh: Piracy and Fair Use in AI Training By Nate Garhart Monday's decision in a copyright suit against Anthropic for the use of copyrighted works in the training of its LLM came down as expected...
6/24/2025 6:50:42 PM Reason Rules in Seven County SCOTUS Decision By Linda Gilleran On May 29, 2025, SCOTUS delivered a unanimous decision in Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County, Colorado. The project...