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WASHINGTON, D.C. – A District of Columbia federal judge on Jan. 27 denied a former CEO’s motion that sought a preliminary injunction and an order to deny his former employers’ motion to compel arbitration, finding that he failed to show that he would suffer irreparable harm or would likely succeed on the merits of his [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – A federal judge in the District of Columbia ruled Jan. 26 in an unpublished opinion that the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia had personal jurisdiction over the defendants in the Federal Trade Commission’s action seeking to stay an acquisition but that the action should be transferred to another district [...]

LAS VEGAS – Two weeks after issuing a temporary restraining order, a Nevada federal judge on Jan. 26 preliminarily enjoined a defendant in a patent infringement case (Aevoe Corp. v. Shenzhen Membrane Precise Electron Ltd., No. 12-54, D. Nev.; 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 8920). View full post on LexisNexis® Mealey’s™ Daily Legal News

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – A Canadian Supreme Court justice on Jan. 24 sentenced a contractor to be incarcerated for 60 days after he failed to comply with a court injunction ordering him to cease unlicensed asbestos abatement and testing (British Columbia [Workers' Compensation Board] v. Moore, No. 2012 BCSC 109, B.C. Sup.). View full post [...]

NEW YORK – Chevron Corp.’s Jan. 5 emergency motion in the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals for relief from a September order lifting an injunction to prevent the enforcement of the $ 18 billion judgment against it entered in a Lago Agrio, Ecuador, court was denied Jan. 19 (Chevron Corp. v. Hugo Gerardo Camacho [...]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – In a Ponzi scheme case, a federal judge in North Carolina on Jan. 11 granted the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) request for a permanent injunction, restitution and a civil monetary penalty against the defendants and a request for disgorgement against the relief defendants (U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Capitalstreet [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – A Nebraska federal judge did not err in refusing to consider the validity of certain unasserted patent claims or in denying written description and enablement defenses raised in response to those claims, the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled Jan. 10 (Streck Inc. v. Research & Diagnostic Systems Inc., No. 11-1044, [...]

Fox News Appeals Court Upholds Injunction Against Okla. Sharia Law AmendmentThe New AmericanThe US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit on Tuesday unanimously upheld a lower court ruling enjoining the enforcement of an amendment to the Oklahoma state constitution that barred state courts from taking Sharia law into consideration when …Sharia law ban: Is [...]

A recent split decision by the Federal Circuit illustrates the divisions in the court over the standards for preliminary injunctions as well as for patent invalidity based on obviousness. The case concerns a patent for methods for preparing frozen samples of a type of liver cell used for evaluating potential drugs. View full post on [...]

ATLANTA – Finding that a licensing agent insured’s “first-filed” lawsuit should proceed, a Georgia federal judge on Jan. 4 granted its motion for injunction and ordered four insurers to dismiss complaints for intervention filed in a California federal court (Collegiate Licensing Company v. American Casualty Co. of Reading, Pennsylvania et al., No. 11-03432, N.D. Ga.). [...]