By Itai Fiegenbaum, St. Thomas University, Benjamin L. Crump College of Law Can members of an ice cream manufacturer’s board of directors be personally liable for damage attributable to a listeria outbreak at the company’s production facility? What about for failing to ensure corporate compliance with such far-ranging issues as environmental laws, fair election reporting,...Read More

By Michael Kolcun Resolving a conflict among the DCAs, Florida’s Supreme Court broadens the protections of Florida’s anti-SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation) statute by allowing interlocutory review of nonfinal orders that deny motions brought under the anti-SLAPP statute. The path to Florida’s Supreme Court for Vericker v. Powell, — So.3d —, 2025 WL 922413...Read More

By Manual Farach In Re: Certification of Need For Additional Judges, Case No. SC2024-1721 (Fla. 2024). https://supremecourt.flcourts.gov/content/download/2444685/opinion/Opinion_SC2024-1721.pdf The Florida Supreme Court certifies the need for two additional judges for the district courts of appeal, twenty-three circuit judges, and twenty-five county judges. Quintana v. Rodriguez Family Investment Partnership, LLLP, Case No. 3D23-968 (Fla. 3d DCA 2024)....Read More

By Manuel Farach In Re: Amendments To Florida Rules of Civil Procedure, Case No. SC2023-0962 (Fla. 2024). https://supremecourt.flcourts.gov/content/download/2444348/opinion/Opinion_SC2023-0962.pdf The Florida Supreme Court leaves in place the proportionality requirements for discovery, requires objections to discovery be made with “specificity” and “including the reason” for the objection, requires objections to state whether documents are being withheld based...Read More

Professor Catanzaro’s newest article, published in the Fordham Journal of IP, Media, and Entertainment Law, argues that AI trustees could enable unprecedented posthumous control over property and heirs, threatening to create a techno-feudal system where the dead perpetually control the living through algorithmic proxies.Read More

By Alexander S Cumming On November 15, 2024, employers scored a victory when a Texas federal judge struck down the Department of Labor’s (DOL) rule which increased the salary levels for the Fair Labor Standards Act’s (FLSA) executive, administrative, professional, and highly compensated employee overtime exemptions. The court’s ruling vacated the DOL’s entire rule and...Read More

CORPORATE TRANSPARENCY ACT REPORTING TO FINCEN SUSPENDED. By Avery Chapman On December 3, 2024, Federal District Court Judge Mazzant of the Eastern District of Texas granted a preliminary injunction, to be applied nation-wide, enjoining the United States from requiring any state’s domestic companies from having to report their beneficial owners to FINCEN under the Corporate...Read More

By Jocelyne A. Macelloni On April 29, 2021, the Florida Supreme Court adopted a new summary judgment standard aligning it closely with its federal counterpart. On May 23, 2024, the Florida Supreme Court announced changes to Rule 1.510. The following overview provides the 10 key points every busy practitioner, and judge, should know about the...Read More

By Daniel Cohen What is a Dispute Letter? What does a dispute letter entail and why do I need to know how to write a credit dispute letter? Great questions! A dispute letter is a letter that consumers send to credit bureaus, such as Equifax, Experian, or TransUnion, to challenge information on a credit report...Read More

Ortid, LLC v. Hawk Industries, Germany, GMBH, Opposition No. 91267979 (TTAB August 30, 2024)(sustaining Notice of Opposition based on prior rights of Opposer) In Ortid, LLC v. Hawk Industries, Germany, GMBH, Opposition No. 91267979 (TTAB August 30, 2024), a case that was filed in March 2021, Michael Chesal and Albert Alvarez successfully represented the Plaintiff in...Read More