ALF long has been an advocate for ensuring that only reliable expert opinions are considered by courts and/or juries during any phase of litigation. In April 2024 ALF filed an amicus brief supporting NVIDIA Corporation’s certiorari petition in NVIDIA Corp. v. E. Ohman J:or Fonder AB, No. 23-970, a securities fraud suit governed by the […]
Digital/Social Media expert Nick Kosar of Open Road Digital has created this Atlantic Legal Foundation video, featuring some of the many testimonials we have received from the nation’s top Supreme Court advocates and business leaders. In addition to designing ALF’s new website, Nick worked closely with me to design and launch this new website for
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The Mexican government has sued heavily regulated U.S. firearms manufacturers for $10 billion in damages and sweeping injunctive relief to redress “social costs” that it alleges to have incurred as a result of gun violence in Mexico. According to Mexico’s complaint, filed in Massachusetts federal district court, the defendant manufacturers have knowingly “aided and abetted”
The Supreme Court repeatedly has explained that the Federal Arbitration Act (“FAA”), 9 U.S.C. § 1 et seq., was enacted to quell judicial hostility to arbitration. FAA § 2 “is the primary substantive provision of the Act, declaring that a written agreement to arbitrate . . . ‘shall be valid, irrevocable, and enforceable, save upon such grounds as
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The Atlantic Legal Foundation long has been an advocate for ensuring that only reliable expert opinions are considered by courts and/or juries during any phase of litigation. In support of a certiorari petition filed by NVIDIA Corporation in a securities fraud suit governed by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act (“PSLRA”), ALF has filed an
State and local governments have filed dozens of damages suits in state courts around the United States collectively seeking billions of dollars from major oil and gas producers for the alleged local effects of global warming and climate change. The potentially disastrous national and international ramifications of allowing these proliferating suits to proceed are enormously
In the consolidated Gilead Tenofovir Cases, the California Court of Appeal held that “the legal duty of a manufacturer to exercise reasonable care can, in appropriate circumstances, extend beyond the duty not to market a defective product” (emphasis added). More specifically, the court held that “a drug manufacturer, having invented what it knows is a safer, and at least equally
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The Supreme Court has agreed to hear Murthy v. Missouri, No. 23-411, a First Amendment freedom of speech case brought by the States of Missouri and Louisiana and several individual social media users, including public health experts. They seek to enjoin White House, Surgeon General, Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and other
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Electronic tickets, purchased online for admission to sports, entertainment, and many other types of events, have become ubiquitous. When small groups, such as friends or family, plan to attend an event together, it is customary for one individual to purchase tickets for the group, download them to and store them on his or her mobile
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Section 2 of the Federal Arbitration Act (“FAA”) mandates that arbitration agreements “shall be valid, irrevocable, and enforceable.” 9 U.S.C § 2. Section 1 of the FAA, however, exempts “contracts of employment of seamen, railroad employees, or any other class of workers engaged in foreign or interstate commerce.” 9 U.S.C § 1. The Supreme Court
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