This column reports on several recent significant decisions from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Judge Natasha C. Merle dismissed claims based on res judicata.

Dismissals for lack of standing are routine in business divorce cases. Examples abound on this blog. Litigation over standing to sue takes an outsized role in business divorce cases for many reasons.

The doctrine of res judicata bars a plaintiff from splitting claims arising from a single transaction into multiple actions. As this decision illustrates, the requirement to plead all claims arising ...

A worker who missed a six-month window to file a payday claim with the Texas Workforce Commission can’t avail himself of the four-year statute of limitations on pursuing his claim in court. Saleh Igal ...

FACTS: Sergejs Hripunovs and Elena Maximova were married on July 22, 2018, and have no children. The marriage has been marred with allegations of physical and emotional abuse, resulting in the ...

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“There might be reasonable considerations behind Neu Cloud’s decision to sue IBM in both a state court and a federal court in a recent trade secret case. But such an approach entails huge legal risks.

From Klement v. Kofsman, decided March 30 by the Florida Court of Appeal (Chief Judge Mark Klingensmith, joined by Judges Martha Warner and Spencer Levine); note that Kofsman was the plaintiff here, ...

Holding: When an alleged infringer has demonstrated non-infringement, the specific accused devices acquire the status of “non-infringing devices” and res judicata will apply to an action brought for ...