Florida’s Fourth DCA reverses a lump sum child support award in a high-asset dissolution, holding that Section 61.30 provides no authority for lump sum child support while affirming undifferentiated temporary alimony and support awards.
The Federal Circuit affirms that a generic manufacturer’s injectable antibiotic infringes Melinta’s reformulation patents, holding that the closed ‘consists of’ claim language does not exclude required dilution steps understood by skilled artisans.
In a first-impression ruling, the Eleventh Circuit holds that copyright termination interests enter a debtor’s bankruptcy estate despite the Copyright Act’s inalienability provision, blocking 2 Live Crew from reclaiming album copyrights.
The Federal Circuit affirms that patents claiming a farming data relay system with equipment-specific protocol profiles are directed to abstract ideas and lack an inventive concept under §101, while remanding for reconsideration of attorney’s fees.
The Federal Circuit vacates an $11.5 million jury verdict in a smart thermostat patent dispute over a flawed combined verdict form, while providing guidance on §101 eligibility for wireless building automation patents.
The Supreme Court unanimously holds that generic drug makers’ routine labeling compliance and standard industry statements cannot support induced-infringement claims under §271(b), reversing the Federal Circuit and protecting skinny-label launches.
Connecticut Appellate Court reverses a trial court’s award of attorney’s fees under the quiet title statute, holding that § 47-31(e) authorizes only statutory costs—not counsel fees—in favor of a disclaiming defendant, consistent with the American rule.
Connecticut Appellate Court holds that the litigation privilege bars an IIED claim arising from an allegedly fraudulent probate conservatorship proceeding, ruling that downstream out-of-court conduct taken pursuant to conservator authority obtained in the proceeding cannot be carved out as independently actionable.
Connecticut Appellate Court affirms denial of a second habeas petition, holding that trial counsel’s failure to raise a Crawford Confrontation Clause objection at a 2008 murder trial was not deficient when the law was unsettled, and habeas counsel was not ineffective for failing to raise a sentence review claim the petitioner never communicated.
Connecticut Appellate Court reverses a $42 million verdict against a product shipper, holding that a warehouse worker’s catastrophic injuries from falling unsecured freight were not a reasonably foreseeable consequence of the shipper’s failure to stretch-wrap a pallet.