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US Supreme Court Confirms Federal Preemption in Monsanto v. Durnell , Backing EPA Labeling
Press Releases | June 25, 2026 Overview The Supreme Court's decision in Monsanto v. Durnell confirms that content of EPA-approved labeling reflects binding federal requirements that cannot be displaced by state-law failure-to-warn claims.
Supreme Court Confirms EPA-Approved Labels Override State Tort Claims in Landmark Monsanto Case
Press Releases | June 25, 2026 Overview The Supreme Court's decision in Monsanto v. Durnell confirms that content of EPA-approved labeling reflects binding federal requirements that cannot be displaced by state-law failure-to-warn claims.
State Supreme Court Year In Review: Key Decisions From Summer 2024 To Summer 2025
In the past year, the California Supreme Court has reshaped arbitration, contract liability, corporate governance and administrative law in ways that demand close attention from litigators and general counsel navigating commercial disputes and transactions. Over the last year, the California Supreme Court has issued several decisions impacting the legal landscape across arbitration, corporate governance, administrative law and contract liability.
State Supreme Court year in review: Key decisions from Summer 2024 to Summer 2025
Over the last year, the California Supreme Court has issued several decisions impacting the legal landscape across arbitration, corporate governance, administrative law and contract liability.
State Supreme Court year in review: Key decisions from Summer 2024 to Summer 2025
Over the last year, the California Supreme Court has issued several decisions impacting the legal landscape across arbitration, corporate governance, administrative law and contract liability.
California Supreme Court Holds Contractual Limitation Of Liability Provisions Cannot Limit Damages For Willful Injury
On April 24, the California Supreme Court issued an opinion clarifying a crucial unresolved issue of California law: To what extent, if any, can a limitation of liability provision in a contract limit damages for willful injury? Previously, different California courts had apparently answered that question in different ways. Now, the Supreme Court has adopted a "categorical rule": parties may not contract away liability for willful injury.
Conor Tucker - Associate
Overview Conor Tucker is a litigator. He has served clients as lead counsel at all levels of the federal court system, including as Counsel of Record in the United States Supreme Court. Conor has managed cases through every stage of litigation, from pre-complaint investigation through trial and appeal, and argued dispositive motions and appeals in state and federal courts. His written and oral advocacy has led to published, precedent-setting opinions, including on issues of first impression.
Six Months of Cases After Jack Daniel’s Original
Last Term, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Jack Daniel’s v. VIP Products — a case involving interaction between the Lanham Act and the First Amendment. This article traces the lower courts’ reactions to and applications of that decision. The Jack Daniel’s Decision At the core of the Jack Daniel’s case last Term lay the potential for a shift in U.S. Trademark law.
Creative Expression vs. the Lanham Act: Six Months of Cases After Jack Daniel’s
Intellectual Property Litigation Trademarks Last Term, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Jack Daniel’s v. VIP Products — a case involving interaction between the Lanham Act and the First Amendment. This article traces the lower courts’ reactions and applications to that decision. Last Term, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Jack Daniel’s v. VIP Products — a case involving interaction between the Lanham Act and the First Amendment.
Dog Toys, Whiskey, and the First Amendment: The U.S. Supreme Court Decides Jack Daniel's v. VIP Products | JD Supra
On June 8, 2023, the U.S. Supreme CourtdecidedJack Daniel’s v. VIP Products, a case “about dog toys and whiskey”—items that, as Justice Elena Kagan wrote for the Court, “seldom appear[] in the same sentence.” Whiskey-maker Jack Daniel’s had accused VIP Products of violating trademark law by selling a dog toy marketed as “Bad Spaniels” and designed to look like a bottle of Jack Daniel’s Old No. 7 Whiskey.
Parody Products and Trademark Infringement
This article appeared in The Intellectual Property Strategist, an ALM/Law Journal Newsletters publication that provides a practical source of both business and litigation tactics in the fast-changing area of intellectual property law, including litigating IP rights, patent damages, venue and infringement issues, inter partes review, trademarks on social media – and more. In March, the Supreme Court heard a blockbuster trademark case with significant implications for trademark law.
The First Amendment and the Lanham Act At the Supreme Court
The Intellectual Property Strategist Constitutional Law Intellectual Property Trademarks United States Supreme Court In March, the Supreme Court heard a blockbuster trademark case with significant implications for trademark law. After argument, reversal seems likely as questioning from the justices suggests that a long-standing precedent is unlikely to survive unscathed. But the Court also indicated concern over the broader implications of this case in the arts, entertainment, and publishing.
The New Patent Venue Regime
Venue in patent cases lies "in the judicial district where the defendant resides, or where the defendant has committed acts of infringement and has a regular and established place of business." Since 1990, the Federal Circuit interpreted the term "resides" coextensively with the general venue statute such that patent venue lay where the defendant was subject to personal jurisdiction. But this year, the Supreme Court greatly narrowed that definition in TC Heartland v. Kraft Foods.
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