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07-08-2024
Perkins Coie Clients Win Another Favorable Determination of No Violation in Section 337 Investigation Before U.S. International Trade Commission
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Earlier this week, a Perkins Coie trial team won a favorable ruling of no violation for a group of eleven clients before the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC). This complaint was brought by The NOCO Company, Inc.,…
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06-14-2024
Decade-Long Dispute Over Development of the Moxy Hotel in Times Square Resolved
NEW YORK, NY – After a one-week trial in New York State Supreme Court at 60 Centre Street, Judge Joel Cohen found in favor of The Lightstone Group, LLC, represented by longtime Impact client Jack Baughman and his incredible team…
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06-05-2024
FTC Can't Pause Novant's $320M Bid To Buy NC Hospitals
CHARLOTTE, NC – The Federal Trade Commission lost its bid to block Novant Health from buying two local hospitals in North Carolina after a federal judge concluded that competition would fare better if the merger advanced. The court order, signed…
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01-29-2024
Davis Polk Not Liable In Black Atty's Retaliation Case
NEW YORK, NY – A federal jury in Manhattan ruled quickly on Monday, finding Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP and two lawyers not accountable in the case of a former Black associate who claimed he was fired for bringing up…
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11-17-2023
Del. Jury Says NanoString Owes $31M In 10x Patent Spat
WILMINGTON, DE – A federal jury in Wilmington, DE determined last Friday that Seattle-based NanoString Technologies Inc. willfully infringed several gene technology patents and awarded more than $31 million in damages to 10x Genomics Inc. The jury determined that NanoString…
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11-02-2023
Dow, PPG Avoid Damages In Calif. Contamination Trial
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – A California jury found that the City of Modesto (“Modesto”) was not harmed by the presence of perchloroethylene (“PCE”), supplied to Acme Dry Cleaners (“Acme”) by Dow and PPG, in the city’s groundwater and awarded no…
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10-26-2023
Georgia’s Voting Maps Are Struck Down
ATLANTA, GA – A federal judge in Atlanta decided that Republicans in Georgia violated a major civil rights law by creating voting districts that weakened the influence of Black voters. Judge Steve C. Jones of the Northern District of Georgia…
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06-30-2023
Proud Boys to pay church $1 million for destroyed ‘Black Lives Matter’ sign and threatening church with violence
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Proud Boys organization must pay more than $1.03 million to the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church in D.C., after a judge determined that members of the group damaged a Black Lives Matter sign displayed on the…
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06-14-2023
Colombia's Ecopetrol refinery awarded more than $1 billion in arbitration
BOGOTA, COLOMBIA – Refineria de Cartagena (Reficar), a refinery owned by Colombia’s largest company Ecopetrol, is set to receive more than $1 billion following an arbitration ruling in its favor against a group of contractors. Impact Trial is proud to…
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05-19-2023
$35-Million Patent Infringement Case Against Dropbox Flops at Trial
WACO, TX – A federal jury in Waco, Texas, cleared Dropbox Inc. of claims that it infringed a coder’s patents, sparing the file-sharing company a potential $35.7 million verdict. In a seven-page verdict sheet, the jurors came to the unanimous…
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05-09-2023
Jury Rejects Feds' Claims Gilead Infringed HIV Drug Patents
WILMINGTON, DE – On Tuesday, a six-person federal jury in Delaware rejected a potential $1 billion government claim that Gilead Sciences Inc. violated government-owned patents when it released its Truvada and Descovy medications to treat or lower the risk of…
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01-27-2023
Chamberlain Wins $43M Verdict After 2nd Garage Door IP Trial
MARSHALL, TX – Following a four-day trial in Texas federal court, the jury found that garage door company Overhead Door Corp. owes Chamberlain Group, represented by Fish & Richardson PC and Gillam & Smith LLP, $43.4 million for selling garage…
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