Free Speech, Due Process and Trial by Jury
Texas’ new Fifteenth Court of Appeals is set to hear its first oral arguments at the end of the month, but it will borrow space from the Court of Criminal Appeals to do so. Earlier this month, the first-ever business court hearing took place — a video conference in the Houston-based Eleventh Division.
After deliberating for parts of two days, jurors in the court of U.S. District Judge Mark T. Pittman ordered Skiplagged Inc. to pay American Airlines $4.7 million in damages for copyright infringement, and another $4.7 million in disgorged profits.
In this edition of Litigation Roundup, Big Oil is denied its request to bring an early end to a climate suit in California, Marriott reaches a data breach settlement with all 50 states, and we bring you details of the $2.2 billion settlement GlaxoSmithKline reached to bring an end to thousands of Zantac lawsuits.
The airline is seeking at least $19.9 million in actual damages from the online company that promotes bargain-priced ‘hidden city’ ticketing. Skiplagged Inc. argues that American failed to prove there was infringement of its trademarks and deserves nothing.
Closing arguments are planned for Friday in American Airlines’s federal suit against the multimillion-dollar online site that promotes bargain-priced ‘hidden city’ ticketing.
From the $663 million False Claims Act judgment against Trinity Industries in 2014 to this year's $1.4 billion settlement on behalf of the state of Texas against Facebook parent Meta, one name stands out: Truelove. Jennifer and Kurt Truelove have been involved in some of the biggest verdicts and settlements to come out of Marshall, the East Texas town famous for its patent litigation docket.
The airline wrapped up presentation of its trademark-violation case in federal court in Fort Worth on Wednesday, the third day of testimony.
During a hearing Tuesday, Chief U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Eduardo V. Rodriguez gave Jackson Walker and the U.S. trustee’s office until Oct. 15 to provide the court with further briefing on whether the depositions of the current and former U.S. trustee for Region 7 and a current trial attorney in that office should take place. He promised to rule quickly on the matter after the briefing is filed and said that for each day after Oct. 16, if he doesn’t file an order, he will be extending discovery deadlines by one day. Discovery is slated to close Nov. 1.
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