How One Lawyer Recharged This Summer: Conquering Mt. Kilimanjaro
After dreaming of climbing Mount Kilimanjaro for years, Business Law Section member Heidi McNeil Staudenmaier took on the challenge.
Business and Corporate Litigation Committee Newsletter - Summer 2024
In This Issue
US Supreme Court Limits Scope of Omission Liability for Section 10(b) Securities Fraud Claims
On April 12, in a long-awaited and pivotal decision, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that private plaintiffs may not plead a federal securities fraud claim under Section 10(b) of the Securit…
How Will the Recent Amendments to Illinois’s BIPA Affect the Use of Biometric Data?
SB 2979, signed into law in August 2024, amends the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act to limit damages and provide for electronic consent.
US Supreme Court to Hear Nvidia Crypto Mining Case on Securities Pleading Standard
On June 17, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in Nvidia Corp. v. E. Ohman J:or Fonder AB,[1] agreeing to hear Nvidia’s appeal of a Ninth Circuit ruling that revived shareholders’ fraud claims…
Second Circuit Court of Appeals Refers Attorney Who Cited Nonexistent Case Provided by ChatGPT for Discipline Investigation
In its January 2024 decision in Park v. Kim, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit responded to an attorney who submitted a reply brief in the appeal that cited a nonexistent case that, as i…
Robert’s Trip Through France
My wife, Florita, and I returned to France and Germany just before the Olympics. Fifty years elapsed since my school days at the University of Strasbourg and much has changed for the good.