The New Jersey Appellate Division weighed in Friday on two putative class actions reaching different conclusions by Camden County judges in suits over contaminated water, clarifying that municipalities charging a water fee do not create an implied contract with their residents. The issue in both cases, Cerkez v. Gloucester City and Hoffman…

President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign possesses a substantial bank account that stands to aid a different candidate, whether it’s Vice President Kamala Harris or another individual, if Biden drops out of the presidential race. However, political law attorneys are divided on how easily Biden’s campaign cash could change hands. Some…

One of the Delaware defamation cases against the conservative Newsmax television network has seen filings challenging expert witness testimony pile up recently, and it’s not the one that’s going to trial in two months. Smartmatic, the voting technology company represented by Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff, and Newsmax, represented by Young Conaway Stargatt…

A major IT outage caused ripple effects across the globe on Friday, as many workers awoke to find the now-infamous “blue screen of death” on their computers when they tried to start their workdays. The outage was reportedly caused by a glitch that occurred during an update to CrowdStrike Falcon,…

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit—with its liberal reputation—was reversed in six of 12 cases that the U.S. Supreme Court reviewed this term, or just 50% of the time. For the Ninth Circuit, it’s an unusually low percentage. In recent past years, the largest federal appeals court’s reversal…

Attorneys in firms large and small woke up Friday to notifications of potential computer delays and access issues thanks to an outage at CrowdStrike, a popular cybersecurity tool that released a faulty update for computers running on Windows operating systems Thursday night. The impacts of the CrowdStrike outage have been…