The unanimous justices said the potential for declaratory relief, which can trigger fee awards, can encourage public agencies ...

Last summer, we discussed a decision by the Court of Appeals that upheld the use in commercial leases of waivers of declaratory relief. In response to that decision, the New York Legislature enacted ...

Vacating the district court’s order denying a defendant’s recovery of attorneys’ fees under the Copyright Act, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ...

Until recently, the Rules of the Commercial Division of the Supreme Court of New York exempted cases principally seeking equitable or declaratory relief from the monetary threshold requirement. See ...

If you’re of a certain age, or from a certain geographic sector of the country, then no doubt you’ve heard that particular idiom uttered to mean, “What a surprise!” “John and Megan eloped last night.” ...

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JURIST Guest Columnist Patrick Brady, University of Maine School of Law Class of 2014, discusses Detroit’s bankruptcy and pension holders’ proactive defense of their rights… Although the pension ...

A number of tools exist to prevent abuse of court process and ensure matters properly and finally determined by a competent court do not become subject to re-litigation. These fall under the umbrella ...

A judge ruled against the city of Del Mar last week on a demurrer that the city filed in response to a complaint by The Winston School over a multiyear dispute about the school’s lease. The city, ...