As Sam Bankman-Fried is sentenced to 25 years for his role in the FTX collapse, Prof. Jonathan Lipson tells the Guardian that the actions of Sullivan & Cromwell may have “distorted the criminal case and hurt depositors and creditors.” Read More

New guidance from the US Judicial Conference intended to prevent judge-shopping in all civil cases won’t have much impact on patent litigation, says Prof. Paul Gugliuzza. He points to Texas’s Western District court, where new filings show “that the judge shopping story in patent law is far from over—it’s just entering a new chapter.” Read More

As Sam Bankman-Fried faces sentencing for his role in the FTX bankruptcy, Prof. Jonathan Lipson joins Michael Lewis to examine how the case highlights problems with the US bankruptcy system itself. Read More

As the Supreme Court considers a case about the FDA’s regulation of mifepristone, Dean Rachel Rebouche explains how the outcome could impact not just access to abortion care but the FDA’s authority to do its job. Read More

The Financial Times reports on forthcoming scholarship by Prof. Jonathan Lipson and co-author David Skeel that details what they call possible “ethical violations” by Sullivan & Cromwell that “appear to have reduced recoveries, even as they have enriched S&C” in the FTX bankruptcy. Read More

Dean Rachel Rebouche explains what’s at stake in a case currently before the Supreme Court over the FDA’s regulation of mifepristone, one of two drugs used in medication abortion. Read More

Dean Rachel Rebouche joins frequent co-authors David S. Cohen and Greer Donley, taking a deep dive on Law Dork into abortion and reproductive rights before the Supreme Court. Read More

Has the PA Supreme Court opened the door to expert testimony about interrogation techniques and other factors that could render witness testimony “unreliable?” Prof. Jules Epstein examines the outcome in Commonwealth v. McGinnis, decided in December 2023. Read More

Medication abortion accounts for nearly two-thirds of abortions, making it a “threat to the anti-abortion movement,” according to Dean Rebouche. The Supreme Court will decide a case this term that could roll back its availability. Read More

Prof. Paul Gugliuzza and co-author J. Jonas Anderson explain how judge shopping has created a legitimacy crisis for federal courts and how a new case assignment policy can and can’t help. Read More