CommentaryAttorney Analysis from Westlaw Today, a part of Thomson Reuters. October 27, 2023 - The ex parte seizure order, codified under Section 1836(b)(2) of the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 ...

On December 14, 2023, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (the “Court”) granted an unusual ex parte application to serve third-party discovery subpoenas on ...

On September 19, 2014, CanaSea PetroGas Holdings Limited (a Canadian holding company) and its subsidiaries (collectively, the Applicants) filed for protection from creditors under the CCAA on an ex ...

Court granted §1782 application where movants had an interest in the underlying transaction and established that the sought-after discovery would be used in foreign tribunals. Movants' motion to ...

The National Judicial Council (NJC) has had cause to sanction judges who did not exercise proper discretion in granting ex-parte orders, which are made without waiting for a response from the other ...

“Parties seeking the extraordinary remedy of an ex parte seizure order should emphasize whether, for example, the defendant has a high level of computer proficiency and that such a defendant may find ...

Leke Kehinde, in this article, examines among others, the propriety of the freezing of some companies’ accounts by the Federal High Court (FHC) pursuant to ex-parte motions for interim injunctions by ...

February 1, 2022 - On Oct. 11, 1996, President Clinton signed the Economic Espionage Act of 1996 (EEA) into law: "Trade secrets are an integral part of virtually every sector of our economy and are ...

The killing of the Kentucky woman Breonna Taylor in the execution of a search warrant has triggered a call for reform of search warrant procedures. Most of the focus for reform has currently centered ...

Telangana High Court condones a 251-day delay, allowing a housewife to challenge an ex-parte decree after the lower court ...

The tribunal dismissed the appeal, confirming that repeated failure to file written statements despite ample opportunity ...

One of Nigeria’s new generation banks, Parallex Bank Limited, has asked the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, to dismiss a suit instituted against it by a logistics firm, FHT ...