by Wiggin and Dana LLP | Sep 15, 2019
On June 18, 2019, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed Substitute Senate Bill 3, publicly known as the “Time’s Up” bill and identified as Public Act 19-16, “An Act Combatting Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment.” The law significantly changes the sexual harassment...
by Wiggin and Dana LLP | Sep 15, 2019
Greetings, Court Fans! On the penultimate D-day of OT18, the Court handed down three decisions, including one of the most anticipated of the term, leaving five for tomorrow morning. The biggie today was Kisor v. Wilkie (No. 18-15), in which the Court declined to...
by Wiggin and Dana LLP | Sep 15, 2019
Greetings, Court Fans! On the last decision day of the term, the Chief Justice put on his AMK hat, casting the decisive vote on opposite (political) sides in the two most politically salient cases of the term, involving the census and partisan gerrymandering. In...
by Wiggin and Dana LLP | Sep 15, 2019
Those seeking federal registration benefits for their scandalous or immoral trademarks are now in luck. On Monday, the United States Supreme Court held in Iancu v. Brunetti No. 18-302 (U.S. June 24, 2019) that the Lanham Act’s Section 2(a) prohibition against...
by Wiggin and Dana LLP | Sep 15, 2019
Greetings, Court Fans! Earlier this month, in her annual report to the Second Circuit Judicial Conference , Justice Ginsburg remarked that, to that point, only 11 decisions of the term had produced 5-4 or 5-3 outcomes, but that she could “not predict that the...
