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Defining "Harm" Today Under Title VII

This blog briefly looks at a recent Supreme Court case and some Fifth Circuit case law redefining what a "discrimination" case might look like – that is, what "harm" is required to be actionable under Title VII—what does […]

Andrea Johnson

Blog Post: When it comes to obtaining a patent, how much generative AI is too much?

Is generative artificial intelligence ("AI") a mysterious gremlin, lurking in the background on the edge of sentience, as portrayed in dystopian sci-fi plotlines? Or is it a benign tool, merely analyzing inputs to predict an output? Can such […]

Potential Pitfalls in Critical Vendor Negotiations

In 2002 the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas issued an opinion in the case of In re CoServ,[1] establishing a three-part test to determine whether a debtor should be authorized to pay prepetition claims of "critical" […]

Kyle Woodard

Texas Suspense Accounts One Year After Freeport

Freeport is, however, a substantially important decision concerning two of the safe harbor provisions in section 91.402 of the Texas Natural Resources Code. Those allow the payment of proceeds to be withheld, i.e., placed in suspense, without interest […]

Demetri J. Economou