NEWS

05 Jul

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Newman LLP attorneys Derek Newman, Jessica Newman, Keith Scully, and Jason Sykes won a decision for their client, Fluent, in the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit setting a standard limiting personal jurisdiction. In the internet age, companies have been forced to defend lawsuits far from home because their email advertisements were viewed in plaintiffs’ foreign states. But Newman LLP argued to the federal appeals court that the United States Constitution doesn’t...

05 Jul

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During the first half of 2020, Newman LLP attorneys Derek Newman, Michael Spain, Sarah Forney, Jessica Newman, Tala Al Ghussein, and others represented clients selling their businesses in transactions valued at over $300 million. These included two mergers and two deals where clients sold all stock or assets to larger and publicly traded companies. Newman LLP maintains an active mergers-and-acquisition practice, mostly representing clients in connection with the sale of technology companies....

04 Jul

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Newman LLP attorneys Derek Newman and Keith Scully won a trade-secret case in the Seattle federal court for their clients, College Life Italia and its principals. The firm’s clients are based in Minneapolis and Italy. After a Seattle-based company sued them in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, the firm asked the court to dismiss because the United States Constitution doesn’t permit the lawsuit in Seattle. The court granted the motion...

03 Jul

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Newman LLP attorneys Derek Newman, Jessica Newman, and Jason Sykes won a federal appeal establishing the new standard for winning attorney fees in trademark and false-advertising cases. After winning a false-advertising case by summary judgement in a Virginia federal court, the firm asked the trial court to award attorney fees to its client, domain-name registry XYZ. The trial court denied the motion. But on appeal, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit...

02 Jul

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Newman LLP attorneys Derek Newman, Jessica Newman, and Jason Sykes won a federal appeal setting the standard for what qualifies as false advertising. After the firm won a lawsuit by summary judgement in federal district court, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals wrote this landmark decision about what qualifies as a false or misleading statement and what injuries the plaintiff in a false-advertising case must prove. The appeals court “affirmed” the trial judgment, maintaining the...

01 Jul

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Newman LLP attorneys Derek Newman, Jessica Newman, and Jason Sykes won a preliminary injunction in the Seattle federal court that enjoined the enforcement of two city ordinances. The City of Everett, Washington banned female coffee baristas from wearing bikinis at work. They hired Newman LLP to sue the City to protect their First Amendment and Due Process rights under the First and Fourth Amendments to the United States Constitution. The court granted the firm’s motion...