Publications

Twenty-five years ago, Congress passed a law requiring passengers departing from U.S. airports to pay a security fee to the Transportation Security Administration (“TSA”) to offset new security measures (the
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On April 18, 2026, the Avoiding Vexatious Overuse of Impleading to Delay (AVOID) Act (the “Act”) will take effect in New York and significantly impact a defendant’s ability to engage
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It is no secret within the insurance defense bar that a growing number of plaintiffs’ attorneys are artificially inflating the value of their personal injury cases against defendants with large
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The Federal Aviation Administration (“FAA”) has issued a proposed rule to enable the expansion of commercial and recreational use of unmanned aircraft systems (“UAS”) beyond visual line of sight (“BVLOS”)
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The Northern District of Texas recently added to a growing body of case law in holding that a crew’s imperfect response to a medical emergency on board an aircraft does
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Courts typically require that a foreign defendant has “minimum contacts” with the forum state that would justify the exercise of personal jurisdiction over the defendant.1  However, the United States Supreme
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