U.C.C. section 2-607(3)(a) requires a buyer to give a seller notice of breach within a reasonable time after the buyer discovers or should have discovered the breach. Failure to give the specified notice bars a buyer from any remedy for breach. This harsh...

Financial and corporate crises bring regulation; the bigger the crisis, the more the regulation. A few years ago, major corporations, particularly Enron and WorldCom, were engulfed in scandals. Coming hard upon the bursting of the dot.com bubble and revelations...

Hugh K. Webster, a partner in the Washington, DC law firm of Webster, Chamberlain & Bean, discusses Northern District of Ohio's recent holding in In re Welding Fume Litigation that participation by a non-manufacturer's employees in an industry association,...

The Trade Dress Protection doctrine, which precludes protection of designs and product features that are "functional," no longer has a uniform application nationwide as to aesthetic features. According to the Southern District of California’s...