Patently O

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Stroud is General Counsel at Unified Patents – an organization often adverse to litigation-funded entities. [1] litigation finance boom of the past 20 years—as has been widely reported, private equity now undergirds huge swaths of U.S. Guest post by Jonathan Stroud. Patent assertion finance today is a multibillion-dollar business. [2]

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The decision, formally communicated to the parties on July 27, marks a pivotal moment in climate litigation. However, the Supreme Court found that the Spanish Government had complied with the Paris Agreement and the EU legislation. Spain II Decision Fast forward to June 2023, and the Supreme Court’s final ruling on Greenpeace v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 9, 2024

In a transformative moment for European and global climate litigation, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled today that the state has a positive duty to adopt, and effectively implement in practice, regulations and measures capable of mitigating the existing and potentially irreversible future effects of climate change.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 23, 2022

In a one-sentence order , the justices declined to toss out a Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling that adopted the governor’s map for those districts. Like other election-law disputes before the court recently, the dispute over Wisconsin’s state legislative districts, Wisconsin Legislature v. The state legislative maps.

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JURIST

JUNE 17, 2021

In 2018, the Oslo District Court held that Article 112 only applies to local environmental harm and greenhouse gas emissions in Norway, but not to emissions from combustion that occurs abroad. The Norwegian lawsuit is the latest in an emerging branch of international climate change-related litigation.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 23, 2021

A look back at significant decisions in climate litigation in 2021. 2021 was a significant year for climate litigation, with several decisions worldwide providing a fresh look at stakeholder responsibility for climate change. A first decision in climate litigation against private actors. By Maria Antonia Tigre.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. Ninth Circuit Rejected Claim That CEQA Applied to Taxi Rules for Airport Pickups. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Roati.

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LexForti

JANUARY 21, 2022

This article discusses the scope and growth of litigation finance in India. Concept of Litigation Finance. In other words, the third party has a vested interest in the outcome of judicial or arbitral adjudication but is a stranger to the litigant’s claim itself. Legal Evolution of Third Party Litigation Funding in India.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The last few days saw two major developments in international rights-based climate litigation, with the adoption of a new resolution by the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) and a long-awaited decision on a climate case by the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Recent Developments on rights-based climate litigation.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 23, 2021

Jackson Lecture, an annual talk featuring Supreme Court experts. The event took the form of an interview in which Barrett (the professor, not the justice) posed questions to Murray about the state of the court. The court decided only 57 cases after full briefing and argument, the second-lowest since the Civil War.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 6, 2025

This blog post discusses the case and its implications for future climate litigation and policy in Czechia. Consequently, the Court found that the defendants had been in default since December 18, 2020, when the UNFCCC Secretariat received an updated EU NDC. Both parties appealed against this judgement.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 7, 2022

A majority of the Supreme Court has never endorsed that theory, and some election-law experts say that, if adopted, it could effectively strip state courts of their power to protect voting rights under state constitutions. Harper , began when the state’s legislature drew a new congressional map based on data from the 2020 census.

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Patently O

MARCH 19, 2021

Chao was a patent attorney and patent litigator for 20 years before becoming a professor and I have long valued his insight. Judge Alan Albright’s court in the Western District of Texas is rapidly becoming the latest hot spot for patent litigation. 10/08/2020. 10/08/2020. 10/08/2020. 418, 420, 424, 425).

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Cyprus is the first country in Europe that amended its constitution with a view to permitting the use of the English language in court proceedings. International commercial courts aim at improving commercial dispute resolution by offering litigating parties specialised, faster, and therefore better court proceedings.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The court held “there is no special rule for supervisory liability,” and “a plaintiff must plead and prove ‘that each Government-official defendant, through the official’s own individual actions, has violated the Constitution.” See also id., at 24 Case 3:20-cv-00822-LEK-ML Document 70 Filed 08/24/21 Page 24 of 33 375 (Brandeis, J.,

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 16, 2025

This article gives a glimpse of how Chinese courts handle asymmetric choice of court agreements in international and commercial civil litigations. [4] Characterization Chinese courts have demonstrated mainly four different views in characterizing asymmetric choice of court agreements. 5] In Hang Seng Bank Ltd.

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 12, 2024

This collective action procedure was introduced on 1 January 2020, enabling claims for damages, and has since resulted in a stream of (interim) judgments addressing different aspects in the preliminary stages of the procedure. Introduction We have reported on the Dutch WAMCA procedure for collective actions in a number of previous blogposts.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

When a dispute arose, the plaintiffs commenced the proceedings at the Supreme Court of Queensland in Australia ([2020] QSC 318). The defendant entered a conditional appearance and applied to strike out the claim, or alternatively, to have it stayed as being commenced in this court contrary to the contract.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 26, 2021

As was briefly announced earlier on this blog , on 29 January 2021, the Dutch Court of Appeal in The Hague gave a ruling in a long-standing litigation launched by four Nigerian farmers and the Dutch Milieudefensie. Oil spill in Nigeria and litigation in The Hague courts. Human rights litigation and Rome II.

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Patently O

MARCH 11, 2021

” In its decision, the Federal Circuit affirmed a lower-court ruling that the claims were indefinite. ” A certified translation during the litigation translated the term “semiliquido” as “semi-liquid.” Petition for Writ of Certiorari ] [ Federal Circuit’s 2020 Decision ].

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

A 2020 study by the NRE of over 2,400 confirmed exonerations found that in 30 percent of the cases prosecutorial misconduct was specifically a factor. Of the 106 exonerations through the end of 2020 in Pennsylvania, prosecutors committed misconduct in 48 of them, or about 45 percent. Certify Compliance.

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 12, 2020

According to the information released by the Sanming Intermediate People’s Court (the Court), it formally filed the case on 11 December 2015, which then served the Dutch defendants by international judicial cooperation. In international civil litigation, many cases involve a foreign defendant not domiciled or residing within China.

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The new framework for collective redress, which became applicable on 1 January 2020 (see also our earlier blogpost ), has received a lot of attention in international scholarship and by European legislators and policy makers due to its many innovations and making it easier for consumers and small businesses to litigate against large companies.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Share The Supreme Court will hear oral argument on Wednesday in a dispute over the congressional map that South Carolina’s Republican-controlled legislature enacted in the wake of the 2020 census. The court ruled that race was the overriding factor in the design of District 1. district appeared first on SCOTUSblog.

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Patently O

MARCH 15, 2023

The court did separately reverse a tertiary challenge to allow Apple to proceed on a claim related to the note-and-comments procedure of the APA. Apple and other repeat players in patent infringement litigation often use the inter partes review process under 35 U.S.C. §§ 311–319 to challenge the validity of asserted patents.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

But the lower courts ruled, and the federal government contends, that the “safety value” is only available to defendants who do not have any of the indicators. After a federal appeals court reinstated Laufer’s lawsuit, Acheson went to the Supreme Court, which agreed in March to weigh in on whether Laufer can sue.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 6, 2021

The court’s 2019 decision in Rucho v. Common Cause said that federal courts should not entertain challenges to partisan gerrymandering under the Constitution. In 2020, it decided a series of cases, including Republican National Committee v. Litigants then moved to Section 2. 1, the “ For the People Act ”).

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SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 7, 2023

This week, we highlight cert petitions that ask the court to consider, among other things, what role government expert witnesses can play in proving that a blind mule was not, in fact, blind to the drugs in their vehicle. In August 2020, Delilah Diaz was driving from Mexico back to her home in California.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 16, 2021

In Australia, a court found that a real estate agent committed defamation due to the lack of an apostrophe. 22, 2020, posted the message accusing his former workplace and boss Stuart Gan of not paying retirement funds to all its workers: “Oh Stuart Gan!! Notably, this is not the first litigation over punctuation.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The case is proceeding in the Appellate Division, Third Department, of the New York State Supreme Court under the caption Town of Copake et al. The trial court ruled in favor of ORES in two decisions issued on September 21, 2021 and October 7, 2021. New York State Office of Renewable Energy Siting et al. Docket Nos.

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LawTechnologyToday

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Last year, only 47% of respondents reported their laptop being their primary device, compared to 49% of respondents in 2020 responding that a desktop computer was their primary device. In 2020, 41% of solo law firms reported laptops being their primary device as opposed to 35% in 2021. This increase is not an outlier.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 22, 2023

The 2020 update and 2022 update were also posted on Conflictoflaws.net. 786), the Beijing First Intermediate People’s Court ruled to recognize a German court’s bankruptcy ruling based on the principle of reciprocity. To date, we have collected 98 cases involving China and 25 foreign States and regions. 99 Trade Co.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

APRIL 26, 2021

Supreme Court ruled in Tandon v. Accordingly, the Court granted an injunction pending disposition of the appeal in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. On November 13, 2020, the State issued guidance “[l]imiting attendance at gatherings.” The Court made four points in support of its decision. Newsom , 593 U.

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Conflict of Laws

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The 2020 update [2] , 2022 update [3] , and 2023 update [4] were also posted on Conflictoflaws.net. 1, [14] where the Shanghai Third Intermediate People’s Court ruled to recognize the Tokyo District Court’s decision to commence civil rehabilitation proceedings and the order appointing the supervisor.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 2, 2022

The defamation laws are far more advantageous for defendants in the UK and most plaintiffs try to litigate such claims in the U.S. In April 27, 2020, Waldman told the U.K. However, it also ruled that “statements made during an occasion outside a judicial proceeding are not covered.” See Kennedy v. Cannon , 229 Md.

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Day on Torts

JANUARY 11, 2021

16, 2020), plaintiff filed suit under the Governmental Tort Liability Act (GTLA) after he was injured in a car accident. Based on these findings, the Court ruled that plaintiff had not met the requirements of the first exception to the Public Duty Doctrine. In Kimble v. Dyer County Tennessee , No. W2019-02042-COA-R3-CV (Tenn.

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At the Lectern

APRIL 22, 2021

Jaimes , but it granted the Attorney General’s request to depublish the Fifth District’s divided, partially published opinion that held the superior court erroneously responded to a jury question about the meaning of a charged sentence enhancement for a person “convicted of a felony committed. Rules of Court, rule 8.200(a).”

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