ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JANUARY 26, 2021

Today, the United Nations Environment Programme (“UNEP”), with support from the Sabin Center, has published a survey of global climate change litigation that provides an overview of existing cases and a discussion of their key legal issues: Global Climate Litigation Report: 2020 Status Review.

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LawTechnologyToday

DECEMBER 9, 2022

“Slowly but surely” may be an apt phrase to describe the results from the 2022 ABA Legal Technology Survey Report covering Litigation Technology & E-Discovery. Many Years and Much Litigation. When asked to describe the type of attorney respondents mostly closely identified with, 46% stated they were “primarily litigation.”

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

When a federal district court in Virginia granted the drivers request for a preliminary injunction that would bar the state from enforcing the law while the litigation continued, the state did not appeal. In most litigation in the United States, each side pays for its own attorneys fees.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 29, 2020

In a climate litigation win, the High Court of the Supreme Court of Guyana accepted a settlement between a scientist, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of Guyana, and Esso (a subsidiary of ExxonMobil) to limit the company’s environmental permits to produce oil from more than 23 years to five years. By Melinda Janki*.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 28, 2022

Two climate litigation cases are included on the docket on March 30th: PSB et al. The cases will be the first climate litigation cases to receive a judgment by the Supreme Court. Additionally, the decisions in ADPF 760 and ADO 59 will represent the first two judgments in climate litigation cases in Brazil at the Supreme Court.

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Above The Law

APRIL 22, 2025

Gaston Kroub: How do you see your litigation experience coloring your company’s approach to IP issues going forward? We estimate that thousands of hours were expended over the two years before we were ready to file the original patent infringement complaint in January 2020.

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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

JUNE 21, 2023

Credit: Tobias Reich, Unsplash The Sabin Center’s Global Climate Change Litigation Database currently lists over 2000 cases. And what do they say about the future of climate litigation in the country? The country also has a strong tradition of public interest litigation , with roots in the anti-apartheid struggle.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 1, 2022

The Supreme Court of Japan may soon weigh in on a growing field of climate litigation in Japan against coal-fired power plants. Through May 2022, all existing climate litigation cases in Japan concern the construction or operation of coal-fired power plants and refer to citizens’ attempts to stop the use of coal. Civil law cases.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The post further explores the potential implications of this clarification for climate litigation, while highlighting the key provisions that underscore the responsibilities of states in safeguarding children’s rights within the ever-evolving environmental landscape. 1 GC26), on children’s rights are evident.

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Patently O

MARCH 26, 2021

2020-1483 (Fed. 2020 WL 555545 (E.D. 4, 2020). by Dennis Crouch. I previously wrote about the Federal Circuit’s decision in WPEM, LLC v. The case focuses on pre-filing investigation — the amount of investigation that a patentee must conduct before filing a patent infringement lawsuit. ” WPEM, LLC v.

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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. This blog post analyzes the Supreme Court’s decision and its implications for climate litigation efforts in Spain and beyond. Spain II , widely known as the trial for climate (“ el juicio por el clima ”).

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LawSites

MARCH 19, 2024

says the company is on a mission to innovate and even revolutionize litigation services and the litigation workflow. You may know it more through its brands, including ServeNow for finding process servers, One Legal for California court filing, LawToolBox for court calendaring, and the Legal Talk Network group of legal podcasts.

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LawSites

JUNE 29, 2022

Today brings news that Gavelytics , a seven-year-old litigation analytics company, is closing its doors effective tomorrow. We built things never before built and answered litigation-related questions never before answerable. The hardest stories I have to report are the ones about legal tech startups that are forced to shut down.

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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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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 27, 2023

Today, the United Nations Environment Programme (“UNEP”), with support from the Sabin Center, has published a survey of global climate change litigation that provides an overview of existing cases and a discussion of their key legal issues: Global Climate Litigation Report: 2023 Status Review (“Report”).

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LawSites

APRIL 26, 2022

However, the judge did not accept a second antitrust theory asserted by ROSS — that TR had engaged in anticompetitive conduct by pursuing sham litigation. But Judge Stark concluded, “ROSS has failed to plausibly allege that Plaintiffs have engaged in sham litigation.”

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 13, 2022

That doesn’t mean, however, that law firms and litigation support teams have been quick to embrace them. In the ABA 2020 Legal Tech Survey , 23% of law firms reported not being interested in AI, while 34% said they didn’t know enough about AI to speak to their firms’ interest. AI Hesitation.

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 31, 2022

For example, cross-border litigation is now widespread as global commerce increases. The COVID-19 pandemic may have dampened global trade in 2020; however, the World Trade Organization forecast a strong growth recovery in 2021 continuing into 2022. Combining Machines and Humans .

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JURIST

AUGUST 17, 2022

US regulators in the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) pulled Zantac from store shelves in 2020 after an investigation revealed some of the products were contaminated with high levels of N-Nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA). The post First plaintiff in Zantac litigation drops suit against drug manufacturers appeared first on JURIST - News.

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Intelligize Blog

JANUARY 14, 2025

The agreement was in response to a complaint filed by shareholders accusing board members of awarding themselves millions in excess pay from 2017 to 2020. It is the fourth-largest fee in Delaware shareholder litigation history, Reuters reported.

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Attorney at Work

AUGUST 26, 2021

Law firms didn’t let the pandemic get in the way of profitability or performance in 2020. on average in the fourth quarter of 2020, according to Thomson Reuters — and 15% among AmLaw 100 firms. Some executed successful staffing strategies using contract attorneys in 2020. Data privacy litigation?

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JURIST

JULY 26, 2021

This ruling came after the 2020 European Court of Justice ruling. This IPT decision is considered a milestone in bulk communications data litigation. PI will continue to work towards protecting the right to privacy through such litigation. The case’s summary of legal proceedings until July 2019 is available here.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In January 2020, the civil court of Nanterre ruled that the dispute fell under the jurisdiction of the commercial courts. In October 2020, the Versailles Court of Appeal affirmed. The CSOs appealed to the Court of Cassation.

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 20, 2022

the percentage of in-house legal budgets spent on technology is expected to increase threefold by 2025 from 2020 levels as legal departments “increase spending on technology to reduce the dependency on outside counsel, address COVID-19, and satisfy a long-overdue need to modernize, digitize and automate legal work.”.

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Court-MartialTrialPractice

JANUARY 29, 2022

Louisiana in 2020. That a military jury can find a service member guilty with less than unanimous votes remains the law. That law now conflicts with the law in all U.S. jurisdictions since the Supreme Court decided the case of Ramos v. Continue reading.

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JURIST

AUGUST 9, 2021

In 2020, class members brought suit against Plaid for “invasion of privacy/intrusion into private affairs, unjust enrichment, deceit, and violations” of several statutory provisions. The court must approve the settlement for it to take effect. Counsel will seek payments for named class representatives of up to $5000.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 17, 2021

That appellate court ruling followed a federal judge’s 2020 decision that struck the agreement down for violating the Canadian Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms. The STCA was signed between the US and Canadian governments in 2002. The Supreme Court’s hearing has not yet been scheduled.

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JURIST

MARCH 31, 2023

The agreement stipulates that “[w]hile the City and MPD did not and do not admit or agree with MDHR’s Findings, the Parties engaged in good-faith negotiations to resolve this matter to avoid the time and expense of taxpayer funded litigation.”

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JURIST

DECEMBER 28, 2023

This is the latest in a series of decisions with different outcomes over the last several years including court cases in 2020 and 2017 which litigated the government’s role in failing to prevent the disaster. There is also a 2022 court case that found TEPCO executives personally liable.

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LawSites

JUNE 7, 2022

Now, Casetext is formally launching that search tool under a new name, AllSearch , and with a focus on helping litigators search large sets of legal documents, including for e-discovery or to search internal databases and repositories, such as brief banks, litigation records, deposition transcripts, and expert reports.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 12, 2020

The factory, originally slated to be operational by July 2021, has been subject to litigation by environmental groups. Tesla became the world’s most valuable carmaker in 2020, and Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, hopes to produce 20 million vehicles in 2021. A lower court in Frankfurt an der Oder initially ruled in favor of Tesla.

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Paralegal.edu

AUGUST 14, 2024

Amy Rainwater is a board-certified paralegal at Patterson-UTI Management Services, LLC’s corporate office where she assists with litigation, labor, and employment matters. She has served on the HMPA Board of Directors in various roles and was elected as the president of HMPA from 2019 to 2020 and from 2023 to 2024. In addition, Ms.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

APRIL 7, 2021

Litigation Support Analyst. Maybe you’ve been a litigation paralegal for several years (or corporate paralegal, real estate paralegal…fill in any practice area here) and you’re looking for a career change. Are you a litigation paralegal who enjoys networking and sales conversations? Foreclosure Specialist.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

According to the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP), who published the Global Litigation Report in July 2023, there are currently 2,180 cases of climate litigation around the world, a sharp increase from the 1,550 in 2020 and the 884 in 2017. This act represents the growing rise of climate-related lawsuits.

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The IP Law Blog

MAY 11, 2023

UCANN filed for bankruptcy in 2020, which stayed the litigation. The ‘911 patent relates to “extraction of pharmaceutically active components … more particularly … botanical drug substance (B.D.S.) comprising cannabinoids obtained by extraction from cannabis.” The stipulation made no mention of attorney fees.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In 2020, the school overhauled its admissions process. In the fall of 2020 , TJ enacted a “holistic” policy for the admissions process, which was enacted to help with the lack of diversity the school is known for. It is often considered one of the top high school’s in the nation.

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