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JUNE 26, 2024

by Dennis Crouch The Federal Circuit recently denied a petition for mandamus seeking to overturn a district court order transferring a patent case from the Western District of Texas to the Northern District of California. 2024-121 (Fed. June 25, 2024). The statute at issue 28 U.S.C. In re Haptic, Inc. , 3d 201 (5th Cir.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The cases granted on Friday will likely be argued in January or February 2024, with a decision to follow by summer. Texas – Whether property owners can seek compensation under the Constitution for “taking” of their property by the state, if the state has not specifically given them a right to sue. Three decades ago, in Nollan v.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 6, 2024

The recommendation was approved by the ULC’s Executive Committee on July 18, 2024. This recommendation was approved by the ULC’s Executive Committee on July 18, 2024. On the one hand, they could seek recognition and enforcement under the federal statute. How might this work in practice? Imagine the following scenario.

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Patently O

JULY 17, 2024

In a recent decision out of the Southern District of Texas, Judge Lee Rosenthal found the patent infringement case brought by VDPP against Volkswagen to qualify for sanctions under the Patent Act 35 U.S.C. § July 11, 2024). May 20, 2024). The court also relied upon 28 U.S.C. Ramey (Ramey LLP). Ramey (Ramey LLP). VDPP, LLC v.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

2024), the U.S. Facts of the Case In 2019, Sylvia Gonzalez ran for a seat on the city council of Castle Hills, a small town in southern Texas. In Gonzalez v. Trevino , 602 U.S. In Nieves v. Bartlett , 587 U.S. While she was on the campaign trail, Gonzalez heard multiple complaints about the city manager, Ryan Rapelye.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Paxton , 603 U.S. _ (2024), the U.S. Facts of the Case In 2021, Florida and Texas enacted statutes regulating large social-media companies and other internet platforms. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reached the opposite conclusion, reversing the preliminary injunction of the Texas law. In Moody v.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

During oral arguments held on January 10, 2024, the justices seemed inclined to uphold the PAFACAA. Under the statute, it is a crime to make a “false statementfor the purpose of influencing in any way the action” of the FDIC or a mortgage lending business. Paxton : The First Amendment case challenges Texas H.B.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Under Chevron , courts must defer to a federal agency’s reasonable interpretation of an ambiguous statute that the agency is charged with administering, even if they are inclined to rule another way. Texas : The Fifth Amendment government taking case involves when property owners can sue for compensation.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

On April 8, 2024, FERC approved a $5.1 States such as Ohio, Virginia, Illinois, California, Florida Georgia , Texas, Arizona, and Oregon have emerged as major data center hubs and are now faced with the challenge of upgrading their grids to bring more electricity to them. where data center growth is concentrated.

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Patently O

JULY 31, 2024

The Realizing Engineering, Science, and Technology Opportunities by Restoring Exclusive (RESTORE) Patent Rights Act of 2024, introduced by Senators Coons (D-Del.) with a House companion bill from Representatives Moran (R-Texas) and Dean (D-Pa.), JUne 22, 2024). and Cotton (R-Ark.), Twitter, Inc. 16-cv-00764-N (N.D.

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MyCase

APRIL 24, 2024

According to the Legal Industry Report 2024 , nearly one-quarter (24%) of law firms have adopted legal-specific generative artificial intelligence (GAI) tools. Survey respondents confirmed they use GAI to streamline firm processes, from drafting marketing content to finding specific statutes.

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JURIST

APRIL 4, 2025

They argued that the provision did not use affirmative language within the statute’s text to create a right for consumers, nor was the provision within a larger Bill of Rights, which would have indicated the intent to confer a right. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton made the first arrest of an abortion provider in March.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2020

In October, the federal district court for the Eastern District of Texas denied the plaintiff’s request for a preliminary injunction. The companies filed their brief on November 16, arguing that the Fourth Circuit erred by concluding that it was limited to reviewing removal based on the federal-officer removal statute.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2024

In a short list of orders , the justices on Friday added 15 new cases to their docket for the 2024-25 term, which starts on Monday. In 2021, a federal district court in Texas ruled that the state law governing postconviction DNA testing violates an inmate’s constitutional right to due process. Texas & Interim Storage Partners v.

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JURIST

MAY 6, 2024

A statement from the ICC Prosecutor’s Office made Friday noted that “significant public interest” surrounding present cases encouraged dialogue but warned against individuals threatening to retaliate against any actions of the court, which is prohibited under Article 70 of the Rome Statute , to which the US is not a party.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 13, 2024

Coverage of federal fraud statutes Porat v. James Garfield Broadnax, who is Black, was convicted of murdering two people, both of whom were white, by a nearly all-white jury in Texas. CVSG: 5/7/2024 (rescheduled before the Dec. This week’s relists are a real grab bag of issues. United States and Kousisis v. Florida and Moore v.

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JURIST

JANUARY 12, 2024

The Trumbull County prosecutor’s office stated that, after evaluating the case, they believed Watts did not violate the Ohio Criminal Statute of Abuse of a Corpse. In December, the Texas Supreme Court denied Kate Cox access to an abortion, despite her pregnancy compilations.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 6, 2024

Areli Escobar was convicted in Texas state court of the sexual assault and murder of Biana Maldonado Hernandez and sentenced to death. But after Escobar’s conviction, Texas discovered serious problems in the laboratory that conducted the DNA test, leading it to close the facility permanently.

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Patently O

MARCH 17, 2024

More recently, Republican state attorneys general have filed numerous challenges to federal government actions on matters such as abortion , gun control , and immigration in single-judge divisions in Texas. Basically: the sorts of politically charged cases that Republicans have been filing in Texas since President Biden took office.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Remarkably, the court has rescheduled this case 11 times between March and July 2024 before requesting the record, which has now arrived from the lower courts. Texas mandate that courts deem the standard of “significantly subaverage intellectual functioning” for determining intellectual disability in Atkins v. Relisted after the Sept.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 31, 2024

relisted after the May 23, 2024 conference) Delligatti v. relisted after the May 23, 2024 conference) Granier v. relisted after the May 23, 2024 conference) Returning Relists Hamm v. Greenwood represents the exclusive way of establishing juror bias. Smith , 23-167 Issues : (1) Whether Hall v. Florida and Moore v.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 28, 2024

The case was the only addition to the justices’ docket for their 2024-25 term. Instead, they contended, he supplied the guns that his fellow gang members used to commit the crimes, and under a Texas law known as the “law of parties” he could face the same punishment that the shooters faced: death. Nike has denied any wrongdoing.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 19, 2025

4] Canadas statute is an updated version of what have been called constituency statutes in the United States, which explicitly expand the fiduciary duties of corporate managers and directors beyond shareholders but do not usually include the environment among allowable factors, except in Arizona and Texas. [5]

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The First Circuit—like the Fourth, Ninth, and Tenth Circuits in other climate change cases—concluded that the scope of its appellate review was limited to whether the defendants properly removed the case under the federal-officer removal statute. BP America Inc. , 1:20-cv-01429 (D. Exxon Mobil Corp. City of San Francisco , No. 20-0558 (Tex.

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The Crime Report

MAY 24, 2021

Writing in the University of Illinois Law Review Online , Josh Blackman of the South Texas College of Law in Houston, and Seth Barrett Tillman of the Department of Law from the National University of Ireland, don’t take a position on whether or not Trump committed any prosecutable offenses related to his actions on Jan.

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Above The Law

MARCH 7, 2025

The two graphs below track the Justices word counts across all argument in the 2023/2024 Term and those already completed in this 2024/2025 Term. The remainder of this piece proceeds by breaking down and comparing their argument styles across eight oral arguments, four from the 2023/2024 Term and four from the 2024/2025 Term.

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Customs & International Trade Law

JANUARY 10, 2025

BIS published its Export Enforcement 2024 Year in Review Report. Representative Keith Self of Texas introduced a bill that would move CBP headquarters from Washington to Texas. Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) Reminder: changes to the three tiers of DDTC registration fees went into effect on January 9, 2025.

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Above The Law

MAY 5, 2025

Adams was indicted in September 2024, during the Biden administration, for alleged bribery and campaign finance violations. Legal Ethics Trivia From the Texas Center for Legal Ethics , heres the question of the month: Can a lawyer ethically agree not to represent certain clients? One DOJ prosecutor, Hagan Scotten , wrote in his Feb.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Share With just over a year to go until the 2024 presidential elections, the shadow of former President Donald Trump – who is once again the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination – hovers over three of the seven cases in the court’s November argument session, which begins on Oct.

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Above The Law

APRIL 7, 2025

Texas, Becerra v. Texas (2021) and Ohio v. By 2024-2025, however, Barretts opinions began showing a shift toward supporting greater agency deference. Texas (2022), she emphasized deferring to lower courts, criticizing the Courts rushed timeline and its adoption of an untested jurisdictional theory. In Biden v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 10, 2025

When the justices meet for their next regularly scheduled conference today, they will discuss what might become the final petitions granted for oral argument during the 2024 Term. Career Colleges and Schools of Texas. An association of private, for-profit colleges in Texas went to federal court to challenge that regulation.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 24, 2024

Trevino , the court held in favor of Sylvia Gonzalez, who had been arrested in Castle Hills, Texas in 2019 on a trumped-up charge of tampering with government records. On the New Yorker map circa 2024, once you cross the Hudson River eastward, you enter a legal wilderness. In Gonzalez v. Jonathan Turley is the J.B. and Maurice C.

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