Attorney Cause of Action Government 
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 2, 2022
Share This week we highlight cert petitions (and one original action ) that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, whether New Jersey can withdraw from its Waterfront Commission Compact with New York concerning governance and law enforcement over the Port of New York and New Jersey. In New York v. Oakland Raiders.
JURIST
FEBRUARY 27, 2021
It prohibits any sort of voting practice or procedure that would cause the denial or abridgment of the right to vote to any person based on race, color, or membership in a minority language group. The governing body could, in the alternative, submit its proposed changes to the office of the attorney general for prior approval.
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Patently O
JANUARY 4, 2024
I believe that Winston & Strawn will eventually prevail based upon a fair use defense, but it is still an embarrassing situation for the firm and attorneys involved. The role of attribution is also receiving increasing focus as attorneys begin to rely more heavily on AI outputs for their legal documents.
LawSites
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
Akin Gump filed a motion asking the court to dismiss Xcential’s counterclaims, arguing that they were barred by the Noerr-Pennington doctrine, a judicially-created doctrine that grants immunity from antitrust laws for legitimate petitioning conduct directed at any branch of government.
SCOTUSBlog
JANUARY 19, 2022
The question before the justices is whether a federal court hearing state law claims under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act must apply the state’s choice-of-law rules to determine what substantive law governs the claims at issue, or must instead use federal common law to choose the source of the substantive law. But under the U.S.
Patently O
MAY 17, 2021
Its sole employee is Robert Babayi–a patent attorney practicing in Washington DC who has apparently never visited the Texas office. Thus, we have contacts and threats of litigation directed toward a resident of California; and these threats relate directly to the eventual cause of action. PerDiemCo owns a number of U.S.
Patently O
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
Patent cases also involve aspects of secrecy—such as unpublished patent applications that might bear on validity and business strategy related to damages—but trade secret litigation goes to the very heart of the cause of action: that the information that was allegedly misappropriated was not known or readily ascertainable.
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