California Cause of Action Litigating Statute 
At the Lectern
JULY 6, 2023
Responding to questions asked by the Ninth Circuit about California law, the court’s unanimous opinion by Justice Carol Corrigan precludes an action alleging a construction worker’s wife contracted COVID from her husband due to his employer’s failure to abide by government health orders at the beginning of the pandemic.
The IP Law Blog
MARCH 23, 2023
The Ninth Circuit recently addressed the issue of whether parties can contractually agree to shorten the statute of limitations period for bringing a copyright infringement claim. Normally, the statute of limitations for a copyright violation is three years. In an unpublished opinion in the case, Evox Productions, LLC v.
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The IP Law Blog
JUNE 10, 2021
New York’s post mortem right-of-publicity statute recently came into effect. Because the statute addressed privacy concerns that dissipated at death, such rights did not extend post mortem. written consent” can sue for an injunction and damages. The postmortem right attached to a “performer” does not expire.
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 2, 2022
To create the compact, each state passed statutes and, as New York’s bill of complaint indicates is a constitutional requirement for interstate compacts, Congress consented as well. However, in 2018, New Jersey passed a statute to withdraw from the compact, and on Dec. City of Oakland, California v. However, the U.S. Ibarguen v.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
MAY 23, 2018
Climate change nuisance litigation is entering a new and dynamic phase. a consolidated case in which Oakland and San Francisco claim that five fossil fuel companies’ production and promotion of fossil fuels constitutes a public nuisance under federal and California common law. By Michael Burger. BP P.L.C. , BP P.L.C. , BP P.L.C. ,
SCOTUSBlog
JANUARY 16, 2022
Her heirs have been litigating for more than 15 years over rights to the painting, an Impressionist masterpiece once thought to be lost. In 1951, it was acquired by a California gallery owner, who sold it to a Los Angeles collector. That question turned on whether California law or Spanish law governed. The full painting.
Patently O
MARCH 25, 2021
2017) refocused attention on a required nexus between the the defendant’s contacts with the forum state and the cause of action. The decision suggested to many that defendant’s connections should have a causal-link with the cause of action. ” Quoting Reiter (1979). The “or” has meaning.
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