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Akin Gump Loses Bid To Dismiss Legal Tech Company’s Counterclaims In Suit Over Ownership Of Bill-Drafting Software

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Score one for ‘David’ in this David vs. Goliath battle” — a reference to a guest post about the litigation published on this blog by Mark Stodder , president of Xcential.

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Supreme Court strikes down Chevron, curtailing power of federal agencies

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Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.) Chevron deference, Roberts explained in his opinion for the court on Friday, is inconsistent with the Administrative Procedure Act, a federal law that sets out the procedures that federal agencies must follow as well as instructions for courts to review actions by those agencies.

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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac shareholders return to the court after Collins

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Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit erred in deferring to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s “interpretation of its own precedent” in the absence of a reasoned explanation for departing from the standards embodied in those precedents. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Issue : Whether the U.S.

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Small Tech Company Takes On Major Law Firm Over Ownership of Bill-Drafting Software

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But Akin Gump, in its complaint for damages and injunctive relief filed in the District of Columbia Superior Court and in a petition to the U.S. This litigation should be a warning to all innovative legal technology providers.”. 2022 CA 004744 B, filed in the Civil Division of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.

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A quest to reclaim a Pissarro masterpiece hinges on the Erie doctrine

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Her heirs have been litigating for more than 15 years over rights to the painting, an Impressionist masterpiece once thought to be lost. Four of them – the 2nd, 5th, 6th, and District of Columbia Circuits – have answered in the affirmative. But that’s for cases brought under diversity jurisdiction. Does Klaxon apply?

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December 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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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. The federal district court for the District of Columbia ruled that the U.S. and non-U.S. FEATURED CASE.

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Nine new relists as the court approaches the finish line

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Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit held that as a former employee, Stanley lacked a cause of action under the ADA. But its suit named Dewberry Group, not the affiliates, as a defendant, and the parties litigated only the liability of Dewberry Group itself. In Stanley v.

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