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No cause of action against employers for take-home COVID

At the Lectern

In other words, there’s no legal exposure for employee family member virus exposure. ” “[E]xclusivity provisions bar a third party claim only when proof of an employee’s injury is required as an element of the cause of action,” the court says.

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Supreme Court Rules that SEC and Potentially Other Agencies Cannot Impose Civil Penalties in Administrative Proceedings

FDA Law Blog

The first question in the Court’s analysis was whether the claim that the SEC brought is a “suit at common law,” i.e., if the case is legal in nature. That the claim rested on a federal statute and required the SEC to establish facts that do not match any cause of action known to the common law in 1791 was not dispositive.

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

LawSites

The law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has lost its bid to dismiss four of five counterclaims filed by the legal technology company Xcential Legislative Technologies in a lawsuit over ownership rights to legislation-drafting software that each side says was its idea.

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Developments in Opposition to Renewable Energy Facilities Through December 2023

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

These ordinances were adopted despite a state law that prohibits local governments from placing restrictions on wind or solar facilities unless those restrictions: (a) protect health or safety; (b) do not significantly increase the cost or decrease efficiency; or (c) allow for an alternative system of comparable cost and efficiency.

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When is a Government Official’s Social Media a State Action?

Patently O

.” The case is important because social media is increasingly used by government organizations to push-out information; while those same avenues provide an important public mechanism for voicing opposition. Using “government staff to make a post” will very likely be deemed an official act.

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Fifth Circuit restores Texas abortion law two days after lower court blocked it

JURIST

” He argued that the federal government could not be a plaintiff in this case because it lacks standing and lacks a cause of action in the case. ” The post Fifth Circuit restores Texas abortion law two days after lower court blocked it appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary.

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IEA v. Brazil: When a court accepts the legally disruptive nature of climate change

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

Brazil: When a court accepts the legally disruptive nature of climate change. It can also help solve conflicts of jurisdictions (such as in the IEA case), even if that means recrafting legal doctrines. By Maria Antonia Tigre, Délton Winter de Carvalho and Joana Setzer. Background. Brazil and Federal Prosecutor Office v.

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