Patently O

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

DTSA fully opened the federal courts to trade secret litigation as well as added several new features, including an ex parte seizure remedy and whistleblower immunity. David Almeling and Victoria Cundiff are two of the most experienced trade secret litigators in the nation. DTSA added to the large and growing federal caseloads.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 1, 2022

Boule considers whether to “extend” the Bivens cause of action to First Amendment retaliation claims and Fourth Amendment claims arising from immigration enforcement near the U.S.-Canada The judicially created Bivens cause of action functions as the counterpart to 42 U.S.C. The federal government’s arguments.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 21, 2022

The decision has significant implications for future climate litigation claims in Australia. Prior to this decision, the Sabin Center’s Network of Peer Review Scholars on Climate Litigation held a webinar on the Sharma case. Sharma and Others and its impact for climate litigation in Australia. Background on the claim.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

The private international law issue was whether the Gombe State High Court had territorial jurisdiction in this case, rather than the Kano State High Court where the defendant/appellant alleged the cause of action arose? The issue of where the cause of action arose was clearly irrelevant.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 2, 2022

and global climate litigation movement. Moreover, the case in Puerto Rico comes after recent litigation successes in Europe and elsewhere around the world, with courts holding governments and companies accountable for climate harms. climate litigation brought by cities and other subnational jurisdictions is still rare.

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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.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

United States is next in a protracted line of cases in which the court has considered whether statutory bars to causes of action are firm “jurisdictional” rules or instead more forgiving claims-processing rules. The trend appears largely, if not entirely, in cases against the United States. Why, you might ask, should this matter?

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

This case presents whether a resident deprived of those rights can sue a publicly owned and operated nursing home under Section 1983, which provides a cause of action against government actors who deprive anyone of rights secured by the “laws” of the United States, meaning other federal statutes, including spending clause enactments.

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SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 19, 2022

Under the Fifth Amendment, “private property” cannot be “taken for public use” by the government “without just compensation.” Four years later, however, with the companies on their feet, the government changed its mind. They filed a series of lawsuits against the government. The court in Collins v. Coinbase, Inc.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Yet it significantly advances climate litigation in Brazil, with important consequences for future cases. This is the first time that a court has drawn the differences between environmental and climate litigation. The decision may have gone unnoticed. Background. Brazil and Federal Prosecutor Office v. Significance of the decision.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 28, 2024

Going forward, judges will be charged with interpreting the law faithfully, impartially, and independently, without deference to the government. This is a win for individual liberty and the Constitution,” But Kym Meyer, the litigation director for the Southern Environmental Law Center, decried the ruling in a statement. “[T]he

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 17, 2022

When entering into contracts, parties commonly include forum selection clauses to govern future litigation between the parties. For clarity, this covenant not to sue includes, but is not limited to, patent infringement litigations, declaratory judgment actions, patent validity challenges before the U.S. emphasis added).

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LexForti

JUNE 4, 2021

The sheer origin of Jurisdiction can be claimed to draw its essence from Public International Law, Constitutional law, the conflict of laws and the powers stipulated in the legislative and executive branches of the government to allocate resources in order to adequately serve the needs of the society. In the case of A.B.C.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2023

Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit that Rodney Reed had filed his challenge to the Texas law governing DNA testing too late. Normally, Kavanaugh explained, that occurs when a plaintiff has a “complete and present cause of action” – that is, when the plaintiff can actually file a lawsuit and obtain relief.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Local and state government plaintiffs want the cases to remain in state court, where they can argue that climate nuisance claims are similar to past common law efforts to hold companies accountable for misleading the public about their products’ harms, like those against tobacco companies. Chevron Corp.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 15, 2023

But that is not the question the justices agreed to review – the lower courts assumed that the board had sovereign immunity and so did not address the question at all – and Justice Elena Kagan’s opinion for a majority of eight declines to decide that question at this late stage of the litigation.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 8, 2023

Gorgi Talevski’s family brought a Section 1983 action against Valparaiso Care and Rehabilitation, a government nursing facility owned by Health and Hospital Corp. Government enforcement and administrative remedies may suffice, as will a “centralized review mechanism” that would be undermined by piecemeal individual litigation.

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Patently O

MAY 17, 2021

1] The topic is personal jurisdiction –when may a Federal Court exercise its power over an out-of-state patentee in a declaratory judgment action challenging the patent’s validity. Townes, Repeated and Specific Litigation Threats – Sufficient Minimum Contacts, Knobbe Martens Blog (2021). [3] 2001) (same); Akro Corp.

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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. Unbeknownst to the Cassirer family or the German government, the Pissarro was not lost. That question turned on whether California law or Spanish law governed. The full painting.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 19, 2022

Generally, if the police obtain a suspect’s statement in violation of Miranda , the government cannot use that statement against the defendant in court. Tekoh moved to suppress the government’s use of his un- Mirandized statement. A second trial occurred where the government, again, introduced Tekoh’s statement.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 25, 2022

Calling the 9th Circuit’s decision an extension of Miranda into Section 1983 litigation, Martinez characterized the court’s landmark decision as a judicially crafted prophylactic Fifth Amendment “protective fence” that does not create a Section 1983 cause of action for money damages.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 23, 2018

Climate change nuisance litigation is entering a new and dynamic phase. The decisions on these motions could influence pending and future litigation in the same vein – lawsuits seeking damages, compensation or abatement funds to alleviate the costs borne by local governments to adapt to climate change impacts. By Michael Burger.

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Day on Torts

APRIL 15, 2022

The access claim does not assert ‘a litigating opportunity yet to be gained or an opportunity already lost,’ nor is there an underlying cause of action the vindication of which is prevented by the denial of access to the courts.

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 25, 2024

4] As Three Arrows illustrates though, old habits die hard and the limits of the ‘non-exhaustive’ nature of the jurisdictional gateways remains to be tested by litigants. 2] For step (a), the previous Order 11 gateways have been transcribed as a non-exhaustive list of factors. [3]

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Day on Torts

JANUARY 11, 2021

Anyone litigating a case where the Public Duty Doctrine might be an issue would be wise to read this opinion and be aware of the multiple other cases it cites. internal citation omitted). Plaintiff alleged that both the first and third special relationship exceptions to the Public Duty Doctrine applied.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Litigation against major corporate greenhouse gas (GHG) emitters has proven extremely tough. Even as successful cases against governments have blossomed, private suits face significant barriers. Under New Zealand law, such arguments should be struck out only if they “disclose[] no reasonably arguable cause of action”.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 12, 2023

Nearly all of the state and local government plaintiffs filed their cases in state court. Strategic pleading by government plaintiffs The appellate court decisions to remand the cases to state court turned on decisions over whether the plaintiff’s claims’, although frame as state law claims, actually arise under federal law.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 28, 2024

Reading from the bench on Thursday, Sotomayor called the majority’s decision “a devastating blow to the manner in which our government functions.” For Sotomayor, cases where the government itself is the claimant were the easy cases, the very definition of public rights.

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The decision illustrates that the relevance of the domicile of natural persons for the jurisdiction in direct actions for damages against board members (Art 4, 62 Brussels Ia Regulation) can lead to the fact that courts of different member states have to decide on crucial aspects of complex investor litigation at the same time.

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Day on Torts

MAY 3, 2022

A special duty of care can arise in three ways, one of which is when “the plaintiff alleges a cause of action involving intent, malice, or reckless misconduct,” and plaintiff argued that the sheriff’s deputy here engaged in reckless misconduct such that the public duty doctrine did not apply. This opinion was released 8.5

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The Fashion Law

DECEMBER 20, 2021

This year, the filing of a number of fashion and broader retail industry lawsuits and developments in previously-filed ones stood out in the crowded landscape of litigation in many cases because they indicate larger trends within the fashion space. According to the declaratory judgment action that it filed with the U.S.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 10, 2022

Given the power of Big Tech Companies, their enormous financial resources, cross-jurisdictional reach and their global impact on users’ privacy, there are two main litigation challenges for successfully bringing a privacy claim against Big Tech. 3] Secondly, the challenge is how to finance mass claims, involving millions of affected users.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2022

She insists in the video that she knows all of the governing legal rules and shows the path in detail. In 2015, federal and state governments were cracking down on cosmetic contact lenses to give people spooky eyes. The retailer filed a motion for partial summary judgment as to plaintiffs’ cause of action for failure to warn.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2020

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. On November 23, GM announced that it was withdrawing from the litigation. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Roati.

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Conflict of Laws

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The remedy of a Mareva injunction (or freezing injunction) was developed as a means of curtailing this form of bad litigation tactics by a judgment debtor. i) that he has a cause of action against the defendant which is justiciable in Nigeria: [10] See – Siskina (Owners of Cargo lately laden on borad) v distas Compania S.A

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2021

In 2015, the federal and state governments are cracking down on cosmetic contact lenses to give people spooky eyes. The retailer filed a motion for partial summary judgment as to plaintiffs’ cause of action for failure to warn. The trial court granted the motion and dismissed the actions against the manufacturers.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Bankruptcy Judge Robert Drain called the settlement a “bitter result” but noted the costs and risks of continuing to litigate rather than settle the disputes. Trustee, and the federal government have a right to challenge the confirmation of the plan at all. There are two main questions before the Supreme Court. In any event, the U.S.

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