JURIST

MARCH 7, 2024

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed a bill into law Wednesday night shielding in vitro fertilization (IVF) providers from legal liability, moments after it was passed by the legislature. The new law protects IVF providers from some civil lawsuits and criminal prosecutions.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Wednesday reversed a ruling holding that the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) preempts state law causes of action against Google for collecting data from children’s online behavior. Circuit Judge M. Margaret McKeown authored the three-judge panel decision.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Following a three-year investigation, California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) sued Tesla Motors and fifty representatives Thursday, alleging its work environment violated the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) and other laws with regard to Black employees.

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

“Editorial excellence has long been at the heart of Westlaw,“ said Leann Blanchfield, head of Primary Law, Editorial, Thomson Reuters. “To enable more precision in search, we added more than 250 new attorney editors to mark up and classify case law in more useful ways for our customers.” KeyCite Cited With.

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JURIST

MARCH 30, 2021

” The bill also establishes a private cause of action in which an individual may “assert an actual or threatened violation of this subchapter as a claim in a judicial or administrative proceeding and obtain compensatory damages, injunctive relief, declaratory relief, or any other appropriate relief.”

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JURIST

JUNE 20, 2021

Arab Bank , the Supreme Court stated that the purpose of this law was to “promote harmony in international relations by ensuring foreign plaintiffs a remedy for international-law violations in circumstances where the absence of such a remedy might provoke foreign nations to hold the United States accountable.”

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Issues relating to succession and administration of estate of a deceased person raise significant issues in Nigerian private international law (or conflict of laws), whether a person dies testate or intestate. The claimants/respondents brought an action against the defendant/appellant before the Gombe State High Court.

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JURIST

APRIL 9, 2023

Judge Jeffrey Crabtree ruled that the plaintiffs in the case alleged a viable cause of action against the department. ” The court ruled that this law requires “timely planning and action, not meaningless or purely aspirational goals.”

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JURIST

APRIL 19, 2023

.” The complaint sets forth 25 causes of action, which include Failure to Train, Failure to Supervise, Fourth Amendment violations, Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress and Fraudulent Misrepresentation.

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LegalReader

DECEMBER 17, 2020

But because personal injury law encompasses so many situations and causes of action, there is no set number. Personal injury lawsuits are intended to compensate those who are injured in accidents through no fault of their own.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

To leave the decision unreviewed would force Congress to revise substantially the affected portions of the securities laws solely based on the opinion of one divided lower court panel – hence, the Supreme Court’s buffet of constitutional law topics on Wednesday morning.

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JURIST

JULY 16, 2022

Code § 1983 and 1988 and the Fourth, Fifth and Fifteenth Amendments of the US Constitution were violated, particularly protection against unreasonable seizure and the protections of due process of law. The post Man exonerated in assassination of Malcolm X seeks $40M from NYC appeared first on JURIST - News.

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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.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 6, 2021

.” The suit was filed by Chicago-based Edelson PC and seeks to apply Myanmar law to the plaintiffs’ claim in an attempt to circumvent § 230 of the Communications Decency Act —a US law that protects tech companies from content posted by users.

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JURIST

AUGUST 8, 2024

With respect to the government’s first objection to the plaintiffs’ cause of action under section 7 of the Charter, the government argued immigration detention does not engage a person’s rights to liberty and security of the person.

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Mondaq

JULY 26, 2021

A New Jersey trial court recently granted summary judgment in favor of a national bank, finding that the New Jersey Uniform Fiduciaries Law ("UFL") does not permit an affirmative cause of action.

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Above The Law

MAY 12, 2022

Josh Lambo is suing the Jacksonville Jaguars on a single cause of action. The post An Urban Meyer Kick Could Cost The Jacksonville Jaguars Millions appeared first on Above the Law.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 25, 2022

Christopher Garvey, an overseas employee of US-based corporation Morgan Stanley, brought the case against the US Department of Labor Administrative Review Board (ARB) after he witnessed Morgan Stanley employees committing potential US securities law violations.

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Patently O

JUNE 6, 2024

The lawsuit asserts five causes of action against Ladas & Parry: misappropriation of trade secrets under federal and NY state law, copyright infringement, legal malpractice, and breach of fiduciary duty. by Dennis Crouch Neuropublic S.A., And, according to the allegations.

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 13, 2023

The determination of the law applicable to limitation is a complex exercise. The aim of this post is to explore how would Indian substantive law of the contract impact limitation period and party autonomy, especially in the context of contracting out of limitation in a foreign-seated international arbitration.

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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.

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JURIST

JANUARY 4, 2023

US Judge Edward Chen for the US District Court for the Northern District of California ruled that Al-Ahmed’s amended complaint’s causes of action were time-barred and improperly pled. Chen also ruled that the Communications Decency Act (CDA) gave Twitter immunity from Al-Ahmed’s federal claims.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 8, 2022

In an opinion by Justice Clarence Thomas, the court held that a Washington state innkeeper does not have implied causes of action against a federal agent for alleged First and Fourth Amendment violations arising from the enforcement of immigration laws along the border. Robert Boule is a U.S.

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JURIST

MARCH 5, 2021

There is nothing in the statement which we find so offensive as to give a cause of action for a Court to initiate proceedings. It also reprimanded the petitioners for filing a case when they have no relation to the subject matter and imposed costs of Rs. 50,000 ($684) to “discourage such endeavours.”

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 30, 2024

Written by Tarasha Gupta, student, Jindal Global Law School, Sonipat (India) and Saloni Khanderia, Professor, Jindal Global Law School In its recent judgment in Shiju Jacob Varghese v. The Indian Supreme Court in Modi Entertainment v. There are no fixed criteria in considering whether to invoke the doctrine.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Equitable-apportionment law seeks to balance the states’ sovereign interests in water by delineating how exactly the two states will share an interstate waterway. “[W]e Nevertheless, they determined that their longstanding remedy for natural resource disputes among states was Mississippi’s only option.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

AUGUST 5, 2021

The backbone of all good personal injury law firms is its paralegals. Paralegals are essential to a personal injury law firm, whether for a solo practitioner or a large firm with many lawyers. A valuable personal injury paralegal is a paralegal who knows not only the law but also the medicine. Understand Medical Terminology.

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The Fashion Law

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Walmart argues that a demurrer is also warranted because West and Yeezy’s claims are barred by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which “preempts the cause of action to the extent that [West and Yeezy are] seeking to hold Walmart liable for the conduct of the seller” of the imitation footwear. Walmart Inc.,

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Mondaq

MAY 18, 2022

Discusses the current state of privacy law. What would a tort of privacy look like? Implications for medical practitioners.

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HowAppealing

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued today. In his dissenting opinion , Circuit Judge Jerry E. ” Perhaps the majority agrees.

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JURIST

MARCH 7, 2023

The High Court of Australia Tuesday began hearing submissions that a Facebook app tied to the Cambridge Analytica scandal contravened national privacy laws. The oral submissions will determine whether Facebook is liable for consumer data breaches in contravention of the Privacy Act 1998 (Cth).

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

That is the complaint by two law students (identified only as John Doe and Jane Doe) who allege that they were blackballed for supporting Professor Amy Chua, who was previously discussed as embroiled in a controversy at the school after she defended Justice Brett Kavanaugh. became the subject of pernicious law school gossip.

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Patently O

OCTOBER 18, 2021

This interesting case is pending before the Supreme Court of Georgia over the question of keyword advertising under Georgia law. The law [of Georgia] protects its right to exclude others from trading on that name and its associated good will for profit. The following comes from Edible’s brief: Edible’s claim is simple.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

A civil law breakthrough came in 2021, with the ruling of a Dutch court against Shell. In Smith v Fonterra , decided by New Zealand’s Supreme Court this week, we have perhaps the biggest common law breakthrough. All three of Smith’s claims will now proceed to what may the be first full climate tort claim in a common law jurisdiction.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 25, 2021

Although Congress has sometimes passed statutes that give someone a “cause of action” when a federal law has been violated, Kavanaugh wrote, that is not enough, by itself, to give a plaintiff the right to sue in federal court. Friday’s ruling in TransUnion v. Kagan wrote a separate dissent that Breyer and Sotomayor joined.

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Law 360

MARCH 27, 2024

Two Native American tribes urged a Washington federal court to remand their consolidated case against ExxonMobil, BP, Shell, Chevron, ConocoPhillips and Phillips 66 back to state court, arguing they've only asserted state-law causes of action.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 28, 2024

Share In a major ruling, the Supreme Court on Friday cut back sharply on the power of federal agencies to interpret the laws they administer and ruled that courts should rely on their own interpretion of ambiguous laws. The question, as she framed it, is “[w]ho decides which of the possible readings” of those laws should prevail?

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