LawSites

MARCH 21, 2024

Ai.law , a legal technology startup that uses artificial intelligence to generate litigation documents, has added a new module that will draft the complaint to initiate a lawsuit. Describe a fact scenario and Ai.law can help identify legal claims. Users in state courts will have to customize the formatting to fit local requirements.

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At the Lectern

JULY 6, 2023

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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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Just four years after launching Westlaw Edge as its next-generation legal research platform, Thomson Reuters today unveiled the next-next generation. It means search results that better match not just the legal issue, but also the outcome, fact pattern, cause of action, motion type and outcome, party type, and area of law.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The e-discovery company DISCO said today it has entered into a long-term license with the international legal research company vLex to obtain access to its U.S. legal research materials. primary law library of cases, statutes, regulations, court rules and constitutions.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

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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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. The post India court dismisses sedition claim against Kashmiri politician appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary. 50,000 ($684) to “discourage such endeavours.”

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 13, 2023

Ryu also dismissed an argument from city lawyers, after a motion to dismiss was filed in November, that the suit was invalid because it alleged ‘conspiracy’ as its cause of action, but the city, the police department and other departments “constitute a single legal entity” that cannot conspire.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

In addition, the bill creates civil causes of action for certain unlawful acts, including intimidating voters or voting officials, and communicating false information to voters. The post Virginia General Assembly approves state-level Voting Rights Act appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 21, 2021

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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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Characterisation identifies in cross-border litigation the nature or category of a particular cause of action (for instance contractual, tortious, proprietary, corporate, matrimonial), so that the correct connecting factor can be employed.

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The Fashion Law

MAY 18, 2021

The family that formerly owned Brooks Brothers is in the midst of a $100 million legal battle after allegedly failing to “fulfill their contractual and fiduciary obligations to a Brooks Brothers minority shareholder and investor. TAL and co. are seeking damages to the tune of $100 million. . The case is Castle Apparel Limited, et al.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Malcolm Stewart, for the respondents, rebutted that as a longstanding principle, courts do not intervene in ongoing agency proceedings until it results in a rule or order “that imposes sanctions or determines legal rights or obligations.”

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Law 360

AUGUST 28, 2024

Albany, New York-based Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP has moved to trim breach of contract and disgorgement of fees claims brought by a former client over allegedly bungled tax advice, telling a New York federal judge the claims are redundant when the ex-client is also pursuing a legal malpractice cause of action.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 11, 2024

All of these federal lawsuits include claims that the agencies approving the projects violated the National Environmental Policy Act, among other federal causes of action.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2021

The court’s decision could fundamentally restructure interstate groundwater law in the United States for decades — or the case could be dismissed immediately on the grounds that Mississippi has failed to allege the proper cause of action. The key legal issue in Mississippi v.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 28, 2022

Jane Cummings, who is deaf and legally blind, sued Premier Rehab (a Texas rehabilitation facility that receives federal funding) for discriminating based on disability in violation of the Rehabilitation Act and the Affordable Care Act. Justice Stephen Breyer dissented, joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 28, 2024

Kagan predicted that Friday’s ruling “will cause a massive shock to the legal system.” The APA, Roberts noted, directs courts to “decide legal questions by applying their own judgment” and therefore “makes clear that agency interpretations of statutes — like agency interpretations of the Constitution — are not entitled to deference.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 25, 2021

Share The Supreme Court on Friday substantially narrowed a class action against TransUnion , one of the nation’s three major credit-reporting companies. There are, Kavanaugh noted, different kinds of injuries that can qualify as the kind of concrete harm needed for “standing” – that is, the legal right to sue.

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SAV Paralegal Services

AUGUST 3, 2022

Rule 12 of the Rules of the Small Claims Courts provides for an option for the Court to strike out a Plaintiff’s claim or a Defence if it discloses no reasonable cause of action. Defendant filed a Motion to strike a Plaintiff’s claim as it disclosed no reasonable cause of action.

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LawSites

MARCH 26, 2024

In a lawsuit filed this week in federal court in Manhattan, the former chief operating office of a legal technology company claims she was fired after attempting to exercise stock options valued at over $1 million. I emailed Dwayne Hermes asking if he wished to respond but I have not heard back from him.

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LexForti

JUNE 13, 2023

Contacting the E-Commerce Platform Before taking any legal action, you must first try to resolve the issue by contacting the seller or the e-commerce platform. Drafting the complaint: You need to draft a complaint specifying the facts necessary to establish your cause of action. It does not provide specific legal advice.

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Mondaq

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

In the recent judgment in Dena Bank v. Shivakumar Reddy , the Hon'ble Supreme Court held that the non-payment of an amount awarded under a decree,

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Patently O

JUNE 6, 2024

Here, the plaintiff alleges that Ladas & Parry and a local legal counsel in Greece were the only ones with an English version of the disclosure (the original was in Greek), and the resulting Australian application is based upon that English version. With leak cases, it is always difficult to trace the leak back to the source.

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Patently O

JANUARY 4, 2024

The role of attribution is also receiving increasing focus as attorneys begin to rely more heavily on AI outputs for their legal documents. This form of copying and imitation is a longstanding legal tradition, but the question is whether copying ever goes too far. I hope that they did not overbill the client. 3d 396 (S.D.N.Y.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 13, 2023

As relevant here, Section 11 includes a private cause of action in federal court if the statement includes any information that is materially false or misleading, at the behest of “any person acquiring such security.” To make matters even worse for Pirani, it happens that the U.S.

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Conflict of Laws

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Online IP infringement further convolutes matters due to the internet’s omnipresence and accessibility, making the establishment of jurisdiction a complicated process for legal professionals. Thus, the court established the “tighter version of the effects test” for deciding the place of cause of action in online infringement matters.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 14, 2024

The OpenAI defendants moved to dismiss all causes of action alleged by the author plaintiffs with the exception of the first cause of action for direct copyright infringement. (It It is unclear from the Court’s Order as to why the OpenAI defendants did not also move to dismiss this cause of action.)

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Paralegal Bootcamp

AUGUST 5, 2021

The statute of limitations is a time limit on a particular cause of action. If the law firm accepted the case before the statute of limitations period expired, it could result in a finding of legal malpractice. The failure to commence a lawsuit within this time period will likely result in the lawsuit being dismissed by a court.

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The Fashion Law

JULY 21, 2021

Chanel is currently in the midst of a legal battle after initiating a trademark infringement and dilution case over the sale of jewelry crafted from allegedly authentic Chanel branded buttons, while Rolex , Ralph Lauren , Swatch subsidiary Hamilton International , and a number of other brands have faced similar issues in the recent past.

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JayS.Rothman&Associates

MAY 17, 2023

This means that employees cannot suffer adverse actions simply because someone they associate with engaged in legally-protected activity, such as blowing the whistle. Employees who do suffer such actions may have a legal cause of action. What laws protect employees against associational discrimination?

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

has raised concerns about legal liability arising from international climate agreements going back to at least 1992, when the Rio Declaration included a statement that “in view of the different contributions to global environmental degradation, States have common but differentiated responsibilities.” and other major greenhouse gas emitters?

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Law Prose

JULY 26, 2023

Replacements involve changing legalisms to everyday words ( vel non becomes or not ), formalisms to down-to-earth language ( we are in receipt of becomes we’ve received ), and imprecise expressions to more accurate ones ( cause of action becomes claim or right of action , or sometimes even case ).

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FDA Law Blog

JULY 8, 2024

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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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 25, 2022

Tekoh may create a seismic shift in American constitutional criminal procedure, as the court’s resolution of the lawsuit here could take an axe to the legal and cultural oak known as Miranda warnings. The 9th Circuit’s conclusion to the contrary, then, is legally erroneous. In fact, Wednesday’s oral argument revealed that Vega v.

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InHouseBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Even looking at uneven pavement or a pothole gets some lawyers thinking of the potentially liable parties and the causes of action that could be asserted. Many lawyers come out of law school not knowing the practice of law but only the theory, and that theoretical underpinning can wreak havoc for some.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 9, 2023

Under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure rule 12(b)(6), a party may bring a motion to dismiss a cause of action that fails to state a claim. A court can grant such a motion when the complaint lacks a cognizable legal theory or sufficient facts to support one.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 28, 2024

After all, like most administrative claims, it rests on a federal statute, not the common law, and it requires the agency to establish facts that do not match any cause of action known to the common law in 1791 (when the states ratified the Seventh Amendment).

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