The Fashion Law

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

In the answer that it filed on November 13, Condé Nast argues – by way of seventeen affirmative defenses – that the model plaintiffs’ remaining causes of action against it should be dismissed.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 2, 2022

To create the compact, each state passed statutes and, as New York’s bill of complaint indicates is a constitutional requirement for interstate compacts, Congress consented as well. However, in 2018, New Jersey passed a statute to withdraw from the compact, and on Dec. However, the U.S. Disclosure : Goldstein & Russell, P.C.,

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At the Lectern

JULY 26, 2021

Tri-Modal Distribution Services , the Supreme Court today interprets the statute of limitations for employment harassment cases to give certain plaintiffs more leeway to bring their lawsuits, and it protects many unsuccessful plaintiffs from paying defendants’ appellate costs.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 8, 2023

Section 1983 provides a cause of action against any person acting under color of state law who deprives a person of “rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws” of the United States. The sine qua non is incompatibility between Section 1983 enforcement and any enforcement scheme in the statute.

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Patently O

MARCH 21, 2021

There are two different statutes regarding Federal Court exclusive jurisdiction over patent cases. 1338(a) provides Federal district courts with “original jurisdiction of any civil action arising under any Act of Congress relating to patents.” by Dennis Crouch. ” Id. ” 28 U.S.C. See, for example, Gunn v.

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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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FDA Law Blog

JULY 8, 2024

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. According to a review of federal law she cited, by 1986 there already were more than 200 federal statutes calling for trials before ALJs.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 31, 2021

However, the defendant/appellant challenged the jurisdiction of the Kastina State High Court to hear the case on the basis that the contract in issue was concluded in Yobe State, where it claimed the cause of action arose, which it argued was outside the jurisdiction of Kastina State. This is a discussion for another day. [1]

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The IP Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

2255, which allows victims of child pornography to bring a civil cause of action. The defendants moved to dismiss Mr. Elden’s complaint, arguing that it was barred by the applicable 10-year statute of limitations for such claims. Mr. Elden asserts a single claim against the defendants for violation of 18 U.S.C.

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Day on Torts

APRIL 15, 2022

Plaintiff argued that the statute did not apply to Ms. Reid and that the statute was unconstitutional, but the trial court ultimately granted the motion for attorney’s fees. Plaintiff argued that the statute was not applicable here, as Ms. Next, plaintiff attacked the constitutionality of the statute. Code Ann. §

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Patently O

MARCH 18, 2024

. = = = One interesting aspect of this decision relates to absence of a statute of limitations. The Patent Act includes a 6-year statute of limitations, but as written it only applies to cut-off recovery for patent infringement — and does not apply to lawsuits to correct inventorship. The plaintiffs filed their lawsuit in 2019.

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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. Thomas asked, “what does that mean?

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JayS.Rothman&Associates

MAY 17, 2023

The court found that this fell within Title VII’s bar on discrimination, holding: “The reason is simple: where an employee is subjected to adverse action because an employer disapproves of interracial association, the employee suffers discrimination because of the employee’s own race.” 12112(b)(4). because he has made a charge.”

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Patently O

OCTOBER 11, 2021

706 authorizing actions to compel agency to stop any behavior that is “arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, or otherwise not in accordance with law.” Constitution to require that the plaintiff identify some concrete harm caused by the defendant’s action (or inaction). That case is now on appeal.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 9, 2021

Share This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, the viability of certain types of disability-based claims under three federal statutes. One petition involves the Americans with Disabilities Act. Another involves the interaction of the Affordable Care Act and the Rehabilitation Act.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 15, 2023

The majority found that Congress had not written anything into the board’s founding statute that “deprived the board of sovereign immunity.” Kagan’s treatment of the abrogation question – whether PROMESA’s abrogation of immunity is “unmistakably clear in the language of the statute” – is straightforward.

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Patently O

MARCH 25, 2021

2017) refocused attention on a required nexus between the the defendant’s contacts with the forum state and the cause of action. The decision suggested to many that defendant’s connections should have a causal-link with the cause of action. ” Quoting Reiter (1979). The “or” has meaning.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The issue before the Supreme Court is whether the complaint makes out a cause of action under Employee Retirement Income Security Act, which obligates the fiduciaries of such plans to comply with a duty of prudence drawn directly from the common law of fiduciary duty. You have to prove it, but [the allegations are] plausible.”.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 17, 2023

This week, we highlight cert petitions that ask the court to consider, among other things, at what stage of litigation the ministerial exception should come into play. Gregory Tucker was a science teacher at Faith Christian Academy, a religious school operated by the nondenominational Faith Bible Chapel in Arvada, Colorado.

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Fordham Law News

OCTOBER 2, 2023

14] The new law creates a private cause of action for covered individuals to invalidate a non-compete. [15] 15] The cause of action has a two-year statute of limitations and affected individuals may be awarded an injunction against the employer and payment of damages including lost wages and attorneys’ fees. [16]

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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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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 19, 2022

And Section 1983 provides a cause of action against state officials who deprive any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws. Dickerson put the kibosh on an unconstitutional federal statute that, effectively, sought to overrule Miranda. 4) Proximate cause says what? 3) Goodbye, Miranda ?

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 18, 2023

The UK Supreme Court ruled that the cause of action in the aftermath of the 2011 Bonga offshore oil spill accrued at the moment when the oil reached the shore. The jurisdiction and applicable law in the specific case of Bonga spill litigation have been closely followed inter alia by Geert van Calster here.

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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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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 28, 2023

It is cross-posted at Transnational Litigation Blog. Supreme Court yesterday upheld the constitutionality of Pennsylvania’s corporate registration statute, even though it requires out-of-state corporations registering to do business within the state to consent to all-purpose (general) personal jurisdiction.

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Strictly Business

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Rather, US law has relied mostly on private litigation and government enforcement actions under laws that predated the modern digital era. Additionally, there are a number of federal statutes that apply to specific business activities that implicate data privacy issues.

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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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Conflict of Laws

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Congress clearly intended its cause of action for trafficking in confiscated property to discourage non-U.S. courts apply a presumption against extraterritoriality to limit the reach of federal statutes. At issue in Abitron was the federal trademark statute , which prohibits use of a U.S. companies from investing in Cuba.

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At the Lectern

JULY 28, 2022

The opinion acknowledged, “under our interpretation of the relevant statutes a provider has greater remedies against a private health care service plan than it does against a public entity health care service plan.” ” Horvitz & Levy filed the successful petition for review. Inevitable discovery.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 15, 2023

For example, service may be permitted for a proceeding based on a cause of action arising in Australia (item 1), or where the defendant has submitted to the jurisdiction (item 19). I expect that the Amendment Rules will be welcomed by litigators who frequent the Federal Court of Australia.

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LexForti

APRIL 30, 2021

Also, the argument that the NCLAT is an appellate tribunal which is common to three statutes, under one of which, viz., Merely because appeals under different statutes are sent to one appellate tribunal would make no difference to the position in law. The finding in V Hotels Ltd., Tulip Star Hotels Ltd. & Anr. [13]

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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

APRIL 1, 2025

The conferences topic, characterisation, is the process for identifying 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 which then points to the applicable law or to the competent court.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 28, 2023

is whether and to what extent the federal trademark statute, known as the Lanham Act, applies to infringing conduct that takes place outside the United States. Last week’s argument mainly revolved around how to apply this modern test to the trademark statute, enacted in 1946, and what precedential weight, if any, to attach to Steele.

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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

APRIL 2, 2025

What words, he asked Bursch, would create such rights, rather than having something like or its functional equivalent, would could lead to another decade of litigation? Representing the federal government, Kyle Hawkins told the justices that their cases emphasized that rights-creating statutes are atypical.

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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. In support of this argument, the museum points to both the text of the statute and the circumstances of its enactment: Congress removed foreign states from ordinary diversity jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C.

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