JURIST

MARCH 8, 2021

The US Supreme Court ruled 8-1 Monday in Uzuegbunam v. During litigation, the college dropped the policy and argued that the students no longer had standing to continue the litigation. The post US Supreme Court rules for student in campus free speech case appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary.

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JURIST

MARCH 7, 2024

This law comes after weeks of debate following the February 16 Alabama Supreme Court ruling that embryos are considered children under the state’s Wrongful Death of a Minor Act. The legislative effort to protect IVF providers from litigation followed criticism resulting from the Alabama Supreme Court’s ruling.

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JURIST

JUNE 20, 2024

The UK Supreme Court held Thursday that Surrey’s planning authorities acted unlawfully when granting planning permission for an oil well development in 2019. The court ruled that the authorities should have considered certain environmental impacts when making the decision.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

MARCH 16, 2025

But then an opening came up in the litigation department, and they decided to give it a try. Fast-forward twenty years, and they’re still loving their litigation paralegal career! Double-check court rules, confirm filing requirements, and when in doubt, ask someone with authority and expertise.

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JURIST

JANUARY 23, 2023

Equitable tolling is “when a litigant diligently pursues his rights but extraordinary circumstances prevent him from bringing a timely action,” so courts can extend the limitations period. Any claim filed after that means “a veteran could potentially recover decades’ worth of retroactive payments.”

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The US Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from the South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism (SCDPR) challenging a lower court ruling that found the state had waived sovereign immunity by participating in a federal antitrust lawsuit against Google.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The appellate court ruled similarly in 2020. Upon appeal, with several labor lawyers’ associations and local employers as amici , the Illinois Supreme Court stated that the legislative intent behind the WCA was to provide financial support to injured workers and compensability depended on the type of injury sustained.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 26, 2022

A two-judge bench of the Madras High Court ruled that the designation of a senior advocate is not an automatic right but a merit-based privilege. This alone, according to the court was sufficient reason to dismiss the petition. Even so, the court addressed the merits of the case with Justice M.

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JURIST

MARCH 24, 2022

Sotomayor wrote separately “to underscore the interaction between prison officials’ obligations to set such rules and the exhaustion requirement of the Prison Litigation Reform Act. Because I think Ramirez’s claims either do not warrant equitable relief or are procedurally barred, I respectfully dissent.

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JURIST

AUGUST 14, 2023

Monday’s unprecedented ruling is expected to shape how many other states address the impacts of climate change at the judicial level. According to a 2o22 report , climate change litigation has grown significantly across the globe, with cases more than doubling in the past seven years. More rulings like this will certainly come.

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CARET Legal

JUNE 28, 2024

The life of a litigator is a whirlwind of cases, clients, and court dates. Amidst this chaos, tracking court deadlines can be stressful and risky. They calculate deadlines based on case type and the associated court rules and sync them to your calendar in seconds. But how exactly does it work ?

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JURIST

MARCH 26, 2021

Can anyone seriously argue that requiring Ford to litigate these cases in Minnesota and Montana would be fundamentally unfair?” ” The post US Supreme Court rules state courts have personal jurisdiction in product liability cases against Ford appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary.

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Attorney at Work

AUGUST 25, 2021

Here’s good news: There are now a variety of cutting-edge cloud-based tools available for litigators, ranging from software designed to streamline the pre-trial process to mobile apps created for use in the courtroom. This is because deadlines are an inescapable part of your practice if you’re a litigator.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JANUARY 4, 2024

WHAT IS A LITIGATION PARALEGAL? A litigation paralegal is someone who works under the supervision of an attorney who practices in criminal or civil litigation. A litigation paralegal assists the attorney with many case management duties, from the complaint through the trial and the appeal. Draft pleadings and discovery.

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Above The Law

JANUARY 31, 2023

The next phase of the litigation will be them repeatedly saying, ’Cancer? The post Court Rules Johnson & Johnson Can’t Throw Out Civil Liability Because Of ’Good Intentions’ appeared first on Above the Law. How could we have given you cancer? Do you see how cute our mascot is?!’

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HowAppealing

APRIL 26, 2024

“The Gaping Hole in Supreme Court Rules for Tracking Links Between Litigants and Influence Groups: Parties appearing before the Supreme Court can fund the groups that file briefs supporting their arguments — and almost never have to disclose it.” ” appeared first on How Appealing.

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HowAppealing

JUNE 13, 2021

“Litigants flout court rules at their peril. District courts have broad discretion to punish them by striking their briefs if needed. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued Friday. We will not upset these sanctions lightly.”

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JURIST

MARCH 15, 2023

Circuit Judge Thomas Ambro authored the opinion of the court. The court ruled that Adelphia’s claim was precluded by issue preclusion under 28 U.S.C. This law requires federal courts to accord “full faith and credit” to issues decided by state courts.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 30, 2024

And he expressed confidence that Vullo’s “claim of qualified immunity will be reaffirmed” when the case returns to the court of appeals. The Court’s unanimous decision sends a clear message that the government cannot use its bully pulpit to censor speech it doesn’t like without violating the First Amendment.”

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 1, 2022

The Supreme Court of Japan may soon weigh in on a growing field of climate litigation in Japan against coal-fired power plants. On May 6, 2022, the Citizens’ Committee on the Kobe Coal-Fired Power Plant filed an appeal to Japan’s Supreme Court in Citizens’ Committee on the Kobe Coal-Fired Power Plant v. Civil law cases.

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JURIST

MARCH 15, 2022

The Australian Federal Court Tuesday overturned a ruling that found that Australia’s environment ministry has a duty to protect young people from the effects of climate change when considering fossil fuel projects. That previous ruling, decided in May of 2021, resulted from a lawsuit filed by eight school students and a nun.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 22, 2023

He did note a “silver lining,” offering suggestions on how the Nation can still attempt to intervene in ongoing Colorado River water rights litigation to assert its treaty rights to water. The post Supreme Court rules 5-4 against Navajo Nation in water rights dispute appeared first on SCOTUSblog.

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Stroud is General Counsel at Unified Patents – an organization often adverse to litigation-funded entities. [1] litigation finance boom of the past 20 years—as has been widely reported, private equity now undergirds huge swaths of U.S. Guest post by Jonathan Stroud. Patent assertion finance today is a multibillion-dollar business. [2]

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JURIST

MARCH 27, 2024

A three-judge panel of the Fifth District Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that a controversial Texas law, Senate Bill (SB) 4 , will remain on hold as litigation continues. SB4, the controversial Texas law that is the subject of this continued litigation, was originally signed into law in December 2023.

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Attorney at Work

MAY 31, 2022

These include statutes of limitation for filing a case, deadlines for filing motions, preparing for hearings, producing documents in litigation discovery or responding to a summary judgment. The Solution: Integrated Court Rules. Today law firms have multiple options for automated rules and calendar management.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 9, 2024

In a transformative moment for European and global climate litigation, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled today that the state has a positive duty to adopt, and effectively implement in practice, regulations and measures capable of mitigating the existing and potentially irreversible future effects of climate change.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 23, 2022

When a plaintiff who is subject to an arbitration agreement files a lawsuit in court, the defendant usually seeks to move the case to arbitration without delay. But this case was unusual: Sundance waited for eight months, during which time the parties began to litigate the case and also discussed settlement.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 16, 2023

Share In an opinion released on Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled that noncitizens subject to deportation do not have to ask the Board of Immigration Appeals to reconsider its allegedly erroneous decisions before seeking judicial review in the federal courts of appeals. The case, Santos-Zacaria v.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 29, 2024

This announcement follows a recent directive from the Gauhati High Court, which mandated the state government to finalize the necessary rules under the Act within six months. Khandus announcement has sparked mixed reactions across different communities within Arunachal Pradesh.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Wang refuted the Departments floodgate concerns, saying that there are evidentiary burdens to pass before even reaching litigation that would prevent excessive lawsuits and that the circuits that currently do not apply the background circumstances rule do not see a flood of litigation.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 19, 2024

He agreed that “litigating disputes that potentially touch on matters of national security beyond the motion-to-dismiss stage can present evidentiary challenges for parties and courts alike,” and he cautioned that “[c]areful attention must be paid to the handling of classified or privileged information.”

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 31, 2023

Share The Supreme Court on Thursday gave a Maryland prison official another chance to defend himself against a federal civil rights claim. Last week’s unanimous ruling in Dupree v. This article was originally published at Howe on the Court. But that rationale does not, Barrett continued, apply to Dupree’s case.

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JURIST

MAY 24, 2022

The Office of Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey released a statement following the SJC’s decision affirming the rejection of ExxonMobil’s “ anti-SLAPP ” motion to dismiss by the Suffolk Superior Court.

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JURIST

APRIL 19, 2022

Dunn asked the Court to intervene on an emergency basis while his litigation continued in the lower federal courts. The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denied Dunn’s request for an injunction. He alleged violations of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) and the First Amendment.

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ABA Journal

OCTOBER 29, 2024

million sanction against a Maryland law firm for asking state courts to order an end to U.S. district court litigation, a federal appeals court ruled last week. A federal judge had inherent power to impose a $1.05

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 21, 2023

Gorsuch also noted that the court’s ruling did not resolve several issues in the dispute between Perez and the school district, such as whether the damages that Perez seeks are available under the ADA. This article was originally published at Howe on the Court.

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JURIST

APRIL 22, 2022

Justice Barrett delivered the unanimous opinion of the court. The court explained that there are many “non jurisdictional rules” that “promote the orderly progress of litigation but do not bear on a court’s power.” On Thursday, the court also issued rulings in City of Austin v.

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