ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Introduction On November 12, 2024, the Dutch Court of Appeal in The Hague issued its eagerly awaited appeals judgment in Milieudefensie (Friends of the Earth Netherlands) and others v. The district court had granted Milieudefensies claims for a reduction target of 45% by 2030, leading to Shells appeal in 2022. Royal Dutch Shell.

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Law 360

APRIL 10, 2023

Delaware Chancery Court decisions last week touched on foot powder litigation, an AMC settlement and in-person signage as damage control for a postponed hearing. New cases ranged from Amazon sales centers to a fibrosis drug.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The US Supreme Court granted certiorari in three new cases Wednesday, including two cases about compensation for student-athletes. The court consolidated the cases National Collegiate Athletic Association v. ” The court also granted certiorari in TransUnion LLC v. Alston and American Athletic Conference v.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The case is in the US District Court for the Central District of California. The judge based his ruling on the two-part test from the US Supreme Court decision last year in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. This is not the only litigation involving California gun laws.

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Patently O

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Liu was decided by the recently Beijing Internet Court. The court decides internet related cases using online tools. Although the court uses AI judges in some cases, this one was decided by humans. Robert Brauneis: Li v Liu Beijing Internet Court 20231127 with English Translation. Li sued for copyright infringement.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The Muscogee (Creek) Nation filed a complaint in US federal court Wednesday against the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, accusing the city of violating tribal sovereignty by writing tickets to tribal members for traffic violations committed within reservation boundaries. City of Tulsa.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Angola’s Constitutional Court Thursday filed a final dismissal of The National Union for the Total Independence of Angola’s (UNITA) challenge to the nation’s August 24 presidential election results. ” . A parallel count by civic movement Mudei , which monitored the voting process, also showed UNITA slightly ahead.

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Broadcast Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

In recent weeks, decisions of a US District Court judge in the Southern District of New York led to the suspension of service by the Internet streaming company Locast, which built its business on streaming local television stations generally without obtaining the consent of TV stations or the copyright holders in the programs they broadcast.

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Patently O

JUNE 17, 2022

Litigants shouldn’t get to choose the judge who decides their case. Judge shopping, we’ve argued elsewhere , raises concerns about court bias and capture and can make litigation unnecessarily costly and inefficient. This is the second in a new series on venue transfer requests and mandamus at the Federal Circuit.

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Intelligize Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The fallout has led many companies to consider revising their DEI initiatives to stave off the threat of litigation, particularly concerning board diversity requirements. The post Supreme Court Decision Complicates Diversity Disclosure Landscape appeared first on Intelligize.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 4, 2024

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights some of the cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. Last January, the Supreme Court refused to disturb an order by the U.S. That dispute is now back before the court. But the court did not specify exactly what history courts must look to.

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At the Lectern

APRIL 11, 2021

Could prior Supreme Court decisions help eliminate uncertainties in the recall process? That’s an interesting question, because the only court decisions regarding a gubernatorial recall aren’t published in the official reports and their precedential effect is questionable. ” ( Kowis v. 4th 888, 891.)

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 7, 2022

This post is an abridged adaptation of my recent article, Private International Law and Substantive Liability Issues in Tort Litigation against Multinational Companies in the English Courts: Recent UK Supreme Court Decisions and Post-Brexit Implications in the Journal of Private International Law.

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Law 360

MAY 10, 2024

Electronically stored information on cellphones, and in particular text messages, can present unique litigation challenges, and recent court decisions demonstrate that counsel must carefully balance what data should be preserved, collected, reviewed and produced, say attorneys at Sidley.

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Above The Law

AUGUST 19, 2021

Overturning a district court's decision that had earlier vacated the Medicare Advantage Overpayment Rule, the DC Circuit opened a Pandora's Box of DOJ False Claims Act litigation last week.

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Law 360

JANUARY 5, 2024

Supreme Court ruling addressing states' jurisdiction over out-of-state companies and a key ruling in sprawling multidistrict litigation against Silicon Valley's biggest companies over social media addiction are among Law360's top personal injury and medical malpractice cases for 2023.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 28, 2021

Hotels.com crisply resolved what would seem to be a basic procedural question: how courts should decide the “costs” that the prevailing party on appeal can recover from the losing party. Justice Samuel Alito’s opinion for a unanimous court tells us the answer: the court that resolved the appeal decides, not the district court.

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Law 360

APRIL 26, 2022

Supreme Court's decision on Monday to take up a case about the reach of a Pennsylvania law could have a "seismic impact" on corporate litigation if the justices rule that a state can exercise jurisdiction over companies registered to do business there, legal experts told Law360.

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Patently O

MAY 5, 2022

ACUS is conducting a study on behalf of the USPTO to examine “issues associated with and options for designing a small claims patent court.” ” It recently published a request for public comments on the idea of a small claims patent court. patent litigation deters small- and medium-sized enterprises, including.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 23, 2023

Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit in California that had rejected a party’s efforts to force a putative class action out of court and into arbitration. Coinbase thinks that its user agreement forces the customers into arbitration, but the district court disagreed. Provident Consumer Discount Co. ,

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Patently O

DECEMBER 11, 2022

This means that issues decided at the district or administrative court level can be binding on all other courts: district courts, administrative courts, appellate courts, and even the Supreme Court. District court decisions are not binding precedent because they are at the bottom.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 14, 2023

Traditionally, when an agency institutes an administrative proceeding, the defendant waits until the end of the proceeding and then challenges the result in a federal appeals court, which applies a deferential standard of review limited to the record that the agency has produced. A proceeding that has already happened cannot be undone.”

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The question before them is whether to uphold the judgment of a lower court that awarded damages for profits earned not only by the entity named as a defendant in the lawsuit, but also by several other entities that were not parties to the litigation.

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The IP Law Blog

JULY 9, 2021

In this week’s episode, Josh Escovedo and Scott Hervey discuss an update to the litigation over Andy Warhol’s series of portraits of the artist Prince ( Andy Warhol Foundation v Goldsmith). That decision overturned a lower court decision in favor of the Warhol Foundation.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 26, 2023

Coal-Fired power plants targeted at the case, taken by Attorney Shunsuke Sugit In March 2023, two important decisions regarding the operation of newly built coal-fired power plants were handed down by courts in Japan. Background information about the general climate context and litigation in Japan is available in a previous blog post.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2023

Share The Supreme Court on Wednesday revived the case of a man on death-row in Texas who is seeking DNA testing to provide evidence that he asserts will clear him. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit that Rodney Reed had filed his challenge to the Texas law governing DNA testing too late.

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LegalReader

JULY 23, 2021

Georgia Court of Appeals reverses previous trial court decision and sets stage for new trial.

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Law 360

JUNE 20, 2023

Supreme Court's decision in Polansky v. Executive Health Resources reaffirms that the government has final say in False Claims Act cases, allowing for meaningful guardrails that deter private litigators from seeking to regulate industries that Congress has delegated to expert administrative agencies, say attorneys at Ropes & Gray.

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Mondaq

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

The court then reasoned that the Supreme Court's decision in Barr v. AAPC cannot be applied retroactively.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 22, 2022

Davenport , the Supreme Court held on Thursday that a federal court cannot grant habeas relief to a convicted state prisoner whose constitutional rights were violated at trial unless that prisoner satisfies both the judicially-created Brecht v. The Supreme Court held in 2005 in Deck v. Share In Brown v. In Brecht v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Brazil: When a court accepts the legally disruptive nature of climate change. On December 07, 2021, the Federal Regional Court of the Fourth Region (TRF4) – one of Brazil’s federal courts of appeal – decided what should be the competent jurisdiction to hear the case of IEA v.

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The Supreme Court has not yet granted writ of certiorari in any patent cases this term. Rather, any new grant this term will very likely be pushed back to the October 2022 Term for hearing and decision. Still, there are a number of important patent cases pending before the court. by Dennis Crouch. Lets talk them through.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Supreme Court has agreed to consider a closely watched Louisiana redistricting dispute involving a map that created a second majority-Black congressional district in the state. Facts of the Case The cases spring from more than two years of litigation, in which two separate groups of voters have challenged Louisianas congressional maps.

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Law 360

JULY 9, 2024

Supreme Court's decision overturning Chevron deference is that individuals, contractors and companies bringing procurement-related cases against the government will have new pathways toward success, say Joseph Berger and Andrés Vera at Thompson Hine. The net result of the U.S.

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Law 360

JUNE 28, 2024

Recent federal court decisions in the Fearless Fund and Hello Alice cases shed new light on the ongoing wave of challenges to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, with opposite conclusions on whether the plaintiffs had standing to sue, say attorneys at Moore & Van Allen.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 16, 2024

The question here is what options are available to a trial court that decides to send a case to arbitration. Discussion at the argument suggested that the justices were skeptical about the practical consequences of dismissal, so Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s opinion for a unanimous court rejecting that option is no surprise.

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Law 360

AUGUST 13, 2024

Supreme Court victory over investors who accuse the company of downplaying its reliance on the crypto mining market, arguing that a lower court decision allowing the case to move forward "eviscerates the guardrails that Congress erected to protect the public from abusive securities litigation."

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