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Invention of a Slave: 2021 Redux

Patently O

20-1396 (Supreme Court 2021). Walter Tormasi is a prisoner in the New Jersey state prison system. Rather than reaching the merits, the district court dismissed the case on procedural grounds. The district court ruled that Tormasi lacked the capacity to sue and the Federal Circuit then affirmed.

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Guest Post: Third-Party Litigation Funding: Disclosure to Courts, Congress, and the Executive

Patently O

Stroud is General Counsel at Unified Patents – an organization often adverse to litigation-funded entities. [1] 5] Insurance options are suddenly plentiful, [6] funders are expanding and multiplying, [7] and new deal commitments are on the rise. [8] Guest post by Jonathan Stroud.

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July 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) 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. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the U.S. and non-U.S. FEATURED CASE. A divided D.C.

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Court Rules NJ Police Must Release Disciplinary Records

The Crime Report

Public officials must release police disciplinary records in New Jersey when the public’s interest in them outweighs an officer’s confidentiality concerns, the state’s top court has ruled. The ruling was issued Monday. We will have to keep litigating because police departments are so secretive.

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Retail Woes: A Running List of Fashion & Retail Bankruptcies

The Fashion Law

They were swiftly followed by a handful of additional filings by other retailers, signaling that there is no end in sight to the constant string of fashion and other retail companies struggling financially and looking to bankruptcies courts for protection from their creditors. June 2021 – Alex and Ani. If approved by the U.S.

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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2021

SCOTUSBlog

Share The first Black woman to clerk on the Supreme Court. Two trailblazing civil-rights litigators. As we did last year , SCOTUSblog looks back and remembers some of the people who died this year and whose lives and work brought them to the highest court in the nation. All shaped the court in their own ways.

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September 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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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. New Jersey Federal Court Remanded Hoboken’s Climate Case Against Fossil Fuel Companies to State Court.