Law 360

MAY 13, 2024

A liquor business consultant has told a New York state court that Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson and the rapper's general counsel violated federal and New Jersey wiretap statutes, after the court dismissed an earlier counterclaim lodged under the Illinois Eavesdropping Act.

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Law 360

JANUARY 4, 2024

Counsel for former Exelon Utilities CEO Anne Pramaggiore told an Illinois federal judge Thursday that regardless of how the nation's top court interprets the federal bribery statute later this year, the bribery convictions of his client and three former Commonwealth Edison lobbyists won't survive.

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Law 360

MAY 25, 2023

An Illinois state appeals court upheld the dismissal of a proposed class action brought by a Chicago bakery claiming a Farmers unit violated the state's eavesdropping statute when it recorded a phone call between a claim representative and an attorney for the bakery.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 3, 2024

Share In a list of orders released on Monday morning , the Supreme Court added one new case to its argument docket for the 2024-25 term. The statute defines “crime of violence” as one that “has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person or property of another.”

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JURIST

OCTOBER 25, 2023

States such as California, New York, Illinois and the territory of the District of Columbia joined in the lawsuit against Meta. Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul commented on the lawsuit, “Our children are in crisis, and we need to act.” The case is currently filed before a federal court in California.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 17, 2023

There are state courts and federal courts, state statutes and federal statutes, state common law and federal common law. This feeling of pity is compounded when I imagine this same lawyer trying to advise her client as to whether a choice-of-court clause will be enforced by a court in the United States.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 21, 2023

RICO statute; Yegiazaryan’s alleged RICO crimes were committed to prevent Smagin from enforcing a British arbitration award in the United States. Background To understand the claims before the court, it is helpful to review the byzantine factual and procedural history of this litigation. In April 2020, the U.S. ” The U.S.

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Law 360

APRIL 30, 2021

Nursing home operator Symphony Bronzeville Park urged the Illinois Supreme Court on Friday to reverse a state appellate court's finding that Illinois' workers' compensation law doesn't preempt claims for statutory damages under its biometric privacy statute, saying a former employee is seeking a new, judicial exception for her alleged workplace injury. (..)

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 20, 2023

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. This week, we highlight cert petitions that ask the court to consider, among other things, whether federal courts can review the rates TVA charges its clients for power. In Holbrook v.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 25, 2022

Share The Supreme Court is poised to decide yet another case involving one of the many federal statutes that govern the nation’s railroads and railworkers. The court will hear argument on Monday in LeDure v. Union Pacific Railroad Company , a case about the scope of the Locomotive Inspection Act.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 31, 2021

The district court in Oregon in 2016 seemed to favor such a right, but a divided Ninth Circuit concluded in 2020 that the plaintiffs lacked standing. The plaintiffs are now back in the district court seeking much more modest relief.). The court found that this would violate the political question doctrine.

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JURIST

JUNE 11, 2023

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed two bills on Friday safeguarding LGBTQ+ rights in the state. HB 1591 amends the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act. The Act previously prohibited out of state couples from obtaining and Illinois marriage license.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 16, 2022

Howrey Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School, state statutes vary widely on defining what constitutes aggression. This means that the court must find beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant meant to harm the individual before being provoked or engaging in a mutually combated altercation.

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Patently O

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

The court also found no personal jurisdiction over Siemens AG. As such, the district court awarded summary judgment of no infringement based upon the license. ” Given this failure, the appellate court affirmed the dismissal based on the settlement agreement’s protections was warranted. 22, 2023).

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2022

It is the first day the court has welcomed the general public into the courtroom since early 2020. Besides the Supreme Court “ hard pass ” holders who could attend in person last year, we are now joined by some “day pass” reporters, including some who cover the court regularly but for one reason or another do not have hard passes.

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JURIST

MAY 23, 2023

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul released a comprehensive report Tuesday naming over 450 child sex abusers within Catholic Church leadership in the state. The report names and provides information for 451 Church leaders within Illinois that account for 1,997 counts of abuse.

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At the Lectern

JULY 25, 2024

There were no straight grants at yesterday’s Supreme Court conference , but several justices weren’t happy about that. Four different members of the court dissented from various denials of petitions for review. The court just barely denied review in People v. Supreme Court opinion in Illinois v. In People v.

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Patently O

JANUARY 18, 2024

The court also affirmed the Board’s finding that the proposed amended claims would have been obvious over the prior art. In its decision, the court distinguished Facebook. The court reviewed the PTAB’s motivation to combine finding for substantial evidence and found there was adequate evidentiary support. 3d 1321 (Fed.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 30, 2022

Share The Supreme Court heard argument on Monday in LeDure v. The case involves the Locomotive Inspection Act , a federal statute that requires railroads to regularly inspect and implement safety measures for their locomotives. Union Pacific Railroad Company. Scott Ballenger arguing for Union Pacific Railroad.

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Day on Torts

JUNE 1, 2022

Plaintiff’s counsel thereafter filed a suggestion of plaintiff wife’s death on the record, and also filed a motion to substitute plaintiff’s husband as the plaintiff, which the trial court allowed. The trial court “reluctantly granted the motion” to dismiss, and this ruling was affirmed on appeal. Illinois Cent.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Court has returned from its summer break and gotten down to business. The court agreed to review a dozen petitions from that conference. Several of them are sequels to earlier high court decisions.

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LettersBlogatory

AUGUST 23, 2021

On the other hand, it is very hard to see why, more than 75 years after the crimes of the Nazis and their French collaborators in France, a foreign national (or more precisely, his or her descendants) should have a legal remedy in a US court, for all sorts of reasons. As with the Germany v.

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Broadcast Law Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2017

In a decision this week, the Florida Supreme Court rejected claims by Flo & Eddie (of the 1960s band the Turtles) that there was a common law public performance right in pre-1972 sound recordings in the state of Florida (the opinion is available here ). Could California decide differently?

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 11, 2023

There are no laws or statutes criminalizing pedophilia. Recently a series of news stories were published in Joliet, Illinois, by Joliet’s local Patch homepage. These are the facts about the term pedophilia. It is a medical term, not a legal one. Not everyone who shoplifts has depression, and not all with depression shoplift.

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

University of Illinois Foundation (1971), the Supreme Court held that a judgment of invalidity in a suit against one infringer accrues to the benefit of any other accused infringer unless the patent owner shows that he did not have a fair opportunity procedurally, substantively and evidentially to pursue his patent claim the first time.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 6, 2023

There are 33 states with retraction statutes. The use of the headdress could be treated by a court as opinion since many denounce such images as cultural appropriation. Notably, that article was not on an opinion page, but the court found that the expression of the journalists opinion was obvious from the tenor of the column.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Below is my column in the Wall Street Journal on the ongoing opioid litigation and an important ruling out of the Oklahoma Supreme Court. ” The Oklahoma Supreme Court last week struck down a $465 million opioid award against Johnson & Johnson based on a legal theory that has previously been tried and failed against guns.

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The Crime Report

MAY 4, 2022

As the repercussions of the leaked draft of the Supreme Court’s preliminary ruling on Roe v. In 2019, Illinois and New York enacted provisions excluding a pregnant person from fetal homicide laws, and Rhode Island repealed its fetal homicide law. . Supreme Court, reports Bloomberg News. Wade continue to shake U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 31, 2024

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Court cleared out quite a bit of its backlog of relisted cases at last week’s conference. A short explanation of relists is available here. The defendant’s actual conduct is irrelevant.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 29, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Thursday issued its decision in LeDure v. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit was “affirmed by an equally divided Court.” As is customary in this situation, the Supreme Court revealed only that the vote was evenly split — not the identities of the justices on each side.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 16, 2023

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Court will observe St. Doe (who eventually traveled to Illinois and obtained a judicial bypass and an abortion there) then sued, alleging that her constitutional rights had been violated.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JULY 25, 2017

Thus far, New York , Florida , Georgia and Illinois have found there to be no right of compensation under state laws (though some of these cases are on appeal). Even if adopted, this statute would not address all issues raised by the state litigation over the pre-1972 recordings. The state applies only to digital services.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 13, 2024

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. With just a few weeks left before the Supreme Court’s summer recess, we’re entering the busiest phase of the year for relists. The court granted review in two cases on Monday: one-time relist Facebook v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 6, 2024

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Court worked through two thirds of last week’s new relists, though with very different results. The court granted review in Delligatti v. A short explanation of relists is available here.

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InHouseOps

JULY 16, 2021

In January, a group of New York state legislators introduced a biometrics regulation bill that contains a private right of action similar to the already enacted Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). First, a California District Court approved Facebook’s $650,000,000 biometrics settlement. In re TikTok Inc.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 6, 2023

In 1969, the Supreme Court held in Shapiro v. citizens had a “ right to travel ” across state borders only after that right was consistently violated by residence statutes and internal border controls enforced by local police and state militias. Before 1969, poor U.S. Thompson that U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 24, 2021

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The last scheduled conference of the Supreme Court’s term — which this term is being held Thursday — is usually one that yields many grants. A short explanation of relists is available here. citizen. (The

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