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Share This week we highlight cert petitions (and one original action ) that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, whether NewJersey can withdraw from its Waterfront Commission Compact with New York concerning governance and law enforcement over the Port of New York and NewJersey.
NewJersey. This clash between the NGA and the Constitution arose because, under the NGA, companies with permits to build new pipelines can use the power of eminent domain to seize property along the pipeline route. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. NewJersey appealed to the U.S.
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.
We were curious as to the status of online court help to the self-represented litigants as a good 2021 year-end wrapup article for the CTB? In addition, we just learned of a new NIJ study on the use of Chatbots in the Criminal Justice System to add to our list of online helpers. We share what we found below.
asked a NewJersey bankruptcy judge to issue an injunction blocking the federal government from litigating a whistleblower suit in Ohio over the filling of illegal opioid prescriptions until the bankruptcy court can approve a reorganization plan. Rite Aid Corp.
Initially, I wondered how this lawyer had so much time to attend court for observational purposes as well as handle all of his client files. However, on second thought, I reasoned that attending court like this lawyer did was a great use of his time. However, I observed various advocacy skills I also employed when I entered practice.
20-1396 (Supreme Court 2021). Walter Tormasi is a prisoner in the NewJersey 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. by Dennis Crouch.
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The District of NewJersey's wide-reaching proposal to require automatic disclosure of third-party litigation finance poses several problems for attorneys and litigants alike and should be nipped in the bud, say Sarah Williams and Marlon Becerra at Validity Finance.
After beginning his litigation career as an assistant state’s attorney and as an insurance defense attorney, in 2019 John Tolley decided to form his own firm, JT Law. JT Law is now a three-partner firm that handles insurance, civil litigation and immigration cases in Florida, New York and NewJersey.
A Mississippi plaintiffs firm urged a NewJersey federal court on Thursday to quash a subpoena served by Johnson & Johnson requesting that the firm turn over documents related to litigation funding and its communication with media outlets, calling the subpoena "draconian" and improper as the firm is not a party to the pharmaceutical giant's current (..)
Johnson & Johnson and the Beasley Allen Law Firm have accused each other by turns of "gamesmanship" and "unscrupulous conduct" in NewJerseycourts in a fight over whether the firm should be disqualified from talcum powder litigation for allegedly collaborating in secret with a former J&J outside counsel.
The Beasley Allen Law Firm, the steering committee of talc plaintiffs suing Johnson & Johnson, and a third-party law firm urged the NewJersey federal court this week to reject a bid from the pharmaceutical company to reinstate subpoenas seeking evidence of alleged third-party litigation funding.
Though some drug companies have been reluctant to delist certain patents from the Orange Book, the District Court of NewJersey just ordered Teva to delist 5 of its patents that it deemed improperly listed. First, the Court dealt with the antitrust issue that Teva raised in a Motion to Dismiss. And on X (R.I.P.
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So far, the Supreme Court has not granted certiorari in any patent cases for its 2021-2022 Term. On September 27, 2021, the court is meeting privately for what is known as the “long conference” to decide the fate of the petitions for writ of certiorari that have piled-up over the summer. by Dennis Crouch. Patreon, Inc.
Many courts that draw commercial litigation, from NewJersey to the Ninth Circuit, still had many judges missing, and a new type of report, meant to provide real-time snapshots of judges’ major windfalls, can take more than a year to be posted, flouting federal law.
Information about the Beasley Allen Law Firm's litigation funding and settlement communications is relevant and necessary to resolving long-running multidistrict litigation over Johnson & Johnson's talcum powder products and so should be turned over, the pharmaceutical giant has told a NewJersey federal court.
A NewJersey state court has sided with McElroy Deutsch and stayed all litigation between the law firm and two former executives, including both the firm's fraud claims and discrimination counterclaims made against it, while a related bankruptcy case plays out.
was hit with sanctions after its chief executive officer failed to sit for a court-ordered deposition in sprawling multidistrict litigation taking place in NewJersey over generic drugs that U.S. Chinese drug firm Zhejiang Huahai Pharmaceutical Co. authorities say were contaminated with carcinogens.
told a NewJersey federal court Friday that sanctions authorizing two adverse jury instructions in multidistrict litigation over generic drugs contaminated with carcinogens should be overturned, arguing the plaintiffs did not allege the bad faith required for such a harsh penalty.
McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter LLP urged a NewJersey bankruptcy court Thursday to throw out a Chapter 11 filing from its former chief financial officer, who has been sent to prison for stealing over $1 million from the firm, slamming it as a bad faith "tactical maneuver" to stall ongoing civil litigation.
The Beasley Allen Law Firm and Johnson & Johnson continue to spar over the firm and attorney Andy Birchfield's role in the long-running federal and state mass torts over talcum powder injuries, with the firm calling J&J out on Tuesday for "prodding" the NewJerseycourts to boot the lawyers from the litigation.
have been hit with a derivative suit in NewJersey federal court over revelations of fraud at the company, which has led to other litigation, including actions launched by the U.S. The current and former top brass of Nigerian fintech company Tingo Group Inc. Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S.
An insurer for bankrupt housewares retailer Bed Bath & Beyond will cover up to $10 million in legal costs incurred by company executives who were subpoenaed or named as defendants in litigation connected to the store, a NewJersey bankruptcy court said.
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Two years ago, the legal and business news company ALM launched Law.com Radar , a service of the legal news site Law.com that delivers custom-tailored news drawn from court dockets, with a unique twist — its news summaries are generated algorithmically, rather than by human editors. Automating A Manual Process.
The Beasley Allen Law Firm may represent plaintiffs in multicounty talc injury litigation in NewJersey state court, after a judge found Johnson & Johnson failed to show a former Faegre Drinker outside counsel shared information he learned representing the company in earlier talc litigation.
The NewJersey-based court reporting company Veritext Legal Solutions , which already provides a variety of deposition and litigation support solutions, has acquired Canadian court reporting company Reportex and its family of brands in British Columbia. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. ”
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The NewJersey Supreme Court in recent months opened the door to reinstating disbarred attorneys and ensured public access to law enforcement records, while lower appellate courts blessed nondisparagement clauses in employment-related settlement agreements and put the burden on personal injury litigants to justify conditions for defense medical examinations. (..)
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.
Prior to the mid-1990s, patent litigation took place in district court silos. District judges managed these cases based on their general litigation background, which rarely extended to patent cases. As a result, each patent case reinvented the patent litigation wheel to a significant extent.
Both SITO and Hulu are Delaware companies with Hulu headquartered Santa Monica and SITO in NewJersey (although SITO is currently going through Chapter 11 reorganization bankruptcy). Section 1404(a) seems straight forward as providing a district court discretionary authority to transfer a case. Patent Nos. 1404(a). (a)
If enough broadcasters opt into this agreement, it will end the long-running litigation between GMR and RMLC. See our blog post here with thoughts on some of the considerations that broadcasters should take into account in deciding whether to accept the GMR license agreement.
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Last time, back in 2022 , the FTC took on REMS patents, explaining in litigation between Jazz and Avadel that the listing of REMS patents in the Orange Book is anticompetitive; this time, the FTC is going after device patents. Teva’s patents do not meet that criterion.
Join members of the Judiciary and leading pharmaceutical patent litigators from brand name and generic drug companies at the American Conference Institute’s 8th Annual Paragraph IV Disputes Master Symposium taking place September 21-22, 2022, in Chicago! It’s an excellent opportunity to cross-pollinate ideas and strategies.”.
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