Law 360

AUGUST 21, 2024

Wells Fargo has beefed up its legal representation with a powerhouse appellate litigator and an employer-side labor lawyer, both from Jones Day, following a jury's decision last month to enter more than $22 million in damages against it in a former director's disability discrimination case in North Carolina federal court.

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 13, 2022

A new blog devoted to transnational litigation — Transnational Litigation Blog, or TLB — is now officially up and running. The primary focus of TLB is on transnational litigation in U.S. courts (both state and federal). A link to the blog can be found here.

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Law 360

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Lenovo and Motorola Mobility fired back against Ericsson with a countersuit in an underlying infringement action in North Carolina federal court, arguing the Swedish company is refusing to honor its licensing obligations for its 5G patents and engaging in global litigation to demand excessive royalties.

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JURIST

APRIL 27, 2022

The Supreme Court Monday rejected a request to temporarily block a new admissions policy at a Virginia high school. The court did not state their reasoning for rejecting the request but Justices Thomas, Justice Alito, and Justice Gorsuch noted they did not agree with the decision. The school board asked The U.S.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 6, 2022

On Wednesday, December 7, the US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a case involving a fringe legal idea called the independent state legislature theory that poses a threat to the current system of election administration in the United States. The North Carolina General Assembly immediately appealed that ruling.

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CourtTechBulletin

DECEMBER 16, 2021

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? Colorado courts have a dedicated page for "Efiling for Non-Attorneys" at: [link] There are links to forms and video/written tutorials listed. We share what we found below.

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Law 360

APRIL 6, 2023

An insurance company that claims it's owed $524 million by embattled businessman Greg Lindberg blasted his bid to shield his finances, decrying the "cloud of secrecy" he's casting over the litigation in North Carolina federal court.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 15, 2022

All 50 state attorneys general have come together through the newly formed Anti-Robocall Litigation Task Force to go after U.S. By potentially coordinating lawsuits, the attorneys general make it more expensive for the robocaller companies, which earlier had calculated the cost of individual court cases into their cost of doing business.

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The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 19, 2021

So, for those of you who enjoy hypotheticals, here it is: Company A, a North Carolina LLC, owns four patents. Company B has the same corporate address in North Carolina and the same five shareholders as Company A. But that is not what the district court did. I did not, but this case prompted me to write one!

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

In an unsigned order, the justices turned down a request from the same group that spearheaded challenges to the use of affirmative action in admissions at Harvard and the University of North Carolina, and which now argues that West Point’s use of race violates the Constitution. Army and almost half of the country’s four-star generals.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 26, 2022

Anthony Perkins in a still photo from Orson Well’s 1962 film version of “The Trial” In Franz Kafka’s sinister 1925 novel, The Trial, the hero finds himself the defendant in a court case where he is unaware of what law he has broken. North Carolina Justice. Could that happen in the U.S.?

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP addresses the ability of North Carolina legislators to defend the state’s voter-ID law from lawsuits under the Constitution and the Voting Rights Act. Both the district court and the U.S. The en banc U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 30, 2024

Military Academy on Tuesday urged the Supreme Court to stay out of a dispute over the use of race in the school’s admissions policy. In those cases, the Supreme Court struck down the schools’ programs, effectively ending the use of affirmative action in college admissions. This article was originally published at Howe on the Court.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Share The Supreme Court on Friday issued orders from its so-called “long conference” – the justices’ private conference in the last week of September, at which they met for the first time since the end of June to add new cases to their docket. The trial court rejected that argument, and the California Court of Appeals agreed.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Supreme Court handed down its decision in Great Lakes Insurance SE v. In a unanimous opinion authored by Justice Kavanaugh, the Court concluded that the answer to this question was no. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The trial court ruled in favor of GLI. On February 21, 2024, the U.S.

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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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SquirePattonBoggs

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Nearly every state allows federal courts to certify questions of state law to obtain definitive answers from state supreme courts on unsettled issues of state law. The United States Supreme Court has explained that certifications “saves time, energy, and resources and helps build a cooperative judicial federalism.”

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Supreme Court 2022). This includes McLennan County, home of Waco Texas and Judge Albright’s court. This cutting-up of ownership rights is supported by old Supreme Court precedent as well as the Patent Act itself. Now, Ikorongo Texas has petitioned the Supreme Court for writ of certiorari. Samsung Electronics Co.,

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Share Walter Dellinger, a constitutional scholar and skilled advocate who argued 24 cases at the Supreme Court, died on Wednesday at his home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. North Carolina Governor. His Supreme Court arguments and strategies were masterful works of art. Roy Cooper.

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Patently O

AUGUST 25, 2021

The litigation has substantial parallels to Google v. In Google , the Supreme Court found fair-use but did not decide the issue of copyrightability. The district court dismissed the copyright claims — holding that the software was unprotectable. It is also the third time courts have rejected SASII’s copyright claims.”

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Ivey II Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina School of Law. This strategy only works, however, if the forum selection clause will be enforced by the courts in the chosen state. This strategy only works, however, if the forum selection clause will be enforced by the courts in the chosen state.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

University of North Carolina and Students for Fair Admissions v. As we fast approach the Supreme Court hearings on race-conscious admissions at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, Asian Americans have been thrust into the spotlight. President & Fellows of Harvard College.

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Patently O

JULY 1, 2021

court to a more convenient forum (N.D.Cal.). Ikorongo Texas is a Texas LLC (corporate registration in Texas), but its owners and managers all reside in North Carolina. In addition, the court may only transfer a case to a district where venue and personal jurisdiction are proper (“where it might have been brought”).

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2022

University of North Carolina and Students for Fair Admissions v. Ever since the Supreme Court decided the Bakke case in 1978, enhancing the “diversity” of a school’s student body has been the only permissible rationale for affirmative-action preferences in higher education. President & Fellows of Harvard College.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Courtroom5 , a platform that helps self-represented litigants navigate complex civil litigation matters, licensed their tech to NCCU Law for classroom use and is in development on a new platform slated for release in spring 2024. descrybe.ai , a free generative-AI legal search engine, has summarized 1.8

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Honeywell moved to transfer the case to the Western District of North Carolina under 28 U.S.C. The district court analyzed the private and public interest factors but denied transfer, mainly based on the plaintiff’s choice of forum and judicial economy. Filed Aug 12, 2021). In contrast, in In re Aputure Imaging Industries Co.,

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Paralegal Bootcamp

APRIL 20, 2023

Stage of case Defense firms are generally hired once the case has gone to or is about to go to, litigation. Plaintiff firms can be hired anywhere from when the claim first begins, to when the case goes to court. Learn how to manage clients and their expectations. Get 9 Strategies for Dealing with Emotional Clients. GET ACCESS 7.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The Furman litigation was the culmination of a campaign conducted by a group of lawyers under the auspices of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. They hoped the Supreme Court would strike down the death penalty because of its demonstrated racial discrimination and other inequities. The Furman Framework. The ruling was narrow in scope.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Share This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, whether tribal immunity bars beachgoers from asserting a right of way to public beaches over a Native American tribe’s private property and whether the Bankruptcy Judgeship Act’s fee schedule violates the Constitution. Actavis, Inc. ;

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The Crime Report

MAY 19, 2022

Supreme Court case of Brady v. My recent research suggests that prosecutors and defense attorneys who are not professional exonerators are more likely to engage in post-conviction bargaining such as agreeing to forego litigation around negligence or misconduct. Pursuing Brady Violations. A Brady violation, after the U.S.

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Patently O

APRIL 2, 2024

The particular litigation here centers on Natera’s US Patent No. The district court case is still pending in the Middle District of North Carolina (23-CV-629), with the present appeal set-up by the district court’s issuance of a preliminary injunction barring NeoGenomics from utilizing its RaDaR test.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 10, 2023

The Supreme Court is expected to rule soon on the use of race criteria in the admission of students in Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina. For decades, universities have avoided the type of outright quota the court held unconstitutional in Regents of the University of California v.

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Conflict of Laws

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina School of Law, and Mitu Gulati, the Perre Bowen Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. Will that court’s decision offer clarity? The decision by the New York Court of Appeals might provide some clarity on it. Stockton, Jr.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

million judicial opinions published between 2000 and 2016 by federal and state courts in Pennsylvania. Courts failed to address 1,774 of those claims. They identified 7,207 separate claims of prosecutorial misconduct over that 17-year period. In the remaining 5,432, misconduct was found in just 204 cases?or or less than 4 percent.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Share In 2003, the Supreme Court ruled in Grutter v. Both of the lawsuits were filed in federal court in 2014 by a group called Students for Fair Admissions, which describes itself as “dedicated to defending the right to racial equality in college admissions.” Two cases, two paths to the Supreme Court.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 15, 2022

Below is my column in the Hill on the litigation over the new admissions policy at the elite Thomas Jefferson High School in Fairfax, Virginia. Notably, this week, the board defended its policy before the Supreme Court by insisting that it was not “race balancing” and that the new policy is entirely “race neutral.”

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

In the realms of legal technology and innovation, the pandemic had yielded silver linings – greater adoption of technology, more flexible workplaces, hybrid courts – that promised a future in which the legal profession and justice system would better serve those who need them. Do courts fully reopen or not?

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