SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 27, 2023

The plaintiff in the case was Robert Mallory, a Virginia man who worked for Norfolk Southern, a Virginia-based railroad, in Virginia and Ohio. After Mallory was diagnosed with colon cancer, he went to court in Pennsylvania and argued that he had been exposed to asbestos and other toxic chemicals while working for Norfolk Southern.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

In 2018, the Supreme Court overturned the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act which had effectively made sports betting illegal in most states since 1992. In Ohio, Nebraska, and Florida, legislation has passed and legalization is pending as state governments plan how to roll out their systems.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 6, 2023

Share Ohio Adjutant General’s Department v. Federal Labor Relations Authority , which the Supreme Court will hear on Monday, involves the collective-bargaining rights of “dual status” military technicians who work in the Ohio National Guard.

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Fordham Law News

MARCH 31, 2025

Delaware has long been the preferred state of incorporation for corporations due to its business friendly legal framework, its specialized Court of Chancery, and its well-developed and unified body of corporate law. However, recent news suggests that corporations are reconsidering their allegiance to the state. [1] In Tornetta v.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 2, 2022

Share This week we highlight cert petitions (and one original action ) that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, whether New Jersey can withdraw from its Waterfront Commission Compact with New York concerning governance and law enforcement over the Port of New York and New Jersey. In New York v. However, the U.S. New Jersey.

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The Crime Report

JULY 9, 2021

Department of Justice (DOJ) are jointly responsible for enforcement of criminal civil-rights statutes, according to the BJS report. When these hate crime violations were prosecuted, more than nine in 10 defendants were convicted among the 310 defendants adjudicated in federal court.

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SquirePattonBoggs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In its decision, the Court took the uncommon step of sua sponte certifying a question of state law (here, Ohio law) to a state supreme supreme court (the Ohio Supreme Court). A — perhaps the — critical issue in the appeal is whether Ohio law allows such a public-nuisance claim. Tompkins , 304 U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Share Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy deal, which will reach the Supreme Court for oral argument on Monday , is just one of many examples of recent unorthodox civil procedure maneuvers in public harms litigation. But can bankruptcy court solve a public health crisis? The opioid MDL came under scrutiny, including by the U.S.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MARCH 5, 2024

Supreme Court heard oral arguments in four cases last week. One of the most closely watched is Ohio v. While the case centers on the EPA’s regulation of interstate air pollution under the Clean Air Act, the issues before the Court are largely procedural. Environmental Protection Agency , which challenges the U.S.

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SquirePattonBoggs

JANUARY 13, 2021

On Monday the Supreme Court addressed—or, perhaps more to the point, chose not to address—an issue close to the hearts of many in the midst of a pandemic: home delivery of fine wine and spirits. The Court declined to review the Sixth Circuit’s decision in Lebamoff v.

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FDA Law Blog

MARCH 5, 2024

By Faraz Siddiqui — Last Friday, the Delaware District Court rejected AstraZeneca’s lawsuit against the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program enacted under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and CMS’s guidance implementing it. contradicts the plain text of the statute and therefore must be set aside.” Opinion at 17. see also 42 U.S.C.

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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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Constitutional Law Reporter

AUGUST 28, 2023

Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of state laws requiring corporations operating within their borders to consent to personal jurisdiction when they register to do business in those states. According to the Court, such laws do not offend the Constitution’s Due Process Clause. Supreme Court’s Decision The Supreme Court reversed.

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LawSites

JULY 19, 2022

He also confirmed that, to date, two bars have signed on with Decisis, the Ohio State Bar Association (OSBA), which began offering it to members last October, and the Nebraska State Bar Association (NSBA), which started with the service on May 2. Pfeifer said there was no intent to hide the product’s relationship to RELX and LexisNexis.

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Vanda sued, but lost on obviousness grounds — with the court holding that the claimed combination was obvious because it was directed to a set of known elements and a person of ordinary skill would have a “reasonable expectation of success” in reaching the resulting invention. NAPP Amicus Brief. Greenwood , 52 U.S. (11

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JANUARY 26, 2023

Supreme Court returned to the bench this week to begin their February session. In the most high-profile case of the week, the Court addressed the scope of the attorney-client privilege when an attorney provides both legal and non-legal advice. The Ohio Adjutant General’s Department v. In the D.C. Muth , 491 U.S.

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 28, 2023

Supreme Court yesterday upheld the constitutionality of Pennsylvania’s corporate registration statute, even though it requires out-of-state corporations registering to do business within the state to consent to all-purpose (general) personal jurisdiction. courts over disputes that arise in other countries. Washington (1945).

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Patently O

JULY 24, 2024

Latty Distinguished Professor of Law and Co-Director, Center for Innovation Policy at Duke Law In a flurry of recent decisions, the Supreme Court has continued its skepticism of administrative agencies. Consider first stare decisis and the Court’s overruling of Chevron deference (i.e. Guest post by Arti K. Rai , Elvin R.

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Paralegal Mentor

MAY 15, 2014

We discuss the Innocence Project and the Post Conviction DNA Testing Statutes that opened the door for exoneration of the innocent around the country. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, the Ohio Supreme Court, and trial and appellate courts in Ohio and Michigan. Cooley Law School.

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FDA Law Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

By Faraz Siddiqui — Last week, a federal court in Ohio denied a preliminary injunction motion by four Chambers of Commerce in their lawsuit against the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program. Engler , a 2001 decision by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. Order at 22.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 24, 2023

Claude Cassirer brought suit in federal court in California eighteen years ago against the Thyssen Bornemisza Museum of Madrid, Spain, to recover a painting by Camille Pissarro that was stolen from his grandmother by the Nazis during World War II. It is cross-posted at Transnational Litigation Blog. After a reversal and remand from the U.S.

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SquirePattonBoggs

MAY 14, 2021

On Tuesday, the Sixth Circuit became the latest court to address what happens when a merchant fails to truncate a credit card number as directed by Congress. TOMS King (Ohio) LLC , the plaintiff alleged that defendants provided her with a receipt that included both the first six and the last four digits of her credit card number. .

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Constitutional Law Reporter

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Supreme Court confirmed that social-media platforms have First Amendment interests in exercising editorial discretion over the third-party content. Facts of the Case In 2021, Florida and Texas enacted statutes regulating large social-media companies and other internet platforms. NetChoice and NetChoice v. Citing Zauderer v.

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SquirePattonBoggs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Although the Court did not rehear the case en banc, a majority of active judges weighed in on the interpretive issue by joining one of the three opinions the order generated. The central issue in Carpenter has percolated in the federal courts of appeals for a while. Before diving into the opinions, let’s set the stage. 3d 522 (6th Cir.

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Patently O

MAY 30, 2024

2023) has set the stage for a potentially significant Supreme Court case on the interplay between the Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) statute, 35 U.S.C. § 2018), which held that a related statute providing for Patent Term Extension (PTE) due to FDA regulatory delays is not limited by ODP. 4th 1216 (Fed. Ezra Ventures LLC , 909 F.3d

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JURIST

APRIL 16, 2021

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has upheld Ohio’s HB 214 law that prohibits doctors from performing an abortion with the knowledge that a women’s reason for terminating the pregnancy is a fetal Down syndrome diagnosis. The circuit split has increased the possibility of a Supreme Court review.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Mackenzie Damon went to college in Ohio and worked in the Ohio House for several years before coming to the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where she is currently a 1L.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 25, 2022

Share Federal courts employ the All Writs Act to serve countless ends, from assisting FBI investigations to prohibiting vexatious litigation to requiring Apple to access data. This statute, which was originally part of the Judiciary Act of 1789, empowers federal courts to “issue all writs” (i.e., In Shoop v.

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JURIST

AUGUST 21, 2024

The Arizona Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that a 200-word description of a ballot initiative to enshrine a right to abortion in the state’s constitution was valid and determined voters would see the initiative on the statewide general election ballot.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 27, 2022

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. In Monday’s orders , the Supreme Court disposed of three relists. To begin with the unhappy news (at least for petitioners), the court denied review without comment in one-time relist Kelly v.

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SquirePattonBoggs

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Judge White wrote the unanimous opinion for the Court, which was joined by Judge Moore and Judge Bush. The Court held that an Ohio aggravated-robbery offense, R.C. The Sixth Circuit reversed the District Court’s contrary decision. 2d 1038 (Ohio 2009), which held that the deadly-weapon element in R.C. White , No.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2022

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The court denied cert on Monday. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justices Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan, filed an opinion dissenting from the court’s denial of summary vacatur.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Share The Supreme Court heard oral argument on Tuesday in a challenge to a Pennsylvania law that allows any company doing business in the state to be sued there – even if the corporation is not headquartered there and the conduct at the center of the lawsuit occurred somewhere else.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 21, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Tuesday dealt another blow to prisoners challenging their state-court convictions and sentences in federal court. He wanted to use that information in his federal habeas corpus proceedings, i.e., his challenge to his state-court conviction and death sentence. In a 5-4 decision in Shoop v.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 19, 2023

Share The Supreme Court has held that the Ohio National Guard’s dual-status technician employees have federal labor rights. The question before the court was whether the Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute applies to dual-status technicians working for the Guard.

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JURIST

AUGUST 18, 2021

A group of Arizona plaintiffs filed a lawsuit in federal court on Tuesday seeking to block implementation of two provisions of an abortion law set to go into effect in September. The personhood provision, on the other hand, “alters the entire Arizona Revised Statutes.”

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. This Friday, the Supreme Court will hold its last conference of 2021. The Supreme Court called for the views of the solicitor general, who believes the court should take the case. Luxshare, Ltd.

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