SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 25, 2025

Hain moved the case to federal court, asserting that the Palmquists had fraudulently included Whole Foods in the case to defeat diversity jurisdiction under a Texas statute protecting innocent sellers from liability. The justices will be discussing two of them for a second time. First up is The Hain Celestial Group, Inc.

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Patently O

JULY 1, 2021

The statute: For the convenience of parties and witnesses, in the interest of justice, a district court may transfer any civil action to any other district or division where it might have been brought or to any district or division to which all parties have consented. But, the defendants argued that N.D.Cal. Thus, no proper venue.

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

To be clear Samsung and LG have previously litigated in Texas, they have lawyers in the state and lawyers willing to go to the state. The inconvenience of litigation is almost a total farce here. The statute provides two different ways for finding proper venue. First , state of incorporation.

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Patently O

JULY 16, 2024

the Federal Circuit addressed the scope of a district court’s inherent authority to investigate potential litigation misconduct. While I am not generally opposed to litigation finance, the Mavexar and IP Edge controversy highlights significant ethical concerns associated with the practice. Canary Connect, Inc. ,

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Patently O

AUGUST 2, 2021

Both SITO and Hulu are Delaware companies with Hulu headquartered Santa Monica and SITO in New Jersey (although SITO is currently going through Chapter 11 reorganization bankruptcy). Sito Mobile (SITO) sued Hulu in the Western District of Texas (Waco), alleging infringement of seven of its patents. Patent Nos. Barrack , 376 U.S. 612 (1964).

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Patently O

JANUARY 3, 2024

After an extended bit of patent litigation, the parties entered a 2014 settlement agreement that included a mutual covenant not to challenge each other’s patents again until 2021. District Court for the District of Delaware. The court here explained that its decision is purely one of contract interpretation under Delaware law.

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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. A clause is contrary to public policy when a statute or a judicial decision declares that enforcement is inconsistent with the policy of the state. The United States legal system is immensely complex.

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Patently O

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In the case, the USPTO admitted (for the purposes of the litigation) that DABUS had conceived of an invention. In the face of evolving technology that redefines the potential of inventorship, the panel failed to interpret the statute “in light of [the] basic purpose” of the Patent Act. Quoting Twentieth Century Music Corp.

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 29, 2021

1] In similar, the advancing principle of party autonomy [2] does not distinguish between corporations and other litigants on its operational level. The very fact that litigation involves a corporation does not seem prima facie to affect the identity of the applicable law rules. Here, different considerations seem to apply.

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Broadcast Law Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Broadcasters already upload this information to their public file, and this update merely brings the FCC’s rules in line with the requirements of federal statute and thus has no practical effect on a station’s political file obligations. By that date, radio stations in Delaware and Pennsylvania must file a license renewal application.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2020

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. On November 23, GM announced that it was withdrawing from the litigation. In Delaware v. and non-U.S. 19-1189 (U.S.).

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JUNE 1, 2023

When I had several cases in litigation, I was detached at home most days and I had to make a change. Litigation Paralegal Boot Camp Are you still waiting for on-the-job training that takes you through each phase of a litigation case and shows you what you can do to support your attorneys?

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2022

Two pending petitions raise the question of the constitutionality of state statutes providing that corporations are deemed to have consented to “general” personal jurisdiction by virtue of having registered to do business in a state. was filed by a plaintiff seeking to enforce a similar registration statute. Returning Relists.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 14, 2022

Delaware v. 3): Whether unclaimed checks issued by MoneyGram Payment Systems should be returned to Delaware, where the company is headquartered, or instead are “money orders” or “similar written instruments” that under federal law should go to the states where they are purchased. Pennsylvania (Oct. Goertz (Oct.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 12, 2022

Twitter, Inc is incorporated in Delaware, and has various subsidiaries around the world; Twitter International Company , for example, is incorporated in Ireland and responsible as data controller for users that live outside of the United States. ‘Twitter’ is not a monolithic entity. The law applicable to online dignity.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 20, 2020

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. 1442, or the civil-rights removal statute, 28 U.S.C. Derivative Litigation , No. and non-U.S. 19-1189 (U.S. filed Sept.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The problem is that when the time came for assessing damages, the court ordered Dewberry Group to pay as damages $43 million in profits earned by several affiliates that were not parties to the litigation, reasoning that all of them were, as a practical matter, a single corporate entity.

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The Crime Report

JULY 7, 2021

Akbar writes: Abolitionist demands like ‘defund the police’ remind us that if we are interested in building a more just world, we cannot wage our battles simply on the terrain of rights, litigation, rule of law, or administrative innovation. A Model for Defunding: An Evidence-Based Statute for Behavioral Health Crisis Response.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 19, 2025

4] Canadas statute is an updated version of what have been called constituency statutes in the United States, which explicitly expand the fiduciary duties of corporate managers and directors beyond shareholders but do not usually include the environment among allowable factors, except in Arizona and Texas. [5]

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

The litigation over last year’s lettuce recall has only just started due to the statute of limitations. The cases from injuries last year are just now being filed under the statute of limitations, but it has been another bumper crop of Thanksgiving torts. The result is a horn of plenty for litigators.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

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. Delaware v. HERE ARE RECENT ADDITIONS TO THE INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE LITIGATION CHART. and non-U.S. District of Columbia v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 8, 2021

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. The fossil fuel companies removed the case in March 2021, citing five grounds for removal, including the federal officer removal statute.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JANUARY 13, 2021

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. 1442, or the civil-rights removal statute, 28 U.S.C. Delaware v. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Roati. filed Dec.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 7, 2021

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. Circuit majority opinion’s interpretation was foreclosed by the statute and violated separation of powers. and non-U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 9, 2021

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. in which the Ninth Circuit affirmed a district court finding that the federal-officer removal statute did not provide jurisdiction.

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Above The Law

APRIL 7, 2025

Erez Reuveni had worked at the Justice Department for nearly 15 years, most recently as the acting deputy director of the Office of Immigration Litigation. Court of Appeals suspended him in June after his conviction on three federal gun charges in Delaware. Read more here. #10 10 Guidance on Solicitation Limits After L.A.

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