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Patently O
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
1] He is also an adjunct professor at American University Washington College of Law. ten years ago—at least in part due to longstanding common law rules on champerty, maintenance, [3] and patent law’s relative high risk—today third-party litigation funding (TPLF) [4] undergirds about 30% of all patent litigation, by conservative estimates. [5]
SCOTUSBlog
OCTOBER 5, 2023
Ferguson involves a First Amendment challenge to Washington state’s law prohibiting “conversion therapy,” the practice of seeking to change a gay or transgender person’s sexual orientation or gender identity through counseling. A federal district court in North Carolina ultimately invalidated much of the law, and the U.S.
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SCOTUSBlog
MARCH 20, 2025
At its last conference, it granted review of a one-time relist asking whether federal courts must follow state law requiring medical malpractice claims to be supported by an expert affidavit. Oklahoma , which the court had decided to review and was then in the briefing process. New Relists Escobar v. Relisted after the Jan.
SCOTUSBlog
NOVEMBER 1, 2023
Brownback , involving whether the Federal Tort Claims Act’s “judgment bar,” which bars any claim based on the same subject matter as a dismissed FTCA case, applies when both the actions were originally brought together. The Supreme Court did not grant review in any new cases since our last installment. ” (relisted after the Sept.
JonathanTurley
JULY 27, 2021
There is a no stand-your-ground case out of Oklahoma where Alexander Feaster, 46 is claiming that he shot Kyndal McVey, 27, in the back while she ran away as an act of self-defense. They argue that his Nazi flags are protected First Amendment speech and that he had a right to defend himself under the law.
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.
JonathanTurley
MARCH 4, 2023
Roughly 200 human rights organizations are asking the United Nations to declare that the United States is a violator of “international human rights law” because some states have passed pro-life laws after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision. … We Americans have a method for making the laws that are over us.
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