LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

As I survey the legal profession broadly, and the world of legal tech and innovation specifically, I see uncertainty and inertia. It is as if we are serving time in a legal tech limbo. After all, it was a good year for the legal tech industry. Overall, the legal tech industry saw unprecedented growth.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 14, 2022

Resolving the contradiction will require an amendment, according to a paper in the Texas Tech Law Review. candidate at the Texas Tech University School of Law and author of the paper. candidate at the Texas Tech University School of Law and author of the paper.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 1, 2024

Share The Supreme Court on Monday sent a pair of challenges to laws in Texas and Florida that would regulate how large social media companies control content posted on their sites back to the lower courts for another look. Texas and Florida passed the laws at the center of the two cases in the wake of Jan. 6, 2021, attacks on the U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 14, 2025

For decades, legal scholars have recognized that fiduciary duties under corporate law may force private companies to address climate change. For example, in the weeks leading up to the Colloquium, a Texas District Court ruled in Spence v. This imprecision can undercut promising lines of debate.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

A man was shot Thursday in Espanola, New Mexico during a protest over the reinstallation of a statute of the conquistador Juan de Onate , who massacred and enslaved the Acoma Indigenous people in 1599. The removal of controversial statues across the US has been challenged legally with mixed results in Texas , Tennessee and Louisiana.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 28, 2022

Jane Cummings, who is deaf and legally blind, sued Premier Rehab (a Texas rehabilitation facility that receives federal funding) for discriminating based on disability in violation of the Rehabilitation Act and the Affordable Care Act. Justice Stephen Breyer dissented, joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.

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JURIST

JUNE 15, 2023

The US Supreme Court declined on Thursday to disturb a federal statute governing the adoption and foster proceedings for Indigenous children in the US. The petitioners argued that this amounted to a “commandeering” of state services by the federal government, since Congress wrote the relevant statute.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 27, 2022

Bruen invokes the authority of history but presents a version of the past that is little more than an ideological fantasy, much of it invented by gun-rights advocates and their libertarian allies in the legal academy with the express purpose of bolstering litigation such as Bruen. Bruen does mark a new low for the court.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

In addition to disputing the rulings under the Fifth and 10th Amendments, the government argues that the individual plaintiffs do not have legal standing to challenge ICWA’s placement preferences for “other Indian families” and “Indian foster home[s].” In Texas v. In Cherokee Nation v. Branch Banking & Trust Company v.

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Above The Law

MAY 26, 2023

Courthouse News Service ] * The Pacific Legal Foundation had themselves a DAY yesterday. Law360 ] * Of the previous 100 anti-LGBTQ+ statutes passed, half of them were this year. Ah, the only corner of American technology where PACER can look like an industry leader. It's fricking May. [ 538 ] The post Morning Docket: 05.26.23

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The IP Law Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Monolithic”) in the Western District of Texas, alleging Monolithic infringed Bel Power’s patents by selling power modules for use in electronic devices. However, the Federal Circuit’s ruling in In re Monolith Power Systems, Inc. may have reopened that question. Bel Power Solutions Inc. (“Bel Bel Power”) sued Monolithic Power Systems, Inc.

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Strictly Business

MAY 22, 2024

Ultimately, in response to the Tesla ruling, Musk filed to transfer SpaceX’s state of incorporation from Delaware to Texas and indicated that Tesla would hold a shareholder vote to do the same. The decision sparked outrage from Musk, who publicly stated that he would hold a vote to move Tesla’s state of incorporation from Delaware to Texas.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The legal basis of the litigation-based response to police misconduct lies in Section 1983 of the Civil Rights Act, a federal statute that grants a right of action to individuals whose federal rights have been violated “as a result of state action.”.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Jane Cummings sued Texas-based Premier Rehab for discriminating based on her disability in violation of the Rehabilitation Act and the Affordable Care Act. Premier Rehab Keller, P.L.L.C. , a case on whether emotional distress damages are available in certain anti-discrimination suits against recipients of federal funding.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 8, 2024

The statute includes a list of information the government must include – most notably, the time and place of the removal hearing. A noncitizen who does not attend a removal proceeding can be ordered removed as long as written notice has been provided to him under the statute. Texas , scheduled for argument on Jan. In Chevron v.

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Patently O

DECEMBER 10, 2020

At that time, patent litigation was highly concentrated in the Eastern District of Texas, and the proper venue statute, 28 U.S.C. The pre- TC Heartland nullification of the proper-venue statute (§ 1400(b)) was a but-for cause of the E.D. Texas is a proper venue for Apple; It also seems like it is pretty darn convenient.

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Diane Drain

APRIL 15, 2021

Critics say that and other provisions could harm homeowners struggling to make ends meet, and the legislation might force debtors to seek additional legal help on old bankruptcy cases they thought were closed. This blanket protection of a person’s home investment would rise to $250,000 if the bill passes.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Share The fate of hundreds of millions of dollars in unclaimed money may depend on the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the term “money order” in an arcane 1974 federal statute. Under a legal principle known as escheatment , states can take possession of unclaimed or abandoned property located within their borders.

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MyCase

APRIL 24, 2024

AI tools like ChatGPT are creating a buzz in the legal field. According to the Legal Industry Report 2024 , nearly one-quarter (24%) of law firms have adopted legal-specific generative artificial intelligence (GAI) tools. GAI can free lawyers from repetitive tasks so they can focus on higher-level legal strategy.

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Patently O

MAY 25, 2021

Another mandamus venue case from Judge Albright’s Waco Texas courtroom. In particular, Bose wanted a stay of briefing of the Markman dispute, but the court found no “clear legal right to stay those deadlines” or any “irreparable harm” that may occur. = = = =. In re Bose Corp ( Fed. Koss Corp. Bose Corp. ,

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

As I survey the legal profession broadly, and the world of legal tech and innovation specifically, I see uncertainty and inertia. It is as if we are serving time in a legal tech limbo. After all, it was a good year for the legal tech industry. Overall, the legal tech industry saw unprecedented growth.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The legality of LD-15, which had an approximately 51.5% Because of the wrinkles of the court’s jurisdictional statutes, Garcia comes from the three-judge district court directly to the Supreme Court as an appeal over which the court has mandatory jurisdiction. Hispanic voting-age population, was subject to two different challenges.

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Patently O

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

District Court for the Eastern District of Texas (Judge Gilstrap) to dismiss a patent infringement lawsuit against Charter Communications based upon improper venue. This statute limits the locations where patent infringement lawsuits can be filed. This statute limits the locations where patent infringement lawsuits can be filed.

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Patently O

MARCH 9, 2022

Texas do not count as a “place of business” of the car distributors. But, in the 1800s, Congress created a special statute that substantially limits proper venue in patent cases (well before the expansion seen in Section 1391. As such, venue is improper under 28 U.S.C. ” In re Cray Inc., 3d 1355 (Fed.

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Patently O

OCTOBER 11, 2021

” Hurdle of Concrete Harm : Although the APA permits an action to compel agency action, the statute typically requires that the plaintiff be “a person suffering legal wrong because of agency action, or adversely affected or aggrieved by agency action.” That case is now on appeal. ” 5 U.S.C. Minton , 568 U.S.

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Patently O

AUGUST 31, 2023

Still, the company regularly argues that it would be too unfair and inconvenient to litigate patent cases in states such as Texas. Texas has also largely eliminated the Judge Albright singularity with its order requiring random distribution of patent cases filed in Waco. In a recent decision, Judge Alan Albright (W.D.Tex.)

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Constitutional Law Reporter

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Sections 401 and 403 of the statute apply to offenses committed after the FSA’s enactment on December 21, 2018, and to “any offense that was committed before the date of enactmentif a sentence for the offense has not been imposed as of such date of enactment.” Paxton : The First Amendment case challenges Texas H.B.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 14, 2023

Most of the rhetoric and activity has occurred in the first two categories in the US, so we focus there, in an effort to differentiate political narratives from legal reality. There are several statutes that form the basis of our antitrust laws. And what are the permissible boundaries of that behavior?

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Law Prose

MARCH 2, 2022

Though rare among legal writers, quotation sandwiches are delectable. Lots of legal writers demote themselves from analysts to hunter-gatherers. Among novice legal writers, this problem is pervasive. ” If you write that way, you just collect snippets from the statute book. .” Nobody cares what I think.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

.” The problem, however, is that this is just like the transport of migrants to Martha’s Vineyard in September 2022, which a number of Democratic leaders and legal experts insisted was also a clear case of kidnapping and human trafficking. Newsom previously asked the U.S. To great acclaim, Rachael Rollins, then the U.S.

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Broadcast Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

In a major First Amendment decision , the 5 th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a Texas law forbidding large social media platforms from censoring speech based on the viewpoints of the individuals posting on the site. For further details on how the Bureau resolved these matters, see the Bureau’s decision available here.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 19, 2022

Over nearly 90 minutes of argument, the justices appeared to agree that Cruz, a Texas Republican, had a right to bring his case, but they were divided on whether the law itself is constitutional. The law at the center of the case, Federal Election Commission v. How, he queried, “can that possibly be the law?”.

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Intelligize Blog

MARCH 26, 2025

million legal entities, including more than half of the countrys Fortune 500 companies, have put their headquarters there. For example, the board of Sonoma Pharmaceuticals filed a proxy statement last year recommending the company reincorporate in Nevada to take advantage of a more favorable legal environment.

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Broadcast Law Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Under the FCC’s proposals that are designed to clear up which entity is responsible for legal and regulatory compliance, such multicast streams will be part of the originating station’s license, not that of the “host” station. TV stations in Texas must also file by April 1, as the TV renewal cycle is one year behind radio.

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Patently O

JULY 16, 2024

As part of this investigation, the district court ordered Lori LaPray, the legal owner of plaintiff Backertop Licensing LLC, to appear in person at a hearing in Delaware. But LaPray is in Texas, nowhere near Delaware. LaPray is apparently a paralegal at a law firm related to the litigation.

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Patently O

JULY 31, 2024

with a House companion bill from Representatives Moran (R-Texas) and Dean (D-Pa.), The legal basis for injunctive relief in patent cases is found in 35 U.S.C. § The Realizing Engineering, Science, and Technology Opportunities by Restoring Exclusive (RESTORE) Patent Rights Act of 2024, introduced by Senators Coons (D-Del.)

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Customs & International Trade Law

OCTOBER 28, 2022

District Court for the Western District of Texas, Claudia Delgadillo (‘‘Delgadillo’’) was convicted of violating 18 U.S.C. USITC received a complaint on September 16, 2022, under the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, on behalf of EDST, LLC of Lubbock, Texas and Quext IoT, LLC of Lubbock, Texas.

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