Intelligize Blog

APRIL 27, 2023

The UK-based theater chain began Chapter 11 proceedings in Texas in September and announced in January that it would close 39 Regal Cinemas theaters across the United States. However, the bankruptcy story generating the most interest in the business and legal worlds now may be Johnson & Johnson’s attempt to pull off a “ Texas Two-Step.”

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Guillard is a Texas-based social media commentator, and accused Scofield of arranging the murder of Xana Kernodle, her boyfriend Ethan Chapin, and Kernodle’s roommates Maddie Mogen and Kaylee Goncalves in their Moscow (Idaho) house on Nov. That was the case with the litigation over the false claims made against former Rep.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Sylvia Gonzalez, a newly elected Texas city council member elected on an anti-corruption platform was arrested after her first meeting for “intentionally … conceal[ing] … a government record,” for allegedly taking a petition her supporters had presented to the mayor seeking the removal of a city manager. Gonzalez v. 26 conference) King v.

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 3, 2022

That paper contains a detailed discussion of the most common interpretive issues—whether the clause selects the tort laws of the chosen jurisdiction in addition to its contract laws, for example—that arise in litigation. I argued for the laws at the time of litigation. courts interpret choice-of-law clauses.

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LawSites

JULY 7, 2022

I am a big fan of litigation analytics, even once suggesting that it could be malpractice for a litigator not to use the technology. But it plans to expand to cover other types of motions, such as summary judgment, and to include state courts, with California, New York and Texas already in development.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

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. Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE. and non-U.S. Here are the additions to the U.S. McCarthy , No.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

We had just finished discussing animal liability in my torts when a bizarre case from Halloween surfaced involving the girlfriend of Texas special teams coach Jeff Banks. and they say my torts exams are unrealistic. However, the parents may decide that it should remain a lesson learned rather than a litigated injury.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 16, 2021

The complaint below details how Reed stole a handgun from a pawn shop in Texas and livestreamed himself committing a “drive-by” shooting in which he fired the stolen handgun blindly into buildings as he drove past. However, this is now a defamation action which could present significant challenges based on the elements for the tort.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Willett also argued that the case would be foreclosed by Claiborne Hardware , and that the 5th Circuit panel decision would have imposed tort liability on protest leaders ranging from the Founding-Era Sons of Liberty to Martin Luther King. The court denied Trevino v. Palmer without comment.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 1, 2021

In government-facing litigation, the government’s petition in Becerra v. We finish with good old private litigation. Petitioner Anibal Canales argues he received ineffective assistance of counsel at the penalty phase of his trial when his lawyer failed to introduce significant mitigating evidence, and that the U.S. CVS Pharmacy Inc.

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Fordham Law News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

They all used bankruptcy to try to get out of mass tort claims. [1] They all used bankruptcy to try to get out of mass tort claims. [1] Like Purdue Pharma, Johnson & Johnson attempted to do something similar, but used the Texas two-step to avoid huge liabilities. 4] This strategy is known as the Texas two-step. [5]

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LawSites

DECEMBER 4, 2023

VoiceScript Ai.Law Elevator Pitch: Provides AI-generated litigation documents, from pleadings to discovery. We are the first AI-driven platform to focus specifically on drafting litigation documents. The substantial amount of time lawyers spend drafting documents during litigation. What makes you unique or innovative?

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more. However, my students and I often discuss the remarkably wide range of torts that comes with All Hallow’s Eve. In another June 2023 decision in Munoz v.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

In celebration of Thanksgiving, I give you our annual Turkey Torts of civil and criminal cases that add liability to libations on this special day (with past cases at the bottom). Indeed, the torts and crimes recorded this year seem painfully reminiscent of this loathsome year. The result is a horn of plenty for litigators.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Below is an expanded version of my column in the New York Post on the return of Halloween and joy of little litigators in anticipation of the return of the festival of Samhain. Here is the column: With the arrival of Halloween, little children and litigators will again celebrate their favorite holiday. follow the rules.”She

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The undocumented migrants who were transferred to Martha’s Vineyard have quickly adopted one common American practice: litigation. Indeed, I teach in torts where an immigrant to the United States filed a tort action for an involuntary inoculation upon entry in O’Brien v. YouTube screengrab. DeSantis.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The court held that plaintiffs had alleged sufficient conduct in the United States to support their Alien Tort Statute (ATS) claim and that the Tort Victim Protection Act (TVPA) permitted aiding and abetting claims against the corporate executives.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 19, 2021

I’ve discussed the New York public nuisance law aimed at gun manufacturers, a law that doubles down on a failed legal theory using torts as a substitute for direct legislative bans or barriers. New York leaders had forced costly litigation only to pull the law at the last minute to avoid a likely finding of unconstitutionality.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 16, 2025

A trade group of thoroughbred racehorse owners and trainers called the National Horsemens Benevolent & Protective Association filed a different challenge to the law in Texas. United States , 24-275 Issue: Whether a litigant who files a notice of appeal after the ordinary appeal period under 28 U.S.C. Relisted after the Jan.

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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. ExxonMobil Asked Texas Supreme Court to Review Denial of Presuit Discovery Against California Cities and Counties. and non-U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 10, 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. Environmental Groups Sought Response on Clean Air Act Petitions for Texas Facilities. Wikimedia Commons. and non-U.S.

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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. HERE ARE RECENT ADDITIONS TO THE INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE LITIGATION CHART. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Roati. and non-U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) 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 court also dismissed defamation and related state tort claims. CLIMATE LITIGATION CHART.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 2, 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. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Roati. and non-U.S. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 147.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 10, 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. General Land Office of the State of Texas v. CLIMATE LITIGATION CHART. and non-U.S. Department of the Interior , No.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 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. Corps of Engineers permit for a natural gas pipeline in Texas until the Corps completes reconsideration of the permit.

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