LawSites

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Constandinos (Deno) Himonas, the Utah Supreme Court justice who spearheaded the state’s first-of-its-kind regulatory sandbox to license new forms of legal services and providers, is retiring from the court. 29 letter to Utah Gov. 29 letter to Utah Gov. Lund, past-president of the Utah State Bar, for my LawNext podcast.

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LegalReader

MARCH 26, 2021

Vicky Chavez has spent the last three years seeking sanctuary from deportation inside a Salt Lake City-area church.

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DECEMBER 22, 2021

The lawsuit claims that the Biden administration lacks the authority to require that Head Start teachers, contractors, and volunteers receive coronavirus vaccinations by January 31.

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Law 360

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Polsinelli has added three attorneys previously with Armstrong Teasdale LLP who work in areas such as labor and employment, cybersecurity and commercial litigation as shareholders in its Los Angeles and Salt Lake City, Utah, offices, the firm said Tuesday.

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LegalReader

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

The lawsuit alleges that the so-called Kingston Group forced underage women to marry their relatives and perform labor for the organization's businesses.

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LegalReader

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

You will need to prove that a legitimate injury was suffered in order to recover a settlement. The only real way to prove this is by showing the court your medical records. .

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Above The Law

JUNE 17, 2021

Guess the judge put "ice" on that litigation. Hill ] * A Utah prosecutor has apologized for telling a lawmaker to "die and go to hell" for interrupting his afternoon nap. Guess the judge put "ice" on that litigation. * A trademark lawsuit filed by Ice Cube against Robinhood has been dismissed. New York Post ].

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LawSites

APRIL 14, 2022

Filevine , a Utah-based case management company founded in 2014 with an initial focus on litigation and personal injury law, has raised $108 million in a Series D funding round that it says will help fuel its expansion more deeply into big law, insurance defense, corporate, governmental, and nonprofit legal counsel teams.

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LegalReader

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Mechanical failure is also a reason to hold the trucking company liable for damages.

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LegalReader

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Many semi-truck accidents are caused by fatigue or distraction, and both of these threats become more common the longer a trucker stays behind the wheel.

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LegalReader

MARCH 18, 2022

Will your case turn into a lawsuit? Probably not. Trucking companies tend to avoid bad publicity and they won’t want to be dragged into a long legal battle.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Constandinos (Deno) Himonas, the Utah Supreme Court justice who spearheaded the state’s first-of-its-kind regulatory sandbox to license new forms of legal services and providers, is retiring from the court. 29 letter to Utah Gov. 29 letter to Utah Gov. Lund, past-president of the Utah State Bar, for my LawNext podcast.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Ben Carter , senior litigation and advocacy counsel, Kentucky Equal Justice Center. Justice Deno Himonas , Utah Supreme Court. Sam McAllister , director of litigation technology, Lightfoot, Franklin & White. Access to Justice (Monday, Nov. Ayuda Legal Puerto Rico. Michele Pistone , professor of law, Villanova University.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Mechanical defects are one of the most common causes of truck accidents. In most cases it’s about tires, brakes or wheel issues.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 31, 2021

The department said it has not opened investigations in Florida, Texas, Arkansas, or Arizona because those states’ bans on universal indoor masking are not being enforced in schools due to litigation or other state action.

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LegalReader

OCTOBER 9, 2021

The lawsuit observes that cash-strapped Utah residents languish in jail while comparably wealthy people go free.

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Patently O

JANUARY 4, 2023

In the USA, civil litigation typically involves substantial discovery — with each party demanding to see the other side’s secrets. That information may be needed to resolve the infringement litigation, but you could imagine a competitor also using the information for a competitive advantage in the marketplace.

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NewmanFerraraLLP

JANUARY 19, 2023

But a review of the item’s ingredient-disclosure list reveals that the green tea and echinacea were “inactive” ingredients; “a tacit acknowledgment that they have no connection to the Product’s function.” ” ( Complaint , paragraph 43) Some may find that hard to swallow. # # # SOURCE SINGO v. .”

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LegalReader

AUGUST 3, 2022

Utah is one of a small number of states that use the no-fault insurance scheme.

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NewmanFerraraLLP

JANUARY 8, 2023

Will Starbucks wake up and smell the coffee? # # # SOURCE Brownell v Starbucks Coffee Company (Class Action Complaint).

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LawTechnologyToday

MARCH 1, 2023

This already has happened in Arizona and Utah. Bennett , Jazz Hampton Thursday, March 2, 2023 | 8:30AM – 9:45AM Grand Ballroom EF KEYNOTE: PUBLIC HEARING ON PROPOSALS TO AMEND RULES OF PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT 5.4

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NewmanFerraraLLP

JANUARY 23, 2023

This Litigation Was Pretty Juicy. The plaintiff, who lived in Illinois, sought to pursue claims on behalf of herself and a class of other Illinois-based purchasers, together with those consumers who lived in Arkansas, Iowa, Wyoming, Texas, Nebraska, South Dakota, West Virginia, Utah, Idaho, Nebraska and Montana. In Cristia v.

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ALPS

DECEMBER 30, 2020

MAPP is the Executive Director of the Utah State Bar’s Well-Being Committee for the Legal Profession working with Utah’s judges, lawyers, and law students to enhance engagement, performance, resilience, and overall well-being. One of them is the state of Utah. She was a litigator in a private law firm practice.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Courtroom5 , a platform that helps self-represented litigants navigate complex civil litigation matters, licensed their tech to NCCU Law for classroom use and is in development on a new platform slated for release in spring 2024. descrybe.ai , a free generative-AI legal search engine, has summarized 1.8

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LettersBlogatory

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Decades ago, Helen McCarthy sued Michael Heath Johnson in the District of Utah, alleging that he had converted her property, including an ownership stake in the Salt Lake Tribune and real property in Bel Air, California, to his own use. The case of the day is McCarthy v. Johnson (D.D.C. I wrote about the last round a few months ago.

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LawSites

APRIL 27, 2022

Last week, Filevine , the Utah-based case management company, raised $108 million in a Series D funding round.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Ben Carter , senior litigation and advocacy counsel, Kentucky Equal Justice Center. Justice Deno Himonas , Utah Supreme Court. Sam McAllister , director of litigation technology, Lightfoot, Franklin & White. Access to Justice (Monday, Nov. Ayuda Legal Puerto Rico. Michele Pistone , professor of law, Villanova University.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 17, 2023

Meanwhile, the water level at Lake Powell, the massive reservoir created by the Glen Canyon Dam on the Utah-Arizona border, is at historic lows, threatening its ability to generate power. After years of litigation and negotiation, the Nation prevailed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. The 1964 Arizona v.

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LettersBlogatory

OCTOBER 6, 2022

A court in Israel has ordered the government there to recognize marriages conducted by an officiant in Utah between Israelis attending remotely via videoconferencing from Israel. Why, you ask, would Israelis be interested in being married under Utah law? Cyprus is a typical destination.

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ALPS

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Matt is an associate professor in the Rocky Mountain Center for Occupational and Environmental Health at the University of Utah. And just to follow up, so it was the Utah state bar that actually commissioned for you to do the research, is that right? BREE: Yeah. Matt, you started to intersect with the legal community. BREE: Yeah.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Circuit denied the challengers’ request to block the plan while litigation continued, the challengers came to the Supreme Court with an emergency appeal, on what is sometimes called the court’s “shadow docket.” Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit transferred challenges by Utah and Oklahoma to the D.C. When a divided D.C.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 1, 2021

They supplemented that review with an analysis of court approaches to virtual hearings, e-filing, and digital notarization, focusing on how these tools affected litigants in three of the most common types of civil cases: debt claims, evictions and child support.

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Patently O

MARCH 17, 2024

As we’ve explained in a series of articles , in many federal courts throughout the country, all or practically all cases are assigned to a single judge, giving litigants the ability to “judge shop”—that is, to choose their own judge. 2] Paul Gugliuzza is a Professor of Law at Temple University, Beasley School of Law.

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CourtTechBulletin

DECEMBER 16, 2021

We were curious as to the status of online court help to the self-represented litigants as a good 2021 year-end wrapup article for the CTB? We share what we found below. In addition, we just learned of a new NIJ study on the use of Chatbots in the Criminal Justice System to add to our list of online helpers.

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Patently O

APRIL 4, 2024

patent litigation, due largely to case assignment rules that allowed plaintiffs to essentially pick their judge. Patent litigants are sophisticated. Gugliuzza is Professor of Law at Temple University Beasley School of Law Jonas Anderson is Professor of Law at the University of Utah S.J. So, judge-shopping problem solved?

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 24, 2021

Missouri,” Sotomayor concluded, “is now free to execute Johnson in a manner that, at this stage of the litigation, we must assume will be akin to torture given his unique medical condition.” The last time a firing squad was used in the United States was in Utah in 2010. Execution by firing squad is now legal in four states.

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LawSites

JANUARY 23, 2023

Joining Levine as a partner at the firm is Jeffrey Harris , who had also been a partner at Titus Brueckner and who focuses on civil and commercial litigation. LawNext Podcast: A Deep Dive into the First Comprehensive Study of Reg Reforms in Arizona and Utah with Stanford’s David Engstrom and Lucy Ricca.

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