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Legal Ethics Roundup: TEDLaw Launch, Beautiful Bill Impact, Trump Appeals EO Loss, Fed Judge = Public Official Defamation, Judge Salas – Rule of Law & More

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First , from the Daily Journal : “ Litigation Funding Dodges Tax Bullet in Big Beautiful Bill. They also develop and present CLEs, interpret statutes and rules relating to legal ethics, draft legal ethics opinions and rule amendments, and provide counsel and support to assigned committees, task forces and work groups.” October 9-10.

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December 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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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. Oklahoma Federal Court Allowed Landowner to Proceed with NEPA Challenge of Osage Nation Oil and Gas Leases. and non-U.S.

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Revenge of the rescheduled cases: Congressional proxy voting, the ministerial exception, and more

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In 1981, Congress passed a statute requiring that reimbursement rates paid to organizations for managing state Medicaid plans must be “actuarially sound.” Last up: Looks like Oklahoma will have to update its environmental impact statement for its blizzard of petitions seeking to overrule the Supreme Court’s decision in McGirt v.

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Supreme Court’s narrow read of the Lanham Act: More questions than answers

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that the Lanham Act, the federal trademark statute, reaches only conduct “where the claimed infringing use in commerce is domestic” and that confusion to consumers in the United States is not relevant to the analysis. Even though Abitron largely made sales in Europe, Hetronic sued on its home turf, the Western District of Oklahoma.

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The long conference’s relists

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Abbott involves a long-running series of multi-district litigation cases arising from du Pont’s government-permitted releases of chemicals from one of its plants; because the claims of harm from exposure were varied, the cases proceeded through multidistrict litigation rather than as part of a class action. relisted after the Sept.

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Whether “bump stocks” are “machineguns,” and a very specific arbitration issue

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Circuit upheld the regulation, holding that “the disputed rule is consistent with the best interpretation of ‘machine gun’ under the governing statutes.” In Cargill , the en banc U.S. relisted after the Sept. 13 and Oct 27 conferences) Glossip v. rescheduled before the Mar. 28, and May 11 conferences; relisted after the Sept.

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Funding for Native healthcare programs, and the Armed Career Criminal Act returns

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The court considered the statutes ambiguous, which meant that under normal principles of Indian Law, they must be construed in favor of the tribe. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit held , in a case involving Arizona’s San Carlos Apache Indian Tribe, that the payments must also include services covered by insurance. relisted after the Sept.