Patently O

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Stroud is General Counsel at Unified Patents – an organization often adverse to litigation-funded entities. [1] litigation finance boom of the past 20 years—as has been widely reported, private equity now undergirds huge swaths of U.S. Guest post by Jonathan Stroud. Patent assertion finance today is a multibillion-dollar business. [2]

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JURIST

AUGUST 4, 2022

This latest lawsuit comes amid a wave of litigation and settlements relating to the United States’s opioid epidemic. On Tuesday a group of West Virginia localities reached a settlement with three opioid manufacturers for $400 million after officials accused the manufacturers of fueling the epidemic.

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Day on Torts

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Before his death, decedent filed suit for personal injury and loss of consortium in West Virginia. The Court explained: Here, Decedent brought suit in West Virginia for personal injury and loss of consortium. Decedent himself ultimately accepted a settlement in lieu of further litigation.

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Law 360

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

West Virginia's attorney general on Tuesday predicted that opioid litigation settlements will ultimately funnel $1 billion into the Mountain State to alleviate rampant narcotic abuse, a forecast that coincided with CVS Pharmacy and Walmart signing deals worth nearly $150 million.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Abbott , in which the chemical company had asked them to decide whether a multidistrict litigation can be bound by the results of “bellwether” trials, which are conducted as test cases to give both sides a better idea of how they might fare and to shape a potential settlement. du Pont de Nemours v.

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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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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JANUARY 25, 2022

Conference of Mayors in West Virginia v. By Jacob Elkin. Today, the Sabin Center filed an amicus brief on behalf of the National League of Cities and the U.S. EPA , a case that is currently before the United States Supreme Court.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

When Allen Loughry II, the former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, was convicted of wire and mail fraud in 2018, discussion about the case, predictably, spread on Twitter. In Loughry v. Courts of Appeals, erred in concluding that Chadbourne & Parke v. United States.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Share The Supreme Court will hear oral argument in February on whether to freeze a plan created by the Environmental Protection Agency to reduce ozone levels across the United States while litigation over the plan continues in a federal appeals court. Three states – Ohio, Indiana, and West Virginia – went to D.C.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 26, 2022

Since most poor litigants are unrepresented in civil legal cases, this sets up an almost Kafka-esque scene in courtrooms across the country,” they wrote. Right off the bat, this sets up litigants for an uphill struggle, the researchers explain.

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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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Patently O

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The 2017 Supreme Court decision in TC Heartland gave renewed teeth to the venue statute governing litigation. Here, Mylan created its ANDA documents at its West Virginia office and submitted them electronically from that location. Celgene Corp. Mylan Pharma ( Fed. Lets talk first about acts of infringement.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 17, 2023

The Navajo Nation reservation is about the size of Ireland or West Virginia, with large portions bordered by the Colorado River. Over one hundred years ago, the Supreme Court found that the creation of Indian reservations arising from Indian land cession treaties in the arid west necessarily created Indian reserved water rights.

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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. Pritzker , Nos.

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Broadcast Law Blog

APRIL 27, 2023

The FCC Administrative Law Judge, who is overseeing the hearing ordered by the Media Bureau on certain alleged factual issues that the Bureau has identified with the proposed acquisition, recently put the proceeding on hold so that the parties do not need to spend more money litigating if the deal will not happen.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

But before that, three states – Ohio, Indiana, and West Virginia – went to the U.S. Circuit declined to temporarily block the federal plan while litigation continued, finding that the challengers had not met the high bar necessary to do so. A divided panel of the D.C.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 1, 2022

While the United States Supreme Court yesterday delivered a major setback to the EPA’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions in West Virginia. By Maria Antonia Tigre.

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Patently O

OCTOBER 4, 2022

District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia had found the ‘708 patent not invalid and infringed in a Hatch-Waxman infringement suit brought against Mylan (which is now a part of Viatris). Bear in mind that in patent infringement litigation the accused infringer (e.g., Last month, Merck announced that the U.S.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MARCH 5, 2024

Ohio, Indiana, and West Virginia filed suit, arguing that EPA’s rulemaking process circumvented the Clean Air Act’s cooperative-federalism mandate by forcing its own top-down control over state-level air-pollution reduction, and moved to stay the federal plan pending judicial review.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

She is an experienced securities litigator whose work focuses on addressing climate risk and financial regulation. Before law school, Martin worked as a community organizer in the coalfields of southern West Virginia. She also holds a B.A. in Management Economics from Ateneo de Manila University (Philippines). Louis in 2014.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2021

That much was clear given his response to finding fake spiders scattered around the West Virginia office for Halloween. A previous addition to the Spooky torts was the odd case of Assistant Prosecutor Chris White. White clearly does not like spiders, even fake ones.

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 19, 2023

Opponents of LDT regulation received a boost with last year’s Supreme Court decision overturning an agency action based on the “major questions” doctrine, West Virginia v. Raimondo , FDA may also lose the shield of Chevron deference in any litigation. Depending on what happens in the next few weeks in Loper Bright Enterprises v.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2022

That much was clear given his response to finding fake spiders scattered around the West Virginia office for Halloween. A previous addition to the Spooky torts was the odd case of Assistant Prosecutor Chris White. White clearly does not like spiders, even fake ones.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JANUARY 22, 2024

PJM determined that a project proposed by Transource consisting of new transmission lines running from West Virginia to Maryland would reduce this congestion and provide net positive economic benefits. PJM therefore concluded that there was a public need for the project, based on FERC-approved methods for determining public need.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MARCH 6, 2019

Other deadlines to keep in mind include the expiration of the current interim license between GMR and radio operators while the litigation over whether GMR should be subject to antitrust rules goes on. The 3-year TV license renewal cycle will begin at the same time next year. See our post here for more details.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 6, 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. CLIMATE LITIGATION CHART. and non-U.S. DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS. ADDITION TO THE NON-U.S.

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LegalReader

JANUARY 11, 2022

Commissioners have informed AP News that they could not comment any further on the lawsuit until it is read by the County Prosecutor. The female officer is currently seeking a jury trial, according to the lawsuit.

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Law 360

JULY 18, 2022

Supreme Court's decision in West Virginia v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 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. Ergon-West Virginia, Inc. On November 23, GM announced that it was withdrawing from the litigation. and non-U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 8, 2023

The Securities and Exchange Commission regulations on climate disclosure, first proposed in March 2022 and likely to be issued in final form in October 2023, [1] have drawn considerable controversy and face an uncertain fate in the inevitable litigation. [2] cit [50] See, e.g., West Virginia v. Times , Oct. 12, 2022. [49]

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch expressed sympathy for the challengers’ arguments, but they noted that because the litigation is moving quickly in the lower court, they are unlikely to be affected by the rule for now. The challengers pointed to the court’s 2022 decision in West Virginia v. Circuit moves forward.

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LegalReader

APRIL 11, 2021

The American Rescue Plan forbids recipient states from using relief funds to offset net tax losses.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2023

That much was clear given his response to finding fake spiders scattered around the West Virginia office for Halloween. . _ A previous addition to the Spooky torts was the odd case of Assistant Prosecutor Chris White. White clearly does not like spiders, even fake ones.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 18, 2024

In June, the Supreme Court temporarily blocked the Environmental Protection Agency from enforcing its Good Neighbor Plan while litigation over the plan continues in the lower courts. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here. Under the venue provision, those challenges were filed in the D.C.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 28, 2023

But litigation is nearly assured in any scenario. A year before the Proposed SEC Rule was even issued, the Attorney General of West Virginia announced his intention to challenge any such rule on First Amendment grounds.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 6, 2018

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. In re: Border Infrastructure Environmental Litigation , No. CLIMATE LITIGATION CHART. and non-U.S. Jacobson v.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 6, 2023

The West Virginia legislature passed H.B. allowing her to compete on the middle school girls’ cross-country and track teams while the litigation continued. The post Court allows West Virginia transgender girl to continue to participate in girls’ sports appeared first on SCOTUSblog. And he rejected B.P.J.’s

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