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Summary judgment based on release of “all persons… from any claim” reversed.

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18, 2024), plaintiff was riding in the passenger seat of a car when the car crashed into fencing and construction materials located in the right lane of the street. Patton & Taylor Enterprises, LLC , No. W2022-01144-COA-R3-CV (Tenn.

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Supreme Court Rules Federal Agencies Can Be Sued Under Fair Credit Reporting Act

Constitutional Law Reporter

Kirtz , 601 U.S. _ (2024), the U.S. The second is when a statute creates a cause of action and explicitly authorizes suit against a government on that claim. In Department of Agriculture Rural Development Rural Housing Service v. The first is when a statute expressly states that it is stripping immunity from a sovereign entity.

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Application of Singapore’s new rules on service out of jurisdiction: Three Arrows Capital and NW Corp

Conflict of Laws

On gateway (p), it was held that there was a good arguable case that the cause of action arose in Singapore because the trusts arose pursuant to the independent fund arrangement between the parties which was negotiated and concluded in Singapore. 1] [2024] SGHC 21. [2] 7] [2024] SGHC 21 [46]. [8] 17] [2023] SGHCR 22. [18]

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Authors Get Mixed Results With Initial Skirmish in OpenAI Lawsuit

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In 2023, several authors, including the comedian Sarah Silverman, filed putative class action lawsuits alleging various copyright infringement claims. The OpenAI defendants moved to dismiss all causes of action alleged by the author plaintiffs with the exception of the first cause of action for direct copyright infringement. (It

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Smith v Fonterra: A Common Law Climate Litigation Breakthrough

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The Supreme Court’s 7 February 2024 decision is a preliminary one. Under New Zealand law, such arguments should be struck out only if they “disclose[] no reasonably arguable cause of action”. The decision ultimately concerns whether Smith’s main claim in public nuisance amounts to a “reasonably arguable cause of action”.

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Supreme Court Clarifies When Public Officials Can Be held Liable for Social Media Activity

Constitutional Law Reporter

Freed , 601 U.S. _ (2024), the U.S. In reaching its decision, the Court emphasized that Section 1983 provides a cause of action against “[e]very person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or us- age, of any State ” deprives someone of a federal constitutional or statutory right. In Lindke v.

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Inventorship Correction Affirmed for Patent on Intermodal Container for Transporting Gaseous Fluids

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a) Except as otherwise provided by law, a civil action arising under an Act of Congress enacted after the date of the enactment of this section may not be commenced later than 4 years after the cause of action accrues. Tube-Mac Indus., Campbell , No. 2022-2170 (Fed. 256 to correct inventorship on an issued patent. (a)

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