SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

This case presents whether a resident deprived of those rights can sue a publicly owned and operated nursing home under Section 1983, which provides a cause of action against government actors who deprive anyone of rights secured by the “laws” of the United States, meaning other federal statutes, including spending clause enactments.

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Day on Torts

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Where plaintiff knew her husband was killed in a car accident with a firefighter but did not know all the details regarding how the accident occurred, the one-year statute of limitations began to run on the day of the crash and her GTLA suit that was filed more than one year after the accident was untimely. In Durham v.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

1983 — which allows private suits for state and local deprivations of rights secured by federal law—to enforce federal statutes enacted under Congress’ spending clause power. VCR is a government nursing facility in Indiana owned by petitioner Health and Hospital Corp., The district court dismissed the action, but the U.S.

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LettersBlogatory

AUGUST 23, 2021

On the other hand, it is very hard to see why, more than 75 years after the crimes of the Nazis and their French collaborators in France, a foreign national (or more precisely, his or her descendants) should have a legal remedy in a US court, for all sorts of reasons. As with the Germany v. But before the appeal was argued, in Philipp v.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 18, 2023

The UK Supreme Court ruled that the cause of action in the aftermath of the 2011 Bonga offshore oil spill accrued at the moment when the oil reached the shore. They rule that the cause of action had accrued at the moment when the spilled oil had reached the shore. This was a one-off event and not a continuing nuisance.

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Day on Torts

APRIL 15, 2022

Reid had her “execute legal documents while under the influence of medication and falsely led [plaintiff] to believe that she could change her mind,” and that CRMC was vicariously liable for Ms. Reid’s actions. Plaintiff argued that the statute did not apply to Ms. Next, plaintiff attacked the constitutionality of the statute.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

APRIL 10, 2024

The justices unanimously held that speech by a government official about job-related topics on social media is attributable to the state only if the official had actual power to speak on the state’s behalf and purported to exercise that authority when he spoke on social media. . _ (2024), the U.S.

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Day on Torts

AUGUST 9, 2021

Further, the trial court found that plaintiff had satisfied the elements of fraudulent concealment such that the three-year statute of limitations was tolled and the case was not time-barred. The Court next analyzed defendant’s claim that the conversion case was barred by the statute of limitations. In Pomeroy v. McGinnis , No.

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Day on Torts

AUGUST 2, 2021

At that time, Officer Godsey and a 911 operator “casually discussed the situation…[and] no action was taken then to shut down the highway or undertake any other preventative measures.” One of those three exceptions arises when “the plaintiff alleges a cause of action involving intent, malice, or reckless misconduct.”

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Moreover, the case in Puerto Rico comes after recent litigation successes in Europe and elsewhere around the world, with courts holding governments and companies accountable for climate harms. Many of those cases include similar arguments that the companies knowingly marketed harmful products and misled the public about those harms.

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Conflict of Laws

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Jurisdiction to prescribe (the authority to make law) and jurisdiction to adjudicate (the authority to apply law) are very different things and are governed by different rules of domestic and international law. Congress clearly intended its cause of action for trafficking in confiscated property to discourage non-U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 25, 2022

Tekoh may create a seismic shift in American constitutional criminal procedure, as the court’s resolution of the lawsuit here could take an axe to the legal and cultural oak known as Miranda warnings. The 9th Circuit’s conclusion to the contrary, then, is legally erroneous. In fact, Wednesday’s oral argument revealed that Vega v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 16, 2022

Unbeknownst to the Cassirer family or the German government, the Pissarro was not lost. In 1992, he worked with the Spanish government to establish the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, a museum in Madrid. That question turned on whether California law or Spanish law governed. The full painting. Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum).

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Diane Drain

JULY 16, 2021

Arizona Residential Eviction Actions Procedures – effective July 15, 2021. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED beginning on the effective date of this Order, all other eviction cases shall be processed solely under Arizona statutes and rules, except as provided herein. PLEADINGS. This site is not just for COVID-19 information.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 19, 2022

Generally, if the police obtain a suspect’s statement in violation of Miranda , the government cannot use that statement against the defendant in court. Tekoh moved to suppress the government’s use of his un- Mirandized statement. A second trial occurred where the government, again, introduced Tekoh’s statement.

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Day on Torts

JANUARY 11, 2021

Plaintiff averred that the deputy’s decision to leave the downed tree unguarded was reckless, but the Court noted that it was not required to accept this allegation from the complaint as true since it was a legal conclusion. internal citation omitted).

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 25, 2024

The wide-reaching effect of a previous Court of Appeal decision on the interpretation of gateway (n) which covers a claim brought under statutes dealing with serious crimes such as corruption and dug trafficking and ‘any other written law’ is also yet to be grasped by litigants. [5] The point is explained here. [6] 7] [2024] SGHC 21 [46]. [8]

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Strictly Business

OCTOBER 30, 2017

The purpose of this post is to outline the legal framework that creates your obligations to safeguard customer data and the consequences of failing to comply with these laws. Federal Laws Governing Data Privacy. It also prohibits using misleading or false information in email headers, or subject lines that are materially misleading.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The First Circuit—like the Fourth, Ninth, and Tenth Circuits in other climate change cases—concluded that the scope of its appellate review was limited to whether the defendants properly removed the case under the federal-officer removal statute. California v. 19-17480 (9th Cir. County of Maui v. Sunoco LP , No. 2CCV-20-0000283 (Haw.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

In fairness to Nunes’ legal team, there was a good-faith argument that New York or Virginia law should apply rather than California’s law. Both parties agreed that Virginia law would govern on choice of law since Nunes initiated this lawsuit in Virginia. Budget RentA-Car Sys., 2d 324, 326 (Va. Companies, Inc.,

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 23, 2018

The decisions on these motions could influence pending and future litigation in the same vein – lawsuits seeking damages, compensation or abatement funds to alleviate the costs borne by local governments to adapt to climate change impacts. At the moment, it’s pretty messy out there.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JANUARY 13, 2021

1442, or the civil-rights removal statute, 28 U.S.C. The district court rejected eight grounds for removal, but the Fourth Circuit concluded its appellate jurisdiction was limited to determining whether the companies properly removed the case under the federal-officer removal statute. 30, 2020); Suncor Energy (U.S.A.) 20-783 (U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 2, 2021

The third-party complaint asserted that while the plaintiffs’ claims were meritless, Statoil, “as well as potentially the many other sovereign governments that use and promote fossil fuels,” must be joined as third-party defendants. Chevron filed similar notices of withdrawal in other cases brought by California localities. Living Rivers v.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 19, 2021

Secondly, a court can validly exercise jurisdiction over a defendant in an action in personam where such defendant submits to the court’s jurisdiction or waives his right to raise a jurisdictional challenge. Thus, jurisdiction can be invoked either by residence [6] or simply by presence within jurisdiction. [7] ” [11]. .

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The Second Circuit agreed with the district court that the plaintiff lacked standing because he failed to allege an injury in fact since he “never explained why he had any legal right to have the document distributed.” EPA’s brief is due December 15. National Environmental Development Association’s Clean Air Project v. Williams , No.

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LexForti

APRIL 30, 2021

Also, the argument that the NCLAT is an appellate tribunal which is common to three statutes, under one of which, viz., Merely because appeals under different statutes are sent to one appellate tribunal would make no difference to the position in law. The finding in V Hotels Ltd., Tulip Star Hotels Ltd. & Anr. [13]

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The New Jersey court also found no basis for Grable jurisdiction, rejecting the companies’ arguments that the City’s claims necessarily raised substantial and actually disputed issues of federal law such as First Amendment issues or issues addressed by federal environmental statutes. The states appealed the dismissal of the case.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2023

” She even posted a walk-through video and insisted that she knows all of the governing legal rules. See Pennsylvania General Assembly Statute §7102. McKamey insists that it is just a “crazy haunted house” and stops well short of the legal-definition of torture. The video seemed more incriminating than exculpatory.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2022

She insists in the video that she knows all of the governing legal rules and shows the path in detail. See Pennsylvania General Assembly Statute §7102. McKamey insists that it is just a “crazy haunted house” and stops well short of the legal-definition of torture. Her body exhibited “defensive wounds.”. 32; 285 S.W.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2021

However, there are still some notable additions that raise more legal frights. See Pennsylvania General Assembly Statute §7102. McKamey insists that it is just a “crazy haunted house” and stops well short of the legal-definition of torture. OUTCOME: Reversed dismissal on the basis of tolling of statute of limitations.

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