At the Lectern

JULY 26, 2021

Tri-Modal Distribution Services , the Supreme Court today interprets the statute of limitations for employment harassment cases to give certain plaintiffs more leeway to bring their lawsuits, and it protects many unsuccessful plaintiffs from paying defendants’ appellate costs.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2023

See Pennsylvania General Assembly Statute §7102. OUTCOME: Reversed dismissal on the basis of tolling of statute of limitations. The retailer filed a motion for partial summary judgment as to plaintiffs’ cause of action for failure to warn. If they are found 51 percent at fault, they are barred entirely from recovery.

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Day on Torts

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The trial court dismissed the action, finding that the settlement of the personal injury case “very clearly intended to foreclose upon any future wrongful death funds related to the mesothelioma litigation,” and the Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal. Decedent himself ultimately accepted a settlement in lieu of further litigation.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

United States is next in a protracted line of cases in which the court has considered whether statutory bars to causes of action are firm “jurisdictional” rules or instead more forgiving claims-processing rules. First, modern cases like Boechler require a clear statement for a statute of limitations to operate as jurisdictional.

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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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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2022

See Pennsylvania General Assembly Statute §7102. OUTCOME: Reversed dismissal on the basis of tolling of statute of limitations. The retailer filed a motion for partial summary judgment as to plaintiffs’ cause of action for failure to warn. If they are found 51 percent at fault, they are barred entirely from recovery.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2023

Both Reed and Texas agree, Kavanaugh observed, that the statute of limitations for his claim is two years. The question before the Supreme Court is when the clock on that two-year statute of limitations began to run. He conceded that there is “room for debate about exactly when Reed’s DNA testing claim accrued.”

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 2, 2022

and global climate litigation movement. 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. climate litigation brought by cities and other subnational jurisdictions is still rare.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 16, 2024

Justice John Paul Stevens set out a two-part test for courts to review an agency’s interpretation of a statute it administers. If it has not, the court must uphold the agency’s interpretation of the statute as long as it is reasonable. In the Supreme Court, the fisheries are represented by former U.S.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2021

See Pennsylvania General Assembly Statute §7102. OUTCOME: Reversed dismissal on the basis of tolling of statute of limitations. The retailer filed a motion for partial summary judgment as to plaintiffs’ cause of action for failure to warn. If they are found 51 percent at fault, they are barred entirely from recovery.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 8, 2023

Section 1983 provides a cause of action against any person acting under color of state law who deprives a person of “rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws” of the United States. The sine qua non is incompatibility between Section 1983 enforcement and any enforcement scheme in the statute.

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Day on Torts

APRIL 15, 2022

Plaintiff argued that the statute did not apply to Ms. Reid and that the statute was unconstitutional, but the trial court ultimately granted the motion for attorney’s fees. Plaintiff argued that the statute was not applicable here, as Ms. Next, plaintiff attacked the constitutionality of the statute. Code Ann. §

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 2, 2022

To create the compact, each state passed statutes and, as New York’s bill of complaint indicates is a constitutional requirement for interstate compacts, Congress consented as well. However, in 2018, New Jersey passed a statute to withdraw from the compact, and on Dec. However, the U.S. Disclosure : Goldstein & Russell, P.C.,

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 15, 2023

The majority found that Congress had not written anything into the board’s founding statute that “deprived the board of sovereign immunity.” Kagan’s treatment of the abrogation question – whether PROMESA’s abrogation of immunity is “unmistakably clear in the language of the statute” – is straightforward.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

The private international law issue was whether the Gombe State High Court had territorial jurisdiction in this case, rather than the Kano State High Court where the defendant/appellant alleged the cause of action arose? The issue of where the cause of action arose was clearly irrelevant.

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The Fashion Law

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

In the answer that it filed on November 13, Condé Nast argues – by way of seventeen affirmative defenses – that the model plaintiffs’ remaining causes of action against it should be dismissed.

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Fordham Law News

OCTOBER 2, 2023

14] The new law creates a private cause of action for covered individuals to invalidate a non-compete. [15] 15] The cause of action has a two-year statute of limitations and affected individuals may be awarded an injunction against the employer and payment of damages including lost wages and attorneys’ fees. [16]

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The IP Law Blog

JUNE 10, 2021

New York’s post mortem right-of-publicity statute recently came into effect. Because the statute addressed privacy concerns that dissipated at death, such rights did not extend post mortem. News, public affairs, and sports programs are also exempt from the statute. written consent” can sue for an injunction and damages.

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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. The jurisdiction and applicable law in the specific case of Bonga spill litigation have been closely followed inter alia by Geert van Calster here.

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JayS.Rothman&Associates

MAY 17, 2023

The court found that this fell within Title VII’s bar on discrimination, holding: “The reason is simple: where an employee is subjected to adverse action because an employer disapproves of interracial association, the employee suffers discrimination because of the employee’s own race.” 12112(b)(4). because he has made a charge.”

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Patently O

MARCH 21, 2021

There are two different statutes regarding Federal Court exclusive jurisdiction over patent cases. 1338(a) provides Federal district courts with “original jurisdiction of any civil action arising under any Act of Congress relating to patents.” by Dennis Crouch. ” Id. ” 28 U.S.C. See, for example, Gunn v.

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 28, 2023

It is cross-posted at Transnational Litigation Blog. Supreme Court yesterday upheld the constitutionality of Pennsylvania’s corporate registration statute, even though it requires out-of-state corporations registering to do business within the state to consent to all-purpose (general) personal jurisdiction.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 17, 2023

This week, we highlight cert petitions that ask the court to consider, among other things, at what stage of litigation the ministerial exception should come into play. Gregory Tucker was a science teacher at Faith Christian Academy, a religious school operated by the nondenominational Faith Bible Chapel in Arvada, Colorado.

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Patently O

MARCH 25, 2021

2017) refocused attention on a required nexus between the the defendant’s contacts with the forum state and the cause of action. The decision suggested to many that defendant’s connections should have a causal-link with the cause of action. ” Quoting Reiter (1979). The “or” has meaning.

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Patently O

OCTOBER 11, 2021

706 authorizing actions to compel agency to stop any behavior that is “arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, or otherwise not in accordance with law.” Constitution to require that the plaintiff identify some concrete harm caused by the defendant’s action (or inaction). That case is now on appeal.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 16, 2022

Her heirs have been litigating for more than 15 years over rights to the painting, an Impressionist masterpiece once thought to be lost. In support of this argument, the museum points to both the text of the statute and the circumstances of its enactment: Congress removed foreign states from ordinary diversity jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 31, 2021

However, the defendant/appellant challenged the jurisdiction of the Kastina State High Court to hear the case on the basis that the contract in issue was concluded in Yobe State, where it claimed the cause of action arose, which it argued was outside the jurisdiction of Kastina State. This is a discussion for another day. [1]

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 9, 2021

Share This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, the viability of certain types of disability-based claims under three federal statutes. One petition involves the Americans with Disabilities Act. Another involves the interaction of the Affordable Care Act and the Rehabilitation Act.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 25, 2022

Calling the 9th Circuit’s decision an extension of Miranda into Section 1983 litigation, Martinez characterized the court’s landmark decision as a judicially crafted prophylactic Fifth Amendment “protective fence” that does not create a Section 1983 cause of action for money damages. Thomas asked, “what does that mean?

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 25, 2024

4] As Three Arrows illustrates though, old habits die hard and the limits of the ‘non-exhaustive’ nature of the jurisdictional gateways remains to be tested by litigants. 2] For step (a), the previous Order 11 gateways have been transcribed as a non-exhaustive list of factors. [3]

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The issue before the Supreme Court is whether the complaint makes out a cause of action under Employee Retirement Income Security Act, which obligates the fiduciaries of such plans to comply with a duty of prudence drawn directly from the common law of fiduciary duty. You have to prove it, but [the allegations are] plausible.”.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 23, 2018

Climate change nuisance litigation is entering a new and dynamic phase. 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. By Michael Burger.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 1, 2021

20-219 , asks whether the compensatory damages available under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act and the statutes that incorporate its remedies, such as the Rehabilitation Act and the Affordable Care Act , include compensation for emotional distress. In government-facing litigation, the government’s petition in Becerra v. Cummings v.

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Day on Torts

JANUARY 11, 2021

Anyone litigating a case where the Public Duty Doctrine might be an issue would be wise to read this opinion and be aware of the multiple other cases it cites. internal citation omitted). Plaintiff alleged that both the first and third special relationship exceptions to the Public Duty Doctrine applied.

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Conflict of Laws

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Congress clearly intended its cause of action for trafficking in confiscated property to discourage non-U.S. courts apply a presumption against extraterritoriality to limit the reach of federal statutes. At issue in Abitron was the federal trademark statute , which prohibits use of a U.S. companies from investing in Cuba.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 10, 2022

Given the power of Big Tech Companies, their enormous financial resources, cross-jurisdictional reach and their global impact on users’ privacy, there are two main litigation challenges for successfully bringing a privacy claim against Big Tech. 3] Secondly, the challenge is how to finance mass claims, involving millions of affected users.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 19, 2022

And Section 1983 provides a cause of action against state officials who deprive any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws. Dickerson put the kibosh on an unconstitutional federal statute that, effectively, sought to overrule Miranda. 4) Proximate cause says what? 3) Goodbye, Miranda ?

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