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Who Escapes Texas? And Where Do They Go? Mandamus Petitioners and Transferee Courts in Patent Venue Disputes

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Gugliuzza, Temple University Beasley School of Law; Jonas Anderson, American University Washington College of Law; and Jason Rantanen, University of Iowa College of Law. Litigants shouldn’t get to choose the judge who decides their case. This is the second in a new series on venue transfer requests and mandamus at the Federal Circuit.

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Animal rights and the First Amendment, due process and a confession of error

SCOTUSBlog

Some older Supreme Court decisions support that theory of consent. Some courts read [Supreme Court precedent] as effectively foreclosing [this consent-by-registration theory of jurisdiction], while others insist it remains viable.”. Kelly further claims the circuits are divided on the issue, with a decision of the U.S.

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Guest Post: The Caselaw Access Project — Then, Now, Tomorrow

LawSites

We’d all been working for over a year on a contract that would make it possible, someday in the future, for everyone to have free and open access to all the official court decisions ever published in the United States. state and federal court decisions representing the bulk of our nation’s common law. This was not easy.

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They Called 911 for Help. Police and Prosecutors Used a New Junk Science to Decide They Were Liars.

The Crime Report

When agencies refused to turn over public records, ProPublica’s lawyers threatened litigation and in one case sued. In 2009, Harpster learned about a double homicide in Woodbury County, Iowa, from a television documentary. Thousands of emails, police reports and other documents led to a web of thousands more in new states.

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October 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. The New Jersey federal court concluded that private and public interests weighed in favor of transfer. and non-U.S. filed Sept.

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June 2021 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. She also was persuaded that Congress had ratified the lower appellate court decisions holding that there was a narrower scope of review.

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