LawSites

MAY 4, 2023

Today, LexisNexis is announcing the launch of Lexis+ AI , a new product that uses large language models (LLMs), including GPT-4, to answer legal research questions, summarize legal issues, and generate drafts of documents such as demand letters or client emails. and the U.S., said during a preview yesterday for members of the media.

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Paralegal-Edu.Org

APRIL 26, 2024

They may be involved in the research of case laws, statutes, or regulatory provisions and thereby display their proficiency in mining large legal repositories to dig out precedents, relevant statutes, and other important information.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 24, 2023

Kavanaugh noted that Congress defined the offenses in the immigration statute more broadly than the federal statute criminalizing obstruction of justice when it included the phrase “relating to” in the statute. Such “redundancies are common in statutory drafting,” Kavanaugh wrote. citizen].”

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 10, 2021

“Supreme Court Allows Challenge to Texas Abortion Law but Leaves It in Effect; The law, which bans most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, was drafted to evade review in federal court and has been in effect since September”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report. ” David G. .”

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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.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JULY 28, 2022

At any time during this process, your attorney may have you draft the document(s) or perform some research. Drafting these documents is a great learning ground for motion practice and writing. One more thing I would say is key for the Criminal Law Paralegal (and all litigation paralegals!) Knowing the Rules of Evidence.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MAY 21, 2024

To demand “significance” is to add words—and significant words, as it were—to the statute Congress enacted. In doing so, the Court expressed doubt about the City’s prediction that employees will flood courts with litigation in the absence of a significant-injury requirement.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 18, 2021

One ground was a law known as the “ federal officer removal statute ,” which allows the removal to federal court of lawsuits filed in state court against “any officer (or any person acting under that officer) of the United States or of any agency thereof, in an official or individual capacity, for or relating to any act under color of such office.”

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Texas was another instance of a common jurisprudential problem for the justices: how should a modern court, largely devoted to textualism in its statutory interpretation, deal with cases about Native American tribes, which traditionally have depended on historical and contextual understandings only weakly linked to the text of the statute.

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ALPS

APRIL 15, 2021

While taking the correct initial steps once a claim arises is important, your actions prior to becoming aware of the claim will very likely have a greater impact on the manageability of favorably resolving or litigating the matter. Do not wait until three months before the statute of limitations runs to request medical records.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

MAY 4, 2023

When I used to practice solely personal injury , I created folders for the cases that were in active litigation and then a sub-folder with the case name. Personal Injury Paralegal Boot Camp As a personal injury paralegal, you have an important role in the pre-litigation phase of your claim files. LEARN MORE 3.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 29, 2023

Photo by Mathias Reding on Unsplash Climate change litigation has finally reached the world’s highest court. Vanuatu published the first draft of the resolution in late 2022. The draft was then altered through a series of consultations with UN delegates in the following months. The UNGA adopted resolution (A/77/L.58)

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Statute has left little of the common law untouched. US customers also waived their rights to litigate in representative proceedings against Carnival (the ‘class action waiver’) ( PJ, [27] ). First, a statute may impose a choice of law rule directing the application of the lex fori where a connecting factor is established.

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 14, 2022

Esai’s proposed reading of the statute would “yield absurd results,” as the Regulatory Review Period, and therefore the appropriate extension, could not be calculated. The crux of FDA’s point was that “Like the PTO, FDA concludes. Plain language, FDA explained, “evinces clear intent that it applies only to drugs scheduled after enactment.”

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 10, 2022

Several important developments relating to Membership and HCCH Conventions occurred during the meeting: El Salvador deposited its instrument of acceptance of the Statute, becoming the 91 st Member of the HCCH. More information is available here. More information is available here. Publications and Documentation.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 23, 2022

Even Justice Clarence Thomas led off the questioning by noting that Arizona’s position that the statute governs would render Martinez “pretty worthless.”. In my oral argument recap , I discussed how several of the conservative justices seemed genuinely to struggle with that question.

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Hoban Law Group

APRIL 13, 2021

Have it prepared by a qualified tax professional who is knowledgeable in cannabis taxation, who is keenly aware of the requirements of a properly drafted claim, who understands and has litigated numerous times the principles of “variance” and the applicable statutes of limitations as they apply to these kinds of claims, and who is fully familiar with (..)

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 17, 2023

After years of litigation and negotiation, the Nation prevailed in the U.S. They argue that the jurisdictional threshold under the APA is less demanding than statutes allowing for money damages. Federal statutes, treaties, and interstate compacts form additional portions of the Law of the River.

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LexForti

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

All the above laws and statutes were not according to the prevailing Indian System. The application of the international convention was justified because no Indian law or statute was governing maritime claims. As a result, post-Independence, the government enacted new rules and ordinances to improve existing coastal trading practices.

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FDA Law Blog

APRIL 30, 2023

And, as originally drafted, it was narrowly intended to prevent the citizen petition process from being used to delay the approval of ANDAs, 505(b)(2) applications, and aBLAs. 110-85 (2007), as amended by Section 301 of Pub. 110-316 (2008) and by Section 1135 of the FDA Safety and Innovation Act (“FDASIA”), Pub. 112-144 (2012).

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LawTechnologyToday

MARCH 3, 2023

Much like a good litigator, it was able to take either position on an issue and put together coherent arguments for that position. It was also completely unable to answer any legal questions that related to a particular statute or citation and was generally unable to grasp the substance of the underlying issue.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 27, 2022

Animal Legal Defense Fund , involving the constitutionality of a Kansas statute criminalizing trespass by deception at animal facilities with intent to damage the enterprise. Goertz , involving the question of what statute of limitations state prisoners face when raising claims seeking DNA testing of crime-scene evidence.

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Attorney at Work

JULY 22, 2021

Jackie Schafer: I started out as a litigator at Paul Weiss, but spent most of my career in public service as an assistant attorney general, where I was regularly briefing and arguing cases before the state appellate courts in Alaska and Washington state. That amount of help for a small firm dealing with massive litigation is so important.

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LexForti

AUGUST 9, 2021

There are various types of third-party funding in international arbitration, such as litigation funding, success based legal fee arrangement, loan agreements, insurance policy, etc. TPF helps cover the cost of litigation, especially in arbitration proceedings where disputes involve monetary amounts in generous quantities.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 6, 2024

We would also like to thank Professor Beligh Elbalti for his critical comments on the draft blogpost. The High Court and Court of Appeal were wrong for extending the spirit of the beyond its application as that was not the appropriate statute that was applicable to the instant case.’ That procedure was not immediately apparent.

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Conflict of Laws

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Not surprisingly, due weight was given to Switzerland and Belgium, as the former is considered to have a model legislation on the discipline and the latter has the “youngest” statute of continental Europe. The opposite path has led to the drafting of the French project, which stems directly from an initiative of the Ministry of Justice.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 30, 2023

A Critical Overview of the Hague Preliminary Draft on Judgments”, Yearbook of Private International Law 17 (2015/2016), pp 1-31 Bonomi, Andrea; Mariottini, Cristina M. Breaking) News From The Hague: A Game Changer in International Litigation? 11 of August 2000 (available here ), pp 19-128 II. “A 2019-02, pp 1-35 Brand, Ronald A.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 16, 2021

The meaning of these distinctions is at the core of the current litigation over the 2020 CARES Act. They further claim that subsequent statutes, federal agencies and appeals court decisions have all already recognized the corporations as entities eligible for federal contracting under the ISDA.

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 28, 2021

It offers insights into best drafting practices for choice-of-court clauses. It concluded that the case should have been dismissed because the parties had previously agreed in their choice-of-court clause to litigate all disputes in the United States. The first has to do with contract drafting. Afghanistan Ltd, No. 350393 (Mich.

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LawSites

AUGUST 15, 2023

It examines the discovery, exhibits, pleadings and other documents in a case and automatically finds and displays citations to the source documents that provide the factual support, as well as case law, statutes and regulations. They can just click and they can see and verify every single page and every single document.”

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SimplyLawJobs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

I pack my white books in my suitcase if it’s a civil litigation day, along with my folder of casework. Depending on what is required I may use the library to print off work or to check a case or statute, or anything that might be relevant to the class. Civil litigation class lasts 2 hours.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2021

They agreed to hear both cases before the court of appeals has fully weighed in, and they ordered an accelerated schedule for briefing and arguments not seen since the 2000 election litigation in Bush v. District Judge Robert Pitman to put the law on hold while its challenge was litigated. Four lawyers will argue on Monday.

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

13 year of litigation involving 1 golf head patent. Indefiniteness : The statute requires “one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor regards as the invention.” Saso sued Nike for patent infringement back in 2008. ” 35 U.S.C.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 14, 2024

No federal statutes explicitly preempt state Climate Superfund laws, and different U.S. It is of note that the precedent concerns common law claims and courts may approach state statutes differently. courts have reached different conclusions about whether states can impose liability for global GHG emissions.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Rather than handle the request on the so-called shadow docket , Fletcher also suggested in his filing that the justices could treat the request as a petition for review, schedule full briefing and oral argument, and resolve the merits of the case without waiting for the litigation to conclude in the lower courts. The Texas law, known as S.B.

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 4, 2023

A Critical Overview of the Hague Preliminary Draft on Judgments”, Yearbook of Private International Law 17 (2015/2016), pp 1-31 Bonomi, Andrea; Mariottini, Cristina M. Breaking) News From The Hague: A Game Changer in International Litigation? 11 of August 2000 (available here ), pp 19-128 II. “A 2019-02, pp 1-35 Brand, Ronald A.

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Patently O

APRIL 27, 2023

Such claims have been subject to much debate and litigation throughout the history of the US patent system. 1 (1946) significantly impacted patent practice and the balance between functional and structural claim drafting. Notable Supreme Court cases like O’Reilly v. Morse , 56 U.S. (15 Walker , 329 U.S.

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