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GTLA Attorney’s Fees Provision Permitting Award Against Plaintiff Deemed Constitutional

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A provision of the GTLA allowing for the recovery of attorney’s fees by a governmental employee who was the prevailing party in a GTLA suit was constitutional and did not deprive plaintiff of her right to access the courts. M2020-01509-COA-R3-CV, 2022 WL 1040371 (Tenn. Reid filed a motion for attorney’s fees pursuant to Tenn.

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New York sues New Jersey over compact governing Port of New York and New Jersey

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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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TPPA Petition to Dismiss Could Not Be Filed After Plaintiff Took Voluntary Dismissal.

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Where plaintiff filed a notice of voluntary dismissal in his defamation case before defendants filed their petition to dismiss under the TPPA, the trial court erred by granting defendants’ petition for dismissal and awarding them attorneys’ fees and sanctions after plaintiff’s nonsuit. M2020-01651-COA-R3-CV, 2022 WL 17334223 (Tenn.

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How does the USPTO Decide the Discretionary Aspect of Institution?

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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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Wrong defendants in certificate of good faith caption should have resulted in dismissal.

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E2021-00881-COA-R9-CV, 2022 WL 1117453 (Tenn. April 14, 2022), plaintiff filed an HCLA claim against several defendants, including the State of Tennessee as the employer of Dr. Landry, who was allegedly negligent. In Gilbert v. State , No. Click on the link to see the book’s Table of Contents.

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

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Application of Singapore’s new rules on service out of jurisdiction: Three Arrows Capital and NW Corp The Rules of Court 2021 (‘ROC 2021’) entered into force on 1 April 2022. 5] Li Shengwu v Attorney-General [2019] 1 SLR 1081 (CA). 8] CLM v CLN [2022] 5 SLR 273; Bybit Fintech Ltd v Ho Kai Xin [2023] 5 SLR 1748. [9]

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No reasonable reliance on alleged misrepresentation where plaintiff could have read the contract which contradicted defendant’s statement.

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E2021-00261-COA-R3-CV, 2022 WL 678568 (Tenn. 8, 2022), plaintiff’s husband and step-son owned a commercial electrical contracting business. Plaintiff’s husband signed the indemnity agreement without reading it or having an attorney review it. Bradley , No. internal citation omitted). internal citation omitted).