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Dismissal of Defamation and False Light Claim under Tennessee Public Participation Act partially reversed.

Day on Torts

M2021-00878-COA-R3-CV, 2022 WL 4490980 (Tenn. 28, 2022), plaintiff was a real estate professional involved in some capacity with Durham Farms, which was a large residential community. Having found that the TPPA applied, the Court moved on to considering whether plaintiff had shown a prima facie case for each element of his two claims.

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Proper analysis for petition to dismiss under Tennessee Public Participation Act (TPPA).

Day on Torts

E2021-01513-COA-R3-CV, 2022 WL 16559447 (Tenn. 1, 2022), plaintiffs filed suit against defendant construction company related to defendant’s construction of plaintiffs’ residential home, and defendant filed a counterclaim, which was the claim at issue in this appeal. In Reiss v. Rock Creek Construction, Inc. , quoting Tenn.

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Federal Circuit Continues to Apply Strict Obviousness-Type Double Patenting Analysis

Patently O

2022-1896 (Fed. This case provides additional insight into the doctrine of obviousness-type double patenting and the ongoing high bar set by the Federal Circuit for overcoming such rejections. What we have here is a gap in the scope of prior art within the statute associated with the patentee’s own pre-filing activities.

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Supreme Court will hear challenges to PUC water rate decisions

At the Lectern

” The dissent asserted the defendant had made a prima facie case of, and was thus entitled to a hearing on, racial discrimination in charging Black defendants with felony-murder special circumstance penalty enhancements in Orange County. Tirado (2022) 12 Cal.5th The court declined to hear People v.

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Supreme Court will resolve conflict about co-tenancy leasing requirements (and about punctuation?)

At the Lectern

Burgos and limited briefing to: “Does the provision of Penal Code section 1109 governing the bifurcation at trial of gang enhancements from the substantive offense or offenses apply retroactively to cases that are not yet final?” Tran (2022) 13 Cal.5th Tran (2022) 13 Cal.5th Superior Court (2000) 80 Cal.App.4th

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New rules on service outside Australia for the Federal Court of Australia

Conflict of Laws

The Federal Court Legislation Amendment Rules 2022 (Cth) (‘Amendment Rules’) came into force on 13 January 2023. Leave to serve turned on three conditions: the court had subject matter jurisdiction, the claim was of a kind mentioned in the rules, and the party had a prima facie case for any or all of the relief claimed: FCR r 10.43(4).

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Denial of Natural Justice as a Defence to Enforcement of a Chinese Judgment in Australia

Conflict of Laws

On 22 October 2021, summary judgment was entered in favour of Wu by an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court: Wu v Yin (Supreme Court of Victoria, Efthrim AsJ, 22 October 2021); see Wu v Yin [2022] VSC 729, [5]. Tsalamandris J rejected this ground, and Yin’s appeal: [2022] VSC 729, [124], [133].