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Iowa governor seeks to reinstate six-week abortion ban

JURIST

Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds Tuesday announced her administration would seek to reinstate a 2018 state law prohibiting abortion after six weeks, when embryonic cardiac activity is detected. The law was blocked by a state judge back in 2019 for violating the Iowa Constitution, but Reynolds’ administration is hoping that the recent Dobbs v.

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Opioid manufacturer Teva Pharmaceuticals announces $4.35B settlement with state, local governments

JURIST

One example of such a case is the one brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James against Teva. State and local governments with lawsuits against Teva—excluding New York, which is pursuing separate litigation—are all potentially party to the settlement Teva announced Tuesday. In the settlement, Teva agreed to pay $4.25

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Law School Canons: You can’t always “have it your way!”

Patently O

Editor’s Note: Avery Welker is a rising 2L at Mizzou and likely a future patent attorney. ISE is an Iowa LLC with its principal place of business in Coralville, Iowa (in the Northern District of Iowa). and litigating patents away from D.C. By Avery Welker. Trimble, Inc. Trimble Inc. , Trimble Inc. ,

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8th Circ. Tyson Case Could Streamline COVID-19 Suits

Law 360

mishandled a COVID-19 outbreak at an Iowa plant could set a legal precedent that would streamline injury litigation over coronavirus exposures and deaths, attorneys say. A jurisdictional issue to be decided by the Eighth Circuit in a suit alleging Tyson Foods Inc.

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What Does It Mean if a Truck Driver Was Negligent in Iowa?

LegalReader

There are various types of compensation that the victim can collect.

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What do you call it? For almost two-thirds of you, it’s the “specification”

Patently O

” (with the caveat that examiners and litigators are a smaller n). Here’s the overall distribution of respondents: Patent attorney: 68%. Litigator: 10%. Thanks to the University of Iowa College of Law law library for pulling the definition from the 1957 edition of Webster’s for me. Patent agent: 11%.

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WILL STARBUCKS GET ROASTED HERE?

NewmanFerraraLLP

Will Starbucks wake up and smell the coffee? # # # SOURCE Brownell v Starbucks Coffee Company (Class Action Complaint).