LegalReader

APRIL 12, 2022

The statute of limitations is a rule that places (you guessed it) limits on plaintiffs who want to sue for personal injuries.

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LegalReader

MARCH 1, 2022

In Indiana, the statute of limitations gives claimants two years from the date of the accident to file for personal injury claims.

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LegalReader

AUGUST 15, 2022

The statute of limitations prevents people from suing after a certain amount of time has passed.

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At the Lectern

JANUARY 30, 2023

Brand , the Supreme Court today holds that defendants who defeat lawsuits against them under California’s Political Reform Act of 1974 can recover attorney fees only if the superior court “ ‘finds the action was objectively without foundation when brought, or the plaintiff continued to litigate after it clearly became so.’

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Paralegal-Edu.Org

APRIL 26, 2024

In the intricate scene of the legal sphere, attorneys are the ones who mostly grab all the attention due to famous trials and their outcomes, TV shows, movies, and let’s face it, their income. Yet, behind every successful attorney stands a diligent and indispensable ally: the paralegal.

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Patently O

JANUARY 24, 2022

Thus, according to Chief Justice Roberts, randomization that severs litigants from federal judges in their communities presents a conflict of values that the judiciary must resolve. WSOU] has only two employees who work from Waco, one of whom is its in-house attorney responsible for litigation.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

AUGUST 5, 2021

Know the Statute of Limitations Period. The statute of limitations is a time limit on a particular cause of action. If the law firm accepted the case before the statute of limitations period expired, it could result in a finding of legal malpractice. Know the Litigation Process. initial intake).

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Attorney at Work

AUGUST 25, 2021

Here’s good news: There are now a variety of cutting-edge cloud-based tools available for litigators, ranging from software designed to streamline the pre-trial process to mobile apps created for use in the courtroom. This is because deadlines are an inescapable part of your practice if you’re a litigator.

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JURIST

JANUARY 3, 2024

The law creates a misdemeanor offense for violation of the statute and a felony crime for multiple offenses. Addressing the lawsuit, Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta stated : SB 4 is clearly unconstitutional. This is not the only litigation involving Texas and the federal government over immigration.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JULY 28, 2022

In my office, we have had several cases we had to give to contract attorneys because of conflicts with co-defendants. In my office, we have had several cases we had to give to contract attorneys because of conflicts with co-defendants. I struggle with clients that yell – especially when your attorney doesn’t get back to them.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

APRIL 27, 2023

She’s a litigation paralegal at Heygood, Orr & Pearson (no relation to me). She was a personal injury attorney and they were looking for a receptionist for their small law firm. And so I met with this attorney who then asked me to come in and interview to fill that position to be the receptionist and do clerical work.

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LegalReader

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The lawsuit alleges that Facebook--now known as Meta--violates securities statutes by allegedly misleading investors about the negative mental health effects of its product.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JUNE 1, 2023

The attorney I worked for, and his paralegal, took me under their wings and exposed me to the wonderful world of Plaintiff’s work. When I had several cases in litigation, I was detached at home most days and I had to make a change. It opened the door to a hallway of opportunities and my paralegal career began.

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LegalReader

JULY 20, 2022

If your truck accident resulted in you being put into a coma, you can sue when you wake up. This is true even if your coma lasts for more than three years.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JULY 25, 2022

This includes the processes used to identify the laws and documents that apply to the facts of a specific case, including statutes, regulations, and court opinions. Paralegals can meet a client, draft statements, fact-check details, and essentially assist the attorney with whatever needs to be done.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

As high-profile police killings persist, many victims have turned to private litigation as a path to justice. But civil remedies against individual officers are inadequate to address police misconduct, argues civil rights attorney Jennifer Hickey of the Emory University School of Law.

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Day on Torts

APRIL 15, 2022

Reid filed a motion for attorney’s fees pursuant to Tenn. Plaintiff argued that the statute did not apply to Ms. Reid and that the statute was unconstitutional, but the trial court ultimately granted the motion for attorney’s fees. This appeal followed, and the award of attorney’s fees for Ms. . § Code Ann. §

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 30, 2021

The function and context of the statute also featured strongly in the arguments. Michel responded that the structure of the statute suggested that the thing being extended was the statute’s temporary exemption — supporting both a continuity meaning and the conclusion that Congress intended increasing levels of compliance over time.

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The IP Law Blog

MAY 7, 2021

Nugent), the District Court denied defendant’s motion for attorney fees under 35 U.S.C. § 285, determining plaintiff’s litigation positions were not baseless even after a granting of summary judgment of noninfringement that “was not a close call.” . Under the Federal Circuit’s holding in Octane Fitness, LLC v. ” .

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At the Lectern

APRIL 9, 2024

But, separately, it also says that death penalty statutes in effect in 1972 “shall not be deemed to be, or to constitute, the infliction of cruel or unusual punishments. ” The respondent — California Attorney General Rob Bonta — has 10 days to submit an optional preliminary opposition to the petition.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The question that the justices will consider in Reed’s case is when the statute of limitations to pursue a federal civil rights claim begins to run. Or is it when, as Reed argues, all of the state-court litigation denying DNA testing, including any appeals, have run their course?

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Paralegal Bootcamp

MAY 4, 2023

But isn’t it more overwhelming to have opposing counsel or your attorney ask you for information that you know is only in an email… somewhere? 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.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MARCH 21, 2022

Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit erred in denying the Kentucky attorney general’s motion to intervene on the commonwealth’s behalf in litigation concerning Kentucky House Bill 454, the state’s controversial abortion law. EMW agreed to dismiss claims against the attorney general without prejudice. S. _ (2022), the U.S.

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Day on Torts

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The trial court also found that “the TPPA requires an award of attorney’s fees when an action is dismissed under that chapter” and it asked the prevailing parties’ attorneys to submit fee affidavits within fifteen days of the entry of the dismissal order. Plaintiff appealed the TPPA dismissal from that June 24 th order.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 2, 2022

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. City of Oakland, California v. Oakland Raiders.

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LegalReader

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Gathering records and proof of your injury is a crucial step in ensuring you do not miss the filing deadline for personal injury lawsuits in New Jersey.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

AUGUST 11, 2022

If you’re in litigation, you’ve been hearing about and working with legal AI in your eDiscovery technology tools for years. There are still plenty of litigation paralegal jobs out there, especially if you’re one of the paralegals who has embraced technology instead of fighting against it. And so on and so on.

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Patently O

MAY 3, 2021

Although Tormasi began the prosecution pro se, he later worked with John Kane, a Trenton-based patent attorney, to push through to issuance. New Jersey has a statute on point: “Every person who has reached the age of majority. I would add a fourth question focusing on the particular patent statute: 35 U.S.C. §?281

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CARET Legal

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Leave missed deadlines and forgotten tasks behind with CARET Legal Workflows Routine Tasks Perfect for Automation Every attorney at every law firm has a set of repetitive activities they execute on a daily/weekly basis. Family Law Firms: Divorce In family law firms , handling a client’s divorce is a common attorney task.

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Intelligize Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The ruling led some experts to label Sarbanes-Oxley “…one of the most employee-friendly whistleblower-protection statutes in the nation.” Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York is seeking to bring even more whistleblowers out of the woodwork in the nation’s hotbed of white-collar litigation.

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 6, 2023

It is unsurprising then that Princess sought to defend the proceedings at a preliminary stage through litigation over where to litigate. The decision is significant not just for the litigants. The Attorney-General of the Commonwealth and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission intervened.

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Patently O

JANUARY 9, 2024

Although the statute includes a “by others” caveat, the clause’s grammar suggests that qualification only applies to prior art created by being “known or used” and does not apply to printed publications. ” Still, we’ll be litigating lots of pre-AIA cases the next decade. 35 U.S.C. §

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Day on Torts

MARCH 11, 2022

When the brother was admitted, plaintiff filled out admission paperwork, including an arbitration agreement, as plaintiff had a durable power of attorney for healthcare executed by the brother and naming plaintiff as the attorney-in-fact. In Welch v. National Health Corp. , 3d 876 (Tenn.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

This case presents whether a resident deprived of those rights can sue a publicly owned and operated nursing home under Section 1983, which provides a cause of action against government actors who deprive anyone of rights secured by the “laws” of the United States, meaning other federal statutes, including spending clause enactments.

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Patently O

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Proper venue is rarely a big deal these days in Federal Litigation. Congress amended the venue statutes so that, in most cases, venue rises and falls with personal jurisdiction. In the late 1800s Congress created a special venue statute for patent cases that has stuck despite changes in the general law.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2023

Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit and reject a ruling observers said would gut the government’s primary anti-fraud statute. The justices and the litigants devoted substantial time discussing when a party’s decision to adopt an objectively reasonable, but incorrect, interpretation would satisfy the FCA’s knowledge requirement.

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Patently O

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Stark reversed the TTAB’s cancellation order, finding the statute only permits cancellation for fraudulent acts taken while obtaining the registration , not for establishing incontestability. The dispute here involves two adjacent provisions of the Federal Trademark statute known as the Lanham Act of 1946 (as amended).

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