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No cause of action against employers for take-home COVID

At the Lectern

In other words, there’s no legal exposure for employee family member virus exposure. ” “[E]xclusivity provisions bar a third party claim only when proof of an employee’s injury is required as an element of the cause of action,” the court says.

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Specific Performance of Contract : Enforcing Contractual Rights

LexForti

In this post, understand how Specific Performance of Contract can protect your contractual rights in India. This comprehensive guide unravels the complexities of Specific Performance and its role in the enforcement of contracts. Is there a way to enforce the original terms of the contract? ’ What is Specific Performance?

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Legal Tech Startup Ai.law Can Now Draft the Complaint for Your Lawsuit

LawSites

Ai.law , a legal technology startup that uses artificial intelligence to generate litigation documents, has added a new module that will draft the complaint to initiate a lawsuit. Describe a fact scenario and Ai.law can help identify legal claims. Users in state courts will have to customize the formatting to fit local requirements.

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Akin Gump Loses Bid To Dismiss Legal Tech Company’s Counterclaims In Suit Over Ownership Of Bill-Drafting Software

LawSites

The law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has lost its bid to dismiss four of five counterclaims filed by the legal technology company Xcential Legislative Technologies in a lawsuit over ownership rights to legislation-drafting software that each side says was its idea. In a ruling issued Feb.

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Lawsuit By Former Legal Tech Exec Says She is Owed Over $1M In Stock and Was Sexually Harassed

LawSites

In a lawsuit filed this week in federal court in Manhattan, the former chief operating office of a legal technology company claims she was fired after attempting to exercise stock options valued at over $1 million. I emailed Dwayne Hermes asking if he wished to respond but I have not heard back from him.

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Court rules against plaintiff seeking emotional distress damages for discrimination

SCOTUSBlog

Jane Cummings, who is deaf and legally blind, sued Premier Rehab (a Texas rehabilitation facility that receives federal funding) for discriminating based on disability in violation of the Rehabilitation Act and the Affordable Care Act. In Thursday’s ruling in Cummings v.

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Relevance of Indian Limitation Law vis-à-vis Foreign-seated International Arbitration With Indian Law As The Applicable Substantive Law

Conflict of Laws

This post is prompted by a recent decision of the Delhi High Court (“DHC”) in Extramarks Education India v Shri Ram School (“ Extramarks case”), which although on domestic arbitration, makes various obiter observations on the nature of limitation and flexibility of parties to contract out of the same. One such issue is limitation.

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