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Plagiarism Police come for Winston & Strawn

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Winston Strawn Plagiarism Complaint Winston Strawn Plagiarism Attachments I recall being asked to draft my first patent infringement complaint back in early 2003 – a few months after graduating from law school. Over the past year courts have been asking attorneys to expressly indicate whether their source was an AI.

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Court Shuts Down WeWoreWhat, Bernstein’s Request for Sanctions in “Copycat” Print Case

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In a declaratory judgment action filed in October 2020 , WWW and Bernstein asked a New York federal court to formally declare that they did not run afoul of the indie intimates brand’s rights by using a lookalike “Silhouettes Design.” Fast forward to May 2021, and following a combination of the two cases before the U.S.

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In a first for climate nuisance claims, a Hawai‘i State Court allowed Honolulu to proceed with its case against fossil fuel companies

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The court described the case as “an unprecedented case for any court, let alone a state court trial judge,” but concluded that it was “still a tort case” and “based exclusively on state law causes of action,” primarily failures to disclose, failures to warn, and deceptive marketing. Chevron Corp.

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December 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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EPA asked the federal district court for the District of Columbia to dismiss as moot a lawsuit brought in 2018 by New York, other states, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. EPA’s rescission of the methane standards for new sources has been challenged in the D.C. New York v. New York v. Brouillette , No.

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Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts (IPRax) 2/2022: Abstracts

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The Kashef case currently before the federal courts in New York shows that human rights litigation against corporate defendants in the United States is alive and well. Reimann: Human Rights Litigation Beyond the Alien Tort Claims Act: The Crucial Role of the Act of State Doctrine. Unlike the Principles, however, Law No.

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Supreme Court to hear major case on power of federal agencies

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Solicitor General Paul Clement, as well as lawyers from the New Jersey public-interest firm Cause of Action. In the Supreme Court, the fisheries are represented by former U.S.

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July 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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The federal district court for the Western District of New York denied a motion to dismiss a lawsuit challenging a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) final rule establishing an optional new inspection system for hog slaughter establishments. City of New York v. Bernhardt , Nos. 21-4019, 21-4020 (10th Cir.

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