JURIST

MARCH 7, 2024

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed a bill into law Wednesday night shielding in vitro fertilization (IVF) providers from legal liability, moments after it was passed by the legislature. The new law protects IVF providers from some civil lawsuits and criminal prosecutions.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 9, 2021

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday has temporarily reinstated Texas’ six-week abortion ban after a lower court had blocked the law just two days earlier. The controversial law was blocked by Judge Robert Pitman on Wednesday after a complaint was filed by the Department of Justice (DOJ). Our patients deserve better.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Wednesday reversed a ruling holding that the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) preempts state law causes of action against Google for collecting data from children’s online behavior. Circuit Judge M. Margaret McKeown authored the three-judge panel decision.

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JURIST

AUGUST 16, 2023

To successfully plead this cause of action, a plaintiff must demonstrate that (1) they were similarly situated in material respects to other individuals against whom the law was not enforced and (2) the selective enforcement infringed on a constitutional right.

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Mondaq

MAY 18, 2022

Discusses the current state of privacy law. What would a tort of privacy look like? Implications for medical practitioners.

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Law 360

MARCH 27, 2024

Two Native American tribes urged a Washington federal court to remand their consolidated case against ExxonMobil, BP, Shell, Chevron, ConocoPhillips and Phillips 66 back to state court, arguing they've only asserted state-law causes of action.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 25, 2022

Christopher Garvey, an overseas employee of US-based corporation Morgan Stanley, brought the case against the US Department of Labor Administrative Review Board (ARB) after he witnessed Morgan Stanley employees committing potential US securities law violations.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 7, 2021

In a statement, Attorney General Merrick Garland called the Texas law “clearly unconstitutional.” He especially noted Texas citizens would face “fundamental and immediate threats” of irreparable harm if the law is allowed to stand.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Issues relating to succession and administration of estate of a deceased person raise significant issues in Nigerian private international law (or conflict of laws), whether a person dies testate or intestate. The claimants/respondents brought an action against the defendant/appellant before the Gombe State High Court.

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JURIST

MAY 26, 2023

McMaster responded to the judge’s ruling, writing, “We will continue fighting to protect the lives of the unborn in South Carolina and the constitutional law that protects them. The lawsuit lists 17 causes of action in favor of enjoining the ban. I hope that the Supreme Court will take this matter up without delay.”

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 13, 2023

The determination of the law applicable to limitation is a complex exercise. The aim of this post is to explore how would Indian substantive law of the contract impact limitation period and party autonomy, especially in the context of contracting out of limitation in a foreign-seated international arbitration.

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JURIST

APRIL 9, 2023

Judge Jeffrey Crabtree ruled that the plaintiffs in the case alleged a viable cause of action against the department. ” The court ruled that this law requires “timely planning and action, not meaningless or purely aspirational goals.”

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JURIST

JANUARY 4, 2023

US Judge Edward Chen for the US District Court for the Northern District of California ruled that Al-Ahmed’s amended complaint’s causes of action were time-barred and improperly pled. Chen also ruled that the Communications Decency Act (CDA) gave Twitter immunity from Al-Ahmed’s federal claims.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Following a three-year investigation, California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) sued Tesla Motors and fifty representatives Thursday, alleging its work environment violated the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) and other laws with regard to Black employees.

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LegalReader

DECEMBER 17, 2020

But because personal injury law encompasses so many situations and causes of action, there is no set number. Personal injury lawsuits are intended to compensate those who are injured in accidents through no fault of their own.

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Mondaq

AUGUST 29, 2022

The plea is a "dilatory" plea that is typically used to defeat a plaintiff's cause of action without regard to whether the claims have any merit. A plea to the jurisdiction challenges the trial court's power to exercise subject-matter jurisdiction.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

That is the complaint by two law students (identified only as John Doe and Jane Doe) who allege that they were blackballed for supporting Professor Amy Chua, who was previously discussed as embroiled in a controversy at the school after she defended Justice Brett Kavanaugh. became the subject of pernicious law school gossip.

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JURIST

APRIL 19, 2023

.” The complaint sets forth 25 causes of action, which include Failure to Train, Failure to Supervise, Fourth Amendment violations, Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress and Fraudulent Misrepresentation.

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Conflict of Laws

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Written by Akanksha Oak, Jindal Global Law School, India Introduction The modern commerce landscape faces a significant challenge: the widespread infringement of intellectual property (“IP”) rights due to online interactions that enable instant global access. Reshma Collection. [2]

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JURIST

MARCH 30, 2021

” The bill also establishes a private cause of action in which an individual may “assert an actual or threatened violation of this subchapter as a claim in a judicial or administrative proceeding and obtain compensatory damages, injunctive relief, declaratory relief, or any other appropriate relief.”

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Patently O

JULY 5, 2023

On appeal though, the Federal Circuit concluded otherwise, finding (1) that inducement is a different cause of action than direct infringement and therefore is not automatically precluded; and (2) inducement itself had not been raised in the original case.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 8, 2022

In an opinion by Justice Clarence Thomas, the court held that a Washington state innkeeper does not have implied causes of action against a federal agent for alleged First and Fourth Amendment violations arising from the enforcement of immigration laws along the border. Robert Boule is a U.S.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

AUGUST 28, 2023

Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of state laws requiring corporations operating within their borders to consent to personal jurisdiction when they register to do business in those states. According to the Court, such laws do not offend the Constitution’s Due Process Clause. Norfolk Southern Railway Co. , of Philadelphia v.

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JURIST

JUNE 20, 2021

Arab Bank , the Supreme Court stated that the purpose of this law was to “promote harmony in international relations by ensuring foreign plaintiffs a remedy for international-law violations in circumstances where the absence of such a remedy might provoke foreign nations to hold the United States accountable.”

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 19, 2022

The question before the justices is whether a federal court hearing state law claims under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act must apply the state’s choice-of-law rules to determine what substantive law governs the claims at issue, or must instead use federal common law to choose the source of the substantive law.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

primary law library of cases, statutes, regulations, court rules and constitutions. The company said it will incorporate the legal research data into its core platform to create a marriage of factual development and legal analysis, allowing litigators to analyze fact patterns against the relevant law. “We

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Mondaq

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

20, 2021), that a cause of action filed under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act by employees of Kerry, Inc., On September 20, 2021, the Seventh Circuit ruled in Fernandez v. Kerry, Inc., 21-1067 (7th Cir.

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JURIST

JULY 16, 2022

Code § 1983 and 1988 and the Fourth, Fifth and Fifteenth Amendments of the US Constitution were violated, particularly protection against unreasonable seizure and the protections of due process of law. The post Man exonerated in assassination of Malcolm X seeks $40M from NYC appeared first on JURIST - News.

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HowAppealing

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued today. In his dissenting opinion , Circuit Judge Jerry E. ” Perhaps the majority agrees.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 14, 2024

The OpenAI defendants moved to dismiss all causes of action alleged by the author plaintiffs with the exception of the first cause of action for direct copyright infringement. (It It is unclear from the Court’s Order as to why the OpenAI defendants did not also move to dismiss this cause of action.)

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 31, 2021

Jurisdiction is a fundamental aspect of Nigerian procedural law. 1] The concept of jurisdiction in Nigerian conflict of laws (often called “territorial jurisdiction” by many Nigerian judges) is the most confusing aspect of Nigerian conflict of laws.

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Mondaq

OCTOBER 14, 2021

On October 5, 2021, Governor Phil Murphy signed into law amendments to the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (NJLAD) that significantly expand causes of action available to older workers.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 1, 2022

Boule considers whether to “extend” the Bivens cause of action to First Amendment retaliation claims and Fourth Amendment claims arising from immigration enforcement near the U.S.-Canada The judicially created Bivens cause of action functions as the counterpart to 42 U.S.C. Six Unknown Named Agents. Canada border.

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Mondaq

AUGUST 17, 2021

The availability of causes of action under Michigan law premised on an insurer's bad faith has generated significant confusion for several decades.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 6, 2021

.” The suit was filed by Chicago-based Edelson PC and seeks to apply Myanmar law to the plaintiffs’ claim in an attempt to circumvent § 230 of the Communications Decency Act —a US law that protects tech companies from content posted by users.

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 8, 2021

In Nigeria jurisdiction in matters of conflict of laws (called “territorial jurisdiction” by many Nigerian judges) also applies to matters of disputes between members of a political party in the inter-state context. [1]. The cause of action arose within the Federal Capital Territory or. In Oshiomhole v Salihu (No.

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LawSites

MARCH 26, 2024

The plaintiff, Silvia Diaz-Roa , filed the lawsuit against Hermes Law , a Texas law firm, and ClaimDeck , a litigation management system for insurers and insurance-defense firms that spun out of Hermes Law. I emailed Dwayne Hermes asking if he wished to respond but I have not heard back from him.

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