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

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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LawSites

MARCH 26, 2024

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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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Just four years after launching Westlaw Edge as its next-generation legal research platform, Thomson Reuters today unveiled the next-next generation. It means search results that better match not just the legal issue, but also the outcome, fact pattern, cause of action, motion type and outcome, party type, and area of law.

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LexForti

JUNE 13, 2023

Contacting the E-Commerce Platform Before taking any legal action, you must first try to resolve the issue by contacting the seller or the e-commerce platform. Drafting the complaint: You need to draft a complaint specifying the facts necessary to establish your cause of action. It does not provide specific legal advice.

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JURIST

APRIL 19, 2023

” Lastly, the complaint asserts that the officers stopped Nichols “without legal justification” and beat Nichols “within an inch of his life.” Additionally, the complaint alleges that the City of Memphis was indifferent to SCORPION’s “unsupervised reign of terror.”

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

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.

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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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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. Brainlink International Inc., [1] Reshma Collection. [2]

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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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JURIST

JULY 16, 2022

In a legal complaint filed Thursday, Aziz sued the City of New York and the now-former New York Police Department (NYPD) officers involved in his arrest, arguing that his rights under 42 U.S. Aziz and Islam were members of the Nation of Islam and were found to have been at their homes the day Malcolm X was killed.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Legal Tech Look-Back is a continuing series of posts that turn back the calendar on legal tech news.). At the time, the idea was shocking to many in the legal profession. Lasnik nevertheless ruled that the opinions expressed through Avvo’s ratings system were protected by the First Amendment.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Legal Tech Look-Back is a continuing series of posts that turn back the calendar on legal tech news.). At the time, the idea was shocking to many in the legal profession. Lasnik nevertheless ruled that the opinions expressed through Avvo’s ratings system were protected by the First Amendment.

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DECEMBER 21, 2021

Brazil: When a court accepts the legally disruptive nature of climate change. It can also help solve conflicts of jurisdictions (such as in the IEA case), even if that means recrafting legal doctrines. IBAMA addresses matters related to environmental law, rather than Brazilian climate legislation. Background.

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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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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. ” Plaintiffs demand a jury trial.

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Patently O

JANUARY 4, 2024

Hsuanyeh Law Group v. 2024) A recent copyright infringement lawsuit filed by small Boston intellectual property boutique Hsuanyeh Law Group PC (HLG) against international giant Winston & Strawn LLP focuses a dividing line that can highlight when copying the work of another firm is permissible.

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The Fashion Law

MAY 18, 2021

The family that formerly owned Brooks Brothers is in the midst of a $100 million legal battle after allegedly failing to “fulfill their contractual and fiduciary obligations to a Brooks Brothers minority shareholder and investor. The case is Castle Apparel Limited, et al. Claudio Del Vecchio, et al. , 1:21-cv-04406 (SDNY).

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JURIST

MARCH 5, 2021

There is nothing in the statement which we find so offensive as to give a cause of action for a Court to initiate proceedings. The post India court dismisses sedition claim against Kashmiri politician appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary. 50,000 ($684) to “discourage such endeavours.”

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Malcolm Stewart, for the respondents, rebutted that as a longstanding principle, courts do not intervene in ongoing agency proceedings until it results in a rule or order “that imposes sanctions or determines legal rights or obligations.”

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JayS.Rothman&Associates

MAY 17, 2023

These protections help safeguard employees against discrimination or retaliation which the law may not otherwise prohibit. What laws protect employees against associational discrimination? Protected Class Associational discrimination cases can be brought under various laws. 12112(b)(4).

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 28, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled 6-3 against a plaintiff seeking emotional distress damages for alleged violations of certain federal anti-discrimination laws. Premier Rehab Keller PLLC , the court applied the contract-law inquiry to hold that Cummings could not recover damages for emotional distress.

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The Fashion Law

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Here is a look at a dozen of the many interesting and notable fashion lawsuits and legal developments that we saw in 2021 …. It follows from the similarly-noteworthy July 2021 securities class action lawsuit that an individual named Jeeun Friel filed against Dapper Labs Inc., Nike Sued MSCHF Over Modified “Satan Shoes”.

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LexForti

JUNE 4, 2021

One of the most vital concerns that a legal practitioner is essentially seen to deal with, that is with respect to any particular dispute or one that has arisen out of a legal relationship between the respective parties subsequently brings into consideration the forum which has/will/have the territorial jurisdiction to entertain such a dispute.

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LettersBlogatory

AUGUST 23, 2021

They argued that they had a right of action under 28 U.S.C. 1605(a)(3), which creates an exception to foreign sovereign immunity when the case concerns “rights in property taken in violation of international law.” Their claim did not arise under the ATS or under state law, but under the FSIA itself.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 13, 2023

Pirani present a stark contrast between text and policy arguments under the federal securities laws. As relevant here, Section 11 includes a private cause of action in federal court if the statement includes any information that is materially false or misleading, at the behest of “any person acquiring such security.”

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 2, 2024

After a year’s worth of extensions, Ritenour filed a habeas petition on Gamboa’s behalf, raising only a handful of boilerplate challenges to the state’s death penalty laws. After obtaining new legal representation, Gamboa filed a motion to reopen the judgment on the ground that Ritenour had “abandoned” him. Ferreyra v.

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LexForti

JUNE 7, 2023

The answer is ‘yes,’ and the solution lies in a powerful legal remedy known as ‘Specific Performance.’ Specific Performance is a unique legal concept in Indian Contract Law that allows you to enforce the exact terms of a contract. Your Legal Timeline: A Brief Overview Legal matters demand swift action.

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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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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 25, 2021

Share The Supreme Court on Friday substantially narrowed a class action against TransUnion , one of the nation’s three major credit-reporting companies. There are, Kavanaugh noted, different kinds of injuries that can qualify as the kind of concrete harm needed for “standing” – that is, the legal right to sue.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

A 25-person legal technology company in California is fighting back against one of the world’s largest law firms in a lawsuit over ownership rights to legislation-drafting software that each side says was its idea. This litigation should be a warning to all innovative legal technology providers.”. Series of Meetings.

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NewmanFerraraLLP

MARCH 1, 2023

Since the $500 charge wasn’t contested, the AT2’s focus was on the propriety of the broker’s fee and whether the owner -- a licensed broker -- was legally entitled to collect same. And after reviewing the governing law, it concluded that Stennet had failed to provide the required written disclosures.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 1, 2021

The court’s decision could fundamentally restructure interstate groundwater law in the United States for decades — or the case could be dismissed immediately on the grounds that Mississippi has failed to allege the proper cause of action. The key legal issue in Mississippi v.

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InHouseBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Many lawyers come out of law school not knowing the practice of law but only the theory, and that theoretical underpinning can wreak havoc for some. Even looking at uneven pavement or a pothole gets some lawyers thinking of the potentially liable parties and the causes of action that could be asserted.

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 16, 2020

This is the third online symposium on Private International Law in Nigeria initially announced on this blog. The Nigerian private international law (hereinafter PIL) regime is significantly influenced by the common law. Written by Richard Mike Mlambe, Attorney and Lecturer at University of Malawi- The Polytechnic.

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 25, 2024

The wide-reaching effect of a previous Court of Appeal decision on the interpretation of gateway (n) which covers a claim brought under statutes dealing with serious crimes such as corruption and dug trafficking and ‘any other written law’ is also yet to be grasped by litigants. [5]

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Day on Torts

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Based on the reasoning of Mills , the Court concluded that the plaintiff in this case was sufficiently on notice of her cause of action on the date of the accident to begin the limitations period. internal citation omitted).

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