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Arkansas Senate approves bill banning gender-affirming care for trans minors

JURIST

” 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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Former Raiders Head Coach Jon Gruden Is Suing The NFL And Commissioner Roger Goodell

Above The Law

Gruden has included numerous causes of action such as intentional interference with contractual relations, tortious interference with prospective economic advantage, and civil conspiracy in his legal action.

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False Patent Marking as False Advertising: Overcoming Dastar

Patently O

INTA argues that the existence of the false marking statute, which prohibits deceptively marking an unpatented article as patented, supports the notion that false claims about patent protection are actionable under the Lanham Act. See Zenith Elecs.

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Pay for Play: Will Student Athletes Receive Hundreds of Millions of Backpay in Antitrust Suit?

Fordham Law News

The lawsuit filed by Prince and House has three causes of action. [6] 14] The other three classes seek monetary damages, and they are broken up by sport. [15] 15] There is a proposed football and men’s basketball class, women’s basketball class, and other sports class. [16]. 25, 2022), [link]. [12] 12] Drew T.

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Federal Circuit Approves of Order to Drop Patents from the Lawsuit to Facilitate Case Management

Patently O

In re Midwest Athletics and Sports Alliance LLC ( Fed. MASA argued that the order to eliminate entire patents is different than eliminating particular claims, since each patent offers a discrete cause of action. by Dennis Crouch. However, the the court instead ordered MASA to eliminate patents from the case entirely.

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I See Dead People…Filing Lawsuits In New York

The IP Law Blog

Under the new law in New York, successors in interest of “personalities” and “performers” who pass away after the statute took effect in May 2021, will have a cause of action for certain forms of unauthorized exploitation. News, public affairs, and sports programs are also exempt from the statute.

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Arkansas House approves bill banning transgender athletes from women’s sports

JURIST

The Arkansas House of Representatives on Monday approved a bill that prevents transgender women from competing in women’s sports at all levels of education. A similar remedy is available to any school that suffers direct or indirect harm due to the participation of a transgender athlete in a female designated sport.

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