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LawSites
JULY 19, 2022
Recently, I reported here on the “quiet” launch of a new legal research service, Decisis , targeting bar associations and 1-2 lawyer law firms. One interesting aspect of the launch was that nowhere on the company’s website did it mention that it is a subsidiary of RELX, the parent company of LexisNexis. and the U.S.,
SCOTUSBlog
MAY 1, 2023
The question comes to the court in a case brought by a group of commercial fishing companies. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected the companies’ challenge to the rule. On Monday, the Supreme Court agreed to reconsider its ruling in Chevron. Relying on Chevron , a divided panel of the U.S.
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SCOTUSBlog
MAY 2, 2024
This week, we highlight petitions that ask the court to consider, among other things, whether a plea deal with an explicit waiver of the right to appeal bars defendants from later asking a court to vacate their conviction if the conduct of which they were accused, it turns out, was not a crime at all. Omar Khadr was 15 when U.S.
SCOTUSBlog
MARCH 26, 2024
Inside the nearly full courtroom (only the bar section has a few empty seats), I scan the public gallery looking for one particular former Supreme Court law clerk. Waggoner, who has argued several cases here, will approach the lectern to move the admission of a new bar member, but will leave the arguments to Hawley. Josh Hawley, R-Mo.,
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. Superior Court Judge Juliet J. McKenna disagreed.
SCOTUSBlog
JANUARY 15, 2021
Facebook users brought a class action alleging that the tech company violated the Wiretap Act between 2010 and 2011. The district court dismissed the case on the ground that Facebook was a “party to the communication.” Davis , the company asks the justices to review and reverse the 9th Circuit’s decision. District of Columbia v.
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 15, 2022
Finally, when a judge dismisses a case under the Speedy Trial Act, the judge may at times do so “with prejudice,” barring the government from seeking a new indictment for the conduct. District Court for the Central District of California did not hold any jury trials until May 2021. By order of the chief judge, the U.S.
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