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Federal court dismisses Blue Origin lawsuit, allows SpaceX government contract to resume

JURIST

The US Court of Federal Claims on Thursday ruled against Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin in a lawsuit contesting NASA’s decision to award a lucrative contract to rival SpaceX. NASA awarded SpaceX the contract to develop the agency’s Human Landing System in April. The contract, worth $2.9

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Is it Worth it to Become a Litigation Paralegal?

Paralegal Bootcamp

However, it’s essential to understand that the kind of litigation paralegal role you choose will influence your job satisfaction. This is because some paralegals might prefer a corporate setting as an in-house paralegal, while others might thrive in a law firm setting working in civil litigation or other commercial litigation.

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Meta Claim Construction: Finding Meaning in the Meaning

Patently O

Although the parties had agreed to the construction of the “unique user code” term, they disagreed over the construction-of-the-construction. The Federal Circuit rejected this argument, finding that it was inconsistent the claim construction which clearly states the code is associated with “one user.”

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Australia’s statutist orthodoxy: High Court confirms the extraterritorial scope of the Australian Consumer Law in the Ruby Princess COVID-cruise case

Conflict of Laws

They contracted to travel on the cruise in different parts of the world, and according to Princess, were subject to different terms and conditions subject to different systems of law. It is unsurprising then that Princess sought to defend the proceedings at a preliminary stage through litigation over where to litigate.

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New PatentlyO Law Journal Essay: Is Global FRAND Litigation Spinning Out of Control?

Patently O

The FRAND commitments themselves, in turn, often are interpreted as binding contracts for the benefit of third parties (that is, for the benefit of implementers). Cotter, Is Global FRAND Litigation Spinning Out of Control , 2021 PatentlyO Law Journal 1 (2021) ( Cotter.2021.GlobalFRANDLitigation Read: Thomas F. GlobalFRANDLitigation ).

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Mentoring New Legal Assistants

Paralegal Bootcamp

In my own defense, the last 25 years of my career has been dedicated to one attorney as a contracted tort litigation paralegal. I use a pre-litigation checklist for new legal assistants in our personal injury practice. In that moment it occurred to me I had gravely miscalculated my training and mentoring methods.

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SCOTUS Clarifies Reach of FAA Exemption for Transportation Workers

Constitutional Law Reporter

To purchase those rights, they entered into contracts with Flowers that require any disputes to be arbitrated under the FAA. Pursuant to the FAA, arbitration agreements are “valid, irrevocable, and enforceable, save upon such grounds as exist at law or in equity for the revocation of any contract.”