ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 9, 2024

In a transformative moment for European and global climate litigation, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled today that the state has a positive duty to adopt, and effectively implement in practice, regulations and measures capable of mitigating the existing and potentially irreversible future effects of climate change.

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JayS.Rothman&Associates

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In California State court, the discovery process plays a crucial role in litigation, serving the purpose of ensuring fairness, facilitating the exchange of information, and promoting efficient case resolution. This includes contracts, emails, medical records, and more. The requesting party can inspect and copy these materials.

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Law 360

MAY 16, 2024

When subscribing to artificial intelligence tools — or to any technology in a highly competitive and legally thorny market — companies should push back on automatic renewal contract clauses for reasons including litigation and regulatory risk, and competition, says Chris Wlach at Huge Inc.

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LegalReader

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Contracts case filings over the last three years showed a slight but steady increase through the pandemic, while franchise case filings fell sharply and damages awarded continued to climb.

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LawSites

MARCH 12, 2024

Proxiio Global Solutions , an India-based provider of litigation and corporate legal services for law firms and in-house legal departments, is today officially launching in the United States.

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Law 360

MARCH 7, 2024

The Fifth Circuit has affirmed a decision that, based on Texas law, no valid profit-sharing contract exists between parties who formed a business to provide pre-settlement medical advancement loans to litigants.

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LawSites

APRIL 26, 2022

The judge also let stand a ROSS counterclaim under Section 1 of the Sherman Act, which prohibits “every contract … or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce.” However, the judge did not accept a second antitrust theory asserted by ROSS — that TR had engaged in anticompetitive conduct by pursuing sham litigation.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

OCTOBER 21, 2021

When paralegals are looking at alternative paralegal careers outside the popular litigation paralegal field, contract management does not usually come to mind. However, there seems to be an increase in paralegal job opportunities in the field of contract management. But what exactly is contract management?

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Patently O

MAY 7, 2021

2021) (nonprecedential) [ Raytheon Vexatious Litigant ]. He later sued Raytheon in California state for various claims, including trade-secret misappropriation, breach of contract, discrimination, etc. California Code allows for a litigant to be defined as a “vexatious litigant” and Mankaruse was so-named.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

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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NewmanFerraraLLP

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In litigation filed in both California state and federal courts, plant-based food company, Beyond Meat, was sued by Don Lee Farms, a former collaborator, who alleged BM was guilty of false advertising and contract breach. Parties Get to the Meat of the Matter.

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Law 360

MAY 13, 2024

After a monthslong dispute over an arena football team's decision to drop out of its former league to join a rival, upstart organization, the league said Friday that it had reached a settlement to end its litigation against the breakaway West Texas Desert Hawks.

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Law 360

AUGUST 25, 2023

The past week in London has seen motorsport team McLaren start its engines in a claim to enforce a contract with driver Alex Palou, a senior Axiom Ince partner challenge his SRA suspension, and AstraZeneca face a product liability claim over COVID-19 vaccine side effects. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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LegalReader

MAY 25, 2022

This is a great way to see how good or bad the attorney is for business litigation. Many clients who worked with specific lawyers will share their experiences online.

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Law 360

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The past week in London has seen a Kazakh paper recycling company turn a new page in an investment agreement spat against its CEO and litigation funder Harbour Fund, a real estate company owned by Axiom’s ex-chief face a breach of contract claim, and Banksy hit with libel proceedings from a business making street art merchandise.

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LawSites

JANUARY 31, 2024

TermScout , an AI contract review company, has launched a first-of-its-kind AI marketplace where lawyers and other contracting experts can build and sell their own contract review AIs, developed based on their unique expertise. In effect, users can get an expert review of a contract with just a few clicks.

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LawSites

APRIL 1, 2024

A slingshot for launching litigation? These are just some of the products available through the new online store LawLawLand , launched by the contract management company SpotDraft. I mean, what litigator wouldn’t want the “Subpoena Supper Apron,” with the tagline, “I grill before I sue”?

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Explicit jurisdiction clauses offer cross-border litigants the benefit of predictability by allowing them to anticipate where disputes arising from their commercial transactions will be resolved. Therefore, our paper provides the first comparative global perspective of the enforcement of implied jurisdiction in international contracts.

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LawSites

JUNE 7, 2022

Now, Casetext is formally launching that search tool under a new name, AllSearch , and with a focus on helping litigators search large sets of legal documents, including for e-discovery or to search internal databases and repositories, such as brief banks, litigation records, deposition transcripts, and expert reports.

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Law 360

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Commercial contracts litigation has slowed down considerably in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, with new case filings reaching their lowest level in a decade last year before beginning to rebound in 2023, following a brief but dramatic spike in 2020, according to a new report Thursday.

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Knackly

APRIL 26, 2023

They provide legal advice and services, representing individuals and organizations in court cases, contracts, transactions, and an almost unending number of other matters. In this blog, we’d like to address you—the attorneys of the world—and lay out exactly how Knackly revolutionizes the way you approach litigation.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The argument revealed a bench deeply skeptical of the uncertainty maritime insurance contracts would face under a lower-court decision limiting the enforcement of choice-of-law clauses in those contracts. The contract, like most American marine insurance contracts, called for the application of New York law.

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 12, 2023

The University of Lancaster has organised a workshop on Challenges in Contemporary International Litigation on Wednesday, 21 June 2023, 12.30 – 5 pm UK time (in person and online via Teams). The programme for the workshop is as follows: 12.30 pm Break 3.15 The programme for the workshop is as follows: 12.30 pm Break 3.15 pm Break 3.15

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Law 360

JULY 31, 2023

Edward Arnold and Bret Marfut at Seyfarth Shaw look at three recent opinions from three stages of government contract claims litigation about avoiding untimeliness by ticking procedural boxes, supporting factual positions at the summary judgment stage and how the appellate boards review default terminations.

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Each of the six new infringement lawsuits infringe both patent infringement as well as breach of contract for saving and planting seed down in the Missouri Bootheel. Bayer CropScience LP v. Pierce, Docket No. 4:23-cv-00088 (E.D. Jan 25, 2023) Bayer CropScience LP v.

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Law 360

JUNE 30, 2023

The past week in London has seen law firm Simkins LLP hit dot-com investor Robert Bonnier with a breach of contract claim, Russian oligarch and CEO of Nornickel Vladimir Potanin sued for a second time by aluminum giant Rusal, and easyJet’s parent company sue four more companies in trademark claims over the term 'easy.'

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Law 360

JUNE 16, 2023

The past week in London has seen former Everton FC manager Carlo Ancelotti hand the Premier League club a red card in a commercial contracts claim, law firms Pinsent Masons and McGrigors hit with a pensions lawsuit from 14 vehicle sale and rental companies, and Dana Petroleum fire up a claim against Waldorf Energy over its acquisition from Korean National (..)

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LegalReader

JULY 22, 2022

Hiring a litigation attorney increases the chances of a successful outcome.

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The past week in London has seen Skyscanner ready for take-off in a trademark dispute against rival flight comparison site e-SKY, the company behind hit kids YouTube channel CoComelon bring a contracts claim against the show's live touring company, and late singer Amy Winehouse's father accuse two of her friends of taking profits from a charity auction (..)

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Coyle has this post at the “Transnational Litigation Blog.” ” The post begins, “In a prior post, I argued that the precise language used in state statutes purporting to invalidate choice-of-law clauses and forum selection clauses can have outsized effects in litigation.

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Law 360

JANUARY 20, 2023

The past week in London has seen Getty Images sue an AI art platform for copyright breaches, former London mayoral candidate Zac Goldsmith sue Mirror Group Newspapers in a confidential information claim, and legal action brought against Budweiser by pub chain JD Wetherspoon in a commercial contracts claim.

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Law 360

DECEMBER 22, 2022

government's PPE supplier sued over its £122 million contract. The past week in London has seen fresh legal action brought against PrivatBank's former owner Bogolyubov over sham transactions, law firm Farrer & Co launch commercial fraud claims against five major banks, and the U.K.

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Law 360

AUGUST 11, 2023

The past week in London has seen Eversheds Sutherland face a breach of contract claim from the University for the Creative Arts, solar energy investor 9REN bring its €41.8 million energy regulation spat with Spain to the High Court, and the National Basketball Association aim for a slam dunk in an appeal against the Pizza Texas Bulls' U.K.

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At the Lectern

JANUARY 12, 2022

Doe , the court is expected to decide (1) Does the litigation privilege of Civil Code section 47, subdivision (b), apply to contract claims, and if so, under what circumstances? Pro tem justices are sitting in place of Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, who left the court at the end of October. In Olson v.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2023

For the readers who decided to continue past my opening paragraph, Great Lakes Insurance falls within the admiralty power of the federal courts, which authorizes the federal judiciary to articulate a federal common law for maritime contracts. Great Lakes Insurance involves a maritime insurance contract.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 24, 2022

Sundance had included in Morgan’s job application an arbitration clause, which meant that the company could have immediately sought to put the litigation on hold, and to require Morgan to resolve her case through individual arbitration. This case mainly involves two sections of the Federal Arbitration Act.

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Law 360

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The past week in London has seen Tesla drive patent proceedings against technology company InterDigital, Genesis band members say That's (not) All in a breach of contract claim against Virgin Records, and betting giant Entain play its hand in a claim over its acquisition of BetCity last year.

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