Law 360
MAY 2, 2024
A New York federal court's decision to exclude all plaintiff experts in a multidistrict litigation concerning prenatal exposure to Tylenol highlights a number of expert testimony pitfalls that parties should avoid in product liability and mass tort matters, say Rand Brothers and Courtney Block at Winston & Strawn.
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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SCOTUSBlog
OCTOBER 5, 2023
Several of them are sequels to earlier high court decisions. First Amendment The current court is very solicitous of First Amendment rights. The Farm Bureau and North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein ask the court to grant review and reverse the 4th Circuit’s decision. New York and 335-7 LLC v.
Conflict of Laws
JULY 5, 2021
Supreme Court decision in March 2021 in Ford vs. Montana now permits the exercise of specific jurisdiction when the claim arises out of or is (sufficiently) “related” to the defendant’s in-state contacts and activities. This comment raises the question whether the decision reduces or in effect continues the previous uncertainty.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
NOVEMBER 1, 2016
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court decision that vacated the listing of the Beringia distinct population segment (DPS) of the Pacific bearded seal subspecies as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Exxon Sought to Block New York Attorney General Investigation in Texas Federal Court.
Constitutional Law Reporter
JUNE 17, 2022
Border Patrol agent, that a Turkish national, arriving in Seattle by way of New York, had scheduled transportation to Smuggler’s Inn. Boule filed a grievance with Agent Egbert’s supervisors and an ad- ministrative claim with Border Patrol pursuant to the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA).
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
OCTOBER 7, 2019
The court also temporarily enjoined two felony riot statutes because they went “far beyond” the State’s “appropriate interest” in criminalizing participation in a riot with acts of force or violence. Minnesota Supreme Court Declined to Review Claims Regarding Environmental Review for Oil Pipeline. 97182-0 (Wash. Montgomery County , No.
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