JURIST

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, Netherlands on Tuesday ruled in favor of Somalia in the dispute between Somalia and Kenya concerning the maritime border of the Indian Ocean. The top court ruled unanimously that there was no agreed maritime boundary between Somalia and Kenya.

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JURIST

JANUARY 6, 2024

The case began in November 2020 against the oil company in the High Court which ordered the company to pay NGN 800 billion (approximately USD 878 million) as compensation to the communities of Egbalor Ebubu of River state, who accused the firm of an oil spill that damaged their waterways and farms.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Justice Jane Okuo Kajuga of the High Court ruled that Opiyo may be released from prison after making a cash deposit and surrendering his passport. On Wednesday human rights activist and civil rights lawyer Nicholas Opiyo was freed on bail.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

DECEMBER 7, 2021

most of the time you have to go look up the specific court rule for whatever it is you are doing anyway. Even if you had been working in Florida for the last 7 years, when it’s time to go to trial, you’re going to check your local court rules and state court rules, along with the judge’s specific rules.

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Day on Torts

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Regarding the first two elements, the trial court found that Dr. Gunnerson had testified that defendant breached the standard of care not by failing to intubate the patient, but by failing “to have a plan to address [the patient’s] condition[.]” The Court of Appeals, however, disagreed with this interpretation.

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Day on Torts

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Where an HCLA plaintiff’s expert testified at his deposition that he was not very familiar with Kingsport and that he had only reviewed information about Kingsport the night before the deposition, rather than before forming his medical opinions, the trial court did not err by excluding the expert based on the locality rule.

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Day on Torts

JULY 27, 2021

The trial court denied plaintiff’s motion for a new trial, and plaintiff then filed this appeal. The first issue surrounded Nurse Mercer’s deposition. After she reviewed her deposition, she “submitted an errata sheet making 24 changes to her testimony and explaining the reasons for the changes.” There were four issues on appeal.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 11, 2022

see “classic retainer” vs. “advance payment retainer” vs. “security retainer” in Illinois ), but in general, a lawyer is required to deposit flat fees and expenses paid into a client trust account in advance for representation. See Model Rule 1.15. About the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism.

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Day on Torts

AUGUST 22, 2022

During Dr. Allen’s deposition, he testified that the decedent would “probably be alive” if he had sought treatment earlier, and defendant doctor thereafter filed a motion to amend his answer to plead the comparative fault of decedent. Plaintiff identified Dr. Sobel as his standard of care expert and Dr. Allen as his causation expert.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The district court ruled for the officials, and a panel of judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit affirmed 2-1. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Johnson sued prison officials for damages for violating his civil rights. Elster 22-704 Issue : Whether the refusal to register a trademark under 15 U.S.C.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 25, 2022

The warden also cites court rules governing habeas proceedings that permit federal courts to facilitate the discovery of new evidence — which he says includes “court-compelled medical testing” — only when that evidence could lead to relief. In his view, the court rules limiting discovery thus do not apply.

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LettersBlogatory

APRIL 22, 2021

A district court has to obey the mandate of the appellate court unless it is stayed. The court issued the subpoenas, and the depositions are now set for early May, just in time for the May 10 hearing. Without getting into a big discussion of the effect of a mandate on appeal, this seems correct to me. Interesting times!

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Day on Torts

APRIL 1, 2022

In support of this motion, defendant filed the deposition of the NP, wherein she stated that she had reviewed decedent’s medical records “for the sole purpose of assessing whether there were any deviations from the nursing standard of care,” but not from the perspective of “whether those deviations caused Decedent’s death.”

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Day on Torts

AUGUST 9, 2021

Defendant signed both his own name and plaintiff’s name on the check, then deposited the proceeds into a joint account he shared with his then wife. In 2012, defendant submitted a form surrendering the annuity, and a check was made payable to plaintiff and defendant. internal citation omitted).

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Day on Torts

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The contract incorporated the terms of the SCES Manual, and looking at those two documents plus the deposition testimony from witnesses, the Court found that trees of a certain size and trees located beyond the 10-foot right of way were to be removed “at the sole discretion of SCES or SCES Project Representative.”

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Day on Torts

JANUARY 29, 2021

Defendants’ next argument on appeal was that the trial court should not have allowed plaintiff to read a portion of the treating physician, Dr. Klimo’s, deposition into evidence. The Court of Appeals affirmed the decision to allow use of the deposition, explaining that pursuant to Tenn. Code Ann. §

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Day on Torts

OCTOBER 3, 2022

If a party petitions for dismissal under the TPPA and “makes a prima facie case that they have participated in a protected activity under the TPPA, the court may then dismiss the action against them, unless the responding party establishes a prima facie case for each essential element of the claim in the legal action.”

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Day on Torts

JULY 23, 2021

In his deposition, Mr. Tinnin stated that he bought the car for plaintiff, he intended it to be a wedding present for plaintiff, and that he purchased it for her personal use. Mr. Tinnin changed his testimony at trial and stated that he bought the car with the intention of flipping it, but the trial court did not credit this testimony.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 30, 2022

“As found by the DOJ, the Ferguson Municipal Court used ‘arrest warrants and the threat of arrest as its primary tool for collecting outstanding fines for municipal code violations.’”. Supreme Court Rulings. The authors said courts had long since underlined the Constitutional threat posed by these practices.

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JURIST

APRIL 12, 2023

In 2004, this decision was overturned as a result, in part, of the Sumarin family failing to file a summary of their claims with the court and therefore abandoning their claims. The Sumarin family filed an appeal in 2005, which was rejected as they failed to deposit a bond.

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Patently O

MARCH 19, 2021

These motions often attach expert reports and deposition testimony as exhibits. See In re Violation of Rule 28(D) (Fed Cir. But some of the most critical information like deposition testimony and expert reports are exhibits. Moreover, individual court rules are now requiring greater transparency.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

They were like, “Hey, as a paralegal, you’ve done some deposition prep. I was still doing deposition preps for physicians. As a paralegal, I had all this experience, all this education, and I could pick up on just about anything. So they kept piling more and more things on. Would you mind prepping some of our physicians?”

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MyCase

AUGUST 16, 2022

The article also states, “It is critically important to understand the labyrinth of potentially applicable ethics rules that intertwine with certain court rules on retirement.”. According to Law.com , attorney retirement in New York is “remarkably complex” with “variations of ‘retire’… used in different contexts.”

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The Crime Report

JUNE 22, 2022

Susan Keenan Nayda, Vice President of Operations at Liberty Behavioral Health Corporation, testified during a deposition her thoughts on the Florida Civil Commitment Center in Arcadia, Fla.: Shadow prisons posing as treatment are not limited to Texas. There’s a little bit of confusion…What is this place? Is it a prison?

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 3, 2024

The parties challenging the enforcement then appealed to the Supreme Court. Ultimately, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the appellants in both cases. Summary of the Rulings Case 1: Appeal No. 29 of 1954 and deposited the instruments of ratification with the General Secretariat of the League on July 25, 1954.

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Day on Torts

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Plaintiff responded to the motion and attached to her memorandum a “Declaration of Barbara Lundell,” wherein she explained that she was nervous during her initial deposition and had incorrectly identified where the incident took place. The Court ruled that this evidence created an issue of fact and that summary judgment was not appropriate.

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Day on Torts

MAY 10, 2021

Defendant moved for summary judgment, and the trial court granted the motion. During the deposition of one of defendant’s employees, he testified that defendant had been using the same compound to install headstones for ten years, but that he did not know exactly what that compound was. internal citation omitted).

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The Fashion Law

MAY 5, 2021

Court of Appeal for the Seventh Circuit “has held that the same test applies whether the mark allegedly ‘was generic at the outset or has become so through use,’” and cites the recent Supreme Court ruling in Booking.com B. which rejected the same argument” and determined that the domain name Booking.com was not a generic term.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Armenia officially became the 124th State Party to the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday after Ambassador Mher Margaryan deposited Armenia’s accession documents in a ceremony held at the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs, where Margaryan presented the instrument of ratification to the Director of the Treaty Section.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 6, 2017

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a West Virginia federal district court had erred in concluding that it had jurisdiction to consider the coal company Murray Energy Corporation’s and its affiliates’ lawsuit that sought to compel EPA to conduct evaluations of the Clean Air Act’s employment effects.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JUNE 9, 2013

The Supreme Court ruling last year left the FCC without any clear standards in place to address any violations that might occur. Without clarifying its policies, the FCC has no way to deal with the pending complaints.

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Patently O

MARCH 19, 2021

A ruling in Intel’s favor may have made future royalties unavailable. As it happened the court ruled in VLSI’s favor on this point. In its direct testimony on damages, VLSI addressed several additional critiques that had been raised by Intel in pretrial filings, reports or deposition testimony.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In an April deposition, Trump mentioned having roughly $400 million in cash. The court ruling prohibits Trump from applying for loans from banks registered or chartered in New York. Trump’s financial empire comprises approximately 500 entities, including real estate, licensing and other business ventures.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 23, 2022

The relevant documents are to be handed over by November 4th, and a deposition hearing will commence on November 14th. Trump went on to call the January 6th Committee a “witch hunt of the highest level”, despite 60 courts ruling against his claims of election fraud.

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The Crime Report

MAY 27, 2022

A New York state appeals court ruled Thursday that former President Donald Trump and two of his adult children must testify under oath as part of the New York attorney general’s civil-fraud investigation into the Trump family business, reports the Wall Street Journal.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 21, 2021

The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press. The Court sought to create “breathing space” for the media by articulating that standard that now applies to both public officials and public figures.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 27, 2021

If they are able to get into discovery, the Project could seek depositions with Twitter and CNN officials — a prospect neither company would relish. The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press.

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