JURIST

MARCH 5, 2024

Pre-Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Court (ICC) held on Monday that a hearing on charges against Joseph Kony, a fugitive Ugandan militant who founded the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), can take place in his absence in October 2024.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2023

It is no accident that the Irish not only brought Halloween to the United States (as part of the festival of Samhain) but flooded our state bars with Irish lawyers eager to bring lawsuits over Halloween mishaps. It is truly a holiday that has everything for torts lawyers and even comes with free candy.

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Attorney at Work

MAY 31, 2022

Managing an increasing volume of cases and court deadlines– sometimes in multiple jurisdictions – is one of the biggest time management challenges for law firms. . A Tennessee lawyer was suspended and put on probation after failing to file a personal injury case. The statute of limitations ran out due to his forgetting the deadline.

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Day on Torts

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

55-8-136, which is a Class C misdemeanor, the statute of limitations for plaintiff’s action was extended to two years pursuant to Tenn. Defendant filed a motion for summary judgment based on the statute of limitations issue, but the trial court ruled in favor of plaintiff, and the Court of Appeals affirmed.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman and other Democrats have filed a federal lawsuit to strike down parts of Pennsylvania’s election law after the state Supreme Court ruled that mail-in ballots with incorrect dates or no dates should not be counted.Fetterman is challenging the state law on constitutional and federal statutes.

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Attorney at Work

AUGUST 25, 2021

Your days are ruled by deadlines, including statutes of limitation, filing deadlines and discovery deadlines. That’s where rules-based calendaring systems come in: They help ease the pain of tracking and meeting deadlines. Instead, when court rules change, the revised deadlines are automatically applied to your firm’s calendars.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Texas Supreme Court ruled on Monday against a pregnant woman who challenged the state’s abortion restrictions. A lower court had previously granted the woman, Kate Cox, permission to receive an abortion due to pregnancy complications, despite the state’s strict abortion ban.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

primary law library of cases, statutes, regulations, court rules and constitutions. The e-discovery company DISCO said today it has entered into a long-term license with the international legal research company vLex to obtain access to its U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to block the execution of Tracy Beatty, who was convicted and sentenced to death for the 2003 murder of his mother. Two federal courts rejected Beatty’s argument that they could order prison officials to allow the evaluations to go ahead without handcuffs.

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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. Virgin Islands, and four-dozen metropolitan, county and specialty bar associations, for a total number of users of more than 1 million lawyers, out of an estimated 1.3

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Share On Wednesday, the court heard oral argument in Shinn v. Ramirez and Jones , two death penalty cases that will determine whether prisoners may develop new evidence to support claims that their lawyers were constitutionally ineffective at trial. But a 2012 Supreme Court decision, Martinez v. The question raised in Shinn v.

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MyCase

OCTOBER 20, 2022

When it comes to litigation, missing a deadline isn’t an option, and with so many shifting statutory and court rules to adhere to, that can be difficult to manage. A rules-based calendaring system not only houses your calendar and upcoming deadlines but also syncs with any rules you set, including a specific court’s rules.

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MyCase

MAY 9, 2022

Because drop-dead deadlines like statutes of limitations can make or break your client’s case, it’s imperative for your firm to have legal calendaring processes in place that are reliable and accurate. Before electronic calendars were invented, lawyers tracked deadlines and due dates using paper calendars and tickler systems.

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Day on Torts

JANUARY 15, 2022

In the year ending June 30, 2020 (the last period for which information is publicly available) the High Court was asked to accept review in 569 cases. These are the cases where the Court has the discretion whether to hear the case or allow the lower court ruling to stand. Code Ann. § 20-12-119(c).

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 25, 2022

Tax Court has the power to excuse the missed deadline for equitable reasons, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday in a unanimous decision. It held instead that the statute is not jurisdictional, and that equitable tolling is an available argument in Tax Court. But the court rejected the government’s argument.

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Day on Torts

MAY 18, 2022

Plaintiff asserted various claims against defendants, including breach of contract, fraud, intentional misrepresentation, and negligence, all of which the trial court dismissed as untimely pursuant to the three-year statute of limitations applicable to claims of injuries to real property. In Simpkins v. John Maher Builders, Inc. ,

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 1, 2023

Pirani rejected a lower-court ruling that had substantially broadened liability for publicly traded companies under Section 11 of the Securities Act of 1933. The “challenge” in understanding the statute, Gorsuch pointed out, is that “there is no clear referent in § 11(a) telling us what ‘such security’ means.”

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Day on Torts

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The Court noted that plaintiff’s only evidence that the cap was dangerous was the evidence of her own fall and the fall of the alleged other unnamed homeowner, and that “[n]egligence cannot be presumed by the mere happening of an injury or accident.” internal citation omitted). Code Ann. § This opinion was released 1.5

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 23, 2022

Although the Supreme Court’s 2012 decision in Martinez v. Ryan permitted defendants to raise such claims for the first time in federal court, on Monday the court ruled 6-3 that they cannot develop evidence to support those claims.

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At the Lectern

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision, the court stated, “where slavery exists, the right of property of the master in the slave must follow as a necessary incident.” Lee later got his freedom from a federal court ruling. ” Historic Supreme Court justices. ” (9 Cal. Flood (1874) 48 Cal.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Share At the end of each year, SCOTUSblog remembers some of the people whose lives and work left an imprint on the Supreme Court. From legendary lawyers to lesser-known activists, journalists, and plaintiffs, the following individuals who died in 2022 all shaped the court and the law in their own ways. David Beckwith (Oct.

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SquirePattonBoggs

MAY 13, 2022

Corpus linguistics allows lawyers to use a searchable database to find specific examples of how a word was used at any given time. Lawyers can search these databases for the ordinary meaning of statutory language. These examples underscore corpus linguistics’ utility in ascertaining the meaning of statutes. How does it work?

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 20, 2021

In a speech at Harvard Law School in 2015, Justice Elena Kagan told the audience that “we’re all textualists now” – that is, that any effort to interpret a statute begins (and often ends) with the language of the statute. Representing the oil and gas companies, lawyer Kannon Shanmugam told the justices that 28 U.S.C.

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Day on Torts

AUGUST 2, 2022

Defendant argued that plaintiffs knew about the alleged conversion in October 2009 and that the claim was therefore time-barred, but the trial court found that the statute of limitations did not begin to run until after the father’s death. On appeal, this ruling was reversed. Code Ann. §

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Though some justices seemed receptive to the availability of emotional distress damages, questions from the bench also suggested concern about the size of emotional distress awards and the absence of explicitly defined remedies in the statutes Cummings invoked. Cummings’ lawyer, Andrew Rozynski, and Colleen Sinzdak, arguing for the U.S.

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 10, 2021

David Goodman and Ruth Graham of The New York Times report that “ Small Court Victories Change Nothing for Women Seeking Abortions in Texas; A Texas statute that bans abortion after six weeks of pregnancy was seemingly undercut by two court rulings, but the reality on the ground has not changed.” Jackson , No.

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Day on Torts

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The trial court then entered an order awarding some attorneys’ fees on March 5, 2021, then due to some late filing, entered another order regarding attorneys’ fees on June 24, 2021. The TPPA is Tennessee’s anti-SLAPP statute, which stands for “strategic lawsuits against public participation.” The appeal was therefore dismissed.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

Pirani suggest a court leaning toward a split decision, rejecting liability under only one of the two securities-law statutes at issue in the case. Slack Technologies asks the court to apply two provisions of the Securities Act of 1933 to a relatively new method of going public known as a “direct listing.”

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MyCase

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This is particularly important for busy lawyers and those handling multiple complex or long-term cases. Also, most lawyers already know how to manage their own calendars. . Additionally, MyCase offers a direct LawToolBox integration that provides access to a library of hundreds of court rule sets across the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2020

A government lawyer who argued at the Supreme Court more than anyone else in the 20th century. As the year comes to a close, SCOTUSblog looks back at some of the individuals who died in 2020 after living lives that brought them – at different times and for different reasons – to the Supreme Court of the United States.

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Day on Torts

MAY 31, 2022

When that friend could not find a Tennessee lawyer to take her case before the statute of limitations ran out, he sent her a sample pre-suit notice form. BirdDog Law also provides Tennessee lawyers with free access to user-friendly versions of the Tennessee rules of evidence and procedure.

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Day on Torts

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Defendant filed a petition for dismissal pursuant to the TPPA, and after finding that the TPPA applied, that plaintiff was a limited-purpose public figure in the context of this action, and that plaintiff “had not established a prima facie case for actual malice,” the trial court dismissed the case. The TPPA, Tenn. Code Ann. §

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Day on Torts

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Under Tennessee Rule of Civil Procedure 41.01, “the right of the plaintiff to dismiss the action without prejudice is free and unrestricted except in limited and well-defined circumstances.” Rule 41.01 internal citation omitted). internal citation omitted). internal citation omitted). internal citation omitted). exceptions in general.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Share Lawyers for the state of Texas urged the Supreme Court on Thursday to leave a Texas law that imposes a near-total ban on abortions in place. But if the court opts to review the merits of the law on an expedited basis, Texas continued, it should use the case as an opportunity to overrule the court’s landmark decisions in Roe v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 2, 2021

Montana Department of Revenue , the Supreme Court ruled that although states are not required to subsidize private education, states that choose to do so cannot exclude religious schools from receiving funding simply because they are religious. A new case on public funding and religious education. Last year, in Espinoza v.

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Day on Torts

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Plaintiff attempted to rely on additional documents referred to in the SCES manual to support a finding of duty, but the Court noted that the Manual specifically referred to these additional documents in an attempt to provide proper pruning methods, not to add to defendant’s contractual duty. internal citations omitted).

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Day on Torts

MAY 11, 2022

In subsection (a)(1), which was the subsection at issue in this case, the statute only states that the certificate must say that “there is a good faith basis to maintain the action consistent with the requirements of § 29-26-115.” 3, 2019), the Court ruled that “language in a complaint cannot substitute for a proper certificate of good faith.”

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