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Court rules for Maryland prison official on procedural issue

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Share The Supreme Court on Thursday gave a Maryland prison official another chance to defend himself against a federal civil rights claim. Last week’s unanimous ruling in Dupree v. This article was originally published at Howe on the Court. But that rationale does not, Barrett continued, apply to Dupree’s case.

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Guest Post: Third-Party Litigation Funding: Disclosure to Courts, Congress, and the Executive

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Stroud is General Counsel at Unified Patents – an organization often adverse to litigation-funded entities. [1] litigation finance boom of the past 20 years—as has been widely reported, private equity now undergirds huge swaths of U.S. Guest post by Jonathan Stroud. Patent assertion finance today is a multibillion-dollar business. [2]

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Spooky Torts: The 2023 List of Litigation Horrors

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The court ruled against her and found that the park’s duty was only to “make conditions as safe as they appear to be” and that Munoz “ was aware of the risk she encountered, and expected to be surprised, startled, and scared.” Maryland v. particularly those with ravenous monkeys.

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Federal appeals court upholds dismissal of Wikimedia lawsuit against NSA

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In 2015, a judge for the US District Court for the District of Maryland dismissed a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and other human rights organizations challenging surveillance by the NSA. The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit allowed the lawsuit to proceed against the NSA in 2017.

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Justices add new cases on state secrets, free speech

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The court added three new cases to its docket for arguments next fall, including a major new case (covered in this article ) on the scope of the Second Amendment right to carry a gun outside the home. That order is also covered in a separate article.). Free speech and public censure.

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Case preview: Justices to consider procedural issue in major climate-change lawsuit

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Under federal law, cases filed in state court can be transferred – the technical term is “removed” – to federal court if they meet one of several criteria. In this case, Chevron removed the lawsuit to a federal district court in Maryland, pointing to eight different grounds for removal.

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Mandatory minimums, payday lending, and voting rights in first session of Supreme Court term

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But the lower courts ruled, and the federal government contends, that the “safety value” is only available to defendants who do not have any of the indicators. After a federal appeals court reinstated Laufer’s lawsuit, Acheson went to the Supreme Court, which agreed in March to weigh in on whether Laufer can sue.

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