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Supreme Court rules against union over strike liability

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Glacier sued the union in state court for “tortious destruction” of its property – the spoiled concrete. The Washington Supreme Court dismissed the case, finding that it wasn’t appropriate to apply state tort law to a labor dispute even arguably covered by NLRA under Garmon.

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Washington family counselor challenges state’s ban on conversion therapy

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This week, we highlight cert petitions that ask the court to consider, among other things, whether a Washington state law that bars licensed therapists from practicing conversion therapy on children violates the First Amendment. In the same year, a divided Supreme Court ruled in National Institute for Family and Life Advocates v.

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US Supreme Court will consider liability shields for online platforms, seven additional new cases

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1252(d)(1) which holds that immigrants must first exhaust all administrative remedies before turning to a federal court for review. Glacier brought a tort claim against the Teamsters for the loss of concrete. The Teamsters are asking that the court affirm this lower court ruling, while Glacier seeks to enforce state tort law.

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Police Suggest Possible Charges for Those Who Filmed Rape on Train

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For example, Washington state allows for the charging of a misdemeanor. We also discussed a torts case involving a delay in calling police, but that case involved people who were deemed partially responsible for a death. In torts, there is no duty to rescue rule. That was the holding in the famous ruling in Yania v.

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Chopped: Will Seattle Officials Now Claim Immunity From Lawsuits After Opposing Such Defenses For Police Officers?

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Fitzgerald , the Supreme Court ruled that “government officials performing discretionary functions generally are shielded from liability for civil damages insofar as their conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.”. In 1982, in Harlow v.

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

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1] He is also an adjunct professor at American University Washington College of Law. ten years ago—at least in part due to longstanding common law rules on champerty, maintenance, [3] and patent law’s relative high risk—today third-party litigation funding (TPLF) [4] undergirds about 30% of all patent litigation, by conservative estimates. [5]

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October 2019 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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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. Washington High Court Declined to Review Decision Giving Pipeline Protester Right to Present Necessity Defense. 97182-0 (Wash.

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