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Copyright in tattoos: U.S. court rules for artist in Randy Orton / WWE 2K case

LawInSport

A recent United States district court decision on copyright infringement has brought the issue of recreation of tattoos in video games back into the spotlight and has diverged from an earlier ruling from another district court in a different judicial circuit.

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Grubhub Can't Use High Court Ruling To Shake Robocall Suit

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An Illinois federal judge has refused to release Grubhub from a putative class action accusing it of unlawfully blasting consumers with robocalls, rejecting the argument that a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision temporarily freed companies from liability for such alleged violations.

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The High Court’s ‘Self-Inflicted Wounds’: A Backward Look

The Crime Report

Was the Supreme Court decision last month overruling Roe v. Wade one of the worst decisions in the 233-year history of the Court? The ruling in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization has been described as such by many judicial commentators and experts in the middle of the spectrum, and a large segment of the U.S.

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They Called 911 for Help. Police and Prosecutors Used a New Junk Science to Decide They Were Liars.

The Crime Report

But that hasn’t stopped some from promoting his methods and even deploying 911 call analysis in court to win convictions. In 2016, Missouri prosecutor Leah Askey wrote Harpster an effusive email, bluntly detailing how she skirted legal rules to exploit his methods against unwitting defendants. “Of

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Justices throw out lower-court ruling allowing state court clerk to be sued in parental notification abortion case

SCOTUSBlog

Share In a short procedural order, the Supreme Court on Monday morning threw out a lower-court ruling allowing a state court clerk to be sued for telling a pregnant teenager that her parents must be notified of their child’s desire to seek an abortion without their consent.

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March 2018 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Federal Court Denied Oakland and San Francisco Motions to Return Climate Change Nuisance Cases to State Court; Found Federal Common Law of Nuisance Could Apply, Despite AEP v. It demands to be governed by as universal a rule of apportioning responsibility as is available.” FEATURED CASE. ExxonMobil Corp.

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