Paralegal Bootcamp

JANUARY 4, 2024

Prepare for depositions, mediations, and arbitrations. Many attorneys also rely on the paralegal to do the first-round draft of pleadings that will be filed with the court. Prepare for depositions, mediations, and arbitrations. that the attorney might want to use during these depositions, mediations, and arbitrations.

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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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Day on Torts

AUGUST 22, 2022

Where an HCLA plaintiff’s expert refused to testify due to no fault of plaintiff or plaintiff’s counsel, the Tennessee Court of Appeals ruled that the trial court should have allowed plaintiff to secure a substitute expert. Sobel, but the trial court denied the motion. In Blackburn v. McLean , No.

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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. Chapter Four Uganda, a nonprofit group that strives to protect the civil rights and liberties of Ugandans, released a statement on Monday urging the court to grant bail to Opiyo.

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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

Plaintiff responded with an affidavit from Dr. Gunnerson, but the trial court granted summary judgment, ruling that plaintiff “failed to meet his burden to show, at the summary judgment stage, that [defendant’s] failure to intubate or failure to put in place a plan for [the patient’s] treatment caused her death.”

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 3, 2024

The cases presented here were recently released by the Egyptian Supreme Court ( mahkamat al-naqdh ). In both cases, enforcement was granted by lower courts. The parties challenging the enforcement then appealed to the Supreme Court. Ultimately, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the appellants in both cases.

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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

Where defendant doctor was the supervising physician for defendant nurse midwife, the Court of Appeals ruled that he could be compelled to testify regarding his “expert opinion about the care and treatment provided by” the nurse. The trial court denied plaintiff’s motion for a new trial, and plaintiff then filed this appeal.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The ‘Reasonable Test’ Remains Universal Resources About the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism. 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.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 25, 2022

Share Federal courts employ the All Writs Act to serve countless ends, from assisting FBI investigations to prohibiting vexatious litigation to requiring Apple to access data. This statute, which was originally part of the Judiciary Act of 1789, empowers federal courts to “issue all writs” (i.e., Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. 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. In Johnson v. Chenery Corp.

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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.” Code Ann. §

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Day on Torts

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The trial court eventually granted the motion for summary judgment, agreeing that defendant owed no duty here, and the Court of Appeals affirmed. The Court began its negligence analysis by considering whether defendant owed a duty under the contract.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 30, 2022

The DOJ investigation found that city officials focused on “revenue over public safety, leading to court practices that violate the 14 th Amendment’s due process and equal protection requirements.”. Supreme Court Rulings. The authors said courts had long since underlined the Constitutional threat posed by these practices.

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LettersBlogatory

APRIL 22, 2021

Back in March 2020, the Fourth Circuit issued a decision in the Servotronics case, holding that courts had the power, under § 1782, to order discovery in aid of a private international arbitration outside the United States. A district court has to obey the mandate of the appellate court unless it is stayed. to resolve the split.

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Day on Torts

AUGUST 9, 2021

The trial court found, based on the testimony of the parties, that the purpose of the annuity was to ensure that the mother would eventually qualify for Medicaid benefits. 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.

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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

JANUARY 29, 2021

After a bench trial, the trial court awarded plaintiff $200,000 in damages, which included approximately $64,000 in medical expenses. The Court even pointed out that defendants’ own internal investigation concluded that “Mr. Based on this evidence, the Court agreed with the trial court that there was no intentional tort here.

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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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JURIST

APRIL 12, 2023

Last week, on April 4 th , the Supreme Court of Israel handed down a ruling that ended a thirty-year property dispute between a right-wing-funded developer and an East Jerusalem family. In 1994, the Magistrate Court rejected the eviction claim. Though the Sumarin family appealed to the District Court, it was rejected.

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Patently O

MARCH 19, 2021

Judge Alan Albright’s court in the Western District of Texas is rapidly becoming the latest hot spot for patent litigation. The public debate in patent law has often focused on whether courts and juries are getting patent damages right. These motions often attach expert reports and deposition testimony as exhibits.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

And with that comes federal courts and travel. They were like, “Hey, as a paralegal, you’ve done some deposition prep. I was still doing deposition preps for physicians. If you’ve ever been a trial paralegal, nothing goes on in court the way you expect it to so you’ve already got that down.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 22, 2022

Supreme Court, in Kansas v. The landmark 5-4 ruling also concluded that the Kansas law governing the practice did not constitute double jeopardy since it merely authorized “civil” rather than “criminal” commitments. On June 23 1997, the U.S. Taken together with Kansas v. Is it a prison?

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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.”. Review Active Cases and Address Pending Court Dates. When Do Lawyers Retire? According to the U.S. is 65 for men and 63 for women.

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The Fashion Law

MAY 5, 2021

Ugg boots are going to court. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit just over five years after UGG-owner Deckers Outdoor Corporation filed suit against Australian Leather in March 2016, alleging that the unrelated company’s sale of “virtually identical” boots using the “ugg” name in the U.S. a trademark).

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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. While the trial court relied on Rule 56.06 While the trial court relied on Rule 56.06

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Day on Torts

MAY 10, 2021

Defendant moved for summary judgment, and the trial court granted the motion. The Court began by noting that a party opposing summary judgment must show “the existence of specific facts in the record which could lead a rational trier of fact to find in favor of the nonmoving party.” (internal citation omitted).

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 6, 2017

Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the U.S. Circuit also rejected EPA’s argument that the court did not have authority to review stays issued under Section 307(d)(7)(D) of the Clean Air Act. The court therefore found that the stay was unauthorized and vacated it. FEATURED CASE. A divided D.C. DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS.

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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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Broadcast Law Blog

JUNE 9, 2013

The Commission also invited comments on other aspects of the rules but, other than the fleeting expletives (and a reference to fleeting, nonsexual nudity – like the bare butt that was the subject of the NYPD fine that caused the Commission much consternation in the Courts), that’s all that the Public Notice specifically addresses.

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Patently O

MARCH 19, 2021

The court allowed the public to listen to pubic portions of the trial by telephone. During the trial, Intel asserted that VLSI’s expert had not presented a per unit royalty in his pre-trial disclosure and should not be allowed to present a per unit royalty in court. As it happened the court ruled in VLSI’s favor on this point.

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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. The court will assess whether the judge committed any errors of law or fact, abused discretion or acted beyond jurisdiction.

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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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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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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

OCTOBER 30, 2023

On June 15, 2023, the court issued the ultimate judgment not only on the torts claims but perhaps the state of our politics. He ruled for both the claim of the Plaintiff and the counterclaim of the Defendant and denied any damages to either party. _ Again, the court agreed. In another June 2023 decision in Munoz v. Six Flags St.

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