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Federal appeals court upholds attorney’s fees award in Missouri voter registration dispute

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The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit on Monday upheld an award of $1,143,627.96 in litigation expenses for the League of Women Voters of Missouri against Missouri Secretary of State John Ashcroft in a dispute over voter registration. in fees and $27,484.15

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Not Again! Two More Cases, Just this Week, of Hallucinated Citations in Court Filings Leading to Sanctions

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Yet it happened again this week — and it happened not once, but in two separate cases, one in Missouri and the other in Massachusetts. In fairness, the Missouri case involved a pro se litigant, not a lawyer, but that pro se litigant claimed to have gotten the citations from a lawyer he hired through the internet.

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IPRs and the APA: Review of Director’s Discretion to Initiate IPRs

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Jordan is a second-year law student at the University of Missouri School of Law and a registered patent agent. 13, 2023) , Judge Taranto (joined by Judges Lourie and Stoll) largely affirmed the district court’s dismissal, confirming that the Director’s instructions are unreviewable. The district court ruled that 35 U.S.C. §

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Seeking Transparency in Waco

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Chao was a patent attorney and patent litigator for 20 years before becoming a professor and I have long valued his insight. Judge Alan Albright’s court in the Western District of Texas is rapidly becoming the latest hot spot for patent litigation. Moreover, individual court rules are now requiring greater transparency.

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Fractured court blocks vaccine-or-test requirement for large workplaces but green-lights vaccine mandate for health care workers

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Share With COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations reaching a new record high as a result of the Omicron variant, the Supreme Court on Thursday put the Biden administration’s vaccine-or-test mandate for large employers on hold, while litigation over its legality continues in the lower courts.

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

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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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Biden vaccine policies face Supreme Court test amid nationwide COVID-19 surge

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Share With over 100,000 Americans hospitalized for COVID-19 as a result of the highly contagious Omicron variant, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument Friday in two sets of challenges to the Biden administration’s authority to take action to combat the pandemic. 7 but left the 6th Circuit’s ruling reviving the mandate in place.

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