Paralegal Bootcamp

JULY 24, 2023

However, it’s essential to understand that the kind of litigation paralegal role you choose will influence your job satisfaction. This is because some paralegals might prefer a corporate setting as an in-house paralegal, while others might thrive in a law firm setting working in civil litigation or other commercial litigation.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

While the recent bankruptcies of Johnson & Johnson, Purdue Pharma and Boy Scouts of America have sparked debate about whether bankruptcy court is the best venue for resolving mass tort claims, bankruptcy's structural, procedural and substantive benefits make it a superior choice over multidistrict litigation, says Samir Parikh at Lewis & Clark Law (..)

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more. However, my students and I often discuss the remarkably wide range of torts that comes with All Hallow’s Eve. In another June 2023 decision in Munoz v.

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Stroud is General Counsel at Unified Patents – an organization often adverse to litigation-funded entities. [1] 1] He is also an adjunct professor at American University Washington College of Law. litigation finance boom of the past 20 years—as has been widely reported, private equity now undergirds huge swaths of U.S.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The thirty-seventh annual survey on choice of law in the American courts is now available on SSRN. Choice of Law The Eighth Circuit applied Mexican law to a suit against General Motors over a car crash in Mexico, while an Ohio state court applied South African law to invalidate a marriage. In Yegiazaryan v.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The US Supreme Court Thursday released the list of oral arguments it will hear during the January 2023 session. The court will hear seven arguments in a session that begins on January 9, 2023. The court will first hear arguments in the cases of In re Grand Jury and Ohio Adjutant General’s Department v.

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LPB Network

JUNE 23, 2021

Today on the Courts Law section of JOTWELL is Howard Wasserman’s essay, The Paths to Comprehensive Entity Liability in Constitutional Litigation. Howard reviews two recent articles by Katherine Mims Crocker, Reconsidering Section 1983’s Nonabrogation of Sovereign Immunity, 73 Fla.

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 7, 2023

León Castellanos-Jankiewicz Researcher, International Law T.M.C. Asser Institute for International & European Law, The Hague Mexico’s ongoing transnational litigation against the firearms industry in U.S. legislation—not Mexican laws. On appeal in the U.S. and in respect to U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 1, 2022

The Supreme Court of Japan may soon weigh in on a growing field of climate litigation in Japan against coal-fired power plants. On May 6, 2022, the Citizens’ Committee on the Kobe Coal-Fired Power Plant filed an appeal to Japan’s Supreme Court in Citizens’ Committee on the Kobe Coal-Fired Power Plant v. Civil law cases.

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Day on Torts

JUNE 13, 2022

Where defendant’s allegedly defamatory statements accusing plaintiffs of bigamy were made within the context of a declaratory judgment action, the absolute litigation privilege applied and dismissal of the defamation case was affirmed. This case is a good example of the absolute litigation privilege being applied. In Vanwinkle v.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Below is an expanded version of my column in the New York Post on the return of Halloween and joy of little litigators in anticipation of the return of the festival of Samhain. Here is the column: With the arrival of Halloween, little children and litigators will again celebrate their favorite holiday. Six Flags St.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 30, 2024

Violating obligations under the Treaty can result in victims claiming remedies before national courts, including the right to ecological restoration and environmental remediation. Ecological restoration and environmental remediation are some responses to climate change, and thereby this Treaty is likely to impact future climate litigation.

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 29, 2021

In FS Cairo (Nile Plaza) LLC v Lady Brownlie [2021] UKSC 45 (“ Brownlie II ”), the Supreme Court held as a matter of ratio by a 4:1 majority that consequential loss satisfies the ‘tort gateway’ in Practice Direction (“ PD ”) 6B, para. Economic torts? Background. PD 6B, para. Three main reasons were given.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 21, 2024

The Supreme Court of Canada has granted leave to appeal in Sinclair v Venezia Turismo. In light of the test for obtaining leave and the relatively low number of cases in which leave is granted, this offers at least some suggestion that the top court is interested in considering the legal issues raised in the case.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more. However, my students and I often discuss the remarkably wide range of torts that comes with All Hallow’s Eve.

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LawTechnologyToday

MARCH 19, 2021

In litigation (and life), being organized often leads to better outcomes. The path to becoming organized, specifically in litigation, can present significant challenges. When it comes to litigation needs, a case management system will enhance client service when properly used. Capturing the Data. Analysis and Reporting.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 23, 2023

Baldwin’s channeling of Trumpy arguments in court has proven equally successful. As expected, a court has ruled for Baldwin after finding that the sister of the fallen Marine was a limited public figure. Baldwin gave $5,000 to Jiennah Crayton, the widow of Marine Lance Cpl. I reposted your photo. million Instagram followers.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more. A tort action for intentional infliction of emotional distress is likely to fail. Again, the court agreed.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 21, 2021

From the publisher’ site : About Climate Change Litigation. This book investigates and discusses the respective issues arising in the current discourse on climate protection from different legal perspectives (including international law, European law and national public and civil law). Table Of Contents.

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Ms Karpik commenced representative proceedings—a class action—in the Federal Court of Australia. They contracted to travel on the cruise in different parts of the world, and according to Princess, were subject to different terms and conditions subject to different systems of law. The decision is significant not just for the litigants.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The argument revealed a bench deeply skeptical of the uncertainty maritime insurance contracts would face under a lower-court decision limiting the enforcement of choice-of-law clauses in those contracts. Often, when the parties are from different jurisdictions, they select a neutral forum and its law. Zapata Off-Shore Co.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 6, 2023

That is why the Supreme Court’s decision to review a basic feature of how the law may or may not interfere in work stoppages is noteworthy. Glacier asked a Washington state court to make the Teamsters pay for damage that happened when cement hardened after the strike began. The case, Glacier Northwest v.

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The Cloud Court Blog

MARCH 6, 2023

TL;DR: Cloud Court augments Hire Counsel’s deep pool of expertise for projects that require intensive time and resource demands. Gibson, our testimony intelligence solution , is an intuitive complement to the litigation process. Press release

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 26, 2021

As was briefly announced earlier on this blog , on 29 January 2021, the Dutch Court of Appeal in The Hague gave a ruling in a long-standing litigation launched by four Nigerian farmers and the Dutch Milieudefensie. Climate change and related human rights litigation is undoubtedly of increasing importance in private international law.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 8, 2022

On February 8, 2022, the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic gave its final approval to the proposed constitutional law A.C.3156-B The post also illustrates the positive impact the reform is likely to have on climate litigation initiatives in Italy. By Riccardo Luporini, Matteo Fermeglia, and Maria Antonia Tigre. 179/2019 ).

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 3, 2022

courts interpret choice-of-law clauses. That paper contains a detailed discussion of the most common interpretive issues—whether the clause selects the tort laws of the chosen jurisdiction in addition to its contract laws, for example—that arise in litigation. I argued for the laws at the time of litigation.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

As there are no laws in Mali to aid the plaintiffs in seeking damages or civil remedies against foreign exporters, they brought their claims under US law, specifically the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act and the Alien Torts Statute. Several of the companies have declined to comment on the pending litigation.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

It is to be hoped that the European Union will become aware of the need to provide ad hoc rules on the liability of healthcare personnel who engage in activities that are intrinsically hazardous to patients’ health: if not substantive rules or guidelines, at least rules on jurisdictional competence and applicable law.

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 12, 2023

By Moses Wiepen, Legal Trainee at the Higher Regional Court of Hamm, Germany In its decision of 21 July 2023 (V ZR 112/22), the German Federal Court of Justice confirmed that Art. In general, following the procedural law principle of actor sequitur forum rei , the Canadian trust should be brought to court in Canadian courts.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 8, 2023

FNHRA, a law enacted under Congress’s spending clause powers, requires nursing facilities participating in Medicare and Medicaid to “protect and promote the rights of each resident” as a condition of receiving funds. The court then applied its long-standing two-step analysis to conclude that FNHRA is enforceable through Section 1983.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 30, 2024

The Japanese Yearbook of Private International Law ( kokusai shiho nenpo ) (hereinafter “JYPIL”) is an annual publication of the Private International Law Association of Japan ( kokusai shih? Gakkai ) (hereinafter “PILAJ”). The PILAJ was founded in 1949 as an academic organization.

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Conflict of Laws

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Written by NIE Yuxin, Wuhan University Institute of International Law 1. Background China’s Civil Procedure Law was enacted in April 1991 by the Fourth Session of the Seventh National People’s Congress. However, no substantial revisions were made to the provisions concerning foreign-related civil litigation. Jurisdiction 2.1

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 4, 2022

The prosecution moved to dismiss “in the interest of justice” and a New York trial court dismissed the matter. Kavanaugh’s opinion for the court. Kavanaugh began by affirming that precedent from the court and lower courts recognized claims for unreasonable seizure pursuant to legal process under the Fourth Amendment.

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Day on Torts

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The trial court dismissed the action, finding that the settlement of the personal injury case “very clearly intended to foreclose upon any future wrongful death funds related to the mesothelioma litigation,” and the Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal. In Welch v. Welch , No. M2021-00081-COA-R3-CV (Tenn.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Starting in 2017, cities, counties, and states across the United States have filed claims (see here and here ) in state courts against fossil fuel companies seeking redress for the climate harms their products have caused. Many of these cases asserted nuisance and other tort law claims. Chevron Corp.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

In celebration of Thanksgiving, I give you our annual Turkey Torts of civil and criminal cases that add liability to libations on this special day (with past cases at the bottom). Indeed, the torts and crimes recorded this year seem painfully reminiscent of this loathsome year. Some things are happily left out of the courts.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 4, 2023

At the Supreme Court on Monday, the justices appeared conflicted over whether to allow a multi-billion-dollar bankruptcy plan for Purdue Pharma to move forward. Monday’s oral argument was the latest chapter in four years’ worth of litigation over the efforts to seek a fresh start in the face of the opioid lawsuits.

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