SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 24, 2022

This case began when Robyn Morgan filed in Iowa federal court a wage-and-hour complaint on behalf of herself and similarly situated employees against Sundance, Inc., a Taco Bell franchisee. Finally, about eight months after Morgan filed her complaint, Sundance moved to compel arbitration of Morgan’s claims.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 18, 2022

But what happens if a party begins to litigate a case, and then seeks to compel arbitration several months later? Robyn Morgan worked at a Sundance-owned Taco Bell in Iowa in 2015, and the application that she used to apply for her job contained an arbitration clause. In Morgan v. Finally, the parties make dueling policy arguments.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

This latest ruling is part of a wave of legislation and litigation surrounding felony disenfranchisement. Iowa, the last state to bar felons from voting for life, restored the right of felons who completed their sentences to vote in 2020. New York and Virginia both restored the voting rights of felons on parole in 2021.

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Law 360

APRIL 23, 2021

mishandled a COVID-19 outbreak at an Iowa plant could set a legal precedent that would streamline injury litigation over coronavirus exposures and deaths, attorneys say. A jurisdictional issue to be decided by the Eighth Circuit in a suit alleging Tyson Foods Inc.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 31, 2021

The department said it has not opened investigations in Florida, Texas, Arkansas, or Arizona because those states’ bans on universal indoor masking are not being enforced in schools due to litigation or other state action.

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Patently O

MARCH 18, 2021

” (with the caveat that examiners and litigators are a smaller n). Litigator: 10%. Thanks to the University of Iowa College of Law law library for pulling the definition from the 1957 edition of Webster’s for me. Here’s the overall distribution of respondents: Patent attorney: 68%. Patent agent: 11%.

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LegalReader

AUGUST 26, 2021

Former anchor Sonya Heitshusen claims that WHO-TV and its parent company, Nexstar Media Group, regularly removed older female reporters who were seen as no longer "camera-worthy.".

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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] litigation finance boom of the past 20 years—as has been widely reported, private equity now undergirds huge swaths of U.S. Guest post by Jonathan Stroud. Patent assertion finance today is a multibillion-dollar business. [2]

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LegalReader

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

There are various types of compensation that the victim can collect.

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NewmanFerraraLLP

JANUARY 19, 2023

But a review of the item’s ingredient-disclosure list reveals that the green tea and echinacea were “inactive” ingredients; “a tacit acknowledgment that they have no connection to the Product’s function.” ” ( Complaint , paragraph 43) Some may find that hard to swallow. # # # SOURCE SINGO v. .”

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Patently O

JUNE 17, 2022

Gugliuzza, Temple University Beasley School of Law; Jonas Anderson, American University Washington College of Law; and Jason Rantanen, University of Iowa College of Law. Litigants shouldn’t get to choose the judge who decides their case. This is the second in a new series on venue transfer requests and mandamus at the Federal Circuit.

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LegalReader

DECEMBER 27, 2020

The family of late Amy Lynn Mullis is suing Todd Mullis, her husband, in a wrongful death lawsuit.

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LegalReader

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

The lawsuit claims that a ban on in-school mask mandates means that many disabled children cannot safely attend in-person classes.

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NewmanFerraraLLP

JANUARY 8, 2023

Will Starbucks wake up and smell the coffee? # # # SOURCE Brownell v Starbucks Coffee Company (Class Action Complaint).

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NewmanFerraraLLP

JANUARY 23, 2023

This Litigation Was Pretty Juicy. The plaintiff, who lived in Illinois, sought to pursue claims on behalf of herself and a class of other Illinois-based purchasers, together with those consumers who lived in Arkansas, Iowa, Wyoming, Texas, Nebraska, South Dakota, West Virginia, Utah, Idaho, Nebraska and Montana. In Cristia v.

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Patently O

MAY 17, 2021

The holding is important–repeated and specific threats of litigation by an out-of-state patentee can be sufficient to establish personal jurisdiction for a declaratory judgment action. [2] ISI is a subsidiary of Trimble that is both incorporated and headquartered in Iowa. In 2019, Trimble and ISE sued for declaratory judgment.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, quoted from a Bloomberg Law article that the Biden administration “is on track to reverse the government’s position in more cases before the Supreme Court than the Justice Department did during the first full high court term of Donald Trump’s presidency.”

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 1, 2022

18 , asking the justices to allow the government to implement the program while litigation continues in the lower courts. And other states, such as Nebraska and Iowa, have standing, they said, because for the next three years another federal law, the American Rescue Plan Act, bars them from taxing loans that are discharged.

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LegalReader

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The lawsuit claims that Barilla's branding and imaging could lead consumers to conclude that the company's pasta products are sourced from Italy--when they are, in fact, manufactured in Iowa and New York.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2023

The justices and the litigants devoted substantial time discussing when a party’s decision to adopt an objectively reasonable, but incorrect, interpretation would satisfy the FCA’s knowledge requirement. Split panels of the 7th Circuit had held it was never relevant – a view soundly rejected Tuesday by at least a majority of the justices.

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CourtTechBulletin

DECEMBER 16, 2021

We were curious as to the status of online court help to the self-represented litigants as a good 2021 year-end wrapup article for the CTB? We share what we found below. In addition, we just learned of a new NIJ study on the use of Chatbots in the Criminal Justice System to add to our list of online helpers.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

To what extent, she said, does California get to control how Iowa houses its sows? Why can’t California solve this problem some other way – for example, by segregating Iowa’s pork or requiring it to be labeled as coming from conditions to which the state objects? Kagan offered a possible solution to the dilemma facing the court.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

It began as a lawsuit brought by Robyn Morgan, an employee at an Iowa Taco Bell, against Sundance, a company that owns more than 150 Taco Bell franchises nationwide. Sundance, Inc. came in the order list from the justices’ private conference on Nov. It was the only new case in which the justices granted review.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Nunes will be allowed to litigate his claim that Lizza defamed him by claiming that he secretly moved his farm from California to Iowa and linked the move to the alleged use of undocumented labor. The appellate panel ruled unanimously for Rep. Devin Nunes against journalist Ryan Lizza who now writes for Politico.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 6, 2021

If litigated, the state’s nuanced dog liability laws would come into effect. States like Iowa, Kansas, Ohio, Missouri, Wisconsin, Mississippi, Arkansas, Michigan, Louisiana, and Kentucky have breed specific laws barring or limiting certain dog breeds, including pit bulls. She was watching the dogs for her roommate.

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Patently O

MARCH 17, 2022

I’m teaching my usual Introduction to Intellectual Property course, together with an especially large Civil Procedure class (which at Iowa is 4 credit hours), and the Iowa Innovation, Business & Law Center is running an exciting speaker series on Genetics, Law and Society.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 6, 2021

Muller is the Bouma fellow in law and professor of law at the University of Iowa College of Law. Litigants then moved to Section 2. Share This article is part of a symposium on the court’s decision in Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee. Arizona “generally makes it quite easy for residents to vote.”

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Patently O

APRIL 22, 2021

Below he introduces the core idea underlying his new article on nonobviousness forthcoming in the Iowa Law Review. My take is different: the whole primary/secondary categorization is unhelpful, especially in litigation and during post-issuance PTAB review. Nonobviousness and Time. Dmitry Karshtedt. Let’s take one illustration.

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LawSites

MARCH 10, 2023

Joe continues to tinker away and can currently be found in Northwest Iowa. Nicole began her career and practiced for 15 years at an AmLaw 100 firm in Chicago where she was a partner in the litigation department. As a student, I was provided with a lot of opportunities to get involved with the ReInvent program.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Instead, the preferences of Iowa or other pork-producing States would project into California to control what Californians eat.”. A brief filed by the Retail Litigation Center cautioned that the 9th Circuit’s decision could affect the supply chain for other retail goods and restaurants more broadly.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Almost a dozen states (including Idaho, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Arizona, and North Dakota) have passed legislation to bar CRT and roughly a dozen more are considering such legislation. That is why Taub’s answer is so interesting in light of the state and federal litigation. 20-1088.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 31, 2023

That view was captured this week in the comment of Iowa school board member Rachel Wall, who said: “The purpose of a public ed is to not teach kids what the parents want. Yet administrators have an incentive to yield to the mob, even at the cost of millions in litigation costs. It is to teach them what society needs them to know.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

1983 claim seeking DNA testing of crime-scene evidence begins to run at the end of state-court litigation denying DNA testing, including any appeals (as the U.S. Iowa — and otherwise commandeering state courts and state agencies to carry out a federal child-placement program. Goertz , 21-442. relisted after the Jan. 21 and Feb.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit reversed Autrey’s ruling and put the program on hold nationwide to maintain the status quo while litigation continued. Four states – Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, and South Carolina – next assert that they have standing because the program will reduce their tax revenues. In a brief unsigned order on Dec.

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LawSites

MARCH 18, 2024

The problem was this: Many of the books that contain our official case law were published by companies that had a history of acting aggressively through litigation to prevent others from copying the law or from competing in the realm of legal information. The ‘guillotine’ the project used for slicing books’ bindings.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2022

Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit upholding a similar Iowa law. 1983 claim seeking DNA testing of crime-scene evidence begins to run at the end of state-court litigation denying DNA testing, including any appeals (as the U.S. Kelly further claims the circuits are divided on the issue, with a decision of the U.S. United States.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. Derivative Litigation , No. Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement v. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Roati.

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