Day on Torts

JUNE 1, 2023

Faced with no Illinois law directly on point, the federal court determined that the reasoning in Haley v. The Haley could found the courts of Louisiana would permit recovery for emotional distress “during a negligently produced ordeal” Continue reading Pan American World Airways, Inc., 2d 311, 314-15 (5th Cir.

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Above The Law

JUNE 27, 2023

American Lawyer ] * Legal departments preparing for a sharp uptick in litigation. The Guardian ] * Louisiana lawyer bought 8,888 Jell-O shots. While that sounds like a normal Monday in Louisiana, in this case it was a charity event for the College World Series. Bloomberg Law News ] * FTX says they've recovered $7B.

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LawSites

JULY 12, 2022

If you are looking for a scorecard naming those who are leading the charge on innovation in law, you can do no better than the Fastcase 50 , the annual listing by the legal intelligence company Fastcase that honors 50 of the law’s “smartest, most courageous, innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders.”.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

A group of Republican attorneys general Monday asked to join ongoing litigation over a Trump-era border policy that fast-tracks the deportation of individuals captured at the US-Mexico border. The plaintiffs in this litigation are currently detained migrants from places where they feel they would be in grave danger if forced to return.

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JURIST

JUNE 27, 2023

The plaintiffs allege that this provision violates the Virginia Readmission Act , a law passed in 1870 alongside a series of statutes to readmit representatives from former Confederate states to Congress. According to the complaint, only nine crimes were considered felonies under Virginia common law in 1870.

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Patently O

JANUARY 24, 2022

Their article Federal Judge Seeks Patent Cases was recently published in the Duke Law Review, and I’m currently working on a project with them on writs of mandamus at the Federal Circuit. Guest post by Professors J. Jonas Anderson and Paul Gugliuzza. – Jason.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Share The Supreme Court on Thursday left in place an order by a federal appeals court canceling a hearing intended to draw a new congressional map for Louisiana. In June 2022, the district court blocked Louisiana from using its congressional map and gave the legislature 14 days to create a new map, including a second majority-Black district.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The Special Litigation Section of the Justice Department’s Civil Right Division and the U.S Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Mississippi will conduct this investigation according to the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. The LPD has agreed to cooperate with the investigation.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 21, 2022

The justices on Thursday agreed to take up a challenge by Texas and Louisiana to a new federal policy that prioritizes certain groups of unauthorized immigrants for arrest and deportation. Texas and Louisiana went to federal court in Texas to challenge the policy. District Judge Drew Tipton vacated the policy on June 10, and the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

In torts, we often discuss strike suits and slip-and-fall actions designed to force settlements from litigation-wary companies. In Louisiana, police arrested a man, Arthur Bates Jr., Notably, the law below ratchets up if there is any injuries in response to emergency calls but the base offense caps out at six months in jail.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

MAY 12, 2022

ARE YOU NEW TO LITIGATION? If you are new (or fairly new) to litigation, this free guide will help you get a handle on your cases and be able to anticipate what the attorney needs before they ask for it. If you need a legal form, they have a large selection in many different areas of law. Curcuru, N.P.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

It finally denied review in the two cases challenging New York rent stabilization laws as a taking, which had been relisted 11 times since the court’s end-of-summer long conference. The court also took action in a pair of recently relisted cases involving the lawfulness of a Washington state electoral district. Palmer without comment.

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LegalReader

AUGUST 22, 2022

In Louisiana, any individual who suffers an injury will have to ensure they follow the strictly regulated time limit on filing their claim.

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LegalReader

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Based on the severity of your injury, you need to weigh up the pros and cons of going through a lawsuit with the potential payout of a settlement. .

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 28, 2021

Share This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, the scope of the First Amendment — specifically, whether a law forbidding clandestine recordings is overbroad and whether a state may require individuals to carry identification cards labeled “SEX OFFENDER.” In Louisiana v.

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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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JURIST

APRIL 14, 2021

She served as a federal prosecutor in the DOJ, where she became Special Litigation Counsel for the prosecution of human trafficking crimes. She is currently a professor at New York University School of Law, as well as Special Counsel to Lowenstein Sandler LLP and a member of the board of Covenant House International.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 13, 2023

The illegal destruction of disciplinary records can make it harder to hold deputies accountable in a court of law, or track problem officers moving from department to department, said Sam Walker, emeritus professor of criminal justice at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. We’re not a law enforcement or compliance agency.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Share Can the Biden administration issue guidelines setting priorities in the enforcement of immigration law? Texas , Texas and Louisiana have asked the court to weigh in on this debate. Do states have standing to challenge these guidelines? These are the three questions before the Supreme Court in United States v.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JULY 12, 2023

Supreme Court ruled that Texas and Louisiana lacked standing to challenge a Biden Administration immigration enforcement policy. The States of Texas and Louisiana claim that the Guidelines contravene two federal statutes that they contend require the arrest of certain noncitizens upon their release from prison ( 8 U.S.C. 1231(a)(2) ).

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Patently O

JANUARY 17, 2022

Back in 1969, long before Bubba Gump, Louisiana Judge Alvin Rubin explained the virtues of shrimp: “Shrimp, whether boiled, broiled, barbecued or fried, are a gustatory delight.” patent law. ” Bills eliminating this loophole were quickly introduced into Congress, and eventually became law in 1984, creating 35 U.S.C. §

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 26, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a plea from Louisiana and nine other states to bar federal agencies from considering the social costs of greenhouse gases as part of their decision-making process. The administration appealed to the conservative U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 28, 2024

Instead, they contended, he supplied the guns that his fellow gang members used to commit the crimes, and under a Texas law known as the “law of parties” he could face the same punishment that the shooters faced: death. Prosecutors conceded that Medrano was not actually at the scene of the crime. But the justices declined to do so.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The federal law at the center of the case is known as Title 42 of the Public Health Services Act. But shortly before the policy was set to end in May, a federal judge in Louisiana ordered the Biden administration to continue the restrictions.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Scholars have argued that the Supreme Court, under the leadership of Chief Justice John Roberts, has applied a color-blind analysis to the law, churning out opinions that privilege white people, reinforce police power, and fortify carceral systems. While the opinions the court delivered in Buck v. Davis , Peña-Rodriguez v. Colorado , Timbs v.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The controversy involves a morass of litigation arising out of the employment of Denise Badgerow by a Louisiana financial advising firm formerly operated by respondent Greg Walters and two other individuals. Walters reads Vaden quite differently, as reflecting a general “look-through” principle pervading the FAA.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Miller involves whether federal laws trump a lawsuit brought against a freight broker by the driver of a car who was seriously injured by a tractor-trailer on a trip arranged by the broker. The other cases in which the justices denied review included: Louisiana v. The state courts agreed, prompting Louisiana to come to the court.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

OCTOBER 7, 2021

You are also trying to determine whether your law firm should finance further care (if your firm offers that). The reality is that most litigation-related injuries are to the neck, back, and knee. While it is not impossible to injure other body parts in a way that would lead to litigation, those cases are few and far between.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Two trailblazing civil-rights litigators. Wade just a few years out of law school. While attending Rutgers Law School in the 1960s, Frank Askin was a student of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. He also founded the Constitutional Litigation Clinic (now the Constitutional Rights Clinic) at Rutgers. The woman who argued Roe v.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 19, 2022

Earlier this year, New York City Mayor Eric Adams proposed rolling back his state’s raise the age law that, in 2017, had moved 16- and 17-year-olds out of New York’s violent Rikers Island jails and into its more rehabilitative family court. And in July, Louisiana Gov.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 17, 2023

There are state courts and federal courts, state statutes and federal statutes, state common law and federal common law. The law on this subject is complicated. Unlike state courts, federal courts do not apply state law to decide the issue of enforceability. They apply federal common law.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

Louisiana that the Sixth Amendment (as incorporated against the states by the 14th Amendment) guarantees criminal defendants the right to a unanimous jury, it meant a unanimous 12-person jury — not a six-person jury, which is all that Florida affords some felony defendants. They are supported by Georgia and 18 other states. Bouarfa sued.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 18, 2022

LDF), where he litigates school desegregation and other educational equity cases, argues that students are having their home behavior regulated through virtual platforms — a practice that results in the disproportionate referral of students of color and students with disabilities becoming system-involved. .

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Two states with Republican attorneys general, Missouri and Louisiana, allege that both they and their residents have been harmed by the social media platforms’ suppression or censorship of their speech. In July, U.S. Decisions in those cases are expected by summer 2024. This article was originally published at Howe on the Court.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2022

Despite the pledge to return to a respect for the “rule of law,” Biden openly suggested that they could use the litigation to get as much money out the door as possible before being barred by the courts. Nothing could be more damaging to the litigation and the federal courts quickly rejected the CDC and Tribe arguments.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 6, 2021

If litigated, the state’s nuanced dog liability laws would come into effect. Pennsylvania has a quirky set of laws. That codified status triggers common law strict liability even if there is no specific law imposing such liability on owners. She was watching the dogs for her roommate. Rosenberry v.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Yet it left the door open for states to implement or reform their own laws – and some chose to preserve capital punishment. The Furman litigation was the culmination of a campaign conducted by a group of lawyers under the auspices of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. The Furman Framework. Reaction to the Furman decision was swift.

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