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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LegalReader

JULY 6, 2021

The lawsuit suggests that Ohio law obliges the state to accept the maximum federal unemplomyent benefits afforded by the U.S. Department of Labor.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Share Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy deal, which will reach the Supreme Court for oral argument on Monday , is just one of many examples of recent unorthodox civil procedure maneuvers in public harms litigation. But can bankruptcy court solve a public health crisis? As William Harrington, the U.S. Trustee argues is different.

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JURIST

JANUARY 17, 2024

For instance, in August, a federal judge rejected a challenge to an Ohio school district’s gender-inclusive bathroom policy. Access to bathrooms is not the only LGBTQ issue being increasingly litigated. A transgender minor and his parents originally filed the lawsuit against the school district in December 2021.

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SquirePattonBoggs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In its decision, the Court took the uncommon step of sua sponte certifying a question of state law (here, Ohio law) to a state supreme supreme court (the Ohio Supreme Court). Why it did so reveals some key insights into how the Sixth Circuit thinks about state-law certification. Purdue Pharma L.P.,

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LegalReader

JANUARY 7, 2022

Ohio's controversial law may levy criminal penalties against doctors who don't ensure that aborted fetal remains receive a proper burial.

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Law 360

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The recent federal Ohio jury verdict in National Prescription Opiate Litigation found pharmacies liable for contributing to the public nuisance of the opioid epidemic, advancing the question of when pharmacists owe a duty to warn or refuse to fill a prescription, says Roseann Termini at Widener University's Delaware Law School.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The court will first hear arguments in the cases of In re Grand Jury and Ohio Adjutant General’s Department v. Ohio Adjutant General’s Department asks the court to consider whether the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 empowers the FLRA to regulate labor practices in state militias, like the Ohio National Guard.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 15, 2022

We have been following litigation over the required use of pronouns in schools. Now a new case has been filed in Ohio where Vivian Geraghty, an English teacher at Jackson Memorial Middle School, alleged that she was forced to resign for refusing to comply with the school’s mandatory pronoun policy.

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SquirePattonBoggs

MAY 25, 2022

Today, President Biden nominated Columbus, Ohio appellate litigator Rachel Bloomekatz to the Sixth Circuit as part of his eighteenth round of judicial nominees, which would fill the seat vacated by Judge R. Rachel Bloomekatz is currently a solo practitioner at Bloomekatz Law, LLC , a law firm that she founded in 2019 in Columbus, Ohio.

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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 Bartlett v.

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Above The Law

JUNE 1, 2022

Florida's medical malpractice law keeps litigants in the dark. Come June 12th, it'll be even easier to carry guns in Ohio. Philly wants to reinstate a law that requires the reporting of lost or stolen firearms within 24 hours. appeared first on Above the Law. No way this will lead to more mourning mothers !

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 15, 2022

All 50 state attorneys general have come together through the newly formed Anti-Robocall Litigation Task Force to go after U.S. The National Consumer Law Center and the Electronic Privacy Information Center found that in 2021, about 60 million Americans were bilked out of $29 billion by scam robocalls and texts.

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LegalReader

MARCH 19, 2021

Dave Yost files a lawsuit over Envolve's subcontracting services.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 10, 2023

Share From the beginning of Monday’s oral argument in Ohio Adjutant General’s Department v. Federal Labor Relations Authority , it was crystal clear that Ohio Solicitor General Benjamin Flowers would focus like a laser beam on the claim that the FLRA has no statutory authority to issue orders against state agencies. Kagan asked.

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Patently O

AUGUST 18, 2022

By David Hricik, Mercer Law School. In a case affirmed by the Ohio Court of Appeals, those damages were $32 million. In a case affirmed by the Ohio Court of Appeals, those damages were $32 million. Dentons US LLP , 2022-Ohio-1392 (Ohio App. A few law firms are organized this way, including Dentons.

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Patently O

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The basic outcome here is that issues litigated and decided in one IPR will be seen as fixed and finally decided as between the parties in future IPRs. Since the issue was already litigated and decided in the first case, Hammond is estopped from relitigating that same issue. Ohio Willow Wood Co. Hammond Development , — F.4th

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 4, 2021

On Monday, in a federal courtroom in Ohio, major pharmacy companies — in this case, CVS, Walgreens, Giant Eagle, and Walmart — will be facing trial for the first time for their part in the raging opioid epidemic, according to NPR , US News, and the Washington Post. . Gallucci , a lead attorney for the Ohio counties.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Ohio, ex rel. The case addresses the ability of North Carolina legislators to intervene to defend the state’s voter-ID law from lawsuits under the Constitution and the Voting Rights Act. They continue to argue that the state attorney general is not adequately defending the law. Yost , 21-312. A panel of the U.S.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 24, 2023

This post is by Carlos Manuel Vázquez , a professor of law at Georgetown Law School. It is cross-posted at Transnational Litigation Blog. Supreme Court last summer, the case is now before the Ninth Circuit for decision of the legal question that is likely to be decisive: which law governs?

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JANUARY 23, 2023

The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law posted its Summer/Fall 2022 Semi-Annual Report, which includes a su mmary of the Center’s key activities between June and December 2022. Romany Webb was appointed to several steering committees convened by, among others, the National Sea Grant Law Center and the American Geophysical Union.

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SquirePattonBoggs

JANUARY 26, 2022

Today, the Sixth Circuit will consider another governmental mandate–this one, a tax mandate–as it hears argument (by video) in a case that pits Ohio once more against the federal government. On March 11, 2021, President Biden signed into law the American Rescue Plan Act (“ARPA”). Through ARPA, Congress committed to spending roughly $1.9

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HowAppealing

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Brent Kendall of The Wall Street Journal reports that “ Challenges to Biden Vaccine Rules Will Come Before Ohio-Based U.S. ” Robert Iafolla of Bloomberg Law reports that “ Sixth Circuit Wins Lottery to Weigh Biden Shot-or-Test Rule.” Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation at this link. ” Mark A.

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Patently O

JULY 23, 2022

Amy Simonson: Ohio State University Wins Trademark For The Word ‘THE’ (Source: CNN). New Job Postings on Patently-O: Neustel Law Offices, LTD. Klarquist Sparkman, LLP – Litigation/IPR Associate. Shook Hardy & Bacon – IP Litigation Attorney. Sommer: My Holiday Wish List From the PTO (Source: SSRN).

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Here are some of the prior selectees: __ In Berea, Ohio, the promoters of the 7 Floors of Hell haunted house at the Cuyahoga County Fairgrounds appreciate realism but one employee took it a bit too far. The sophomore from New Miami High School in Ohio died from a prior medical condition at the at Land of Illusion haunted house.

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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? Guides on resources and legal information and a pointer to Montana Law Help legal services ( [link] ) are also available. We share what we found below.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 7, 2023

The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law posted its Winter/Spring 2023 Semi-annual Report, which includes a summary of the Center’s key activities between January and June 2023. The Network also hosted a series of webinars on various climate litigation-related topics, featuring several national rapporteurs from the Network.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The cases came to the court last week on an emergency basis , and the formal question in both disputes is whether the government should be allowed to enforce the policies while litigation challenging them continues. 10 at the earliest.

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LegalReader

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Owners of Tilt-a-Whirl ride will face lawsuit after injuries, and Ohio beefs up state fair inspections.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Share The Supreme Court will hear oral argument in February on whether to freeze a plan created by the Environmental Protection Agency to reduce ozone levels across the United States while litigation over the plan continues in a federal appeals court. Three states – Ohio, Indiana, and West Virginia – went to D.C.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 21, 2022

In a 5-4 vote, the justices rejected the administration’s request to put the district court’s ruling on hold and allow the administration to implement the policy while litigation proceeds. In a separate case, Arizona, Montana, and Ohio also challenged the policy in a federal district court in Ohio.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MARCH 5, 2024

One of the most closely watched is Ohio v. Ohio, Indiana, and West Virginia filed suit, arguing that EPA’s rulemaking process circumvented the Clean Air Act’s cooperative-federalism mandate by forcing its own top-down control over state-level air-pollution reduction, and moved to stay the federal plan pending judicial review.

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Patently O

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Applying Ohio trade secrecy law, the court found the email did not actually contain trade secrets. ” See In re Nat’l Prescription Opiate Litig. , A recent court order in the case of Woodstream Corp. Nature’s Way Bird Products, LLC , No. 1:23-cv-294, 2023 WL 6146706 (N.D. But the court disagreed.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2022

The plaintiff also brought criminal charges against the defendant’s son arising from this incident and the defendant’s son pleaded guilty to assault in the third degree (Penal Law § 120.00 [2]). The sophomore from New Miami High School in Ohio died from a prior medical condition at the at Land of Illusion haunted house.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Concepcion involved a state law that treated arbitration clauses unfavorably. The district court determined that Sundance had waived its right to require arbitration because it waited too long, and it concluded that Morgan was harmed by the time and money that she had spent in litigation, instead of getting ready for arbitration.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The law at the center of the case is known as the “good neighbor” provision of the Clean Air Act. Before the EPA’s plan could go into effect last August, three states — Ohio, Indiana, and Virginia, went to the U.S. But “nobody got an opportunity to comment on that,” said Gorsuch, as federal law might require. When a divided D.C.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 2, 2022

Share This week we highlight cert petitions (and one original action ) that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, whether New Jersey can withdraw from its Waterfront Commission Compact with New York concerning governance and law enforcement over the Port of New York and New Jersey. In New York v. However, the U.S.

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