LegalReader

APRIL 28, 2022

The statute of limitations is a significant part of the law surrounding personal injury claims.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Hendrix , a case that exemplifies the Gordian knot that is the federal habeas corpus statute. Under Section 2255(h), a prisoner can bring a second or successive petition based only on facts that clearly demonstrate actual innocence or a new rule of constitutional law that the Supreme Court has made retroactive.

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JURIST

JANUARY 3, 2024

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) sued Texas and Governor Greg Abbott in his official capacity on Wednesday over a state law that criminalizes illegal entry into the border state from anywhere but a port of entry, exerting state jurisdiction over what is usually a federal matter. Last month, Abbott signed SB 4.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 23, 2023

The Ninth Circuit recently addressed the issue of whether parties can contractually agree to shorten the statute of limitations period for bringing a copyright infringement claim. Normally, the statute of limitations for a copyright violation is three years. In an unpublished opinion in the case, Evox Productions, LLC v.

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LegalReader

JULY 7, 2021

While the standard statute of limitations for personal injury cases in Florida is four years, certain factors can extend the deadline or effectively pause the timer.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

After over two hours of debate, there was little support for the 9th Circuit’s decision, but the justices appeared divided on what path the litigation should take next. When Kneedler argued that the statute dealt with suppression, rather than the production, of information, Justice Elena Kagan asked, “Why isn’t it about both?”

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 2, 2023

A new conflict of laws article was just published today on the African Journal of International and Comparative Law. It is titled: CSA Okoli, A Yekini & P Oamen, “The Igiogbe Custom as a Mandatory Norm in Conflict of Laws: An Exploration of Nigerian Appellate Court Decisions.”

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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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Paralegal Bootcamp

JULY 28, 2022

So, what are the things we do that get YOU thinking this could be the best career decision you make as a Criminal Law Paralegal? Caveat – there is so much information about what Criminal Law Paralegals do, I wish I could relay to you everything Perhaps I could share more in-depth details at another time. Communicate with Clients.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 25, 2022

Share Federal courts employ the All Writs Act to serve countless ends, from assisting FBI investigations to prohibiting vexatious litigation to requiring Apple to access data. This statute, which was originally part of the Judiciary Act of 1789, empowers federal courts to “issue all writs” (i.e.,

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Share A divided Supreme Court on Thursday denied Florida’s request to allow it to temporarily enforce a law that makes it a misdemeanor to allow children at drag performances. The brief unsigned order means that the state cannot apply the law anywhere in the state while a Florida restaurant’s challenge to the law continues.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

For example, the case before the court may revolve around events, activities, or situations that occurred in a foreign country, or the case may involve foreign parties or the application of foreign law. In other words, the domestic political debate over transnational litigation stands at the center of this book.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 22, 2023

The Federal Arbitration Act gives the defendant the right to an immediate (“interlocutory”) appeal, but it says nothing about a stay of litigation in the district court. She explained: “I follow the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the statute that tells me to look there.” Two points were central for them.

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FDA Law Blog

MARCH 24, 2024

By Faraz Siddiqui — As drug manufacturers battle the Health Resources and Services Administration (“HRSA”) in federal courts over the role of 340B contract pharmacies, an Eighth Circuit decision to uphold a 2021 Arkansas law may render those cases inconsequential in that state. Code Ann. § 23-92-604(c)(1), (2) (Act 1103).

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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.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

” The statute at issue before the court is Title 47, section 230(c) of the US Code , which was originally passed under section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. The statute broadly shields online platforms from liability for content posted to the platform by its users. “The goal is to thread the needle.”

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 6, 2023

She asserted claims in tort and under the Australian Consumer Law ( ACL ) in schedule 2 to the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth) ( CCA ) against companies behind the ship: Carnival plc and its subsidiary, Princess Cruise Lines Ltd (together, Princess ). The decision is significant not just for the litigants.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The courses in legal research and writing equipped me with the ability to efficiently locate and analyze relevant statutes, regulations, and case law. Understanding Legal Procedures I was exposed to multiple areas of law such as Civil Litigation, Criminal Law, Business law, etc., GET ACCESS 3.

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The IP Law Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

As a result, the Federal Circuit was not persuaded the “venue ruling implicates a ‘basic, unsettled, recurring legal issue [] over which there is considerable litigation producing disparate results,’ or similar circumstances that might warrant mandamus.”

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Patently O

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Thus, the statute provides a district court with discretion to move venue “[f]or the convenience of parties and witnesses, in the interest of justice.” An oddity of patent litigation jurisprudence is that Section 1404 determinations are not deemed patent-law specific. ” 28 U.S.C.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

But what do you do when your first day starts with 60 active pre-litigation files assigned to you? Even if you’re in a different practice area, some of these will also apply to you, whether in personal injury, real estate, or commercial litigation. . It may be more critical for the paralegal to know the medicine than the law.

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Law 360

JANUARY 1, 2024

One of the biggest players in Illinois politics faces a criminal racketeering trial, a host of lawsuits filed under a decades-old genetic information privacy law will advance and the state's high court is expected to further weigh in on insurance coverage for litigation under the state's biometric privacy statute in some of the Illinois cases to watch (..)

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Paralegal Bootcamp

AUGUST 5, 2021

The backbone of all good personal injury law firms is its paralegals. Paralegals are essential to a personal injury law firm, whether for a solo practitioner or a large firm with many lawyers. A valuable personal injury paralegal is a paralegal who knows not only the law but also the medicine. initial intake).

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CARET Legal

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

By leveraging legal workflow automation to optimize operations, law offices can unlock a host of benefits that enhance efficiency, accuracy, collaboration, and overall success. The automation of legal workflows has become a game-changer for law offices. This workflow starts as soon as you file the summons and petition for dissolution.

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The IP Law Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The Ninth Circuit was recently asked to address the “public interest” exemption to California’s anti-SLAPP law in a class action lawsuit brought by a Plaintiff whose photo and personal information were used without her consent to advertise subscriptions to a website. The case, Martinez v. ZoomInfo Technologies, Inc. decided Sep. decided Sep.

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LegalReader

MARCH 1, 2022

In Indiana, the statute of limitations gives claimants two years from the date of the accident to file for personal injury claims.

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 16, 2023

As its title suggests, this course explores the influence of public international law upon private international law, in the history and the theory as well as in the formation and the application of the law. Chapter II addresses the public international law sources of private international law in an ever-changing world.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 30, 2021

The function and context of the statute also featured strongly in the arguments. Michel responded that the structure of the statute suggested that the thing being extended was the statute’s temporary exemption — supporting both a continuity meaning and the conclusion that Congress intended increasing levels of compliance over time.

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Passengers, Australian and non-Australian, want relief under the Australian Consumer Law ( ACL ). They commence representative proceedings alleging breaches of consumer law, and negligence in the Federal Court of Australia. Statute has left little of the common law untouched.

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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. WSOU] has only two employees who work from Waco, one of whom is its in-house attorney responsible for litigation. Guest post by Professors J.

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JURIST

JULY 13, 2022

Johnson granted a temporary restraining order against state laws designed to take effect after Roe v. The laws make no exception for abortions in the case of rape or incest. The plaintiffs petitioned for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction to remove the bans while they are being litigated.

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Day on Torts

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Further, where the other defendant was added as a party after the statute of limitations had run, summary judgment for that defendant was also affirmed. Because plaintiff was a minor when the incident occurred, the statute of limitations was tolled until he turned eighteen. In Waller v. Varangon Corporation d/b/a Varangon Academy , No.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

City of New York , a 2022 lawsuit brought by a group of cooperative apartment and other building owners seeking to invalidate Local Law 97 of 2019 , New York City’s building performance standard to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the City’s largest buildings. The court holds that the CLCPA does not preempt Local Law 97.

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Diane Drain

MAY 15, 2021

On January 1, 2022, HB2617 will become the law of Arizona. The homestead exemption has been an essential Arizona consumer protection law since the beginning of Arizona statehood. Some language was included as an amendment, but only time will tell if that language holds up to litigation of the issue. For decades, A.R.S. §

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The issue presented—which I described in a previous post as the billion-dollar choice-of-law question —was whether a court sitting in New York should apply the law of New York or the law of Venezuela to determine the validity of certain bonds issued by a state-owned oil company in Venezuela. PDVSA”), argued for Venezuelan law.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

primary law library of cases, statutes, regulations, court rules and constitutions. The company said it will incorporate the legal research data into its core platform to create a marriage of factual development and legal analysis, allowing litigators to analyze fact patterns against the relevant law. “We

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The statute indicates that any party to an IPR final-written-decision has a right to appeal. The parties settled the litigation before the IPRs were complete, but agreed that the IPRs could continue. Dennis Crouch & Homayoon Rafatijo, Resorbing Patent Law’s Kessler Cat into the General Law of Preclusion , 54 Akron Law Ref.

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