LegalReader

MAY 25, 2022

Technically, there is no limit for economic damages, but the judge may intervene if they are not reasonable.

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

A Maryland county south of Washington, D.C., has joined the flood of litigation accusing drugmakers and pharmacy benefit managers of violating a federal racketeering law in a scheme to jack up insulin prices.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 8, 2023

The college then prolonged the litigation, virtually forcing the family into insolvency. Oberlin President Carmen Twillie Ambar and the Board needlessly spent millions in litigation costs above the damages rather than admit that the college was wrong in the targeting of this grocery. A judge later reduced the award to $25 million.

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LegalReader

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

You must report the workplace injury within ten days of the accident or within one year of being diagnosed with a job-related illness.

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LegalReader

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The company went out of its way to make sure that this woman did not receive any unemployment benefits by opposing her applications.

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LegalReader

JUNE 7, 2022

Perhaps the most notable example would be a facial scar, burn, or blemish. However, scars on the body may also constitute disfigurement.

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LegalReader

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

An attorney for the woman claims that even zoo animals are afforded better care than his client was offered in the Washington County Jail.

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LegalReader

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Economic and non-economic losses, such as lost wages, medical bills, legal fees, property replacement and pain and suffering are addressed in loss valuations with punitive damages in some cases.

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LegalReader

JANUARY 6, 2023

The terms of the settlement are likely to remain confidential for the foreseeable future.

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LegalReader

JULY 27, 2022

The African-American plaintiff claims that Sesame Place performers intentionally ignored his daughter while lavishing attention on White children.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

In 2015, a judge for the US District Court for the District of Maryland dismissed a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and other human rights organizations challenging surveillance by the NSA. NSA’s use of the program was illegally leaked in 2013 by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

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Law 360

AUGUST 5, 2021

with a lawsuit in Maryland federal court Wednesday, asking a court to declare that they're not responsible for defending the engineering consulting firm against litigation over the Champlain Towers South condominium collapse in Surfside, Florida, that left 98 residents dead.

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Patently O

JULY 23, 2022

University of Maryland. Klarquist Sparkman, LLP – Litigation/IPR Associate. Shook Hardy & Bacon – IP Litigation Attorney. Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney – Biotech Intellectual Property Associate. Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney – Electrical Patent Associate. AstraZeneca. Transformative Legal. Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In an opinion by Justice Amy Coney Barrett, the court acknowledged concerns by the hotel, which lost in the lower court and had asked the justices to weigh in, “about litigants manipulating the jurisdiction of this Court.”

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 28, 2023

Deborah Laufer, who has physical disabilities and vision impairments, told the justices that she has voluntarily dismissed her case in the district court after an attorney who represented her in other cases was disciplined by a federal court in Maryland.

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Legal Research is Easy

AUGUST 5, 2019

Arnold , the parents of Caleigh Wood sued Charles County Public Schools in Maryland, the county board of education, and Evelyn Arnold and Shannon Morris, principal and vice principal of La Plata High School for violating a student’s (i.e. In the early 1960s, the Governor of Maryland appointed Roy Torcaso as a notary public.

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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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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

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. Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE. and non-U.S. Here are the additions to the U.S. 24, 2016).

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Patently O

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The 2017 Supreme Court decision in TC Heartland gave renewed teeth to the venue statute governing litigation. The FDA is headquartered in Maryland, and that was the office that received the ANDA documents. and probably also in Maryland, but not in N.J. Celgene Corp. Mylan Pharma ( Fed.

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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

MAY 17, 2021

The city filed its case in a Maryland state court. That is precisely what Chevron did in this case: It transferred the suit to a federal court in Maryland – a procedure known as “removal.” The court rejected the city’s contention that allowing appeals of remand orders will delay litigation of the merits of a case.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 12, 2021

One of the briefs written in support of the district in the recent litigation was from constitutional scholars, including my colleague Alan B. He has not only previously written on the blog, but he is one of the most respected legal figures in the country with extensive litigation and public interest experience.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Merlin’s chief data scientist, William Webber , is a highly regarded data scientist who earned his doctoral degree in information retrieval and who did his postdoctoral research at the University of Maryland in development of search technology for discovery of evidence in civil litigation.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Abbott involves a long-running series of multi-district litigation cases arising from du Pont’s government-permitted releases of chemicals from one of its plants; because the claims of harm from exposure were varied, the cases proceeded through multidistrict litigation rather than as part of a class action. Maryland and Napue v.

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The Crime Report

MAY 19, 2022

Maryland , is one of the more common post-conviction misconduct allegations. My recent research suggests that prosecutors and defense attorneys who are not professional exonerators are more likely to engage in post-conviction bargaining such as agreeing to forego litigation around negligence or misconduct. Pursuing Brady Violations.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JANUARY 22, 2024

PJM Interconnection had identified grid congestion across the Pennsylvania-Maryland border and concluded that such congestion had led to approximately $800 million in costs from 2012 to 2016.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 18, 2021

In this case, Chevron removed the lawsuit to a federal district court in Maryland, pointing to eight different grounds for removal. The companies acknowledge that another key goal of Section 1447(d) was to avoid delays caused by protracted litigation over remand issues. First, it avoids “prolonged litigation.”

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LawTechnologyToday

DECEMBER 8, 2022

About InfoTrack: InfoTrack is a legal software company with integration products that streamline the litigation process. Our platform connects to popular case management systems and document management systems to automate tedious litigation tasks and processes. Those are goals that any law firm would be proud to reach. Learn more here.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Maryland v. Everyone jumped in fright and Dickson jumped back through an open window that was covered with a sheet — a remarkably negligent act by the haunted house operator. She landed on a fire escape and then fell down some stairs. Janik (2009).

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Maryland v. OUTCOME: While no criminal charges are planned, this would appear a likely case for a lawsuit for negligence. Since it only happened yesterday, we may have to follow up next year to see if this got really scary. Janik (2009).

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 8, 2022

In the course of the litigation, Abdelhady asked the court to ignore her election (and receipt) of workers’ compensation benefits and find that the WCA does not apply after all. Abdelhady had a drawn out litigation under WCA to force payments from the university. Id. ¶ 174. I d. ¶ 154.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 14, 2024

In the first months of 2024, legislators in four states— Maryland , Massachusetts , New York , and Vermont —have pushed for legislation that would collectively require large fossil fuel producers and refiners to pay for hundreds of billions of dollars of state-level climate adaptation infrastructure.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

After a group of federal judges had recommended that an attorney who had represented her in other ADA cases be suspended from practicing law in Maryland because of repeated ethics violations, she explained, she had voluntarily dismissed her case in the district court and cannot refile it.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MARCH 6, 2019

Other deadlines to keep in mind include the expiration of the current interim license between GMR and radio operators while the litigation over whether GMR should be subject to antitrust rules goes on. The 3-year TV license renewal cycle will begin at the same time next year. See our post here for more details.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 12, 2023

In total, at least 25 cases have been filed in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawai’i, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Vermont.

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LawSites

MAY 5, 2021

At least one lawyer is in this pantheon of top-paid publishers on Substack – Glenn Greenwald , the former litigator turned Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author of four New York Times bestselling books on politics and law, including No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Working Scribe.

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LegalReader

JANUARY 27, 2021

The lawsuit claimed Frederick County Sheriff Charles Jenkins actively side-stepped federal law, forcing "suspicious" motorists to undergo immigration checks for even petty offenses.

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