Insurance Journal

AUGUST 25, 2024

An appeals court in Washington, D.C. The District of Columbia Court of Appeals reversed a ruling that had dismissed … revived the district’s lawsuit against Amazon.com Inc on Thursday, saying it plausibly claimed the online retailer’s pricing policies illegally stifle competition.

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Court Rules Retail 109

The Marshall Project

AUGUST 10, 2024

“If it’s 103 outside, it may be 107 to -8 inside of your cell,” said a man who worked in the fields while imprisoned in Texas.

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Court Rules 136

Insurance Journal

JULY 23, 2024

The highest court in Massachusetts has ruled that rainwater accumulation on roofs of buildings does not constitute “surface waters” within the meaning of “flood” in property insurance policies. The court found that the term “surface waters” in policies is ambiguous …

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Court Rules Insurance 121

Legal Dive

JUNE 24, 2024

The court affirmed the constitutionality of the one-time Mandatory Repatriation Tax on income from investments in foreign corporations.

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Court Rules 96

Insurance Journal

JULY 17, 2024

million) to about 2,200 former workers after a Quebec court issued a ruling in their class-action lawsuit against the airline. Air Canada may be forced to pay at least C$100 million ($73.2 The amount would cover lost wages, lost benefits, …

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Court Rules 92

Insurance Journal

JULY 17, 2024

Constitution and the Virginia Constitution, a Virginia appeals court has ruled. The Virginia Court of Appeals found that the … A priest’s defamation claim against his bishop is barred by the religious liberty protections in the First Amendment of the U.S.

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Court Rules 88

Securities Docket

AUGUST 19, 2024

Advertisement · Scroll to continue There is a limited exception to the requirements under which lawyers could claim an SEC award if their disclosure was made in accordance with state professional attorney conduct rules and in a client’s interest. Circuit found the exception did not apply.

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Court Rules 40

The Marshall Project

JULY 13, 2024

Another court must now decide how the landmark ruling will impact the Boy Scouts abuse settlement, which involves victims of police sexual abuse.

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Court Rules 116

Insurance Journal

OCTOBER 24, 2024

A firm’s use of software that tracks users’ activity on its website does not violate a state law against wiretapping, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled. While the state law against wiretapping prohibits intercepting communications, the law is ambiguous …

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Court Rules 59

Legal Dive

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The European Commission lacked oversight authority to examine the proposed sale of a cancer-detection company to biotech company Illumina, the court found.

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Court Rules 52

IP Watchdog

AUGUST 9, 2024

court rules Google violated antitrust law and operates a monopoly in the search engine and text advertising markets; Elon Musk swaps out legal team in a legal spat with OpenAI; and 84% of tech company executives who responded to a poll say they want changes to U.S. This week in Other Barks & Bites: a U.S. copyright law.

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Court Rules 65

Insurance Journal

AUGUST 28, 2024

appeals court has revived a lawsuit against TikTok by the mother of a 10-year-old girl who died after taking part in a viral “blackout challenge” in which users of the social media platform were dared to choke themselves …

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Court Rules 60

IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The ruling addressed VIP’s defenses to trademark infringement and trademark dilution. The High Court ruled that VIP had no defense to either cause of action. It continues on remand in Arizona federal court, where this case first began a decade ago in 2014. But the story does not end there.

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Insurance Journal

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

A Brazilian federal court ruled miners Vale, BHP Group and their joint venture Samarco are not criminally liable for the deadly 2015 Fundao tailings dam collapse, according to a statement from the court on Thursday. The dam collapse at an …

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Court Rules 92

IP Watchdog

JULY 30, 2021

This week in Other Barks & Bites: a German high court rules that Lindt’s gold foil-wrapped chocolate bunnies have trademark protections; Federal Circuit Judge Kathleen O’Malley announces her retirement; the Federal Circuit rules that the PTAB gave no meaningful opportunity to respond to a sua sponte claim construction order; InterDigital obtains (..)

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IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 4, 2024

This week in Other Barks & Bites: Author files class action lawsuit against Meta for copyright infringement; Industry leaders urge Advisory Committee on Civil Rules to clarify third-party litigation; YouTube pulls popular music videos from platform amidst copyright dispute.

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Insurance Journal

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has let stand a state appeals court ruling that tackled for the first time what is meant by “your computers” under electronic data coverage in a commercial property policy. The case involves claims by Bible video …

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Court Rules Insurance 99

Legal Dive

OCTOBER 3, 2024

A New Jersey couple severely injured during an Uber ride must take their complaint to arbitration per the company’s use terms, a state appeals court ruled.

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Arbitration Court Rules 105

Insurance Journal

OCTOBER 4, 2024

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has reversed lower court rulings and denied a dentist’s bid for insurance coverage for loss of use of his offices due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The high court concluded in a case involving CNA and Valley …

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Insurance Court Rules 106

Legal Dive

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The Trade Desk needed only a simple majority vote to reincorporate in Nevada after a Chancery Court ruling found a supermajority vote wasn’t needed.

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Court Rules 52

Legal Dive

JULY 25, 2024

The grocers have agreed not to close their deal until after the state court rules on a lawsuit brought by Colorado’s attorney general aiming to stop their combination.

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Court Rules 116

Insurance Journal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

A federal appeals court has upheld a district court ruling that a wholesale distributor of plumbing supplies has wrongly exempted its inside sales representatives from overtime pay for years. The 1st Circuit Court of Appeals denied F.W. Webb’s request for …

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Court Rules 100

IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) overturns a lower court ruling, reviving a patent infringement lawsuit against Salesforce; and Limp Bizkit sues Universal Music Group for $200 million in unpaid royalties.

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Court Rules 100

Insurance Journal

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Tesco was not entitled to terminate some employees’ contracts and offer to rehire them on less favorable terms, the United Kingdom’s Supreme Court ruled on Thursday. Shopworkers’ union Usdaw took legal action against Britain’s biggest retailer after Tesco sought to …

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Retail Court Rules 105

IP Watchdog

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Supreme Court published an order list indicating it had denied a petition for writ of certiorari in Return Mail, Inc. United States, leaving in place lower court rulings invalidating Return Mail’s patent claims covering methods for processing undeliverable mail. Yesterday, the U.S.

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Court Rules Litigation 65

Insurance Journal

JULY 24, 2024

A Santa Fe District Court ruling that State Farm and Casualty Co. does not have to comply with a provision of the New Mexico Superintendent of Insurance emergency order for insurers to pay $5,000 in living expenses to policyholders forced …

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Insurance Court Rules 105

Attorney at Work

AUGUST 25, 2021

But it wasn’t until court rules-based calendaring features were added that cloud-based calendars truly became a must-have for litigation attorneys. Instead, when court rules change, the revised deadlines are automatically applied to your firm’s calendars. To Automatically Updated Cloud-Based Calendars.

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Legal Dive

JUNE 20, 2024

The federal appellate court ruled 2-1 that a competition designed to award grants to businesses owned by Black women likely violates federal civil rights law.

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Court Rules 110

Insurance Journal

JULY 30, 2024

Consumers cannot expect boneless chicken wings to actually be free of bones, a divided Ohio Supreme Court ruled last week, rejecting claims by a restaurant patron who suffered serious medical complications from getting a bone stuck in his throat. Michael …

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Court Rules 105

Insurance Journal

JULY 26, 2024

A bill (SB2979) amending Illinois’ Biometric Information and Privacy Act (“BIPA”), passed by both houses of the legislature on May 16 and now on Governor Pritzker’s desk, effectively overturns a recent Illinois Supreme Court ruling that could have had a …

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Court Rules Litigation 100

E-Discovery LLC

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Kay adds: “Anyone using AI that creates content in response to user prompts must also be trained to use it properly and comply with existing court rules and laws. However, the policy neither prohibits nor requires the use of GenAI.

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Court Rules Technology 130

IP Watchdog

JUNE 13, 2024

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC), on June 11, 2024, affirmed-in-part and reversed-in-part a U.S. district court ruling surrounding an alleged trade secret misappropriation.

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Court Rules Litigation 106

Insurance Journal

AUGUST 14, 2024

the Delaware Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday, rejecting arguments that the payment was a windfall. Five law firms should receive $267 million in legal fees for obtaining a $1 billion settlement for shareholders of Dell Technologies DELL.N, The fee is …

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Court Rules Technology 69

Insurance Journal

JULY 11, 2024

appeals court ruled on Wednesday. Honeywell did not violate workplace anti-discrimination laws by firing a white engineer who refused to participate in mandatory diversity, equity and inclusion training after the Black Lives Matter movement began, a U.S. The 7th U.S.

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Court Rules 78

Attorney at Work

MAY 31, 2022

The third example illustrates the risks of relying on manual processes to gather rules and deadlines from email reminders or court websites and transferring the deadlines into a calendar. The Solution: Integrated Court Rules. Today law firms have multiple options for automated rules and calendar management.

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Legal Dive

JULY 4, 2024

The agency likely overstepped its authority in issuing the substantive rule, Judge Ada Brown of Texas federal court ruled. It also likely acted arbitrarily and would cause irreparable harm to the plaintiffs.

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Court Rules 95

Legal Dive

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Circuit Court of Appeals threw out a bankruptcy court ruling that the bank aided and abetted the Ponzi scheme of former businessman Tom Petters. A panel of judges at the 8th U.S.

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Court Rules 52