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 129

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 122

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 103

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 102

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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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

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 105

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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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 66

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

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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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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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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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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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 89

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 105

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

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

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 111

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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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

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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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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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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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

Legal Dive

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

But a new court ruling, if upheld, may change that. Even after Blue Owl terminated the leases for 223 c-stores this spring, SQRL’s owner, Gas Hub, is refusing to vacate the locations.

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Court Rules 52

Legal Dive

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Illumina will avoid a penalty of 432 million euros after a court ruled the European Commission did not have jurisdiction to challenge the company’s Grail acquisition.

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Court Rules 52

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

Securities Docket

OCTOBER 7, 2024

An SEC enforcement action against two financial firms and their managers over more than a billion dollars in investment losses raises factual issues about that must be decided by a jury, a federal court ruled. Harjani said Thursday for the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

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Legal Dive

AUGUST 5, 2024

The search giant used deals with mobile phone makers to restrict competitors in the search and search text advertising markets, a federal court ruled.

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Court Rules 59

Legal Dive

AUGUST 16, 2024

The court ruled that a pair of the state’s rules on socially responsible investing are preempted by national laws covering securities and pensions — and also unconstitutional.

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Court Rules 52

Legal Dive

AUGUST 2, 2024

The court ruled that two of the plaintiffs’ expert witnesses in the case employed flawed methodology that incorrectly led jurors to $4.7 billion in damages.

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Simple Legal

MARCH 25, 2024

Mitigate risk The stakes are high in the legal world, and failure to comply with court rules and deadlines can expose businesses to significant risk. This integration provides automated, real-time data to uphold the highest degree of compliance with court regulations and procedures.

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IP Watchdog

AUGUST 1, 2021

Supreme Court ruled for the first time that plants could be protected with utility patents. Supreme Court ruled for the first time that living organisms were patentable. Twenty years ago, the U.S. Ag Supply, Inc., Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. 124 (2001). Forty-one years ago, the U.S. Chakrabarty, 447 U.S.

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