Insurance Journal

JANUARY 13, 2025

appeals court on Friday revived a lawsuit by a conservative group opposed to diversity initiatives in medicine that challenged a Pfizer fellowship program designed to boost the pipeline of Black, Latino and Native American people in leadership positions …

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Court Rules 89

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 100

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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Court Rules Litigation Discovery Technology 273

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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Court Rules Pharmaceuticals Construction 105

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 102

Insurance Journal

DECEMBER 13, 2024

The National Rifle Association (NRA) must reform its operations to conform with New York’s not-for-profit law and two of its former executives must pay the NRA $6.35 million in damages plus interest. That is the outcome of the latest battle …

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Court Rules 91

Securities Docket

JULY 1, 2024

was highlighted as an example in a recent report by Bloomberg Intelligence on the potential effects of a high-court ruling to weaken Chevron deference. Ahead of the ruling, legal experts also pointed to new SEC climate reporting rules for public companies as among those that could be most vulnerable.

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Court Rules 52

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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Court Rules Litigation 124

Securities Docket

AUGUST 20, 2024

But securities fraud claims under Section 10(b)(5) of the Securities Exchange Act that are based on alleged “half-truths” can still proceed, the panel said … Source: Macquarie ‘Half-Truth’ Claims OK’d After Supreme Court Ruling

Court Rules 52

Court Rules 52

Insurance Journal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

federal appeals court on Thursday revived a defamation lawsuit accusing CNN of defaming Project Veritas in its explanation of why the conservative group, which is often accused of using deceptive tactics, was suspended from Twitter in 2021. The …

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Court Rules 78

Securities Docket

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Securities and Exchange Commission last month asked for the dismissal of all active misconduct proceedings against accountants sitting before its in-house judges, which legal experts said was a fresh sign that a recent Supreme Court ruling is curtailing the agency’s enforcement powers. Between Aug.

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Court Rules 52

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, …

Court Rules 79

Court Rules 79

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 76

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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Court Rules Technology 124

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

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 64

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

IP Watchdog

AUGUST 7, 2021

With South Africa’s patent office having recently granted the first patent to an AI inventor, and an Australian court ruling in favor of AI inventorship, it’s time to review how we got here—and where we’re going.

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Technology Court Rules 142

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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Litigation Court Rules 105

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

Legal Dive

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Companies whose agreements need paring down in scope can expect some help but if the agreements need a major rewrite, courts are likely to balk, a Chancery Court ruling suggests.

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Court Rules 105

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

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

Insurance Journal

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Two Kentucky Supreme Court rulings handed down last week emphasize how important it can be to have clearly worded insurance policies, including exclusions and excess and escape clauses, particularly in high-dollar commercial coverage. In Motorists Mutual Insurance Co. vs. First …

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Court Rules Insurance 91

Attorney at Work

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Once the integration for CalendarRules has been installed through MyCase, users simply select the “Add Court Rule” option from the calendar or a case page to add CalendarRules functionality. Now, MyCase users can add CalendarRules features to the MyCase calendar.

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Case Management Technology Court Rules 286

IP Watchdog

AUGUST 5, 2022

which affirmed rulings from the District of Delaware that A. The appellate court ruled that the district court’s construction of a contested limitation within claim 1 was supported by the patent’s specification. Bradford White Corp.

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Construction Court Rules Litigation 128

IP Watchdog

MAY 18, 2023

The Supreme Court ruled today in Andy Warhol Foundation v. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit was correct in holding that the Andy Warhol Foundation's (AWF's) licensing of an orange silkscreen portrait of the musician Prince, created by Andy Warhol using photographer Lynn Goldsmith’s photo, was not fair. that the U.S.

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Court Rules Litigation 124

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 …

Court Rules 59

Court Rules 59

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

MyCase

AUGUST 23, 2021

To complicate matters further, court rules and deadlines change often, which means that even more time is required to constantly re-visit whether court rules have changed. Say goodbye to manual deadline calculations, court date tracking, and the tedious task of ensuring that court rule sets haven’t changed.

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Court Rules Case Management Insurance 98

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 105

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 99

IP Watchdog

AUGUST 3, 2021

In its judgment, the Court allowed Sky’s appeal against a finding that its asserted trademarks for SKY were partially invalid due to lack of intention to use amounting to bad faith.

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Court Rules Litigation 124

IP Watchdog

JULY 6, 2023

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Chief Judge Paul Michel, who has been involved in the development of PERA’s draft legislative text and has personally supported PERA as an important step in “reviv[ing] the faltering U.S. Supreme Court rulings that greatly expanded judicial exceptions to patent eligibility under 35 U.S.C. §

Court Rules 122

Court Rules 122

IP Watchdog

APRIL 15, 2023

On Wednesday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) reversed a district court’s dismissal of a Florida vape company’s patent lawsuit against tobacco company Phillip Morris. HCM alleged that Phillip Morris infringed on its patent for an electronic pipe, U.S. 10,561,170.

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Court Rules Litigation Technology 122

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 99

IP Watchdog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In the petition, Olive requests that the Supreme Court simply grant certiorari, vacate the lower decision and remand for reconsideration of the issues in light of the Court’s decision this summer in Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid, which was issued just a few days after the Texas Supreme Court ruled against Olive.

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Court Rules Litigation 119