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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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 110

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

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 97

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 98

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 97

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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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

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Court Rules 52

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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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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E-Discovery LLC

JANUARY 31, 2025

The Jennings court discussed a series of discovery events, and added: The parties should be proactive in following-up with their discovery so as not to run into conflicts with the discovery cutoff. In one recent decision, a court wrote that it would be in the parties interest to reach a negotiated result.

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Legal Dive

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Supreme Court ruling that protects members of independent government boards from being removed by the president at will. Legal experts predict litigation may lead to the overturning of a 1935 U.S.

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WA Bar News

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

For years, I have listened to members cite incongruent local court rules, funding, and technology as significant barriers to closing the access-to-justice gap in our state. I have heard about unwritten requirements for certain filings in some jurisdictions, leading to rejection of documents and weeks of delays. See [link].

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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

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

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 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 111

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 109

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

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

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

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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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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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

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

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 105

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

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

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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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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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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