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SCOTUS News: 4th Amendment extended to cellphone location data
Police conducted a Fourth Amendment search requiring a valid warrant when they acquired a robbery suspect’s cellphone location data from Google, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in a […]
SCOTUS News: Court rules customs agents can turn back asylum seekers
An alien standing in Mexico does not “arrive” in the United States by attempting, and failing to set foot in this country and, therefore, is not entitled to apply for […]
SCOTUS News: State concealed-carry restriction violates 2nd Amendment
A state law prohibiting licensed concealed-carry permit holders from carrying handguns on private property open to the public without the property owner’s express authorization violates the Second and Fourteenth […]
SCOTUS News: Justices shut down Roundup failure-to-warn claims
Federal law governing the labeling of pesticides preempts a state failure-to-warn claim against the Monsanto Company for failing to include a cancer warning on the label for its Roundup weedkiller […]
SCOTUS News: ‘State-court loser’ can’t seek relief in federal court
The Rooker-Feldman doctrine applied to deprive a federal court of jurisdiction to hear a challenge to a state-court consent order imposing conditions on the release of a patient from a […]
SCOTUS News: Justices uphold gun rights of marijuana users
The government violated the Second Amendment rights of a man who regularly used marijuana by prosecuting him under a federal law prohibiting the possession of a gun in the […]
SCOTUS News: Ex-Twitter employee gets conviction tossed for venue error
A former Twitter employee facing charges for falsification of documents to obstruct a federal investigation is entitled to be tried in the district where the alleged falsification occurred rather the […]
SCOTUS News: Court nixes private enforcement action under ICA
The federal Investment Company Act does not create an implied private right of action for rescission of contracts under a provision limiting a court’s authority to order such remedies for […]
Justices revive PI claim omitted from plaintiff’s bankruptcy
A federal appeals court improperly narrowed the scope of its inquiry on the question of “inadvertent mistake” in deciding that the doctrine of judicial estoppel applied to bar a […]
SCOTUS News: Drugmaker’s ‘induced infringement’ suit comes up short
A pharmaceutical company could not rely solely on the statements that a generic drug manufacturer made in product labeling, patient information leaflets and press releases when making a claim […]
Telecoms denied right to jury in FCC data security actions
The Federal Communications Commission did not violate the Seventh Amendment by, without the involvement of a jury, issuing forfeiture orders that penalized telecommunications communications companies for failing to take reasonable […]
Retro application of anti-stacking sentencing amendment rejected
Congress’s inclusion in the First Step Act of a provision eliminating the “stacking” of a mandatory 25-year sentence for those convicted of a second firearm offense involving a crime of […]
Top Legal News
- New NC budget guts funding for civil legal aid
- NC budget eliminates minority business office, folds health equity office into broader division
- US states could sue next week to block Paramount-Warner Bros deal, sources say
- Estate settles after woman killed by impaired driver
- Retired couple injured in I-485 crash
- Data breach claims against Bojangles largely survive dismissal
- North Carolina budget now law after year-long delay
- Mental health facility operator’s petition filed three days too late
- Lawsuit alleges US shared information with Iran about asylum seekers, US denies allegation
- Insurer’s suit against former employees remanded to Biz Court
- Taylor Swift defeats Florida poet’s plagiarism lawsuit
Commentary
- We tore out our own backup generator
- When is a PIP an adverse employment action?
- Legally Speaking: What spring can teach us about active listening
- A useful patent management government notice
- Opinion: NC judges have enormous power. Be sure to vote in November
- The third option: Why your best employees are quietly losing their edge
- AI divorce is real, but family law can still save itself
- ‘AI won’t take your job’ and other things CEOs say before the layoffs
- When not to believe (your lyin’ eyes)
- Conduct a technology audit to improve law firm efficiency
- When the client brings ChatGPT to the consultation
- Content Marketing: Where law firms lose referrals and how to prevent it
