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Jun 25, 2025
Justices recognize limited jury trial right in prisoner cases
Supreme Court rules 5-4 that juries can decide if prisoners met PLRA exhaustion requirements when facts overlap with civil rights claims.
Nov 19, 2024
‘Heck’ dismissal is a PLRA ‘strike’
Where the court dismisses a prisoner’s suit under Heck v. Humphrey, 512 U.S. 477 (1994), that constitutes a “strike” under the Prison Litigation Reform Act. The decision deepened an “entrenched […]
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
