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Appeals court halts Boasberg’s contempt proceedings against Trump administration
A divided federal appeals court panel on Friday temporarily halted U.S. District Judge James Boasberg’s contempt proceedings ...
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Liability for undelivered mail and the chilling effect of subpoenas
The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short ...
Appeals court temporarily halts disbursement of contested climate funds
An appeals court has temporarily halted a lower court’s order that enabled the release of contested climate funds. Earlier ...
US Supreme Court in Cornell case adopts higher bar to dismiss ERISA claims
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday revived a class action by 28,000 Cornell University employees accusing the Ivy League ...
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Third Circuit Case Emphasizes the Limits of Appellate Jurisdiction and the Need for Finality in the District Court
In its recent decision in Pets Gifts USA v. Imagine This Company, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit emphasized that while parties ...
Do Negligent Misrepresentation Claims Need to Be Pleaded With Particularity in the Third Circuit?
Just last month, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California highlighted that courts “are split on the question of whether Rule 9(b)’s heightened pleading standard applies to ...