#court of appeals

[wolfgabe]

Game Over for the FTC. The Court of Appeals has officially denied their request for injunctive relief meaning that the merger between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard King can officially be closed and completed in the United States. Its hard to state how much of a big L this is for Sony really since its pretty clear they were likely lobbying hard to kill this deal.

[carlocarrasco]

Las Piñas City Councilors Santos and Medina claim P103.8 billion reclamation project won’t cause flooding

Recently in the City of Las Piñas, Councilors Mark Santos and Henry Medina defended the P103.8 billion Las Piñas-Parañaque Coastal Bay Reclamation Project – already approved by the Supreme Court in 2021 – from allegations that it will cause flooding, according to a Manila Standard news report. To put things in perspective, posted below is an excerpt of the Manila Standard news report. Some parts…

[nationallawreview]

Dependent Work Permits – Is the U.S. Catching Up with Other Immigration Destinations?

There are many ways in which the U.S. immigration system is lagging behind those of other countries. We still put physical visas in passports – something Australia stopped doing nearly 10 years ago when they converted to a purely electronic visa system. Our immigration system is predominantly paper-based, with limited options for electronic filings, an area where other countries have fully…

[aanews69]

Nous livrons des histoires. Nous vous donnons également des guides, des conseils et des astuces pour créer le vôtre.Cette chaîne est dédiée aux choses aléato...

[william-r-melich]

Shame on the Appeals Court - 03/20/2024

Late yesterday, the 5th Circuit Federal Appeals Court blocked Texas with a temporary injunction from enforcing their SB4 law which would allow Texas to arrest and deport migrants who enter their state illegally. Earlier yesterday, the SCOTUS (Supreme Court of the United States) issued an emergency appeal to remove a previous stay that was blocking SB4, a huge win for Texas. I didn't know that a Supreme Court appeal could be blocked by a lower Federal Court of Appeals, and they did so in the same day, crazy. So, Texas went from celebrating a victory for border security, to going back to being angrily frustrated at not being able to stop the stampede of illegal crossings. The 5ht circuit is entertaining arguments today on whether to stay the injunction, pending the outcome of an appeal at the SCOTUS.

“A majority of the panel has concluded that the administrative stay entered by a motions panel on March 2, 2024, should be lifted,” the unsigned order by the court reads. Yesterday, on March 19th, circuit judge Andrew Oldman disagreed: “I would leave that stay in place pending tomorrow’s oral argument on the question.” That was just hours after the SCOTUS had rejected an emergency request from the Biden jackasses to look at the administrative stay directed by the 5th Circuit's prior panel. The DOJ's (Department of Justice) stance on the law is that it violates the Constitution's Supremacy Clause which declares that states do not have the right to enforce immigration laws.

As per usual with emergency appeals, the Supreme Court did not give a reason for issuing their order. Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amey Coney Barrett issued aligning opinions. Barrett wrote on regarding actions of the high court: “never reviewed the decision of a court of appeals to enter—or not enter—an administrative stay.” She continued, that it is “unwise to invite emergency litigation in this Court about whether a court of appeals abused its discretion at this preliminary step.”

Liberal justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson had dissenting opinions. Sotomayor said the order “invites further chaos and crisis in immigration enforcement.” She went on to write that the law “upends the federal-state balance of power that has existed for over a century, in which the National Government has had exclusive authority over entry and removal of noncitizens.” - I say, bullstit! States have always had the legal right and shared responsibility for protecting their sovereignty. Yesterday, the Mexican government said that it will not accept any illegal migrants coming back to them no matter what. They said that anyone deported who is not a Mexican citizen does not have to be accepted by them.

All governor Abbott wants to do is to enforce the laws to keep his state safe and secure, and the Biden commies are doing everything they can to impede that. It's disgusting! Will this nightmare ever end? I sure hope so.

[hislop3]

Friday Feature: Litigation, Arbitration, and COVID

TGIF! I live and have an office in Illinois, though my part of the state differs dramatically from the Illinois most people recognize. I live and work in a small town (Galena) in an area known as the driftless region. The driftless region is “original” terra-firma, where the glaciers did not touch. This area is in the far northwest corner of the state, Mississippi river country (Tri-State area –…

[cyphorical]

Trump's Legal Cases

Recent: • Federal Civil Defamation Suit (II) Liable $83,300,000 • NY Civil Trump v. NYTimes/Reporters/Mary Trump Trump to pay $392,638.69 • Federal Civil Defamation Suit (I) Liable $5 million Upcoming: 1. NY AG Civil Fraud Suit Liable - February Sentencing? 2. Federal January 6th Case March 4th, 2024? 3. Manhattan DA Hush Money Case March 25th, 2024? 4. Federal Classified Documents Case May 20th, 2024? 5. Georgia RICO Case August 5th, 2024, Proposed 6. DC Civil Wrongful Death Suit - Pending? 7. NY Civil Copyright Infringement [Eddy] Grant v. Trump - Pending? 8. Federal Civil ACN Video Phone Suit Dismissed - Venue shifted to state courts

Ballot disqualification issue: • Colorado - Disqualified - SCOTUS appeal pending? • Maine - Disqualified - Challenges pending? • Minnesota - Allowed on primary • Michigan - Allowed on primary • Illinois - Allowed on primary

[whats-in-a-sentence]

The Beckers also wanted to call their physicians to account on behalf of their Down's syndrome daughter for "wrongful causation of life," on the ground that she had been denied the "fundamental right of a child to be born as a whole, functional human being." The Court of Appeals, following the prevailing legal standard, disallowed that claim as a basis of suit, the majority holding that "whether it is better to have been born at all than to have been born with even gross deficiencies is a mystery more properly to be left to the philosophers and the theologians."

"In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity" - Daniel J. Kevles

[xxx-mundiemudsnapper-xxx]

im stressing the complete fuck out about this discussion board hw im trying to do. like yeah i can bullshit my way through a lot of legal stuff but this question is so hyper fucking specific listing pros and cons of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit for having one centralized court for patent law abd like.

i cannot wrap my goddamn head around this stuff i fucking hate copyright/trademark/patent law it makes me want to rip my hair out and i just CANNOT bullshit anything beyond it being centralized being the double edged sword. but i cannot for the life of me actually goddamn find any sources i can read and understand because everything i find is super specific legalese papers or something completely unrelated or is locked behind a paywall thatd make adobe blush

FUCKING help me.

like this is not a joke this is not me doing a bit because haha look the funny lawbot kinnie cant do its job NO IM LEGIT SCREAMINGGG i cant figure this out at all.

luckily its a disboard where you only need to write an original post and/or respond to another student but NOBODY ELSE HAS POSTYED YET and i CANT SEE other posts until I WRITE MY POST but i cannot fucking figure out what to say so I CANT WRITE IT and i cant see what OTHER STUDENTS are saying but i need to be able to see it so i can actually write my stupid bullshit post

patent law students if youre following me please fuckign help

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

*peering down at my own genetic sequence* uh-huh uh-huh bold choice bold fucking choices my friend

[call-me-strega]

Dc x Dp Prompt #21: Petition to the King

I haven’t done one of these in a while so here we go:

AU where Thomas and Martha Wayne live in the Ghost Zone version of Gotham and have been collecting signatures from the other ghosts there for a few years now. Since the Ghost Prince Phantom has finally come of age and is now able to hold court/assemblies they approach him with their official petition and beseech him: Please allow them avenge their grandson and countless other souls, who’ve signed agreeing to the petition, to haunt and torment the Joker for the rest of his living days. May he never find peace even in sleep, even in death.

Danny being the gracious prince he is agrees. Even going as far as to take the names of literally everyone on the list and create a haunting rotation, for who gets to torment the Joker on which days, with Thomas and Martha having first dibs.

The grandson in question is a revenant and thus also eligible to be put on the haunting rotation so Danny decides to reach out and go to Gotham himself and ask if he wants to haunt the Joker with his grandparents. Thomas and Martha tag along bc they wanna visit their grand-babies, their son, and their partner who raised him.

Jason isn’t sure what to make of his doting ghostly grandparents, the beautiful interdimensional king, or the apparent laundry list of people ready to mess with the Joker’s mind, but hey! If he can’t kill the Joker, eternal torment isn’t a bad deal to swing!

[citrusai]

taash said "they were doing it" and people ran with the interpretation of an npc that doesn't know solas or the history of the elvhenan even when bellara interjected and said, no, that's not right. that's not how it was for the elvhenan. they formed bonds before they had physical bodies. and people ran to doompost or create weird anti-solavellan shit even though mythal & solas refer to each other as old friends and when she releases him there is no tenderness or love in it. it is the act of unchaining a dog from his post, the stepping down of a general. but to each their own ig.

[lets-steal-an-archive]

Under the six-week ban, providers could not perform abortions if they detected fetal cardiac activity, which emerges at about six weeks into pregnancy. Many women, McBurney wrote, do not even know they are pregnant at six weeks.

“For these women, the liberty of privacy means that they alone should choose whether they serve as human incubators for the five months leading up to viability,” McBurney wrote. “It is not for a legislator, a judge, or a commander from The Handmaid’s Tale to tell these women what to do with their bodies during this period when the fetus cannot survive outside the womb any more so than society could – or should – force them to serve as a human tissue bank or to give up a kidney for the benefit of another.”

In a footnote, McBurney added: “There is an uncomfortable and usually unspoken subtext of involuntary servitude swirling about this debate, symbolically illustrated by the composition of the legal teams in this case. It is generally men who promote and defend laws like the Life Act, the effect of which is to require only women – and, given the socio-economic and demographic evidence presented at trial, primarily poor women, which means in Georgia primarily black and brown women – to engage in compulsory labor, ie, the carrying of a pregnancy to term at the government’s behest.”

[alwaysbewoke]

[hislop3]

Genesis and COVID Litigation - Interesting Update

Genesis is one of the country’s largest SNF and assisted living providers so naturally, it saw its share of COVID cases throughout the pandemic. Like other similar providers across the same industry, cases involving COVID infections are just now hitting the courts.  Back in October, I wrote about the advancement of litigation involving COVID.  There are two relevant…

[cyphorical]

A federal court has struck down a ban on gun ownership for some perpetrators of domestic violence. The ruling by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals relies on an antiquated interpretation of gun laws and comes as the U.S. is seeing a surge of gun violence. The Gun Violence Archive says there were 52 mass shootings last month, making it the deadliest January since it started tracking such data. A 2021 study found that over two-thirds of mass shootings are either domestic violence incidents or are perpetrated by shooters with a history of domestic violence. The Justice Department said it plans to appeal Thursday’s ruling. Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill, at least two Republican lawmakers, including embattled New York Congressmember George Santos, have been spotted wearing AR-15 pins on their lapels. The office of Florida Congressmember Anna Paulina Luna said the shocking accessory is meant to promote a gun bill, though it’s unclear what that bill is.