Sentences with phrase «see federal litigation»

While the Caviness case could be a harbinger of more cases to come, we would be surprised to see federal litigation lead to a broad characterization of charters as private actors.

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The Trans Mountain Expansion Project is still before the National Energy Board (NEB)(see the comment by Kirk Lambrecht QC here) and all the while spawning lots of litigation, some in the Federal Court of Appeal and some in the provincial superior courts.

«Whether she grants it or not remains to be seen, but that's not going to deter us from moving forward with our federal litigation,» he said.

Michael Gerrard, director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School, said he's also expecting to see «a lot more litigation about fossil fuel extraction, especially on federal lands and waters,» as the Trump administration seeks to expand domestic energy production.

According to a January 2018 Seyfarth Shaw LLP report titled «2017 Patent Litigation: A Statistical Overview,» the past 5 years have seen a «significant increase» of patent litigation cases filed with the Patent Trial and Appeals Board (PTAB) and the Court of Appeals for the Federal CircuLitigation: A Statistical Overview,» the past 5 years have seen a «significant increase» of patent litigation cases filed with the Patent Trial and Appeals Board (PTAB) and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circulitigation cases filed with the Patent Trial and Appeals Board (PTAB) and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC).

If you do any litigation in federal court, you are already locked into the deathless embrace of PACER to file your documents, see your opponent's filings, and conduct research.

The long - term impact of this statement will need to observed, to see whether PTAB rulings on factual issues are given preclusive effect in subsequent federal court litigation.

Thus, it remains to be seen just how much future federal litigation (likely brought under the Administrative Procedure Act, the INA, and other statutes) will be spawned raising substantive legal questions on the degree to which the manual is in fact comprehensive or authoritative.

15) Use LawProspector Tricks: LawProspector is a service designed primarily to help litigation support business development efforts, however litigators can use it to quickly see other attorneys who have recently had a trial or hearing before a particular federal judge.

125 See Yoon, supra note 123, at 661 (reporting that federal judges hearing civil cases ranked intellectual property and commercial litigation attorneys as providing the highest quality representation and family and immigration law attorneys as providing the lowest quality representation, and noting that the rankings are roughly consistent with relative attorney salaries in those practice areas).

For additional sources asserting that federal courts grant summary judgment more frequently than state courts, see Howard B. Stravitz, Recocking the Removal Trigger, 53 S.C. L. Rev. 185, 185 n. 1 (2002)(«[F] ederal courts are more likely to grant summary judgment to defendants»); JoEllen Lind, «Procedural Swift»: Complex Litigation Reform, State Tort Law, and Democratic Values, 37 Akron L. Rev. 717, 769 (2004)(differing state and federal summary judgment standards «make it much more likely that a defendant in federal court will obtain summary judgment than a defendant in state court»); Kristen Irgens, Wisconsin Is Open for Business or Business Just As Usual?

265 Kan. 855) that determined landmark rulings for handgun litigation across the nation, setting standards for federal gun regulation laws that are still seen today.

Intellectual property lawyers are bracing for change as the federal courts move forward with an effort that could see much higher cost awards as a way of discouraging unnecessary and vexatious litigation.

«The federal government has set out what I see as laudable and praiseworthy objectives,» says business lawyer and civil litigation specialist Marvin Huberman.

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Companies in the U.S own an estimated $ 5 trillion in trade secerts and about $ 3 billion is lost due to theft every year The federal Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 went into effect in May While it's still early to interpret how it will affect trade secret litigation, some things are clear, especially that federal court dockets will see an incr......

While it's still early to interpret how it will affect trade secret litigation, some things are clear, especially that federal court dockets will see an increase in more private trade secrets cases.

«We will see lots of copycat laws of the federal abortion ban, and the envelope will be pushed and expanded to include a longer list of banned procedures,» says Roger Evans, senior director for public policy, litigation and law at Planned Parenthood Federation of America in New York City.