But #immigration #law experts expressed serious concerns about the effort's constitutionality, & how this could impact #families of naturalized #citizens.
The #DOJ memo says that the federal govt will pursue #denaturalization cases via #civil #litigation — an especially concerning move, said Cassandra Robertson, a law professor at Case Western Reserve University.
1. Company hires executive with generous severance package.
2. Executive quits after four years and claims entitlement to $5 million
3. Company refuses to pay based on possible breach of non-existent side agreements
4. Company loses
#Wetsuweten will be in court on August 21, 2025 as #Canada has filed a #MotionToStrike against their #climate #litigation case. Sound familiar? That’s because in July 2020, Canada filed a Motion to Strike against the Misdzi Yikh Charter challenge. Several years and an appeal hearing (that ended with the Federal Court of Appeal deciding that the section 7 of the Charter challenge was justiciable) later, Canada has filed for another Motion to Strike. Keep a lookout on RAVEN’s channels as we get closer to the hearing, we’ll be sharing lots of educational materials and actions to take to support Wet’suwet’en. Learn more about the #CharterCase and #donate to support the #legal action here.
Court grants motion to compel arbitration brought by non-party to arbitration agreement two years after complaint was filed. I think the decision is correct under current law, which says a lot about the state of arbitration law in the U.S.
#law #contracts #litigation #arbitration
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/06/district-court-grants-motion-to-compel-arbitration-two-years-after-complain-was-filed.html
It brings me no pleasure to report that a Colorado court has found Twitter (X) liable for its refusal to pay rent on a property in Boulder. Just kidding. It brings me pleasure eight million times over.
A judge has approved a $2.75 billion settlement in a class action against the NCAA. Schools can now pay athletes $20.5 million/year directly and the $2.75 billion goes to former athletes. It’s just a rest stop on the highway to professionalization.
#law #contracts #sports #NCAA #litigation #settlements
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/06/the-short-term-future-of-college-athletics.html
#Lawfare #AlienEnemiesAct Tracker
The Alien Enemies Act Proclamation: State of Play table tracks the ongoing #litigation challenging #deportations under #Trump's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act.
#law #immigration #rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #AbuseOfPower
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/projects-series/trials-of-the-trump-administration/tracking-trump-administration-litigation/alien-enemies-act-tracker
Bank enters into deal with jails that detainees’ money upon arrest plus any outside funds received go onto a debit card. Upon release, the detainee gets the card, which comes with fees. Court certified class action for violations of state and federal law.
#law #contracts #DebitCards #Incarceration #litigation #ClassActions
Climate litigation - Misti Leon argues fossil fuel companies’ climate negligence caused her mother’s death during a heatwave https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/29/oil-industry-wrongful-death-lawsuit #uslaw #climate #litigation #heatwave
Court dismisses class action against Amazon Prime alleging breach of contract for making us pay to watch ad-free. Following precedent, the Court finds the change a permissible change in services rather than an impermissible price increase. 
#law #contracts #TermsOfService #Amazon #Prime #Streaming #ClassActions #Litigation
AIG and KitchenAid provide a warranty that they will fix appliances or pay the depreciated value of appliances that they can’t fix. But what if they often can’t fix things because there are no maintenance people available?
#law #contracts #warranties #appliances #repairs #litigation
#Judges Keep Calling #Trump’s Actions #Illegal, but Undoing Them Is Hard. #Courts are serving as a rare check on President #Trump, but #judicial orders to unwind his actions can be easier said than done. #Trump and his team have acted #lawlessly in egregious ways, #judges emphatically said — the real-world consequences may vary. And the slow pace of #litigation means the #judiciary is often many steps behind and in some cases, unable to catch up. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/us/politics/trump-administration-courts-judges-law.html?unlocked_article_code=1.JU8.Xfh4.AS6pm5ziM7I5 #DemocracyPhotography
Karen Dunn and Other Top #Lawyers Depart Paul Weiss to Start Firm. They are leaving a few months after Paul Weiss cut a deal with the White House to avoid an executive order that would have restricted its business.#lawfedi #legalresearch #democracy #law #constitution #litigation #legal #politics #corruption #capitulation #maga #trump https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/business/karen-dunn-paul-weiss-partners.html
#CHAVEZDeREMER: I will not be able to discuss this because it's under #litigation now.
MURPHY: Well you can certainly discuss why you eliminated the agency, and if you had conversations with #ElonMusk about it.
CHAVEZ-DeREMER: I cannot discuss it. I don't even know about that specific case.
If you are up against a deadline and need to get a brief filed, you should:
a. Use ChatGPT to do your research for you because it no longer hallucinates.
b. Not do that.
Sorry folks, the answer is still b, as some California attorneys learned.
#law #litigation #chatbots #AI #LLMs #ChatGPT #hallucination
Upscale #EastBay suburban hamlet must pay $120,000 to settle case brought by a persistent projectionist , "#solarpunk novelist" and Mastodon user @AEMarling arrested in 2021 for being an alleged "public nuisance" after beaming portable political imagery onto #SanRamon #CityHall.
Marling is perhaps best known for his caustic commentary targeting petty #Twitler #CEO #MelonHusk with viral projection takes including “Space Karen,” “Lawless Oligarch” "Mediocre Manchild" and other critiques on the #American oligarch's corporate #SocialMedia HQ outpost along #MarketSt in #SanFrancisco.
Originally after being cited, Marling's attorney assumed the small suburban city would return his projection equipment and drop charges, but angry officials retained "outside counsel and private attorney to act as prosecutor, and they prosecuted this to the bitter end” which prompted the case to continue for years as Marling counter sued the bedroom community in #federalcourt for alleged violations of his #FirstAmendment and #FourthAmendment rights, as well as false arrest, among other legal claims that personally named city officials and #police personnel who pursued the charges. Named in Marling's suit were #CityAttorney Martin Lysons, city manager Joe Gorton, ex top cop Craig Stevens, current #PoliceChief Denton Carlson, Sgt. Michael Pistello, Officer Rick Gonzalez, pvt attorney Lance Bayer and city employee Karen McHenry-Smith. The first alleged criminal conspiratorial act by the local govt occured when petty police lied in their report about the spot where Marling even had the projector, claiming it was propped up against a traffic light on a sidewalk rather than placed in a landscaping bed.
From there, and even after an acquittal in an actual local court for the bogus citation, Marling filed a complaint alleging numerous civil violations, including of the First, Fourth and 14th amendments and the #CivilRights Act, as well as false imprisonment.
Marling said he hopes the legal #settlement discourages crackdowns on #activism in the future.
“For the police to try to detain in this fashion is illegal — I wasn’t violating any laws,” Marling said. “I guess you could say it was a slap on the wrist to try to encourage cities to not do this.” We only got to this point where the city finally "settled" and agreed to pay #legal costs and admit no #wrongdoing after years of #litigation.
https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2025/05/13/viral-bay-area-projection-activist-reaches-120000-settlement-in-civil-rights-lawsuit-against-bay-area-city/ #CopWatch #FreeSpeech
A business interruption insurance claim by Baylor’s College of Medicine went the way of almost all such claims, but only because the court felt compelled by precedent to ignore some damn good expert testimony.
#law #contracts #litigation #COVID #insurance
https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractsprof_blog/2025/05/texas-court-of-appeals-reverses-12-million-judgment-in-covid-related-insurance-claim.html
What better way to celebrate May Day than with an account of the National Treasury Employee Union’s victory, enjoining the Administration from terminating collective bargaining rights for 2/3 of the federal work force? The order came out on Friday, the opinion on Monday.
#Law #contracts #unions #labor #GovernmentWorkers #litigation
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has survived the first 100 days of the new Administration’s term with the help of Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who sees the latest RIF (correctly) as an attempt to prevent the CFPB from performing its statutorily-mandated functions
#law #contracts #CFPB #litigation #GovernmentEmployees #Injunctions
#Harvard has sued the #Trump admin in hopes of restoring the #funding, the first #university to do so. Other #schools …targeted by the admin are watching the #litigation closely.
In a letter accompanying the 2 reports, Dr. Alan Garber, Harvard’s president, apologized for the problems that the task forces revealed. He said the #Hamas attack on #Israel in 2023 & the war that followed had brought long simmering tensions to the surface, & promised to address them.
