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Meghan Markle has taken legal action against Associated Newspapers (ANL), the publisher of the Mail on Sunday, Daily Mail and Mail Online, after it published a series of articles containing excerpts of a letter she sent to her father, Thomas Markle. The Duchess is seeking damages for alleged misuse of private information, breaching the Data Protection Act and infringing copyright and her case is due to be heard at the High Court in London on Tuesday, January 19.
Comnmentary: New Mexico leaders are applauding the Joint Resolution pre-filed Monday, January 4, by Senator Antoinette Sedillo Lopez, Senator Bill Soules, and Representative Joanne Ferrary to amend the New Mexico Constitution in order to add enforceable environmental rights. Senator Mimi Stewart, Senator Harold Pope, Jr, Representative Tara Luján and Representative Andrea Romero are signing on as co-sponsors in support. The Joint Resolution proposing the amendment was pre-filed by the sponsors on the first day legislators could pre-file their legislative proposals for the 2021 legislative session.
The Joint Resolution proposes amending the state constitution’s Bill of Rights to recognize and protect the rights of all of the people of New Mexico “to a clean and healthy environment, including pure water, clean air, healthy ecosystems, and a stable climate, and to the preservation of the natural, cultural, scenic and healthful qualities of the environment”; to ensure
Thu, Jan 7th 2021 3:36pm
Mike Masnick
Richard Liebowitz is infamous as the notoriously inept copyright troll lawyer. He s so bad at his job that he s been sanctioned repeatedly, and recently was suspended from practicing law in the Southern District of NY (his home court). The details of him lying under oath over and over again are simply staggering.
However, you have to give Richard Liebowitz credit for one thing: he s so bad at copyright trolling, that he s set some useful precedents. We wrote about one such case a year and a half ago, where Liebowitz s greed in turning down a settlement offer ended up costing his client a ton.
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January 7, 2021
Ohio Security Insurance Company and the Ohio Casualty Insurance Company argued in a Motion for Summary Judgment on Tuesday in the District of Oregon that it should not be required to defend or provide insurance based on hard cider company Forbidden Fruit Ciderhouseâs separate class-action misrepresentation lawsuit since the lawsuit did not relate to any bodily injury from consumers and the alleged injury is not the result of an accidental occurrence.Â
Forbidden Fruit Ciderhouse, which does business as 2 Towns Ciderhouse, filed a lawsuit claiming that the insurance companies representing it, under the liability coverage agreement, should pay the costs incurred by the plaintiff in the class-action suit where it was accused of false advertising. The plaintiff was accused of falsely labeling that its products had âno artificial flavorsâ when they contained DL-Malic Acid, which the putative class action plaintiffs claimed the
It’s Time to Adapt Your Litigation Strategy to
a More Flexible Summary Judgment Standard
On the final day of 2020, the Florida Supreme Court waived adieu to the past in two related decisions on the summary judgment standard. One decision declined to create a special exception for video evidence but concluded that Florida’s current standard is unreasonably restrictive, and the other decision amended the summary judgment rule to adopt the less rigid Federal standard.
Wilsonart, LLC, et. al., v. Miguel Lopez, etc., No. SC19-1336, 2020 WL 7778226 (Fla. Dec. 31, 2020);
In Re: Amendments to Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.510, No. SC20-1490, 2020 WL 7778179 (December 31, 2020).