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News You Can Use Digest – July 29, 2022

29 Jul 2022, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor

Republican Governors Gave Lucrative, No-Bid COVID-19 Deals to Utah Firms, Who Then Gave $1M to GOP Campaigns Yahoo News – Craig Harris, Bailey Schulz, and Katie Wedell (USA Today) | Published: 7/27/2022 A small number of companies leveraged their connections to sign deals to provide COVID-19 tests and personal protective equipment that would pay them at least $219 million in five GOP-led states. [read post]

Lobby Comply Blog - https://stateandfed.com/lobbycomply/feed

Patent case: Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation. v. Accord Healthcare, Inc., USA

19 Jul 2022, 7:46 am by Cheryl Beise (Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory US)

The court granted a petition for rehearing filed by HEC Pharm Co., Ltd. and HEC Pharm USA Inc., vacated its prior decision, and reversed the district court’s judgment that the claims of patent at issue were not invalid (Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation. v. [read post]

Kluwer Patent Blog - http://patentblog.kluweriplaw.com/

Inducing Infringement with the Skinny Label

17 Jul 2022, 5:00 am by Dennis Crouch

USA, Inc. v. [read post]

Patently-O - https://patentlyo.com

The D.C. Circuit Upholds Subpoena for Trump Financial Records

15 Jul 2022, 7:01 am by Jacob Levin

Circuit held in Trump v. [read post]

Lawfare - http://www.lawfareblog.com/

News You Can Use Digest – July 15, 2022

15 Jul 2022, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor

Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. [read post]

Lobby Comply Blog - https://stateandfed.com/lobbycomply/feed

Stasko on the Alien Tort Statute

13 Jul 2022, 8:55 pm by Lawrence Solum

Nestle USA v. [read post]

Legal Theory Blog - https://lsolum.typepad.com/legaltheory/

No Harm, No Foul in Legal Malpractice Setting

13 Jul 2022, 3:44 am by Andrew Lavoott Bluestone

In an order entered March 6, 2019, the Supreme Court granted the motion, and the plaintiff appeals. [read post]

New York Attorney Malpractice Blog - http://blog.bluestonelawfirm.com/

Federal Circuit Reconsiders Written Description Support For Negative Limitation

12 Jul 2022, 2:08 am by Courtenay C. Brinckerhoff

Corp. v. [read post]

PharmaPatents - https://www.foley.com/en/insights/blogs/pharmapatents

Can We Stop Pretending That the 7th Circuit Doesn’t Love New Kids on the Block?

6 Jul 2022, 1:17 pm by Holly Brezee

[4] USA Today wanted to know “Who’s the best on the block? [read post]

Dunlap Bennett & Ludwig Blog - https://www.dbllawyers.com/blog/

[Josh Blackman] State of the Fifth Circuit Address

30 Jun 2022, 4:30 am by Josh Blackman

The Supreme Court has granted cert in this case. [read post]

The Volokh Conspiracy - http://www.volokh.com/

Workers' Compensation Board's factual determination that claimant suffered from an occupational disease resulting from repetitive stress when supported by substantial evidence will not be disturbed

24 Jun 2022, 9:08 pm by Public Employment Law Press

Matter of Brancato v New York City Tr. [read post]

New York Public Personnel Law - https://publicpersonnellaw.blogspot.com/

Workers' Compensation Board's factual determination that claimant suffered from an occupational disease resulting from repetitive stress when supported by substantial evidence will not be disturbed

24 Jun 2022, 9:08 pm by Public Employment Law Press

Matter of Brancato v New York City Tr. [read post]

New York Public Personnel Law - https://publicpersonnellaw.blogspot.com/

Employee's unauthorized absences, together with his failure to follow employer's sick leave policy, served as a good-faith basis for employee's dismissal from the position

24 Jun 2022, 9:05 pm by Public Employment Law Press

The petition also fails to adequately allege that ACS violated the Family Medical Leave Act, as petitioner did not assert that he had worked for ACS for 12 months or 1,250 hours, and thus failed to demonstrate that he was an eligible employee under 29 USC § 2611(2)(A)(ii) (see Donahue v Asia TV USA Ltd., 208 F Supp 3d 505, 512 [SD NY 2016]). [read post]

New York Public Personnel Law - https://publicpersonnellaw.blogspot.com/

Employee's unauthorized absences, together with his failure to follow employer's sick leave policy, served as a good-faith basis for employee's dismissal from the position

24 Jun 2022, 9:05 pm by Public Employment Law Press

The petition also fails to adequately allege that ACS violated the Family Medical Leave Act, as petitioner did not assert that he had worked for ACS for 12 months or 1,250 hours, and thus failed to demonstrate that he was an eligible employee under 29 USC § 2611(2)(A)(ii) (see Donahue v Asia TV USA Ltd., 208 F Supp 3d 505, 512 [SD NY 2016]). [read post]

New York Public Personnel Law - https://publicpersonnellaw.blogspot.com/

Trademark case: Bluetooth SIG Inc. v. FCA US LLC, USA

23 Jun 2022, 7:36 am by Robert B. Barnett (Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory US)

The Ninth Circuit also, however, remanded the case for a further determination as to whether Fiat Chrysler had adequately disclosed its relationship with, and qualifications to use, Bluetooth technology, as it was required to do under limits previously placed on the first sale doctrine (Bluetooth SIG Inc. v. [read post]

KluwerTrademarkBlog - http://trademarkblog.kluweriplaw.com/

California Whistleblower Retaliation Claims after Lawson v. PPG

22 Jun 2022, 7:21 pm by Charlie Mounts

GN Audio USA, Inc. (9th Cir. [read post]

Renne Public Law Group News - https://rennepubliclawgroup.com/news/

The Supreme Court Further Dismantles the Establishment Clause, Empowers Religious Parents to Obtain Taxpayer Funds for Sectarian Schools, and Ignores the Rights of the Children in Carson v. Makin

21 Jun 2022, 9:00 pm by Marci A. Hamilton

Comer (2017); Espinoza v. [read post]

Verdict - http://verdict.justia.com/

[Eugene Volokh] Attitude-Altering Slippery Slopes

17 Jun 2022, 5:01 am by Eugene Volokh

Twenty-two years earlier, in Smith v. [read post]