NJIC, Aug. 12, 2024 "A federal court in the Southern District of Indiana has ruled for the second time that individuals who suffered flooded cells and poor sanitation at the Clay County Jail can move forward with their lawsuit against Immigration and Customs...
State Department, June 27, 2024 "On June 25, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit reversed the district courts’ decisions in Gomez v. Biden , Rai v. Biden , Goodluck v. Biden, and Goh v. Biden , which had ordered the...
Will Weissert, Associated Press, June 6, 2024 “The second Trump administration, if there is one, will be better prepared,” said Stephen Yale-Loehr , a professor of immigration law practice at Cornell University. He noted that the first Trump administration...
NILA Practice Advisory, May 17, 2024 "Noncitizens and their attorneys are experiencing record-breaking delays in the adjudication of benefit applications by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and the Department of State (DOS). As processing...
Sophia Bollag, San Francisco Chronicle, Apr. 30, 2024 "Former President Donald Trump says he will compel local police to enforce federal immigration law if he’s reelected, which would put him in direct conflict with California laws passed during his...
Summary: What is Arbitration? Is Arbitration Better than Litigation? Why Choose Litigation Over Arbitration? Other Factors That Influence the Path to Arbitration vs. Litigation What is a Disadvantage of Arbitration? Differences Between Arbitration...
The California Workers’ Compensation Institute (CWCI) will conduct a one-day case law seminar in May in both Long Beach and San Francisco to examine how recent trends in decisional law are reshaping California workers’ compensation and to discuss appropriate...
By Stephen Embry, Embry and Neusner, Groton, Connecticut The driving force of the law is fear, which promotes dispute resolution. In the ordinary course of human affairs disputes and controversies arise and are resolved informally. It is rare that the dispute...
Larson's Spotlight on Conflict of Medical Opinions, Future Medical Payments, Employer's Safety Rules, and Lump-Sum Settlement. Larson's surveys the latest case developments that you need to know about. Thomas A. Robinson, the staff writer for Larson's...
By John Stahl, Esq. Dr. Bogdan Savych of the Workers’ Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) said at the outset of his May 10, 2012 webinar entitled “Avoiding Litigation: What Can Employers, Payers and States Do” that the goals of the workers’...
Most people involved with California’s workers’ compensation system would say that over the past twenty years, the process has become increasingly litigious. There can be little question that the issues have become increasingly technical. The workers’ compensation...
Millions of Americans this spring were eagerly awaiting daily TV news updates and refreshing social media feeds to stay on top of the latest developments in two high-drama lawsuits. The star litigants? In one case, it was a plaintiff who played a swashbuckling...
Save time and be confident your research is complete. There’s no question that litigation research can be challenging. From finding the proper terminology to combing through a myriad of resources in disparate systems, the process can be time-consuming and...
By Geoffrey D. Ivnik, Esq. | Director of Marketing LexisNexis There are few professional oversights as damaging to a lawyer’s career as missing key legal precedent when representing a client. The legal news site Above the Law reported that a team of lawyers...
By: Michael Bahler and Mike Stefanelli Deciding whether to commence a federal lawsuit requires the attorney to evaluate the potential client, analyze the applicable legal and procedural landscape, and examine the possibility of resolving the dispute without litigation...