Marianna Wharry

September 26, 2024 | Law.com

"The question of whether retained counsel is financially interested in the outcome of the litigation may involve a wider range of materials than the retention agreement alone," U.S. District Judge Jeremy C. Daniel said. "For example, even if the agreement contains adequate safeguards, the arrangement may still violate DoorDash's due process rights if DoorDash presents evidence the city failed to exercise 'absolute and total control over all critical decision-making.'"

By Marianna Wharry

4 minute read

September 25, 2024 | Law.com

"Based on the numerous representations made to BlueRadios of the facts underlying the basis of the claims and well as the ability for them to independently discover any alleged issues with the patents as they were publicly visible, BlueRadios was on notice of their claims as of 2009 at the latest as no reasonable jury could find that BlueRadios acted with the requisite level of diligence in discovering the purported inconsistencies in ownership and inventorship underlying the basis for their claims," wrote U.S. District Judge Denise J. Casper of the District of Massachusetts.

By Marianna Wharry

5 minute read

September 23, 2024 | Law.com

"It seemed to us from the beginning that this was a logical outcome after the legalization of recreational cannabis. We hold out hope for the cases where the search was allegedly justified by the smell of raw cannabis, which we expect to receive shortly," said the plaintiff's attorney, Bruce L. Carmen of Carmen Law Office in Cambridge, Illinois.

By Marianna Wharry

4 minute read

September 18, 2024 | Law.com

The NextGen bar exam will replace the Uniform Bar Examination that West Virginia and North Dakota currently use and will serve as the basis for score portability between participating jurisdictions.

By Marianna Wharry

3 minute read

September 18, 2024 | Law.com

"Here, the plaintiff has alleged that a core principle of being 'Pagan' is submitting to natural forces and refusing artificial medical aid," U.S. Chief Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV wrote. "She has asserted that the mRNA technology used to develop some of the COVID-19 vaccines makes them unnatural and impermissible, as distinct from the virus-derived annual flu vaccine. That asserted connection is sufficient to support a plausible claim that accepting at least some of the COVID-19 vaccines would violate a tenet of her idiosyncratic religion."

By Marianna Wharry

4 minute read

September 17, 2024 | Delaware Business Court Insider

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By Marianna Wharry

3 minute read

September 16, 2024 | Law.com

The majority said the allegations in the lawsuit "do not even potentially fall within the policy's coverage" and said Lloyd's policy for Tony's would only cover data breaches involving unauthorized access to Tony's biometric data.

By Marianna Wharry

4 minute read

September 12, 2024 | Law.com

U.S. District Judge Landya McCafferty said the law "on its face, discriminates against transgender girls," and said the bill's "disparate treatment of transgender girls because they are transgender is clear on the face of the statute."

By Marianna Wharry

4 minute read

September 11, 2024 | Law.com

"In light of the broad current use of telehealth, the setting itself might be almost anywhere but the definition is limited by the requirement that the individual is awaiting or receiving medical care and the information is being collected as part of an effort to maintain or restore or promote that person's well-being," Justice Mary L. Mikva wrote.

By Marianna Wharry

5 minute read

September 09, 2024 | Law.com

"I think a lot of people come out of law school thinking they're going to change the world by the things that they do, and they think they can do it alone. The No. 1 thing that I've realized in the bar association is that none of us are doing anything alone," Victoria Santoro, president of the Massachusetts Bar Association, told Law.com.

By Marianna Wharry

8 minute read