Yesterday, U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon (S.D.N.Y.) issued a decision vacating the bankruptcy judge’s earlier order (covered here) that had given individual members of the Sackler Family immunity from civil lawsuits relating to the opioid epidemic. Here are some excerpts
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SCOTUS Cert Grants: Torres v. Texas Department of Public Safety; Viking River Cruises v. Moriana
The Supreme Court granted certiorari yesterday in two interesting cases.Torres v. Texas Department of Public Safety involves the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA). It presents the question “whether Congress has the power to authorize…
Call for Papers: Seventh Annual Civil Procedure Workshop (Cardozo Law School, May 19-20, 2022)
Here is the call for papers for the Seventh Annual Civil Procedure Workshop, courtesy of Alex Reinert and Myriam Gilles:We are excited to announce the Seventh Annual Civil Procedure Workshop will be hosted by Cardozo Law School in New York…
SCOTUS Cert Grants on Arbitration
The Supreme Court followed up today’s decisions in the Texas abortion cases with some interesting grants of certiorari on arbitration.Southwest Airlines Co. v. Saxon presents the question: “Whether workers who load or unload goods from vehicles that travel in…
SCOTUS Decisions in Texas Abortion Cases: United States v. Texas and Whole Woman’s Health v. Jackson
Today the Supreme Court issued its decisions in two cases involving Texas’s abortion law, S.B. 8 (covered earlier here).In United States v. Texas, the Court issued a one-page per curiam order dismissing the writ of certiorari as improvidently…
Bookman on Summers on Eviction Procedure As Civil Probation
Today on the Courts Law section of JOTWELL is Pamela Bookman’s essay, Circumventing Procedure in Eviction Court. Pam reviews Nicole Summers’ recent article, Civil Probation.
Another SCOTUS Cert Grant on Intervention: Berger v. North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP
This week the Supreme Court granted certiorari in Berger v. North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, which presents the following questions:
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Michalski on Burch & Williams on MDL Litigation
Today on the Courts Law section of JOTWELL is Roger Michalski’s essay, In a Different Voice. Roger reviews a recent article by Beth Burch and Margaret Williams, Perceptions of Justice in Multidistrict Litigation: Voices from the Crowd, Cornell…
SCOTUS Cert Grant on Arbitration: Morgan v. Sundance
Today the Supreme Court granted certiorari in Morgan v. Sundance, Inc., which presents the following question:Waiver is the intentional relinquishment of a known right and, in the context of contracts, occurs when one party to a contract either explicitly…
SCOTUS Cert Grant on Bivens: Egbert v. Boule
Today the Supreme Court granted certiorari in Egbert v. Boule, which presents the following questions:
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