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Venue
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HeplerBroom Blog
Missouri Introduces New Venue Statutes for Lawsuits Against Insurance Companies
By Mike Young
On May 1, 2019, Senate Bill 7 was passed as part of the Missouri legislature’s overarching goal to refine Missouri’s broad venue rules, which previously had allowed plaintiffs to pursue…
Jane's Law Blog
Oral arg. – MSSCT – 7/24/2019 – a.m.
By Jane Tucker
At 10:00 the MSSCT will hear an interlocutory appeal in Katherine Grace Short v. Oxygen Media, et. al. The issue is venue. The case is interesting because of the nature…
Tort Talk
Pennsylvania Superior Court Decides Proper Venue For Internet Defamation Cases (Case of First Impression)
The issue of proper venue in a case of alleged defamation on the world wide web was addressed by the Pennsylvania Superior Court in the case of Fox v. Smith,…
Delaware Intellectual Property Litigation
Judge Noreika Denies YouTube and Google’s Motion to Transfer Venue of Patent Infringement Action to Northern District of California
By Memorandum Opinion entered by The Honorable Maryellen Noreika in Viretem Ventures, LLC v. YouTube, LLC and Google, LLC, Civil Action No. 18-917 – MN (D.Del. May 16, 2019), the…
N.D.Pa.L.
One Thing That <i>TC Heartland</i> Didn’t Change: The Alien-Venue Rule
It is a “well-established rule that suits against alien defendants are outside the operation of the federal venue laws.”[1] Judge Gilliam stopped a declaratory judgment plaintiff’s attempt to initiate a parallel lawsuit…
TortsProf Blog
PA: Med Mal Venue Decision Delayed
Two weeks ago, I reported that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court was considering an alteration of venue rules for medical malpractice cases. In the early 2000's, the court restricted venue to…
TortsProf Blog
PA: Med Mal Reform on Venue?
Yesterday's The Patriot-News (Harrisburg) featured a front-page article by David Wenner entitled "Is the deck stacked against patients?". In 2002, during the middle of an alleged crisis in malpractice, the legislature…
Pennsylvania Law Monitor
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rules Committee Considers Change to Med Mal Venue Rule
Currently in Pennsylvania, a medical malpractice lawsuit may only be filed in the county where the alleged malpractice occurred. This more restrictive than the venue rule for other types of…
Drug & Device Law
Excellent Jurisdiction/Venue Decision in Gadolinium Case in Eastern District of Missouri
We are old enough to treasure the memory of sitting in a darkened movie theater with our mother and sisters watching the original “Mary Poppins.” We were transfixed and transported…
New York Commercial Division Practice
Amended CPLR 503(a): “Extra Butter” Sneakerheads Must Defend Alleged Theft of Yeezys, and Other Fly Kicks, in New York County
It has been almost one year since the New York legislature amended CPLR 503(a) to provide for venue in “the county in which a substantial part of the events or…