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U.S. Supreme Court Limits Section 1988 Attorney’s Fees for Property Owners and Other Civil Rights Litigants

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The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision in Lackey v. Stinnie, 145 S. Ct. 659 (2025), limits the ability of civil rights litigants to recover their attorney fees under the Civil Rights Attorney’s Fees Awards Act, specifically...more

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Fourth Circuit Stays Preliminary Injunction That Blocked Key Portions of Anti-DEI Executive Orders

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On March 14, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit granted the federal government’s request to stay, pending appeal, a nationwide preliminary injunction issued by the U.S. District Court for the District of...more

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Fourth Circuit Reinstates Anti-DEI Executive Orders Pending Further Litigation

On February 21, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland entered a preliminary injunction blocking the enforcement of important aspects of two Executive Orders: “Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI...more

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DEI Injunction Stands: Court Denies Trump Administration’s Motion to Stay

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A federal district court judge for the district of Maryland on March 3, 2025, denied the Trump Administration’s motion to stay implementation of a Feb. 21, 2025, preliminary injunction temporarily prohibiting the...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Judge Denies Government’s Motion to Stay Injunction of Anti-DEI Executive Orders

On March 3 Judge Abelson of the U.S. District Court for the District or Maryland denied the government’s motion for a stay pending appeal of the preliminary injunction halting the termination of equity-related federal grants...more

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U.S. Supreme Court Decision Prohibits Plaintiff Recovery of Attorney’s Fees After a Preliminary Injunction Win

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On February 25, 2025, the United States Supreme Court held that plaintiffs who obtain a preliminary injunction are not eligible for attorney’s fees under 42 U.S.C. § 1988(b) because they do not qualify as “prevailing...more

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Lawyer Discipline for Discriminatory Speech - A Pennsylvania Decision Raises Questions About Maryland Rule 19-308.4(e)

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A federal judge has held that Pennsylvania’s Rule 8.4(g),1 which subjects lawyers to professional discipline for engaging in discriminatory conduct, violates both the free speech clause of the First Amendment and the due...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

Federal Circuit Appeals from the PTAB and ITC: Summaries of Key 2021 Decisions

[co-author: Jamie Dohopolski] Last year, the continued global COVID-19 pandemic forced American courts to largely continue the procedures set in place in 2020. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit was no...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

Pandemic Restriction Challenges Face Uphill Battle in California

On Dec.16, 2020, in Midway Venture LLC v. County of San Diego, the San Diego Superior Court preliminarily enjoined enforcement of two COVID-19-related California public health restrictions as applied to two adult...more

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Court Finds Jurisdiction to Bar Recoupment Associated with Pending Claims Appeal

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On March 27, 2018, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit published an opinion that provides Family Rehabilitation, Inc. (Family Rehab) a second chance to postpone recoupment of about $7.6 million in...more

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The ERISA Litigation Newsletter - November 2016

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This month we review a recent Second Circuit decision addressing ERISA plan status as a class member in a securities shareholder class action. As discussed in the article, the decision exposes a potential conflict among the...more

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Court Rules that California Coastal Commission Staff Members who Participate in Enforcement Proceedings Before the Agency May Also...

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California’s courts have frequently addressed a party’s due process rights to a fair and impartial decision maker in quasi-judicial proceedings, holding that during such proceedings there must be separation of prosecutorial...more

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A Favorable, New Climate for Challenging Medicare Appeals

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Over the past decade, health care providers seeking to challenge Medicare claim denials have faced increasing delays in reaching what many consider the most important step in the Medicare appeals process - a hearing before an...more

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Competitors in the Courtroom: When to Exclude a Party’s Designated Representative from Hearing a Competitor’s Trade Secrets

“You sued them. They stay, period.” This is the conclusion a Texas trial court came to when asked to exclude the designated representative of a party from a hearing where an employee of the other party, a direct competitor,...more

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