litigation-conduct

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23-574 Traxcell Technologies, LLC v. Sprint Communications Company LP, et al. Federal Circuit 2023-11-28 Denied Response Waived 35-usc-285 attorney-fees attorneys-fees claim-baselessness exceptional-case final-ruling litigation-conduct magistrate-ruling patent-infringement Where petitioner's patent infringement claims were not finally rejected until the district court judge approved the Magistrate Judge's ruling disposin…
21-1359 Robert Corliss v. Crossroads Financing, LLC, et al. California 2022-04-19 Denied Response Waived arbitration arbitration-waiver california-state-court contract-law contractual-rights court-inconsistency equal-treatment equal-treatment-principle litigation-conduct prejudice prejudice-standard waiver Whether prejudice is required to prove waiver of arbitration rights
21-1028 International Energy Ventures Management, L.L.C. v. United Energy Group, Ltd. Fifth Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) appellate-review arbitration arbitration-waiver circuit-split civil-procedure clear-error-standard deference fact-finding federal-rules-of-civil-procedure litigation-conduct rule-52a standard-of-review Whether prejudice is part of the test for litigation conduct waiver in the context of an arbitration clause
21-328 Robyn Morgan v. Sundance, Inc. Eighth Circuit 2021-09-01 Judgment Issued Amici (10)Relisted (2) arbitration arbitration-waiver circuit-split contract-law equal-treatment equal-treatment-principle federal-courts litigation-conduct prejudice prejudice-requirement state-courts waiver Does the arbitration-specific requirement that the proponent of a contractual waiver defense prove prejudice violate this Court's instruction that low…
18-1588 Norma L. Cooke v. Jackson National Life Insurance Company Seventh Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-procedure civil-procedure-fees civil-rights district-court-award due-process federal-rules-of-procedure federal-rules-procedure fee-award insurance judicial-bias judicial-discretion litigation-conduct sanctions seventh-circuit state-insurance-law state-law unreasonable-litigation-conduct Where the district court awarded fees to Petitioner under state insurance law for Respondent's unreasonable litigation conduct, did the Seventh Circui…
18-1479 Jason P. Stinson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-28 Denied Response Waived 26-usc-7402 burden-of-proof disgorge disgorgement due-process due-process,tax-preparation,26-usc-7402,permanent- evidence injunction internal-revenue-code litigation-conduct permanent-injunction tax-preparation tax-preparer Whether issuing a permanent injunction and an order to disgorge $949,000 against the owner of a tax preparation business under 26 U.S.C. § 7402 violat…
18-1246 BNSF Railway Company, et al. v. Montana Eighth Judicial District Court, Cascade County, et al. Montana 2019-03-26 Dismissed Amici (2) bad-faith bad-faith-claims federal-framework federal-preemption fela fela-preemption litigation-conduct railroad-liability self-insured-employer state-law-liability Whether FELA preempts bad-faith claims under Montana law that seek to impose state-law liability based on the litigation conduct of a self-insured emp…
18-6872 Seifullah Abdul-Salaam v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. Third Circuit 2018-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP aedpa brady-rule brady-v-maryland brady-violation certificate-of-appealability due-process exculpatory-evidence exhaustion-of-remedies habeas-corpus habeas-corpus-review litigation-conduct nonexhaustion-defense state-post-conviction suppression-of-evidence Can a nonexhaustion defense be deemed expressly waived based on a party's litigation conduct?
18-572 Dorsey Ron McCall v. Aptim Corporation Fifth Circuit 2018-11-01 Dismissed abstention arbitration-waiver circuit-split civil-procedure federal-court-abstention federal-courts federal-state-jurisdiction forum-shopping litigation-conduct prejudice state-court-proceedings Must a party opposing arbitration on the ground of waiver by litigation conduct prove that it was prejudiced by the other party's waiver?