Tuesday, February 9, 2021
Highlights from this issue include:
Supreme Court grants cert in securities class action to address whether the
Basic presumption of class-wide reliance can be rebutted based on the generic nature of the alleged representation and that the statement had no price impact.
Massachusetts appellate court emphasizes that evidence is required to support class certification, even under state law.
District court in the Second Circuit holds that
Daubert analysis must be conducted at the class certification stage.
Third Circuit holds that the failure to register tires under federal law is not enough to confer standing.
Seventh Circuit holds that violations of the data retention and destruction requirements of the Biometric Information Privacy Act are sufficient for standing.
Michael Corbett Stovall Jr.
WILMINGTON Michael Corbett Stovall Jr., 69, passed away Monday, Feb. 8, 2021, surrounded by family at Brookdale Memory Care center in Wilmington.
Michael was the son of Mary Bellamy Koonce and Michael Corbett Stovall, both of Wilmington; grandson of Nora Meade Corbett Stovall and Major Harry Wylie Stovall and Lillian Maxwell Bellamy and The Honorable Emmett Hargrove Bellamy, and the husband of Kathleen Lester Stovall, formerly of Reidsville. He had two sons, Michael Corbett Stovall III of Brooklyn, New York, and Christopher Talley Stovall of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Born Aug. 7, 1951, in Houston, Michael was a go-getter as a child. He enjoyed playing catcher for his Little League team, coached by his father. In addition to backing up pitchers, he won “Most Typical Cowboy” and was able to meet Roy Rogers as a result. His love for dogs began as a child, with his first dog, Joe, and continuing to his stepfather’s musically named Golden Retriever “hunting
Lawful Businesses Should Not be Liable for Harms Caused by Businesses’ Adversaries Ammoland Inc. Posted on
FPC, Law Professors, and Georgia First Amendment Foundation File Amicus Brief Arguing that Lawful Businesses Should Not be Liable for Harms Caused by the Businesses’ Adversaries
U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) announced the filing of an important amicus brief with the Georgia Court of Appeals in McBrayer, et al. v. The Governors Ridge Property Owners Association, Inc., et al. The brief, authored and filed by UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh and Georgia attorney Darren Summerville, with the help of UCLA law student Madison Way, is available at FPCLegal.org.
Louisiana s unanimous jury law could be applied retroactively. Author: Paul Dudley / Eyewitness News Published: 10:46 PM CST February 8, 2021 Updated: 10:58 PM CST February 8, 2021
NEW ORLEANS A Louisiana criminal case is being heard by the highest court in the land and the outcome could result in new trials for hundreds of inmates convicted by non-unanimous juries in the past.
As the United States Supreme Court hears the Baton Rouge case, the lone dissenting juror on all the charges is teaming up with a law professor to present the nine justices facts of the case that, they said, just don’t add up.
“I feel like I was not heard. I feel like I was silenced. I feel like I did my jury service, but it didn’t make a difference,” JonRe Taylor, the lone Black juror in the trial, said.
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It seems like yesterday, but it was actually last summer when the United States Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers published the Navigable Waters Protection Rule, effective June 22, 2020 (the Rule ).
The Rule s publication completed the two-step process to repeal and replace the 2015 Clean Water Rule. The Rule replaced the Clean Water Rule s definition of waters of the United States with one that provides an arguably smaller scope of protections for these waters. As expected, several states (including North Carolina) raised legal challenges to the Rule during the second half of 2020. Colorado, however, was the only state that obtained a stay of the Rule.