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The Iowa Supreme Court panel turned back a doctor’s attempt to dismiss a lawsuit from a lawyer who allegedly paid him a retainer for expert witness services he didn’t ultimately provide.        

The three-judge panel said the certification will allow the state’s high court to apply its law and policy judgments on this undecided issue, citing the lack of controlling precedent.        

“They’re a billion-dollar operation; I’m a small business,” Charlie Gitto Jr., owner of the Missouri restaurant dubbed Charlie Gitto’s From the Hill, told Law.com. “The average guy, they get out-lawyered and financially humiliated. I’m just thankful that Jim [Monafo] and Husch Blackwell came to rescue me, otherwise we’re throwing popcorn against a brick wall.”        

“I think we are closer than we have ever been before and rescheduling to Schedule III is just a matter of time,” said Rachel Gillette, leader of Holland & Hart’s cannabis and psychedelics group.        

“The statute simply does not provide clarity that truthful speech which generates an innocent or unreasonable listener mistake is outside of its scope. And this is sufficient to confer pre-enforcement standing,” Justice Caleb Stegall said. “Thus, when the Legislature criminalizes speech and does not—within the elements and definitions of the crime—provide a high degree of […]

“We’re in a period of upheaval in terms of how we’re assessing juries,” consultant Tara Trask said.        

The 600-lawyer employment law firm will be competitive with other firms of its size and specialty in associate pay, says John Polson, who’s served as chair since the middle of 2022.        

With nine defense verdicts in a row, Bayer was headed well into 2023 with an unstoppable record in trials over Monsanto’s Roundup. Then, the momentum stopped with five verdicts totaling more than $2 billion.        

Trademark registrations offer an effective solution to this issue by allowing businesses to maintain their English branding while navigating the Québec market.        

London’s High Court ruled that ‘ENRC is entitled to significantly more by way of damages than Dechert and the SFO have contended’.