The Eighth Circuit recently affirmed the Western District of Missouri’s denial of summary judgment based on qualified immunity to two individual defendants who had been sued for First Amendment retaliation under Section 1983.       

The wife, also an attorney, argued that the trial court erred in applying a fertility clinic’s declaration of intent contract without balancing the parties’ interests when determining the proper disposition of the 14 frozen embryos.       

Karen K. Caldwell, the chair of the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation and a district judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, issued the order on behalf of the six-judge panel and said centralization is currently not necessary for the convenience of the parties and witnesses in order to conduct

The court determined that until the Indiana General Assembly determined otherwise, it holds that “gender” in Title 9 of the state statutory scheme means “sex.”       

The high court determined that Judge Robert P. Ruehlman, a retired judge sitting by assignment on the Jackson County Court of Common Pleas, General and Domestic Relations Division, was disqualified from presiding over “Jackson v. Ward,” concluding that an objective observer would conclude that he was prejudiced against the litigant.       

“Why did you extend all this legal work to the financial detriment of your client?” Ohio Justice Melody J. Stewart asked.       

Private equity may have been down in 2023, “but our share of private equity is growing because we’ve been enlarging that practice,” Executive Committee Chair Michael Schmidtberger said.       

This case was first surfaced by Law.com Radar.       

Michael Wilson, formerly a co-chair of the corporate and transactional department at Locke Lord, represents a number of private equity and venture capital firms.       

“Andrew Etkind has been at the forefront of the most consequential business and legal matters that shaped Garmin into the company it is today,” Garmin CEO Cliff Pemble said.