North Carolina recently lost another of its retired appellate judges. K. Edward Greene served on the Court of Appeals for sixteen years following eight years as a district court judge. After his retirement from the bench, he was practicing with Wyrick Robbins when he was brought down by a stroke, passing away last week.
Here’s 33 minutes of video of Ross Guberman and Robert Scavone playing around with ChatGPT in a lawyerly way. This will give you a good sense of where the software stands as a legal-writing tool at the moment–which is not where it was 3 months ago, and not where it will be 3 months from
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Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of May 22, 2023.
Continue ReadingThe Court released two companion decisions in Markowich v. Lundin Mining Corporation and Peters v. SNC-Lavalin Group
As some of our readers may know, I write a monthly column for North Carolina Lawyers Weekly. The topics are what I’d call appellate-adjacent. But this month’s column is right in the wheelhouse of this blog’s readership.
I was privileged to have Justice Dietz sit down with me for a long interview. You can check
A municipal water utility is not shielded by the Iowa Tort Claims Act from strict liability for damage to a Council Bluffs couples’ home caused by water main breaks, the Iowa Supreme Court held in a decision handed down May 19.
Jim and Angela Sutton sued the Council Bluffs Water Works following breaks in a
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Following are this week’s summaries of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of May 15, 2023.
Continue ReadingIn Hydro One Networks Inc. v. Shiner, Hydro sought a declaration that it had a prescriptive easement to an
Last week marked the close of a major legal dispute under Maine law regarding the applicability of retroactive laws to development projects already under construction. The issue in the case was one of fundamental fairness: if a person obtains a lawful permit and then expends significant sums building a project based on that permit, can
A case with a long procedural history in administrative and constitutional law that might have resolved the question of Medicaid coverage for gender-affirming surgery ended quietly May 12 when the Iowa Supreme Court declared the case moot. The matter was decided for the patients seeking coverage in this case, but the larger constitutional question awaits
When prospective Appellants face a deadline for filing a Notice of Appeal, it is imperative that they know how many days, and which days, to count.
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Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of May 8, 2023.
Continue ReadingBothwell v. London Health Sciences Centre considered the legal principles set out by the Supreme Court in