Branstetter Litigation And Dispute Resolution Program
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Ingrid Wuerth featured in Jan. 18 Lawfare podcast: “Halkbank Hits the Supreme Court”
Wuerth is one of two sovereign immunity experts interviewed by Lawfare senior editor Scott R. Anderson in a discussion of U.S. v. Halkbank, a Supreme Court case that addresses criminal charges brought by the U.S. government against a Turkish state-owned bank. Read MoreJan. 19, 2023
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Brian Fitzpatrick’s study of contingency-fee cases cited in Bloomberg Law coverage of $185 million fee award in Obamacare lawsuit against the federal government
The case highlights a long-running dispute in the judiciary over the best way to pay lawyers for winning contingency-fee settlements. Fitzpatrick's study looked at two years' worth of settlements and examined the use of paying lawyers a flat percentage of the total award versus a more complicated approach based on how much the lawyers would have received had they been paid on a billable hour scale. Read MoreDec. 7, 2022
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New Transnational Litigation Blog Post from Ingrid Brunk: Foreign Data Protection Laws: Greater Impact on U.S. Discovery than Foreign Blocking Statutes
Ingrid (Wuerth) Brunk writes that litigants are increasingly using foreign data protection laws-especially new laws in China and the EU-to resist discovery requests from U.S. courts. Read MoreOct. 25, 2022
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SFFA v. Harvard and SFFA v. UNC: Listen to the Supreme Court oral arguments with an introduction by education policy expert Matthew Shaw Nov. 1
Shaw will provide an introduction to a recording of the oral arguments in these cases from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. in the Moore Room. Read MoreOct. 25, 2022
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Personal Jurisdiction, Due Process and Originalism: Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co., a moot court argument Oct. 28
Vanderbilt litigation experts Brian Fitzpatrick, Suzanna Sherry and Ingrid Brunk will preside over this moot-court-style event highlighting Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co., a case to be argued before the Supreme Court on Nov. 8, 2022. The event starts at 12:30 p.m. in Flynn Auditorium. Read MoreOct. 13, 2022
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View Supreme Court Affirmative Action Oral Argument, with introduction by Matthew Shaw, Nov. 1
Education policy expert Matthew Shaw will provide an introduction to a recording of the Supreme Court hearing of the oral arguments in SFFA v. Harvard and SFFA v. UNC, both of which are Title VI cases.. Both schools are accused of discriminating against Asians and Aisan-Americans in their admissions policies. The event is sponsored by the Asian Pacific American Student Association and the George Barrett Social Justice Program. Read MoreOct. 13, 2022
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Judge Claria Horn Boom ’94 confirmed to U.S. Sentencing Commission
Judge Boom has served as a swing judge on the Eastern and Western Districts of Kentucky since 2018. She is one of seven new commissioners appointed to the Sentencing Commission. Read MoreAug. 8, 2022
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Why designating Russia a state sponsor of terrorism is a bad idea: Washington Post Opinion by Ingrid Wuerth
Wuerth is a foreign policy expert and holds the Helen Strong Curry Chair in International Law. "The state sponsor of terrorism designation is not a symbolic act to chastise states that behave badly," she writes. "It is a legal trigger embedded in an extremely complex statutory and regulatory framework. The effects of pulling that...trigger are not easy to identify and untangle." Read MoreAug. 1, 2022
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Brian Fitzpatrick’s book, The Conservative Case for Class Actions, discussed in NYTimes opinion piece by business columnist Peter Coy
In Fitzpatrick's 2019 book, The Conservative Case for Class Actions, he argues that limiting plaintiffs' ability to bring class action lawsuits will inevitably result in more government regulation, and that with some reforms, class actions can and should function as a better alternative for disciplining businesses. Coy cites the book and quotes Fitzpatrick in a column discussing Republican support for private lawsuits to implement rights, such as a Texas law promising to pay legal expenses and $10,000 to successful anti-abortion litigants who prevail in private suits against providers and helpers. Read MoreJul. 26, 2022
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Russia should not be designated a state sponsor of terrorism: Opinion by Ingrid Wuerth
Wuerth's column, published in Just Security and in the Transnational Litigation blog, suggests the designation would be largely symbolic and could ultimately harm the interests of the Ukrainian government and the people of Ukraine. Read MoreJul. 20, 2022