Pressure is growing on the Supreme Court to drop the case because of doubts that its plaintiffs have any standing to sue: "It would be highly improper (and embarrassing) for the Court to decide the merits of such an important case" when there are such doubts, writes Gerard Magliocca of Indiana University school of law.
Meanwhile, because of its plaintiff-friendly libel laws, London is not-so-affectionately known among lawyers as "a town called Sue".
Charles Dance is an elegantly malevolent Mr. Tulkinghorn, the lawyer who manipulates the case - and its plaintiffs - to his own ends.
BP wants all the cases to be held in a court in Houston; many of its plaintiffs prefer Louisiana, where rage against the company runs high.
The 11th Circuit case may have been the most closely watched of the health law cases wending their ways through the courts, in part because its plaintiffs included Republican governors and attorneys general from 26 states.
That case did not earn its plaintiffs millions of little dollars, but instead was notable for the fact that as part of the deal, Random House offered consumers a refund, an offer which just a few thousand bothered to pursue.
The suit names among its plaintiffs three soldiers who took out what appeared to be classic title loans.
Its plaintiffs claim that while states may have to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, they don't have to treat those marriages and equal to those of opposite-sex couples.
The fraying of the lawsuit's claims and the doubts about its plaintiffs' standing point to the fundamental problem with King v Burwell: it's an ideological attack on Obamacare, ginned up by the Cato Institute among others, masquerading as a rule-of-law case. .
Urgenda and its plaintiffs hope that they can convince the courts to compel the Dutch government to reduce carbon emissions to 25 to 40percentt below 1990s levels by 2020, the purported bare minimum needed to avoid a two-degree Celsius rise in worldwide temperatures.
Arguments about patentable subject matter are playing out between the American Civil Liberties Union and its plaintiffs and Myriad and the defendants in the case before the US Supreme Court, but our purpose here is to stress that the Myriad case is an exceptional one, and not the rule.
