• A declaratory judgment, also called a declaration, is the legal determination of a court that resolves legal uncertainty for the litigants. It is a form...
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    granted, and Step-Saver's motion for a declaratory judgment was denied on the grounds of misuse of the Declaratory Judgment Act. Specifically it failed because...
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  • Consent judgments are often used in the regulatory context, particularly in antitrust and environmental cases. Declaratory judgment: a judgment that determines...
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    remedy in American law, the declaratory judgment. Another way these two remedies are distinguished is that the declaratory judgment is sometimes available...
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    resembles other forms of "preventive adjudication", such as the declaratory judgment. Different jurisdictions have different legal standards for obtaining...
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  • temporary or permanent injunction to prevent an act or compel an act. A declaratory judgment may be issued to prevent future legal disputes. A lawsuit may involve...
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  • to set aside judgment" asks the court to vacate or nullify a judgment or verdict. Motions may be made at any time after entry of judgment, and in some...
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    April 12, 2012. On May 17, 2012, Judge Benson issued an order and declaratory judgment ruling that individuals and service providers could not be prosecuted...
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    conclusion of action in state court. There is a declaratory judgment exception to res judicata. "[A] declaratory action determines only what it actually decides...
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  • as a result of the lawsuit. The relief can include a request for declaratory judgment, a request for injunctive relief (non-monetary relief), compensatory...
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  • a declaratory judgment. Less commonly, where declaratory relief is awarded by an arbitrator, it is normally called a declaratory award. Declaratory relief...
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  • declaratory judgment action, if under the facts as proved, there is some possibility of a future need for relief as among the parties, a declaratory judgment...
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    compensation for victims of wrongful conviction as well as the use of declaratory judgments. His work in international law emphasized non-intervention and neutrality...
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  • omnes effects if and only if the defendant is found liable, and the declaratory judgment can be used then to pursue damages in the same procedure or in individual...
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  • to return what they have received from the exchange. Declaratory remedies, or declaratory judgment, do not belong to the category of damages or equities...
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  • Day" since at least 2008. A plaintiff named Quera Pruitt sought declaratory judgment and $75,000 in punitive damages from the defendants for creating...
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  • of rights; seek a declaratory judgment that it has no duty to defend the claim; or decline to defend or to seek a declaratory judgment. The duty to defend...
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    profane-justice.org between 1999 and 2004. Internet Archive filed a declaratory judgment action in the United States District Court for the Northern District...
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  • Movie. Fearing prosecution from the FEC, the organization sought a declaratory judgment in federal court to assure their right to show the movie, leading...
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  • and the AP began negotiations for compensation. Fairey sued for a declaratory judgment that his poster was a fair use of the photograph. The parties settled...
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  • gives rise to a right by the receiving party to bring an action for declaratory judgment that it has not broken the law: for example, if the holder of a trademark...
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    lawsuit seeking a preliminary and permanent injunction, as well as a declaratory judgment, allowing potential voters to register, through October 6. On October...
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  • In law, a summary judgment, also referred to as judgment as a matter of law or summary disposition, is a judgment entered by a court for one party and...
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  • Retrieved 2014-08-13. Bray, Samuel (2014). "The Myth of the Mild Declaratory Judgment". Duke Law Journal. 63: 1091. SSRN 2330050. Hill, G. (2008). Contempt...
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    negotiate and sued Lewis in Los Angeles County Superior Court, seeking a declaratory judgment stating that Lewis had no rights to the name or theory of de-evolution...
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    controversy" between the parties, as required before the Court may issue a declaratory judgment, because the Estate had not threatened litigation against Klinger...
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  • In law, a motion to set aside judgment is an application to overturn or set aside a court's judgment, verdict or other final ruling in a case. Such a motion...
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  • (claimant) usually prefers for the settlement to be given the effect of a judgment. Coercion Pierringer release Strike suit Erichson, Howard M. (2010–2011)...
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  • TikTok in the United States." In the lawsuit, TikTok requested a declaratory judgment to prevent the PAFACA from being enforced. The Court of Appeals expedited...
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    lawsuit seeking a preliminary and permanent injunction, as well as a declaratory judgment, allowing potential voters to register, through October 6. On October...
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