Background: The petition concerned the selection of medical adjudicators who sit on statutory, quasi-judicial medical committees and decide medical disputes between Israel’s National Insurance Institute and insured persons. Although the governing law assigns the appointment power to the Minister of Labor, the Institute had developed procedures under which its medical division screened candidates, set eligibility criteria,…
Held: In a unanimous opinion by Justice Yael Wilner, the Court made the order to show cause absolute. It directed the National Insurance Institute to cease playing a role in proceedings for the appointment, promotion, and renewal of medical adjudicators, and directed the Minister to ensure the independent exercise of ministerial judgment in those proceedings. The order takes effect 12 months…
Background: Thales filed French patent application No. 10 04947 for a “Method for the temporal display of an aircraft mission.” The claims described displaying flight-plan stages on a screen along a time-based scale, or “timeline,” including a user-selected portion of a timeline longer than the graphical window. Dependent claims addressed automatic recentering, a magnifying function, a…
Held: The Court of Cassation dismissed Thales’s appeal and upheld the rejection of its patent application. It held that a claim confined to the information displayed and the forms of presentation is not a patentable invention unless it identifies a technical device or means producing a technical effect that contributes technically to the problem stated in the application. The asserted effect…
Background: Uttlesford District Council sought an injunction under section 187B of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 concerning land at Mole Hill Green in Essex. After receiving complaints, the council observed hardstanding, fencing, machinery and caravans on what had been a green field. It issued a temporary stop notice on 5 May 2026. On 7…
Held: Mr Justice Ritchie continued the injunction against Mongan, the family members who were to be named as defendants, and persons unknown. The court found, for the purposes of the return-date decision, that the council’s evidence showed on the balance of probabilities that nobody was residentially occupying the relevant land when the original injunction was granted. The caravans appeared to form…
Background: Vesna Zvicer was admitted to John Hunter Hospital on 11 November 2020 with severe sepsis, multiple-organ dysfunction and acute compartment syndrome affecting both legs and thighs. Treating orthopaedic surgeons concluded that the muscles and nerves in her left lower leg had already died. They urgently performed fasciotomies on her right lower leg and both thighs,…
Held: Muston J dismissed every claim. The Court accepted the treating surgeons’ evidence that Ms Zvicer’s left lower leg showed no pain response, sensation or active toe movement and appeared non-viable. Their decision against fasciotomy reflected the negligible prospect of salvaging the leg and the potentially grave risks to a critically ill patient, including reperfusion injury, infection and death. The plaintiffs…
Background: After the Republican nominee for Ohio House District 89 withdrew, a Republican Party district committee met behind closed doors and selected Caleb Stidham as the replacement candidate. The Erie County Board of Elections divided two-to-two over certification, and the secretary of state broke the tie in favor of placing Stidham on the November 2026 general-election…
Held: The Supreme Court of Ohio denied the writ, but no rationale commanded a majority. The per curiam opinion, joined by Justices Fischer, Shanahan, and Brunner, concluded that laches barred the action because Koebel unreasonably delayed filing and election officials were prejudiced as ballot-printing and mailing deadlines approached. Those three justices therefore did not reach the Open Meetings Act issue.
Background: Vanessa Alessandra Gonçalves Fortes sued a financial institution for moral damages and removal of entries from the Central Bank of Brazil’s Credit Information System (SCR), alleging that she had not received advance notice of the reporting. The trial court rejected her claims and dissolved preliminary relief. Her liability for costs and R$2,000 in attorney fees…
Held: The Superior Tribunal de Justiça’s Fourth Panel unanimously declined to hear the special appeal. It did not decide as a matter of substantive law whether every failure to provide advance notice before SCR reporting does or does not produce presumed moral damages.
Background: Dennis Michael Hogan, a federal prisoner sentenced to 180 months for enticement of a minor, spent approximately ten months in post-sentencing detention before arriving at his designated Bureau of Prisons facility, FCI La Tuna, on June 28, 2021. After exhausting administrative remedies, he filed a pro se petition under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 seeking First…
Held: The Fifth Circuit affirmed. The majority declined to decide whether 28 C.F.R. § 523.42(a), which ties the start of credit earning to arrival or voluntary surrender at the designated BOP facility, conflicts with the First Step Act. It held that Hogan's claim failed on a narrower ground: he did not substantiate any actual participation in evidence-based recidivism-reduction programming or productive…
Background: After criminal charges against Louis Briggs were dismissed, attorney Shaun Wimberly filed a federal action on Briggs’s behalf asserting federal civil-rights claims and state-law claims. The federal district court dismissed most claims and declined jurisdiction over the remaining state-law claims. Briggs blamed Wimberly’s alleged litigation failures and appealed the federal ruling to the Sixth Circuit.
Held: The Kentucky Court of Appeals affirmed both dismissals. Under Kentucky law, a litigation-malpractice claim does not ripen until the underlying litigation, including any appeal, is final. Briggs’s first action therefore was premature when filed because his federal appeal remained pending and his malpractice claim did not yet exist. The premature filing did not toll the one-year limitations period in KRS…
Background: In 2014, the Nazareth–Nof HaGalil Magistrates’ Court entered judgment approving a settlement between the Israel Land Authority and the applicants. Under the settlement, Gulian Sawaed agreed to vacate public land in Tuba-Zangariyye on which his family home stood. He did not vacate, and enforcement proceedings were opened to remove the occupants and demolish the structure.
Held: Justice David Mintz denied the application for permission to bring a third-level appeal without requesting a response. Such review is reserved for exceptional cases presenting a question of general importance beyond the parties’ dispute or requiring intervention to prevent a miscarriage of justice. Appellate courts also ordinarily defer to trial courts’ broad discretion concerning interim relief, particularly when the trial…
Background: On November 26, 2015, Banque Espirito Santo et de la Vénétie, later succeeded by My Money Bank, granted a loan to Amaury, a limited liability company. The loan was intended partly to repay two earlier loans to Amaury and partly to fund a participating loan for CCA Bretagne. CCA Bretagne belonged to the Agripole group,…
Held: The Court of Cassation dismissed the appeal. It held that the Court of Appeal had permissibly interpreted Amaury’s ambiguously worded articles of association in finding that the loan conformed to its corporate purpose. The Court further held that even a manifest or flagrant disregard of a limited liability company’s corporate interest does not, by itself, invalidate commitments undertaken by its…
Background: In November 2025, the High Court ordered Edelweiss Investments Inc to provide Loudmila and Veronica Bourlakova with documents and information relating to a Russian arbitration brought by Mr Ploshchenko. The order was intended to help protect Edelweiss’s assets from a claim that both sides characterized as bogus. It restricted the use of the disclosed material…
Held: The court held that the original disclosure order imposed two separate obligations: Edelweiss had to request permission to record the arbitral hearing and, if a recording existed, provide it to the Bourlakovas. The tribunal’s refusal to permit disclosure did not qualify the second obligation. Because Mr Ploshchenko’s challenge remained ongoing, the threat to Edelweiss’s assets had not ended, so Edelweiss…
Background: Tahmoor Coal Pty Ltd operated the Tahmoor Mine, a coking-coal mine in New South Wales, and Bargo Collieries Pty Ltd held one of the associated mining tenements. As part of Glencore Coal Pty Ltd’s 2018 sale of its indirect interest in the mine, Tahmoor and Bargo entered into a Royalty Deed requiring royalties on coal…
Held: The Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal. It held that an “unprofitable contract” is not merely one whose removal would leave the company financially better off. The concept covers a contract that cannot satisfactorily be performed because it imposes continuing financial or otherwise onerous obligations without reciprocal benefits, or because it impedes the efficient conduct of the liquidation. Commercial realities…