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Specific Performance of Contract : Enforcing Contractual Rights

LexForti

In this post, understand how Specific Performance of Contract can protect your contractual rights in India. This comprehensive guide unravels the complexities of Specific Performance and its role in the enforcement of contracts. Is there a way to enforce the original terms of the contract? ’ What is Specific Performance?

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Court rules against plaintiff seeking emotional distress damages for discrimination

SCOTUSBlog

Share The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled 6-3 against a plaintiff seeking emotional distress damages for alleged violations of certain federal anti-discrimination laws. Premier Rehab Keller PLLC , the court applied the contract-law inquiry to hold that Cummings could not recover damages for emotional distress.

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Court endorses private Section 1983 enforcement of spending clause enactments

SCOTUSBlog

Section 1983 provides a cause of action against any person acting under color of state law who deprives a person of “rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws” of the United States. He warned of lurking question in this area of law, which HHC failed to develop and are “for another day.”

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Be Careful Not to Unintentionally Bargain Away the Right to File IPRs

The IP Law Blog

When entering into contracts, parties commonly include forum selection clauses to govern future litigation between the parties. The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has generally recognized that parties can bargain away these rights, including through forum selection clauses in contracts.

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Post-Default Creditor’s Right to Assign, License and Enforce Patent does not Disturb Patentee’s Separate Right to Sue Infringers

Patently O

Lack of any exclusionary rights against the defendant means the plaintiff has not suffered a legal injury and therefore lacks constitutional standing to sue for infringement. And that will be [a defense] to the cause of action. The distinction here appears to be technical in nature, driven by property and contract law.

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Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts (IPRax) 2/2022: Abstracts

Conflict of Laws

It gives information on newly adopted legal instruments and summarizes current projects that are presently making their way through the EU legislative process. It also refers to the laws enacted at the national level in Germany as a result of new European instruments. Samtleben: Paraguay: Choice of Law in international contracts.