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Three American Samoans, in ask for birthright citizenship, answer Gorsuch’s call for a chance to overturn Insular Cases

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Bidwell , which excluded Puerto Rico from Article I tax law, refers to “an uncivilized race” and the danger of “incorporat[ing] an alien and hostile people into the United States.”. They deserve no place in our law.”. Virgin Islands — do have birthright citizenship through an act of Congress, but not under the Constitution.).

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More Information on the ‘Quiet’ Launch of a New Legal Research Service by LexisNexis Parent RELX

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Recently, I reported here on the “quiet” launch of a new legal research service, Decisis , targeting bar associations and 1-2 lawyer law firms. Pfeifer and I met for the interview at the annual meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries in Denver. Pfeifer , who is chief product officer for LexisNexis in Canada, the U.K.

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RCD Holdings Ltd v LT Game International (Australia) Ltd: Foreign jurisdiction clauses and COVID-19

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By Jie (Jeanne) Huang, Associate Professor, University of Sydney Law School Australia. LT is a company incorporated in the Virgin Islands and registered in Australia as a foreign company. LT is a company incorporated in the Virgin Islands and registered in Australia as a foreign company. Governing Law.

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Application of Singapore’s new rules on service out of jurisdiction: Three Arrows Capital and NW Corp

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Service out under the ‘appropriate court’ ground Cheong Jun Yoong v Three Arrows Capital [1] involved service out of jurisdiction pursuant to the ‘appropriate court’ ground in Order 8 rule 1(1). It is perhaps the court’s analysis of gateway (i) which is of particular interest as it deals with a nascent area of law.

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International tech litigation reaches the next level: collective actions against TikTok and Google

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It also poses very interesting questions of private international law, as in particular the collective actions for damages against tech giants are usually international cases. In an earlier blogpost we reported that the Amsterdam District Court ruled that it had international jurisdiction under the Brussels I-bis Regulation and the GDPR.

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Reschedule Watch: Birthright citizenship and torts to members of the armed forces

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Under a series of cases the Supreme Court decided over 100 ago, known as the Insular Cases, people born in unincorporated U.S. People born in the other territories — Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands — do have birthright citizenship by act of Congress.) citizenship.

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