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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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Share This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, whether people born in United States territories are entitled to birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment. Gorsuch said he hoped the court would overturn those cases soon in “an appropriate case.” citizenship. A divided U.S.

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

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Virgin Islands, and four-dozen metropolitan, county and specialty bar associations, for a total number of users of more than 1 million lawyers, out of an estimated 1.3 He described the service as a basic research service with cases, statutes, administrative materials and court rules. million lawyers in the country.

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

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LT is a company incorporated in the Virgin Islands and registered in Australia as a foreign company. When a dispute arose, the plaintiffs commenced the proceedings at the Supreme Court of Queensland in Australia ([2020] QSC 318). However, an exclusive foreign jurisdiction clause does not exclude Australian courts’ jurisdiction.

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

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Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. This week’s update on the cases that the Supreme Court has newly relisted will be short: There aren’t any new relists. Virgin Islands — do have birthright citizenship by act of Congress.)

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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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Application of Singapore’s new rules on service out of jurisdiction: Three Arrows Capital and NW Corp The Rules of Court 2021 (‘ROC 2021’) entered into force on 1 April 2022. Among other things, ROC 2021 reformed the rules on service out of jurisdiction (previously discussed here ).

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

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The next steps in the TikTok collective action The collective action against TikTok that was brought before the Amsterdam District Court under the Dutch WAMCA in 2021. 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.