Conflict of Laws

MARCH 27, 2024

For example, a court would have the requisite connection to a contract dispute where the contract was made in the forum jurisdiction, even though the defendant in breach was located outside the jurisdiction. Previously, the Federal Court was somewhat similar by also requiring leave, until it took a new approach from January 2023.

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The contracts contain an exclusive foreign jurisdiction clause nominating a non-Australian jurisdiction. Many passengers contracted COVID-19; some died. Background The Ruby Princess’ passengers contracted on different sets of terms and conditions (US, UK and AU). The passengers hail from Australia, and other countries.

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Conflict of Laws

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

It seems that this report comes in quite timely as the programme for the 2023 Summer Course has just been announced. Arnaud Nuyts , from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, held a Special Course on ‘The Forum for Cyber-Torts’, which is an excellent topic in today’s day and age.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 8, 2024

And that has implications for tort law, contract law, and property law, because it is less clear in many ways how basic legal principles such as negligence, foreseeability, force majeure, and reasonableness will apply to particular problems. In late 2023, LSEW committed “to being net zero by 2030” in its operations.

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 29, 2023

It later dropped the claim, presumably due to a recent English High Court decision ( W Nagel (a firm) v Chaim Pluczenik [2022] EWHC 1714) concluding that the tort of abuse of process does not extend to foreign proceedings (at [96]).

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

” Requests for analytics, such as “Which law firm has the most torts cases in 2023 so far?” Questions about particular documents, such as “Does the Jones v. Smith case include a situation with a supervisor as a defendant?” ” Commands to execute certain tasks, such as “Email me the Jones v.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Spears sued over the coverage of an incident on the night of January 14, 2023, when Spears and two high school friends, Dylan Serafini and Esai Morse, went to “The Strip” in Tuscaloosa, Alabama after the Alabama-LSU basketball game.

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Conflict of Laws

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

On September 1, 2023, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress promulgated the Foreign State Immunity Law of the People’s Republic of China (FSIL) (English translation here ). Convention, the FSIL deals separately with employment contracts (Article 8) and intellectual property cases (Article 11). Like the U.N.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 3, 2023

The EU Commission published a long awaited Proposal for a Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence (CSDDD), COM(2022) 71 final, on 23 February 2022; the EU Council adopted its negotiation position on 1 December 2022; and now, the EU Parliament has suggested amendments to this Draft Directive on 1 June 2023. Brown , 564 U.S.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 18, 2024

In Case C-381/14 Sales Sinués ( ECLI:EU:C:2016:252 ), the CJEU established that national law must not hinder consumers from pursuing individual claims under the Unfair Contract Terms Directive (UCTD – 93/13) by employing rules on the suspension of proceedings during the pendency of parallel collective actions.

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

bankruptcy, class action, trademark, securities, and tort litigation, to the tune of $50 to $100 billion in investments annually. [10] 8, 2023). [12] 2, 2023). [13] 8, 2023). [12] 2, 2023). [13] 15, 2023, 12:14 AM EST, available at law360.com/articles/1573847 3] See, e.g., Huber v. Johnson, 68 Minn.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The bankruptcy court confirmed the plan, saying that the insurer was not a “party in interest” because the bankruptcy plan left its rights under its insurance contracts where it found them – in the parlance of the case law, it was “insurance neutral.”. CVSG: 8/30/2023 (relisted after the Oct. CVSG: 8/30/2023 (relisted after the Oct.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 4, 2023

29, 2023, AT 11:45 P.M. Demo video: [link] Founded: 5/1/2023, Columbus, Ohio Target customer: Solo, small firm, and legal Aid organizations that are engaged in litigation. Traction: We are adding about 25 people a day as registrants, having fully launched in late October 2023, and have begun demos with attorneys.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The survey covers significant cases decided in 2023 on choice of law, party autonomy, extraterritoriality, international human rights, foreign sovereign immunity, adjudicative jurisdiction, and the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments. 2023), which is also discussed in the survey. Norfolk Southern Railway Co.

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 1, 2023

Schwemmer: Direct tort claims of the creditors of an insolvent company against the foreign grandparent company In its ruling of 10 March 2022 (Case C-498/20 – ZK./. The plaintiff had demanded to be flown from Munich to Sri Lanka with a stopover in Kuwait City in accordance with the contract the parties had concluded.

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