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No cause of action against employers for take-home COVID

At the Lectern

Responding to questions asked by the Ninth Circuit about California law, the court’s unanimous opinion by Justice Carol Corrigan precludes an action alleging a construction worker’s wife contracted COVID from her husband due to his employer’s failure to abide by government health orders at the beginning of the pandemic.

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Relevance of Indian Limitation Law vis-à-vis Foreign-seated International Arbitration With Indian Law As The Applicable Substantive Law

Conflict of Laws

The determination of the law applicable to limitation is a complex exercise. The aim of this post is to explore how would Indian substantive law of the contract impact limitation period and party autonomy, especially in the context of contracting out of limitation in a foreign-seated international arbitration.

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Australia High Court hears submissions on Cambridge Analytica data breaches

JURIST

The High Court of Australia Tuesday began hearing submissions that a Facebook app tied to the Cambridge Analytica scandal contravened national privacy laws. The oral submissions will determine whether Facebook is liable for consumer data breaches in contravention of the Privacy Act 1998 (Cth).

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Supreme Court will hear election law case with standing issue

At the Lectern

The appellate court also found standing to appeal by non-parties to the superior court action even though they had not filed a motion to vacate the judgment, and it voided the judgment against them because they weren’t parties even though they had funded the lawsuit. Ari Design & Construction, Inc. , See here and here.).

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SCOTUS Sides With Death Row Inmate in DNA-Testing Case

Constitutional Law Reporter

In 2014, Reed filed a motion in Texas state court under Texas’s post-conviction DNA testing law. 1983, asserting that Texas’s post-conviction DNA testing law failed to provide procedural due process. Reed argued that the law’s stringent chain-of-custody requirement was unconstitutional.

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Specific Performance of Contract : Enforcing Contractual Rights

LexForti

Specific Performance is a unique legal concept in Indian Contract Law that allows you to enforce the exact terms of a contract. These include contracts to execute a mortgage, to take up and pay for any company debentures, or contracts for the construction of any building or execution of work on land, subject to certain conditions.

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U.S. Supreme Court Renders Personal Jurisdiction Decision

Conflict of Laws

This post is by Maggie Gardner, a professor of law at Cornell Law School. But Mallory argued that by registering to do business in Pennsylvania, it had agreed to appear in Pennsylvania courts on any cause of action. It is cross-posted at Transnational Litigation Blog. Norfolk Southern contested personal jurisdiction.

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