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Court rules against plaintiff seeking emotional distress damages for discrimination

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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

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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. Nothing in FNHRA hints that Section 1983 actions would thwart congressional intent.

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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. When a party breaches a contract, you’re not merely looking for financial compensation but the fulfillment of the original contract’s exact terms. Are There Exceptions?

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

The IP Law Blog

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. To govern certain disputes after the expiration of the Covenant Term, the MCA further stated: [T]he Parties agree that all Potential Actions arising under U.S.

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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

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Specifically, the district court found that even though Main Street had not exercised its rights to license or assign the patent, the mere possibility that Zebra could obtain a license from Main Street deprived IT of its exclusionary rights in the patent, which are necessary for constitutional standing. Miracle Optics, Inc. , Mann Found.

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

Conflict of Laws

Furthermore, the authors look at areas of law where the EU has made use of its external competence. They discuss both important decisions and pending cases before the CJEU as well as important decisions from German courts pertaining to the subject matter of the article. While the court left the decision between lit. a and lit.