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August 2023 Update: List of China’s Cases on Recognition of Foreign Judgments

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Each case has been reviewed and more details, such as the grounds, the case numbers, and causes of action, have been added. Dawei Gongsun, Partner at DGW Kramer LLP (New York). The Case List is made available for our readers to build reasonable expectations on REFJ in China.

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Supreme Court Rejects Cause of Action Under Bivens Against Border Patrol Agent

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Supreme Court held that the authority of a court to imply a cause of action under Bivens v. While the Court did not overrule Bivens , it did emphasize that recognizing a Bivens cause of action is “a disfavored judicial activity.”. In Egbert v. Boule , 596 U.S. _ (2022), the U.S. Border Patrol agent.

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Challenge to New York’s Participation in RGGI Dismissed

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On Tuesday, New York State Supreme Court Justice Thomas J. McNamara in Albany County dismissed a lawsuit filed in June 2011 by three members of Americans For Prosperity, a conservative advocacy group, that challenged New York’s participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) cap and trade program.

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August 2022 Update: List of China’s Cases on Recognition of Foreign Judgments

Conflict of Laws

Each case has been reviewed and more details, such as the case numbers and causes of action, have been added. As always, we endeavor to collect all Chinese court decisions involving the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments (“REFJ”), and foreign counterparts concerning the recognition and enforcement of Chinese judgments.

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Cities, counties, and states score major procedural win in climate liability suits against fossil fuel companies

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In total, at least 25 cases have been filed in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawai’i, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Vermont. The Supreme Court sided with the fossil fuel company defendants, ruling that appellate courts could review all grounds of the remand order.

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With The Onion’s support, satirist asks court to revive lawsuit against police who arrested him

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Issues : (1) Whether an officer is entitled to qualified immunity for arresting an individual based solely on speech parodying the government, so long as no case has previously held the particular speech is protected; and (2) whether the court should reconsider the doctrine of qualified immunity. County of Ontario, New York v.

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December 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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A Hawaii court held that the Hawai‘i Environmental Policy Act requires environmental review for commercial taking of aquarium fish and that Department of Land and Natural Resources issuance and renewal of licenses for commercial aquarium collection without environmental review was invalid and illegal. New York v. New York v.

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