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New York Court of Appeals allows lawsuit alleging racial property tax disparities in New York City to go forward

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The New York Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that a lawsuit from Tax Equity Now New York (TENNY), which alleges disparities in the New York City property tax system are disproportionately burdening low-income and majority-people-of-color neighborhoods, can go forward in the New York state courts.

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Navigating Global Jurisdiction: The Indian Courts’ Approach to Online IP Infringement

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were a corporation based in New York and owned the domain name www.hindustan.com. Their website provided news content like HT Media, focusing on India-America interests and stock market reports from India. Moreover, the court deemed the lawsuit filed in the Eastern District of New York vexatious and oppressive.

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Journalists and lawyers sue CIA for spying on them while visiting WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

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The group filed the lawsuit in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. The complaint sets forth a cause of action arising from the CIA’s Fourth Amendment violations. According to the US Supreme Court in Bivens v. Assange founded WikiLeaks in 2006.

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

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A total of nine newly added cases involve two treaty jurisdictions – France (one case) and Vietnam (one case) – and seven non-treaty jurisdictions, namely, Australia (one case), Canada (one case), Germany (one case), New Zealand (one case), South Korea (one case), the UK (one case), and the US (one case). 99 Trade Co.

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Plagiarism Police come for Winston & Strawn

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Although plagiarism is not a cause of action, copyright infringement is – and that serves as the basis of the lawsuit here. Over the past year courts have been asking attorneys to expressly indicate whether their source was an AI.

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In a first for climate nuisance claims, a Hawai‘i State Court allowed Honolulu to proceed with its case against fossil fuel companies

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The court described the case as “an unprecedented case for any court, let alone a state court trial judge,” but concluded that it was “still a tort case” and “based exclusively on state law causes of action,” primarily failures to disclose, failures to warn, and deceptive marketing. Chevron Corp.

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Australia High Court Delivers Major Blow to Free Speech In Defamation Ruling

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Despite this history, a new decision out of the High Court is still shocking in its implications for further attacks on free speech. The court ruled that newspapers and television stations that post articles on social media sites like Facebook are liable for other third party comments on those posts.

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