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Sua Sponte State Law Certification in Opioid MDL Appeal

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It is an appeal from one of the many cases pending before Judge Polster in the Northern District of Ohio as part of the National Prescription Opiate Litigation. The Panel, it turns out, thought Ohio law was not quite as clear as the parties did and certified the question to the Ohio Supreme Court. 22-3750/3751/3753/3841/3843/3844.

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

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Another interesting example would be a series of cases where a Chinese court in Guangzhou recognized and enforced compensatory damages awarded in three U.S. EB-5 Visa fraud judgments, but rejected the punitive damages awarded therein, echoing the same rule laid down in the 2021 Conference Summary.

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October 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. The New Jersey federal court concluded that private and public interests weighed in favor of transfer. and non-U.S. filed Sept.

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