article thumbnail

Chronology of Practice: Chinese Practice in Private International Law in 2020

Conflict of Laws

This post has been prepared by He Qisheng, Professor of International Law, Peking University Law School, and Chairman at the Peking University International Economical Law Institute, has published the 7th Survey on Chinese Practice in Private International Law. Laws and the SPC’s interpretation. Choice of law.

article thumbnail

Justices to hear major tax case

SCOTUSBlog

Share The Supreme Court will hear oral argument on Tuesday in a challenge to the constitutionality of a provision of a 2017 corporate tax reform law. A Washington State couple went to court to challenge the law after it increased their tax bill by a one-time payment of roughly $15,000. Until 2017, nothing in U.S. shareholders.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

At The Criminal Justice Safety Office

The Crime Report

Certainly—and especially—in neighborhoods where race and class subordination have prompted aggressive law enforcement that much is irrefutable. . Avoidable but “within policy” or “lawful but awful” horrors go uncompensated. UCLA law professor Joanna Schwartz painstakingly anatomizes this scene in her forthcoming book Shielded.).

article thumbnail

In Shielded, Joanna Schwartz Dissects Policing’s Legal Environment

The Crime Report

Well, now you do know it, and you know it thanks to UCLA law professor Joanna Schwartz, who for over a decade has produced innovative, meticulous scholarship that harvests, then dissects, the details of policing’s legal landscape. Prosecution and punitive damages for misconduct can express aspirations, and may bolster deterrence.

Legal 122
article thumbnail

Supreme Court to address private employee whistleblower protections and public entity damages for covering up childhood sexual assault

At the Lectern

It followed a default judgment in the Labor Commissioner’s action for damages and statutory penalties against a since-closed night club after the club owner fired a bartender and threatened to report her to “immigration authorities” when she complained about unpaid wages. unless prohibited by another law.”

Court 40
article thumbnail

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

JonathanTurley

The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press. This has long been a controversial element under the FCA because it was largely the result of judicial not congressional construction. compensatory damages and $300,000.00 punitive damages.

Tort 32
article thumbnail

December 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

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. Baltimore and Incinerator Operator Settled Lawsuit over Local Air Law. Oil pump, ( Creative Commons ). By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Roati.

Court 55