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Supreme Court limits homeowners’ ability to sue their lenders in tort

At the Lectern

” The court doesn’t consider whether a plaintiff might succeed in suing for negligent misrepresentation or promissory estoppel. Although signing the court’s opinion, Justices Goodwin Liu and Martin Jenkins issue separate concurrences.

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Prefiling Offer by Business Partner Dooms Patent

Patently O

The Federal Circuit relies upon traditional contract law principles to determine whether a particular communication constitutes such an offer. Remember the contract foundational trio: Offer, Acceptance, Consideration. The “on sale” bar is triggered both by pre-filing sales and pre-filing offers-to-sell.

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Review of: PP Penasthika, Unravelling Choice of Law in International Commercial Contracts: Indonesia as an Illustrative Case Study (The Hague: Eleven Publishers 2022)

Conflict of Laws

The monograph predominantly examines 19 Indonesian court decisions on choice of law in international commercial contracts during the period, 2000-2020. These interviews especially explore the problem of applying foreign law in Indonesia. This decision has since been followed by many Indonesian judges. .’