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Federal appeals court rules in favor of Google in song lyrics copyright lawsuit by Genius

JURIST

.’s Google in a suit filed by Genius alleging unfair competition and breach of contract pertaining to the misuse of Genius’s transcribed lyrics in its search engine. The Court observed: To be sure, we do not hold that breach of contract claims concerning copyrighted material are never preempted.

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

At the Lectern

.” The court settles a conflict in Court of Appeal case law and notes a similar divide in federal district court rulings. ” The court doesn’t consider whether a plaintiff might succeed in suing for negligent misrepresentation or promissory estoppel.

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In far cry from usual textualism, court rejects veteran’s attempt to reopen a benefits denial based on legal error

SCOTUSBlog

Share On Wednesday, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that a VA benefits decision that was based on an agency regulation in effect at the time the decision was rendered does not constitute “clear and unmistakable error” even if the agency regulation is later deemed to conflict with the text of the relevant benefits statute.

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Bahraini High Court on Choice of Court and Choice of Law Agreements

Conflict of Laws

Choice-of-court agreements conferring jurisdiction on foreign courts are often disregarded or declared null and void. The recent judgment of the High Court of Bahrain (a first instance court in the Bahraini judicial system ) in the Case No. Pursuant to Article 4 of Law No. 231/2005 of 27 February 2006 ).

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China Adopts Restrictive Theory of Foreign State Immunity

Conflict of Laws

To determine whether an act is commercial, “a PRC court shall undertake an overall consideration of the act’s nature and purpose.” Convention, the FSIL deals separately with employment contracts (Article 8) and intellectual property cases (Article 11). As discussed further below, the addition of “rulings” (??) Like the U.N.

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Moroccan Supreme Court on the HCCH 1996 Child Protection Convention

Conflict of Laws

The Supreme Court Ruling No. The case is also particularly interesting because it concerns the establishment of a kafala under Moroccan law for the purpose of relocating the child in another Contracting State (France in casu ).

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Federal Court Rules In Favor Of Journalist Contesting Georgia’s Anti-BDS Law

JonathanTurley

This week, a court in Georgia became the latest to declare such laws unconstitutional. The case was brought by journalist Abby Martin who was denied a contract as a keynote speaker at Georgia Southern University due to her support of the BDS movement. ” She was then denied the contract. In NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co.