SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 23, 2021
An inventor files a patent application on an invention and assigns the patent rights to an assignee — perhaps in exchange for money from the assignee, or perhaps as part of a contract with the inventor’s employer. Morgan Ratner argued for the federal government, which filed its own friend-of-the-court brief but supported neither party.
SCOTUSBlog
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
Talevski , to be argued Tuesday, returns the court to the question of when federal law is subject to private enforcement. The court will consider whether to overrule a line of precedent and to hold that private individuals cannot use 42 U.S.C. The district court dismissed the action, but the U.S. of Marion County v.
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Conflict of Laws
MARCH 10, 2021
In the year 2020, the Nigerian Court of Appeal delivered at least three decisions on foreign choice of court agreements. [1] In the first two decisions delivered in the year 2020, the Nigerian Court of Appeal gave full contractual effect to the parties’ foreign choice of court agreement. [2]
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 18, 2022
The relevant statute , regulating disability benefits, provides that “the United States will pay [compensation] to any veteran” who is “disabled” as a result of (1) “personal injury suffered or disease contracted in line of duty,” or (2) “aggravation of a preexisting injury suffered or disease contracted in line of duty.”
SCOTUSBlog
DECEMBER 1, 2021
Outside the Supreme Court building, crowds of demonstrators have gathered for today’s major argument in Dobbs v. More law clerks file in as the argument nears, filling almost every designated space, as the court is still requiring some degree of social distancing. Nowhere else does this court recognize a right to end a human life.”.
Conflict of Laws
DECEMBER 17, 2020
Nigerian legal practitioners have had to provide legal advice and represent clients before trial and appellate courts as well as arbitral tribunals on disputes involving private international law questions within the context of Nigerian law. Arabella case [which the court has now thankfully moved away from]. [8]
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 17, 2023
That changed in 2013, when USPS signed a contract with Amazon to deliver the company’s packages, including on Sundays. DeJoy , the Supreme Court will consider whether to overturn a nearly 50-year-old precedent on how employers must accommodate their employees’ religious practices. But the court of appeals nonetheless affirmed.
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