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Just like dad

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Typically when I'm looking through the legal rags, I see countless lawsuits against corporations or some family law matter. In that case, Lexus (the car manufacturer) sued claiming that Mead couldn't use the name Lexis (a data retrieval service). Thing is, unless there were some contract provision saying that Dad, Jr.

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Supreme Court will decide government immunity issue

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.” The appellate court concluded that, because common law claims cannot be brought against public entities, the county could not be sued for breach of an implied-in-fact or implied-in-law contract. ” Horvitz & Levy filed the successful petition for review. ” Forum selection clause.

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Second Issue of 2021’s Journal of Private International Law

Conflict of Laws

Remedies lie against the supplier or (where goods are supplied) against the manufacturer or both. Pursuant to its application provisions, Australian Consumer Law applies to conduct outside Australia if one of several alternative criteria is satisfied. One criterion is that the defendant carried on business within Australia.

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Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts (IPRax) 3/2022: Abstracts

Conflict of Laws

the ECJ obliged Bulgaria to recognise the Spanish birth certificate of a child in which two female EU citizens, married to each other, were named as the child’s parents, as far as the implementation of the free movement of persons under EU law was concerned, but left the determination of the family law effects of the certificate to Bulgarian law.