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Forum Selection Clauses and Cruise Ship Contracts

Conflict of Laws

Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued its latest decision on foreign forum selection clauses and cruise ship contracts. The contract also contained a choice-of-law clause selecting Italian law. contract a provision limiting. The contract in Turner had a choice-of-law clause selecting Italian law. public policy.

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Paralegal Tips for Negotiating Client Bills and Liens

Paralegal Bootcamp

As a personal injury paralegal , few things ache my heart more than seeing someone injured in a motor vehicle crash with minimal or no personal injury protection (“PIP”) benefits. From $2,500 in coverage to $100,000 in coverage, these figures are equally important in your client’s personal injury case.

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Justices to consider scope of “clear and unmistakable error” review of Veterans Affairs decisions

SCOTUSBlog

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.”

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Starting a Paralegal Career Without a Paralegal Certificate

Paralegal Bootcamp

She was a personal injury attorney and they were looking for a receptionist for their small law firm. What I did learn was how to look up statutes and cases. So we did get kind of a field trip and we got to go to the law library and look up statutes and codes and case law. I was 18 and had received my GED.

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This week’s relists: preemption of consumer protection laws, bankruptcy claims, COVID mandates and. Chevron deference again?

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Yes, the statute really does have a full cite to the opinion in it. The case involves an insurance company’s attempt to block its insured’s Chapter 11 reorganization plan, which establishes a trust for certain current and future asbestos personal-injury liabilities. Nelson ,…517 U.S. relisted after the Sept. 26 and Oct.

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