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

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Balancing “the interests of homeowners in default against those seeking affordable home loans,” the Supreme Court in Sheen v. ” The court settles a conflict in Court of Appeal case law and notes a similar divide in federal district court rulings.

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Justices order vigorous enforcement of choice-of-law clauses in maritime insurance contracts

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The argument revealed a bench deeply skeptical of the uncertainty maritime insurance contracts would face under a lower-court decision limiting the enforcement of choice-of-law clauses in those contracts. Often, when the parties are from different jurisdictions, they select a neutral forum and its law.

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25th Volume of the Japanese Yearbook of Private International Law (2023)

Conflict of Laws

The Japanese Yearbook of Private International Law ( kokusai shiho nenpo ) (hereinafter “JYPIL”) is an annual publication of the Private International Law Association of Japan ( kokusai shih? It suggests that Japan might consider recognizing parentage through foreign decisions.

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High Court Refuses to Hear Abu Ghraib Defense Contractor’s Torture Appeal

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CACI was appealing a lower court decision that favored the Iraqi men in 2019. law named the Alien Tort Statute that allows non-U.S. CACI had claimed it was protected under derivative sovereign immunity, a legal doctrine that shields government contractors from liability under certain circumstances.

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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

Very recently, Indonesian private international law has attracted significant scholarship in the English language. [1] 1] Dr Penasthika’s monograph (‘the monograph’) [2] is one such work that deserves attention for its compelling and comprehensive account of choice of law in international commercial contracts in Indonesia.

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Second chance to evaluate ban on encouraging unlawful immigration

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Sineneng-Smith , the justices reversed a circuit-court decision that struck down a federal law criminalizing the act of “encourag[ing] or induc[ing]” noncitizens to enter or remain in the United States for financial gain. Helaman Hansen ran an immigration-advising service called Americans Helping America Chamber of Commerce.

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Justices debate test for attorney-client privilege when lawyer’s advice has multiple purposes

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Share In Re Grand Jury asks how courts should assess attorney-client privilege when a client seeks partly legal and partly nonlegal advice from a lawyer and the two parts cannot be disentangled. It was the word “primary” and a different kind of proportionality that created a challenge for the government.