At the Lectern
MARCH 7, 2022
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. .”
The Crime Report
JUNE 29, 2021
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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SCOTUSBlog
JANUARY 9, 2022
Marstiller presents a straightforward question of statutory interpretation, addressing whether a state Medicaid program can take funds a Medicaid beneficiary receives in a tort settlement from a third party that injured the beneficiary. The federal government (which administers the Medicaid program) strongly supports that position.
SCOTUSBlog
SEPTEMBER 17, 2022
Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. 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.
Conflict of Laws
JUNE 7, 2022
This post is an abridged adaptation of my recent article, Private International Law and Substantive Liability Issues in Tort Litigation against Multinational Companies in the English Courts: Recent UK Supreme Court Decisions and Post-Brexit Implications in the Journal of Private International Law. Muir-Watt (ibid) 386).
SCOTUSBlog
JANUARY 10, 2023
Levin’s reply seemed to be that a court decision endorsing the primary-purpose test would make it “broke” because it would create the very problem that the court granted review to resolve. “If It was the word “primary” and a different kind of proportionality that created a challenge for the government.
SCOTUSBlog
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
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. Raiders Retreat Realty surprised anybody familiar with last fall’s oral argument.
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