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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. The contract, like most American marine insurance contracts, called for the application of New York law.

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Data on Choice-of-Court Clause Enforcement in US

Conflict of Laws

There are state courts and federal courts, state statutes and federal statutes, state common law and federal common law. This feeling of pity is compounded when I imagine this same lawyer trying to advise her client as to whether a choice-of-court clause will be enforced by a court in the United States.

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Ninth Circuit Holds Berkeley’s Gas Ban Preempted by U.S. Energy Policy & Conservation Act

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In 2021, the District Court ruled that the Berkeley ordinance was not preempted by EPCA , rejecting the notion that EPCA preempts local ordinances that do “not facially address any of those [energy conservation or energy use] standards.” New York is located in the Second Circuit, further insulating it from the CRA v.

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The long conference’s relists

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Several of them are sequels to earlier high court decisions. First Amendment The current court is very solicitous of First Amendment rights. The Farm Bureau and North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein ask the court to grant review and reverse the 4th Circuit’s decision. New York and 335-7 LLC v.

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Out now: Zeitschrift für vergleichende Rechtswissenschaft (ZVglRWiss) 120 (2021) No. 4

Conflict of Laws

Jean Mohamed: Die aktienrechtliche actio pro socio im globalen Kontext – Zur Abgrenzung von materiellem Recht und Verfahrensrecht im anglo-amerikanischen Rechtskreis am Beispiel der derivative action in New York. courts for use in foreign proceedings. Paul Achleitner et al., The first issue U.S.

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Florida Supreme Court Rejects Public Performance Right in Pre-1972 Sound Recordings – What’s Next?

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This case reached the Florida Supreme Court when it was certified by the United State Court of Appeals which was reviewing a District Court decision reaching the same conclusion as did the Florida Supreme Court – that there was no performance right under state law for pre-1972 sound recordings (see our summary of the District Court decision here ).

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Final Update: Repository HCCH 2019 Judgments Convention

Conflict of Laws

Breaking) News From The Hague: A Game Changer in International Litigation? 847-880 (available here ) Brannigan, Neil “Resolving conflicts: establishing forum non conveniens in a new Hague jurisdiction convention”, Journal of Private International Law 18 (2022), pp. The Value of a New Judgments Convention for U.S.