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. The contract, like most American marine insurance contracts, called for the application of New York law.
SCOTUSBlog
JUNE 29, 2022
Share This article is part of a symposium on the court’s decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. As Justice Samuel Alito noted in his Bruen concurrence, the Supreme Court saw how manipulatable the two-part test was the last time it agreed to review a Second Amendment case. In 2018, the U.S.
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Broadcast Law Blog
NOVEMBER 17, 2014
Like the first decision in California (about which we wrote here ), this decision was the result of a law suit by Flo and Eddie of the Turtles against Sirius XM, arguing that Sirius XM was infringing on their rights by playing old Turtles songs without paying the duo (who now own the Turtles’ copyrights) any compensation.
At the Lectern
MAY 5, 2022
The station quoted a court clerk as saying only that a “momentous court decision” would be announced the next day. A book-length discussion of the Tanner episode is Stolz, “Judging Judges: The Investigation of Rose Bird and the California Supreme Court.”). Tanner (1978) 151 Cal.Rptr.
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
APRIL 18, 2023
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.
Conflict of Laws
MAY 17, 2023
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.
JURIST
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
The case arose over a 2019 New York law that prohibits an employer from “discriminat[ing] nor tak[ing] any retaliatory personnel action against an employee with respect to compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment because of or on the basis of the employee’s or dependent’s reproductive health decision making.”
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