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Suing the International Finance Corporation, and Chicago police’s destroy-or-sell policy

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On Tuesday, the Supreme Court in Cassirer v. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation heard oral argument in a case under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act concerning choice-of-law rules. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in early 2019. International Finance Corporation.

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Due Process and the No-Extrinsic-Evidence Rule: Challenges to Default Judgments When Service Was By Publication

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Governmental entities in Texas like school districts, municipalities, hospital districts, and counties rely heavily on property taxes to finance their operations. The court appointed an attorney ad litem to represent the defendants served by posting who had not appeared or answered.

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Finding of conversion and fraudulent concealment affirmed where brother signed sister’s name on check

Day on Torts

The Court pointed out that even crediting defendant’s assertion that the annuity was meant to be a trust for the mother, to accomplish the purpose of qualifying her for Medicaid she had to be “divested of ownership over the annuity funds,” and plaintiff and defendant as the named owners had equal ownership interest of the annuity.

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French Supreme court ruling in the Lafarge case: the private international law side of transnational criminal litigations

Conflict of Laws

On these facts, in 2016, two French NGOs and 11 former Syrian employees of Lafarge ’s Syrian subsidiary pressed criminal charges in French courts against the French mother company.

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Litigation Finance: The Indian Scenario

LexForti

I have practiced in the High Court of Delhi under the tutelage of Mr. Pramod Verma. This article discusses the scope and growth of litigation finance in India. Concept of Litigation Finance. However, the litigant has to undergo a stringent process of due diligence to avail funding. TPLF Heyday.

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