SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 24, 2023

By a vote of 6-3, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday in Pugin v. Such “redundancies are common in statutory drafting,” Kavanaugh wrote. While Jackson’s approach did not carry the day, it offers some discernable limitation that future parties may use in litigation.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 26, 2023

One CEO offered $1 million to any Supreme Court litigator willing to let ChatGPT argue their case (a prospect both ethically dubious and physically impossible ). In fact, the purpose of a CVSG — a call for the views of the solicitor general — is to obtain the government’s perspective about cases in which it’s not a party.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Share The first Black woman to clerk on the Supreme Court. Two trailblazing civil-rights litigators. As we did last year , SCOTUSblog looks back and remembers some of the people who died this year and whose lives and work brought them to the highest court in the nation. Huron’s impact extended beyond his work as a litigator.

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Conflict of Laws

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In two prior posts ( here and here ), I discussed a draft of the FSIL (English translation here ). In this post I analyze the final version of the law, noting some of its key provision and identifying changes from the draft, some of which address issues that I had identified. These provisions track Articles 7-9 of the U.N. Convention.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 18, 2021

The oil companies contended that Baltimore was seeking to hold them liable for their exploration for and production of fossil fuels at the direction of federal officials – for example, when they produced fossil fuels offshore under leases with the government that gave the government significant control over some parts of the companies’ operations.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Fossil fuel company defendants want the cases heard in federal court, where they can argue that the cases should be quickly dismissed on the grounds that federal common law climate claims are displaced by the Clean Air Act. The court encouraged the parties to add “particular findings, analysis, or citations” to the outline, “if necessary.”.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 6, 2024

We would also like to thank Professor Beligh Elbalti for his critical comments on the draft blogpost. ’ [para 60] The US Supreme Court further established the importance of reciprocity and asserted that the Foreign Judgements (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 2018 was the primary Act governing foreign judgments.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 23, 2022

Although the Supreme Court’s 2012 decision in Martinez v. Ryan permitted defendants to raise such claims for the first time in federal court, on Monday the court ruled 6-3 that they cannot develop evidence to support those claims.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 30, 2023

Judgments Convention: Application to Governments”, Netherlands International Law Review (NILR) 67 (2020), pp 121-137 Beaumont, Paul; Holliday, Jayne (eds.) “A A Critical Overview of the Hague Preliminary Draft on Judgments”, Yearbook of Private International Law 17 (2015/2016), pp 1-31 Bonomi, Andrea; Mariottini, Cristina M.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 3, 2023

The EU Sustainability Directive and Jurisdiction The Draft for a Corporate Sustainable Due Diligence Directive currently contains no rules on jurisdiction. Instead, we address a gap in the Draft Directive, namely the lack of any provisions on jurisdiction.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Share In 2003, the Supreme Court ruled in Grutter v. The group argued that the admissions process violates the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause , which bars racial discrimination by government entities, including public universities like UNC. First, the group asserts, Grutter is “egregiously wrong.”

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Nearly 8 months after the commencement of the litigation, the company raised jurisdictional objection by invoking the omitted arbitration agreement and filed the motion to compel arbitration under the 1925 Federal Arbitration Act (hereinafter “FAA”). But a court may not devise novel rules to favor arbitration over litigation. ” [iii].

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Instead, O’Connor applied for a job with the San Mateo County government, where she agreed to work for free until the office could find funding for her. Pivotal role at the center of the court During her nearly quarter-century as a justice, O’Connor wrote 645 opinions.

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 4, 2023

Judgments Convention: Application to Governments”, Netherlands International Law Review (NILR) 67 (2020), pp 121-137 Beaumont, Paul; Holliday, Jayne (eds.) “A A Critical Overview of the Hague Preliminary Draft on Judgments”, Yearbook of Private International Law 17 (2015/2016), pp 1-31 Bonomi, Andrea; Mariottini, Cristina M.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 3, 2022

The court ruled 5-4 to allow the Texas law to be enforced. The Biden administration and other litigants then forced a reconsideration of that decision. The court — as expected — allowed the appeal to go forward for some of the litigants in the lower court but again refused to enjoin the law.

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 20, 2022

Judgments Convention: Revised Draft Explanatory Report”, HCCH Prel.-Doc. Judgments Convention: Application to Governments”, Netherlands International Law Review (NILR) 67 (2020), pp 121-137. A Critical Overview of the Hague Preliminary Draft on Judgments”, Yearbook of Private International Law 17 (2015/2016), pp 1-31.

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Conflict of Laws

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Judgments Convention: Revised Draft Explanatory Report”, HCCH Prel.-Doc. Judgments Convention: Application to Governments”, Netherlands International Law Review (NILR) 67 (2020), pp 121-137. A Critical Overview of the Hague Preliminary Draft on Judgments”, Yearbook of Private International Law 17 (2015/2016), pp 1-31.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 11, 2022

Judgments Convention: Revised Draft Explanatory Report”, HCCH Prel.-Doc. Judgments Convention: Application to Governments”, Netherlands International Law Review (NILR) 67 (2020), pp 121-137. A Critical Overview of the Hague Preliminary Draft on Judgments”, Yearbook of Private International Law 17 (2015/2016), pp 1-31.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 6, 2022

By contrast, the government emphasizes, because the harms to the public from blocking enforcement of the mandate “would be enormous,” the court should at the very least leave the mask-or-test requirement in place even if it puts the vaccine requirement on hold.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Judgments Convention: Revised Draft Explanatory Report”, HCCH Prel.-Doc. Judgments Convention: Application to Governments”, Netherlands International Law Review (NILR) 67 (2020), pp 121-137. A Critical Overview of the Hague Preliminary Draft on Judgments”, Yearbook of Private International Law 17 (2015/2016), pp 1-31.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2022

This spring, after POLITICO published a draft opinion of Dobbs and revealed that the court was poised to overturn Roe , Beckwith praised the leak. In court papers, she was identified only as “L.C.”. Four years later, her case reached the Supreme Court. Bush and later in private practice.

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Judgments Convention: Revised Draft Explanatory Report”, HCCH Prel.-Doc. Judgments Convention: Application to Governments”, Netherlands International Law Review (NILR) 67 (2020), pp 121-137. A Critical Overview of the Hague Preliminary Draft on Judgments”, Yearbook of Private International Law 17 (2015/2016), pp 1-31.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 31, 2022

Judgments Convention: Revised Draft Explanatory Report”, HCCH Prel.-Doc. Judgments Convention: Application to Governments”, Netherlands International Law Review (NILR) 67 (2020), pp 121-137. A Critical Overview of the Hague Preliminary Draft on Judgments”, Yearbook of Private International Law 17 (2015/2016), pp 1-31.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Judgments Convention: Application to Governments”, Netherlands International Law Review (NILR) 67 (2020), pp 121-137 Beaumont, Paul; Holliday, Jane (eds.) “A A Critical Overview of the Hague Preliminary Draft on Judgments”, Yearbook of Private International Law 17 (2015/2016), pp 1-31 Bonomi, Andrea; Mariottini, Cristina M.

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Conflict of Laws

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Judgments Convention: Revised Draft Explanatory Report”, HCCH Prel.-Doc. Forum non Conveniens and the EU rules on Conflicts of Jurisdiction: A Possible Global Solution”, Revue Critique de Droit International Privé 2018, pp 433-447. Breaking) News From The Hague: A Game Changer in International Litigation? Beaumont, Paul.

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 21, 2022

Judgments Convention: Revised Draft Explanatory Report”, HCCH Prel.-Doc. Judgments Convention: Application to Governments”, Netherlands International Law Review (NILR) 67 (2020), pp 121-137. A Critical Overview of the Hague Preliminary Draft on Judgments”, Yearbook of Private International Law 17 (2015/2016), pp 1-31.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. The court concluded that the Freedom of Information Act’s deliberative process privilege shielded the redactions from disclosure.

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FDA Law Blog

APRIL 23, 2021

Blumberg, who was then the FDA’s Deputy Chief Counsel for Litigation, can be found at 58 Food and Drug L.J. In contrast, asking a court to take money from a defendant based on past violations of the FDC Act is largely, if not entirely, backward-thinking and perhaps even punitive. Fleder, Can FDA Seek Restitution or Disgorgement ? ,

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

According to the Daily Mail , Palin’s counsel questioned Times’ reporter Elizabeth Williamson , who wrote the first draft of the article. The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. Divided Ninth Circuit Said Juliana Plaintiffs Lacked Standing to Press Constitutional Climate Claims Against Federal Government.

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