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“Supreme Court Allows Challenge to Texas Abortion Law but Leaves It in Effect; The law, which bans most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, was drafted to evade review in federal court and has been in effect since September”

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“Supreme Court Allows Challenge to Texas Abortion Law but Leaves It in Effect; The law, which bans most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, was drafted to evade review in federal court and has been in effect since September”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report. ” David G. Jackson , No.

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Court expands government’s ability to deport noncitizens for offenses related to obstruction of justice

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By a vote of 6-3, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday in Pugin v. The role of the court, he began, was not to craft a new federal obstruction of justice offense, “but rather to determine which state or federal offenses ‘relate to obstruction of justice.’” Such “redundancies are common in statutory drafting,” Kavanaugh wrote.

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Case preview: Justices to consider procedural issue in major climate-change lawsuit

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In this case, Chevron removed the lawsuit to a federal district court in Maryland, pointing to eight different grounds for removal. A remand order, the companies reason, “is a written command or direction that the case must be returned to state court”; it “necessarily rejects” all of the grounds for removal on which the defendant relied.

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Conservative majority hollows out precedent on ineffective-counsel claims in federal court

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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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The Kenyan Supreme Court holds that Scottish Locus Inspection Orders must be Examined by the Kenyan Courts for Recognition and Enforcement in Kenya

Conflict of Laws

We would also like to thank Professor Beligh Elbalti for his critical comments on the draft blogpost. ’ This Case is highly significant, because it extensively addresses the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments in Kenya and the principles to be considered by the Kenyan Courts.

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Final Update: Repository HCCH 2019 Judgments Convention

Conflict of Laws

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. Breaking) News From The Hague: A Game Changer in International Litigation? 11 of August 2000 (available here ), pp 19-128 II. “A 2019-02, pp 1-35 Brand, Ronald A.

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The Supremes Give the FTC “Nothing but Heartaches”: Court Unanimously Rules No Restitution in Injunction Cases, and How Will This Ruling Impact FDA?

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The Court pointed out that its task was not to determine whether the ability of the FTC to substitute §13(b) for the administrative procedure in §5 and consumer redress under §19 was desirable, but rather to answer a “more purely legal question,” Slip Op. It did that by focusing on the text of the statute. 58 Food and Drug L.J.

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