Paralegal Bootcamp
JANUARY 4, 2024
Three primary areas of case management responsibility include: Draft pleadings and discovery. Draft pleadings and discovery. Draft pleadings and discovery. Many attorneys also rely on the paralegal to do the first-round draft of pleadings that will be filed with the court. Assist at trial. What does that mean?
JonathanTurley
MARCH 7, 2021
Moreover, our tort for the public disclosure of embarrassing private facts has an exclusion for “newsworthy” stories. The exception is so broad that many have complained that it has “swallowed the tort.” The closer question for the court was the question of infringement, but it again ruled against the media.
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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
Starting in 2017, cities, counties, and states across the United States have filed claims (see here and here ) in state courts against fossil fuel companies seeking redress for the climate harms their products have caused. Many of these cases asserted nuisance and other tort law claims.
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. This provision also follows the U.N.
Conflict of Laws
JUNE 29, 2023
More importantly, the court considered the requirement of a “real connecting link” in the context of Art. The court ruled that in unfair competition law disputes of contractual nature the establishment of such a link must be based on the content of the measure sought, not merely its effects. 7(1) of the Brussels Ibis Regulation.
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.
Conflict of Laws
MAY 26, 2021
Applicable law is defined based on the Dutch conflict of laws rules on torts, namely art. 3(1) and (2) Wet Conflictenrecht Onrechtmatige Daad (see the first instance ruling at [4.10]). In the introduction we mentioned the English Supreme Court ruling in Okpaby v Shell [2021] UKSC 3 of February 2021.
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