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US Supreme Court rules for student in campus free speech case

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The US Supreme Court ruled 8-1 Monday in Uzuegbunam v. Preczewski in favor of a former Georgia college student in a campus free speech case. During litigation, the college dropped the policy and argued that the students no longer had standing to continue the litigation. Thomas dismissed this fear as excessive.

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Appeals Court Rules Discrimination Suit Against Georgia Pacific LLC Can Proceed

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appeals court recently ruled that a discrimination lawsuit against Georgia Pacific LLC. can proceed.

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Near Unanimous Supreme Court Rules Against Georgia Gwinnett College In Free Speech Victory

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If Georgia Gwinnett College wanted to foster greater unity in its use of “free speech zones,” it succeeded in prompting a near unanimous Supreme Court in ruling against it in favor of free speech this week. Georgia Gwinnett College seemed to grasp for any claim to keep the students from speaking.

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Animal rights and the First Amendment, due process and a confession of error

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Some courts read [Supreme Court precedent] as effectively foreclosing [this consent-by-registration theory of jurisdiction], while others insist it remains viable.”. McCall , a tire manufacturer resists Georgia courts’ exercise of jurisdiction on the basis of the state’s registration statute for foreign corporations.

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A New Court Open for International Business Soon: The Commercial Court in Cyprus

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Written by Georgia Antonopoulou (Birmingham Law School) & Xandra Kramer (Erasmus University/Utrecht University ; research funded by an NWO Vici grant, www.euciviljustice.eu ). Cyprus is the first country in Europe that amended its constitution with a view to permitting the use of the English language in court proceedings.

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Guest Post: Third-Party Litigation Funding: Disclosure to Courts, Congress, and the Executive

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Stroud is General Counsel at Unified Patents – an organization often adverse to litigation-funded entities. [1] litigation finance boom of the past 20 years—as has been widely reported, private equity now undergirds huge swaths of U.S. Guest post by Jonathan Stroud. Patent assertion finance today is a multibillion-dollar business. [2]

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Federal district court rules trans discrimination violates Illinois attorney ethics

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Supreme Court’s 2020 ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia , which held that that Title VII’s ban on sex discrimination also extends to gay and transgender workers. The post Federal district court rules trans discrimination violates Illinois attorney ethics appeared first on JURIST - News.

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