ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 18, 2023

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit handed down a decision in California Restaurant Association v. The court overturned a District Court ruling to invalidate a Berkeley, California, prohibition on natural gas infrastructure in newly-constructed buildings. O n Monday, April 17, 2023, the U.S. City of Berkeley.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 29, 2024

The district court ruled for Medical Marijuana and the other companies on Horn’s RICO claim. The companies came to the Supreme Court last fall, asking the justices to take up the case and weigh in.

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 14, 2022

Supreme Court ruled that U.S. courts may not help arbitral tribunals sitting abroad in the taking of evidence. This is because in the opinion of the Court, such an arbitral tribunal is not a „foreign or international tribunal“ in the sense of 28 U.S.C. Written by Matthias Lehmann, University of Vienna (Austria).

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The court described the case as “an unprecedented case for any court, let alone a state court trial judge,” but concluded that it was “still a tort case” and “based exclusively on state law causes of action,” primarily failures to disclose, failures to warn, and deceptive marketing. Chevron Corp.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

It argued that these claims were not viable because the policy’s choice-of-law provision had designated New York as the governing law in the absence of applicable federal maritime law. The trial court ruled in favor of GLI. The Third Circuit ruled in favor of Raiders.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 23, 2021

Share Melissa Murray refused to recant her view: The newly minted conservative court is poised to effect great change in the country. While ultimately the election did not result in litigation comparable to the 2000 case of Bush v. Similarly, what was notable in Fulton v.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 2, 2022

The massive verdict in favor of actor Johnny Depp yesterday constitutes a rare victory of a public figure under the difficult New York Times v. The defamation laws are far more advantageous for defendants in the UK and most plaintiffs try to litigate such claims in the U.S. YouTube screengrab. Sullivan standard for defamation.

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Fordham Law News

APRIL 21, 2022

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, New York State’s legislative bodies have crafted new laws to help prevent tenants’ evictions. 4] Landlords sued New York State’s Chief Administrative Judge, County Sheriffs, and other officials throughout the state— challenging CEEFPA on constitutional grounds. [5]

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

First and second instance courts decided in favour of Z. the Supreme Court ruled that the Athens Court of Appeal failed to examine two grounds of appeal raised by M. The case was sent back to the appellate court [Supreme Court nr. After several years of litigation in both federal and state courts, Z.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 31, 2021

President and Fellows of Harvard College , the litigants cite a study finding that Asian Americans needed SAT scores that were about 140 points higher than white students; the gap with admitted African American and Hispanic students is even greater. New York topped the per capita spending, at $24,040 per kid.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 4, 2022

New York has long been the source of major litigation over gun control. That includes the possible loss before the Supreme Court in a pending major gun rights case. ” The New York law could offer an important test of the outer boundaries of this right after the Court rules in the pending case.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 30, 2023

Breaking) News From The Hague: A Game Changer in International Litigation? 847-880 (available here ) Brannigan, Neil “Resolving conflicts: establishing forum non conveniens in a new Hague jurisdiction convention”, Journal of Private International Law 18 (2022), pp. The Value of a New Judgments Convention for U.S.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Cities, too, are enforcing misgendering rules; for example, the New York City Human Rights Law allows for fines if employers, landlords or professionals fail to use a preferred name, pronoun or title. Yet some people have religious beliefs against following the new order and using such pronouns. In Loudon County, Va.,

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

In the absence of oversight boards and civil litigation, criminal charges against prosecutors and ethics board disciplinary measures are the only means of incentivizing appropriate prosecutorial actions. Judges should certify that the “Brady rule,” mandated under a 1963 Supreme Court ruling, is followed at each criminal trial.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 12, 2021

Justice Brett Kavanaugh (as well as Justice Sonia Sotomayor) focused on the federal government’s suggestion that, when a plaintiff is only seeking nominal damages for conduct that occurred in the past, the defendant can end the litigation by accepting the entry of an award of nominal damages, without a ruling on the merits of the claims against it.

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 4, 2023

Breaking) News From The Hague: A Game Changer in International Litigation? 847-880 (available here ) Brannigan, Neil “Resolving conflicts: establishing forum non conveniens in a new Hague jurisdiction convention”, Journal of Private International Law 18 (2022), pp. The Value of a New Judgments Convention for U.S.

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Attorney at Work

JUNE 22, 2022

QUESTION: I’ve represented an individual client for almost 20 years in various transactional and litigation matters. In addition, rules of procedure in litigation sometimes provide that minors or persons with diminished capacity must be represented by a guardian or next friend if they do not have a general guardian.

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 20, 2022

Appraisal of the Success of the Instruments of International Commercial Arbitration vs. Litigation and Mediation in the Harmonization of the Rules of Transnational Commercial Dispute Settlement”, preprint (DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-953987/v1 Breaking) News From The Hague: A Game Changer in International Litigation?

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Breaking) News From The Hague: A Game Changer in International Litigation? 847-880 (available here ) Brannigan, Neil “Resolving conflicts: establishing forum non conveniens in a new Hague jurisdiction convention”, Journal of Private International Law 18 (2022), pp. The Value of a New Judgments Convention for U.S.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 31, 2022

Appraisal of the Success of the Instruments of International Commercial Arbitration vs. Litigation and Mediation in the Harmonization of the Rules of Transnational Commercial Dispute Settlement”, preprint (DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-953987/v1 Breaking) News From The Hague: A Game Changer in International Litigation?

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Conflict of Laws

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Appraisal of the Success of the Instruments of International Commercial Arbitration vs. Litigation and Mediation in the Harmonization of the Rules of Transnational Commercial Dispute Settlement”, preprint (DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-953987/v1 Breaking) News From The Hague: A Game Changer in International Litigation?

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 21, 2023

In this case, the Georgian Court of Appeal dealt with competing claims from a couple who married in New York and had their matrimonial domicile in South Africa. In determining the applicable law, the Court upheld the traditional approach , which favours lex situs for real property and lex domicilii for personal property.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 6, 2017

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) 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. New York Trial Court Set Parameters for Exxon’s Compliance with Attorney General’s Climate Change Investigation.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 11, 2022

Appraisal of the Success of the Instruments of International Commercial Arbitration vs. Litigation and Mediation in the Harmonization of the Rules of Transnational Commercial Dispute Settlement”, preprint (DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-953987/v1 Breaking) News From The Hague: A Game Changer in International Litigation?

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Appraisal of the Success of the Instruments of International Commercial Arbitration vs. Litigation and Mediation in the Harmonization of the Rules of Transnational Commercial Dispute Settlement”, preprint (DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-953987/v1 Breaking) News From The Hague: A Game Changer in International Litigation?

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Conflict of Laws

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Appraisal of the Success of the Instruments of International Commercial Arbitration vis-a-vis International Commercial Litigation and Mediation in the Harmonization of the Rules of Transnational Commercial Dispute Resolution”, Journal of Dispute Resolution 2022-02, pp. The Value of a New Judgments Convention for U.S. 591-642.

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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. Hawaii Court Ruled that Commercial Aquarium Fishing Required Environmental Review. New York v. and non-U.S.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 15, 2012

If no agreement can be reached on a voluntary license, a “rate court” decides on the royalties. Essentially, that means that a US District Court in New York has a trial to set the rates. Those proceedings can be very expensive, take a long time and, as with any litigation, the outcome can be unpredictable.

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Appraisal of the Success of the Instruments of International Commercial Arbitration vs. Litigation and Mediation in the Harmonization of the Rules of Transnational Commercial Dispute Settlement”, preprint (DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-953987/v1 Breaking) News From The Hague: A Game Changer in International Litigation?

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 21, 2022

Appraisal of the Success of the Instruments of International Commercial Arbitration vs. Litigation and Mediation in the Harmonization of the Rules of Transnational Commercial Dispute Settlement”, preprint (DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-953987/v1 Breaking) News From The Hague: A Game Changer in International Litigation?

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Below is my column in the Hill on the makings of a blockbuster case in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. Bruen, the first major gun rights case before the Supreme Court in ten years. The court will soon take up New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. Penal Law § 400.00(2)(f)

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 10, 2021

“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.

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The Fashion Law

JUNE 10, 2021

On the heels of an array of retail bankruptcy filings that began to unfold over the course of the year in 2016, New York-based designer Bibhu Mohapatra and retailers The Limited, Wet Seal, and Payless all made headlines when they filed for Chapter 11 protection in early 2017. New York & Co.

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LawTechnologyToday

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

The most popular usage of e-books by those who do access them was to conduct research on statutes, followed by forms/agreements/contracts, court rules, regulations, and cases in that order. Watch a video from our sponsors!

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 16, 2021

The standard for defamation for public figures and officials in the United States is the product of a decision decades ago in New York Times v. 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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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

.” The court also held that the government’s longstanding failure to do so amounts to a violation of the constitutional right to privacy, but it denied that the right to same-sex marriage is constitutionally guaranteed. The appellant is Jimmy Sham Tsz Kit.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

In the aftermath of the Rittenhouse verdict, figures on both sides of the case threatened new filings and investigations. It seems likely that the case will move into a new stage of litigation, particularly civil litigation. That includes wrongful death actions much like the litigation against O.J. Bond claims.

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