SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Kirtz presents a routine statutory drafting problem arising out of a run-of-the-mill consumer lending dispute. If the Department of Agriculture were a private lender, Kirtz could bring suit in a federal court to present those allegations as a violation of the Fair Credit Reporting Act. Share Monday’s argument in U.S.

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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. The Kenyan Supreme Court held that ‘decisions by foreign courts and tribunals are not automatically recognized or enforceable in Kenya.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 21, 2022

Share On Thursday, the Supreme Court decided Boechler v. As expected, the court held that equitable tolling can apply to a statutory time limit in tax cases known as “collection due process,” or CDP, cases. The court’s opinion confirms this view. That’s because the 30-day statutory deadline in such cases is not jurisdictional.

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CARET Legal

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

It’s important to note that workflows can be automated by indicating a specific date for one task or event — like the date of a court hearing, or the close date of a sale. Change of ownership notices: Automatically draft and send out change of ownership notices 1 day after closing.

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At the Lectern

MAY 5, 2022

Supreme Court draft opinion in a pending, exceptionally high-profile case has me considering leaks from California’s high court. Neither involved the disclosure of a draft opinion’s full text, just the bottom line of an impending decision. Supreme Court in Disarray After an Extraordinary Breach.”

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JURIST

MAY 23, 2021

Under the new law, the statute of limitations pertaining to genocide or war crimes is abolished. Olexandra Matviychuk, head of the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties, said : “Adoption of this draft law sends a message to the occupied territory. The bill passed with 248 members out of 363 voting in favor of adoption.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 23, 2022

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. Failure to do so “procedurally defaults” the claim, and a federal court cannot review it.

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JURIST

APRIL 15, 2024

That question kept Colleen Sinzdak, counsel for the US government, busy for almost all of her argument before the US Supreme Court earlier today. This case asks the Supreme Court to decide whether 18 U.S.C. § The party briefs mostly focused on the word “rewarded” in the statute. United States.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

How do you convert that into a statute that is focusing on the debtor?”. For Kagan, Harris’s discussion seemed “to be saying that Congress is just careless when it writes this statute.” As Kagan went on to explain, though, congressional carelessness doesn’t suggest a vote for Harris: “There are some statutes where Congress is careless.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The courses in legal research and writing equipped me with the ability to efficiently locate and analyze relevant statutes, regulations, and case law. That included drafting pleadings, client communications, checking hearings, signing attorneys up for remote appearances, and many other tasks.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 21, 2022

A legal team for the National Right to Life Committee , which describes itself as the largest anti-abortion group in the country, has drafted model anti-abortion legislation for states to adopt, in addition to criminalizing abortion, the Independent reports. The Court is expected to release its opinion on Mississippi’s Dobbs v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 15, 2022

Tax Court of an IRS notice of determination. The case turns on Section 6330(d)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code, which states that a “person may, within 30 days of a determination under this section, petition the Tax Court for review of such determination (and the Tax Court shall have jurisdiction with respect to such matter).”.

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MyCase

APRIL 24, 2024

Survey respondents confirmed they use GAI to streamline firm processes, from drafting marketing content to finding specific statutes. With a detailed prompt or series of prompts, the application can quickly draft, edit, or summarize documents. ChatGPT can produce quick drafts of client emails. Drafting marketing content.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 18, 2021

The Supreme Court will hear oral argument on Tuesday in a lawsuit brought by the city of Baltimore against companies that produce fossil fuels, seeking to hold them responsible for their role in global warming. The case now before the Supreme Court, BP PLC v. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit. Background.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Texas was another instance of a common jurisprudential problem for the justices: how should a modern court, largely devoted to textualism in its statutory interpretation, deal with cases about Native American tribes, which traditionally have depended on historical and contextual understandings only weakly linked to the text of the statute.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 30, 2021

The court should decide the case based on text, history, and tradition, the methodology it applied in District of Columbia v. In Heller, the court eschewed an “interest-balancing” test under which judges “decide on a case-by-case basis whether the right is really worth insisting upon,” and it should do the same here.

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LexForti

OCTOBER 4, 2021

There were multiple Petitions which were filed at Madras High Court. Now the Division Bench of the Madras High Court passed an interim order on 2 nd August 2021. The said order was appealed before the Supreme Court of India. High Court. Supreme Court. Whether the interim order of the High Court can be sustained?

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Paralegal-Edu.Org

APRIL 26, 2024

They may be involved in the research of case laws, statutes, or regulatory provisions and thereby display their proficiency in mining large legal repositories to dig out precedents, relevant statutes, and other important information.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 28, 2023

In a surprising statement to The Wall Street Journal today, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito says he has a “pretty good idea” who leaked a draft opinion in Dobbs v. ” He added “It was a part of an effort to prevent the Dobbs draft…from becoming the decision of the court.

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 23, 2023

They commence representative proceedings alleging breaches of consumer law, and negligence in the Federal Court of Australia. The Australian court must first resolve the conflict of laws problems posed – problems as sustained as they have been complex in the history of private international law.

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At the Lectern

DECEMBER 10, 2022

The Supreme Court yesterday issued an alternative writ. except the alternative writ’s recipient is a Court of Appeal. The Supreme Court’s alternative writ implies what a Rule of Court expressly provides — the parties do have that right. Court of Appeal (Olson). In Aaronoff v.

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 12, 2022

On 15 July 2022, the Supreme Court of New South Wales (“NSW”) recognized and enforced a Chinese judgment issued by the Shanghai Pudong New Area People’s Court 12 years ago in Tianjin Yingtong Materials Co Ltd v Young [2022] NSWSC 943. [1] Written by Zilin Hao*. 1] It ruled that the defendant Katherine Young (“Ms.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Commissioner Andrew Clapham said that many of the acts being committed, in addition to amounting to human rights violations, may be tantamount to crimes under international law provided in the draft statute of the Hybrid Court for South Sudan. Attacks continue to cause displacement; more than 1.4

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Paralegal Bootcamp

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

What you do need to know are a few important things about every one of those personal injury files: What is the statute of limitations date for each one? Because the failure to commence a lawsuit within this time period will likely result in the lawsuit being dismissed by a court. Here are 19 Tips for Streamlining Records Retrieval.

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FDA Law Blog

JULY 7, 2021

Gibbs — In the first challenge ever brought against FDA’s rarely used power to ban a medical device, a court found FDA overstepped its authority and overturned the ban. In 2018, a Massachusetts court upheld the use of GEDs in treating patients with SIB/AB, finding the device to be effective in treating refractory patients.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Share The fate of hundreds of millions of dollars in unclaimed money may depend on the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the term “money order” in an arcane 1974 federal statute. The dispute at the Supreme Court involves a category of financial products that MoneyGram calls “official checks.” On one side is Delaware.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 28, 2023

Unlike the relatively polite “information document request,” which is routinely employed during IRS audits, an administrative summons requires the recipient to provide the requested information or face enforcement in federal court. The court will take up this question on Wednesday in Polselli v. Grandchildren, perhaps? United States.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JULY 28, 2022

At any time during this process, your attorney may have you draft the document(s) or perform some research. Drafting these documents is a great learning ground for motion practice and writing. is to know your local rules and statutes. Conflict Checks. Knowing the Rules of Evidence.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 22, 2022

The Prime Minister also suggested that many Indian statutes and legislations currently consist of complicated legal jargon. There is an ease of language which persists in the laws drafted around the world. A suggestion of innovative schemes like evening courts was also made to reduce the backlog of cases.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Note: On September 26, 2019, the Vanuatu Permanent Mission to the United Nations hosted a workshop on seeking an advisory opinion on climate change from the International Court of Justice. Flickr : International Court of Justice, The Hague . The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 28, 2022

And to what will it bind lower courts? Dobbs reiterates the long-established principle that unwritten rights, to be enforced by courts, must be deeply rooted in our history. Yet while the draft changed not at all on these points, the dissent makes just one contrary claim, also raised by critics post-leak.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 2, 2021

On 1 July 2021, Mongolia deposited its instrument of acceptance of the Statute, becoming the 89th Member of the HCCH. The Group discussed the scope of the possible draft Convention on legal parentage and the scope of the possible draft Protocol on legal parentage established as a result of an (international) surrogacy arrangement.

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Patently O

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Although MPF claims may seem broad on their face, the statute limits their scope to cover only the corresponding structures disclosed in the patent document (the specification) and their equivalents. The chart shows a clear trend: a decline in the use of MPF claims from 1980 through to the mid-2020s. For example, in Amgen v.

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At the Lectern

JUNE 5, 2023

” It’s yet another case where the court needs to interpret messily drafted legislation. .” ” It’s yet another case where the court needs to interpret messily drafted legislation. 5th 618, where the court determined that section 1001.36 In People v. On the one hand, section 1001.36

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 18, 2023

Pirani suggest a court leaning toward a split decision, rejecting liability under only one of the two securities-law statutes at issue in the case. Slack Technologies asks the court to apply two provisions of the Securities Act of 1933 to a relatively new method of going public known as a “direct listing.”

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FDA Law Blog

APRIL 23, 2021

The Supreme Court has handed down a decision in AMG Capital Management, LLC, et al. The question presented is whether this statutory language authorizes the Commission to seek, and a court to award, equitable monetary relief such as restitution or disgorgement. It did that by focusing on the text of the statute. By Karin F.R.

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FDA Law Blog

APRIL 19, 2021

We have blogged recently about several FDA setbacks in court ( here , for example). Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday. FDA , the Court of Appeals ruled that FDA cannot regulate a medical product – in this case, the radiographic contrast agent barium sulfate – as a drug when the product meets the definition of a device.

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