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Defamation case dismissed based on absolute litigation privilege.

Day on Torts

June 2, 2022), defendant had previously been married to one of the plaintiffs, and a final decree of divorce had been issued in their divorce case. Note: Chapter 28, Section 11 of Day on Torts: Leading Cases in Tennessee Tort Law has been updated to include this decision.

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Lease interest was not sufficient to establish ownership rights for conversion claim.

Day on Torts

June 9, 2022), plaintiff and defendant husband were in the process of getting divorced. During the divorce proceedings, defendant allegedly asked plaintiff to sign a written agreement to continue the lease, which plaintiff refused to sign because it was “onerous, high risk, and legally ineffective.” internal citation omitted).

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XXIInd volume of the Yearbook of Private International Law  (2020/2021) published

Conflict of Laws

The National reports section hosts articles on the new Croatian and Uruguayan Private International law Statutes. The most recent innovations on classical themes of private international law (torts, muslim divorces, the degree of deference by state courts to international commercial arbitral awards, etc.)

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Finding of conversion and fraudulent concealment affirmed where brother signed sister’s name on check

Day on Torts

When defendant and his wife were later divorcing in 2019, the annuity came to light, and the wife informed plaintiff that she had seen a check that appeared to have been endorsed by someone else on her behalf. The Court next analyzed defendant’s claim that the conversion case was barred by the statute of limitations. In Pomeroy v.

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Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts (IPRax) 1/2022: Abstracts

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Haselbeck : Divorce without the involvement of a court in Member States of the EU and the Brussels IIbis- and the Rome III-Regulation. In recent years some Member States of the European Union such as Italy, Spain, France, and Greece introduced the possibility of a divorce without the involvement of a court. Sonnentag/J.

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Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts (IPRax) 2/2021: Abstracts

Conflict of Laws

Eichel: Choice of Court Agreements and Rules of Interpretation in the Context of Tort or Anti-trust Claims. 1 Lugano Convention 2007 vis-à-vis claims in tort. However, with regard to torts and antitrust claims there are rules of interpretation arising from Art. 1 Brussels Ia Regulation/Art. 25 Brussels Ia Regulation itself.

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Choice of Law in the American Courts in 2023

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Bowman , which addresses the scope of federal criminal statutes, into its current extraterritoriality framework. The court held that Virginia’s common law requirements were met, even though Virginia might not have granted a divorce under the same circumstances.

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