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HCCH Monthly Update: July 2021

Conflict of Laws

On 1 July 2021, Mongolia deposited its instrument of acceptance of the Statute, becoming the 89th Member of the HCCH. On 30 July 2021, the HCCH 1970 Evidence Convention entered into force for Georgia. Membership. More information is available here. Conventions & Instruments . It currently has 120 Contracting Parties.

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HCCH Monthly Update: January/February 2022

Conflict of Laws

Several important developments relating to Membership and HCCH Conventions occurred during the meeting: El Salvador deposited its instrument of acceptance of the Statute, becoming the 91 st Member of the HCCH. On 1 January 2022, the HCCH 1965 Service Convention entered into force for Georgia. More information is available here.

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Navigating the waters of the new term

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Josh Gerstein of Politico, with his colleague Alexander Ward, broke the story of the leaked draft opinion in Dobbs v. Justice Clarence Thomas, asking whether any bodies of water were excluded from the statute, notes that he grew up “in low country Georgia and you had standing water. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

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Cherry-picked history and ideology-driven outcomes: Bruen’s originalist distortions

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But the Texas statute, and the rationales set forth in English and Duke , are outliers.” . “We acknowledge,” Thomas wrote, “that the Texas cases support New York’s proper-cause requirement, which one can analogize to Texas’ ‘reasonable grounds’ standard.

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CLASSICS Act Introduced to Provide Pre-1972 Sound Recording Public Performance Clarity – What Issues Does It Leave Unresolved?

Broadcast Law Blog

Thus far, New York , Florida , Georgia and Illinois have found there to be no right of compensation under state laws (though some of these cases are on appeal). Even if adopted, this statute would not address all issues raised by the state litigation over the pre-1972 recordings. The state applies only to digital services.

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Fulton County Judge Rules with the Warnock Campaign and Orders New Early Voting Date

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Raphael Warnock’s campaign to allow early voting to begin on Saturday in Georgia’s Senate runoff election. Yet, despite this well-written decision, I still believe that the court is wrong to ignore the plain meaning of the statute. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Thomas A. Fredrick v. State, 181 Ga. 600 (1987).

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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2022

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This spring, after POLITICO published a draft opinion of Dobbs and revealed that the court was poised to overturn Roe , Beckwith praised the leak. Curtis, who grew up in Georgia with cognitive and developmental disabilities, always hoped to leave these facilities and move back into her community. Lois Curtis (July 14, 1967 – Nov.

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