Conflict of Laws

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Article 6, on the other hand, says that a foreign state shall not be deemed to have consented to jurisdiction by appearing in Chinese court to assert immunity, by having its representatives testify, or by choosing Chinese law to govern a particular matter. The general practice in China is that courts, rather than litigants, serve process.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The case involves an insurance company’s attempt to block its insured’s Chapter 11 reorganization plan, which establishes a trust for certain current and future asbestos personal-injury liabilities. But the plan treats holders of insured and uninsured asbestos personal-injury claims differently. Two days earlier, the U.S.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 4, 2021

Senior judges have repeatedly noted the excesses of the Spiliada regime, in terms of the time, expense and judicial resource spent in litigating questions about the appropriate forum (see, most recently, Lord Briggs in Vedanta Resources Plc v Lungowe [2019] UKSC 20, [6]-[14]), yet they and the rule makers have done little or nothing about it.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween of course remains a holiday seemingly designed for personal injury lawyers around the world and this year’s additions show why. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Below is an expanded version of my column in the New York Post on the return of Halloween and joy of little litigators in anticipation of the return of the festival of Samhain. Here is the column: With the arrival of Halloween, little children and litigators will again celebrate their favorite holiday. follow the rules.”She

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 12, 2023

Indeed, Article 21 of the law provides that when a treaty to which China is a party differs from the law, the terms of the treaty shall govern. China was sued in federal court for nonpayment of bonds issued by the Imperial Government of China in 1911, did not appear to defend, and suffered a default judgment.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 8, 2021

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. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Roati. and non-U.S. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 146.

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