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“The Extraterritorial Reach of Criminal Statutes”

HowAppealing

“The Extraterritorial Reach of Criminal Statutes”: William S. Dodge recently had this post at the “Transnational Litigation Blog.” ” The post “The Extraterritorial Reach of Criminal Statutes” appeared first on How Appealing.

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“Parsing Invalidating Statutes (Part II)”

HowAppealing

“Parsing Invalidating Statutes (Part II)”: John F. Coyle has this post at the “Transnational Litigation Blog.” In this post, I continue this discussion by highlighting several statutes that purport to invalidate choice-of-law clauses in insurance contracts.”

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“Parsing Invalidating Statutes (Part I)”

HowAppealing

“Parsing Invalidating Statutes (Part I)”: John F. Coyle has this post at the “Transnational Litigation Blog.” ” Therein, he writes, “There are hundreds of state statutes that direct state courts not to give effect to choice-of-law and forum selection clauses.”

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When Pigs Litigate: How Pork Law Will Predict Abortion And Gun Jurisprudence

Above The Law

The post When Pigs Litigate: How Pork Law Will Predict Abortion And Gun Jurisprudence appeared first on Above the Law. We could have avoided this whole issue if everyone became a vegan.

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Justices to consider whether litigation should move forward in trial court while appellate courts review obligation to arbitrate

SCOTUSBlog

Ordinarily in these cases, the customer files a lawsuit (often, as here, a class action), and the business immediately files a motion asking the court to stay litigation and refer the matter to arbitration. The case before the justices arises from two separate disputes with Coinbase. Its argument is simple and linear.

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Revised Canadian Statute on Judgment Enforcement

Conflict of Laws

The statute is available here. The ULCC has now released a revised version of another model statute, the Enforcement of Canadian Judgments Act (ECJA). The original version of this statute was prepared in 1998 and had been amended four times. The statute allows for the registration of a Canadian judgment (a defined term: s 1).

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Defamation case dismissed based on absolute litigation privilege.

Day on Torts

Where defendant’s allegedly defamatory statements accusing plaintiffs of bigamy were made within the context of a declaratory judgment action, the absolute litigation privilege applied and dismissal of the defamation case was affirmed. This case is a good example of the absolute litigation privilege being applied. In Vanwinkle v.