Conflict of Laws

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

However, no substantial revisions were made to the provisions concerning foreign-related civil litigation. The new law widens the category of disputes previously covered from “contractual disputes or other property rights disputes” to “litigation other than disputes involving personal relationships” (Art. Jurisdiction 2.1 276, para.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 10, 2022

Given the power of Big Tech Companies, their enormous financial resources, cross-jurisdictional reach and their global impact on users’ privacy, there are two main litigation challenges for successfully bringing a privacy claim against Big Tech.

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Stroud is General Counsel at Unified Patents – an organization often adverse to litigation-funded entities. [1] litigation finance boom of the past 20 years—as has been widely reported, private equity now undergirds huge swaths of U.S. Guest post by Jonathan Stroud. Patent assertion finance today is a multibillion-dollar business. [2]

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Litigation against major corporate greenhouse gas (GHG) emitters has proven extremely tough. Michael Smith brought tort claims against New Zealand’s seven largest GHG emitters, which are collectively responsible for one-third of all New Zealand GHG emissions. As this open-ended definition suggests, public nuisance is a slippery tort.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 30, 2024

Its main objective is to promote the study of private international law and encourage cooperation with similar academic institutions abroad, as well as coordination among private international law scholars. The decision is the first to recognize a corporate duty to mitigate climate change under tort law.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 2, 2023

The amendment draft provides proceedings may be brought before the courts “where the contract is signed or performed, the subject matter of the action is located, the defendant has any distrainable property, the tort or harmful event occurred, or the defendant has any representative office” (Art. 276, para. 276, para. 284, para.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 12, 2021

It argues that a tort lawsuit brought by foreign victims of climate change against local greenhouse gas emitters could overcome jurisdictional obstacles, notably the local action rule, and proceed in Canada. It is thought to be a significant jurisdictional obstacle in transboundary environmental disputes involving foreign land.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2023

At the same time, the dispute also raises broader questions about whether and when it is appropriate to resolve mass tort cases – that is, lawsuits brought by a group of people who have been harmed in a similar way, such as in a plane crash or by a defective product – through the bankruptcy system. In any event, the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 12, 2021

Indeed, its main component — a law allowing citizens to sue gun manufacturers — will be as productive as trying to win the New York Marathon by running furiously in place. New York has a history of reckless legislation on gun control, and it previously earned the ire of some Supreme Court justices by abandoning litigation.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 23, 2023

’ [4] Additionally, some judges, citing Article 1338 BW in Indonesia, regard the choice of foreign law as a contractual agreement not to resolve a dispute in the Indonesian courts, and many lawyers present a contract claim as tort. A robust and clearly expressed methodology of doctrinal and empirical research is applied.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Notably, this is not the first litigation over punctuation. We have increasing state and federal rules imposing such costs in the United States. In this case, Judge Gibson noted that the trial could cost Mr. Zadravic more than $180,000. 3) Perishable foods.

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MyCase

AUGUST 22, 2022

Litigation : This may include a range of both civil and criminal litigation cases, such as personal injury tort claims, divorce and family law cases, contract disputes, and so on. . Below are some of the main differences between biglaw and boutique law firms. Legal Services .

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 16, 2021

Over the last year Brazil has seen numerous innovative climate litigation claims filed that have questioned the country’s climate policies and general effects of activities on climate change. (I The Amazon rainforest, the country’s not-so-secret weapon to mitigate climate change, features prominently in the litigation. Climate Damage.

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Conflict of Laws

JULY 9, 2021

12] Before and after the application, the defendant Sharp had brought tort claims arising from SEP (standard essential patent) licensing against OPPO by commencing several parallel proceedings before German courts, a Japanese court and a Taiwanese court. [13] 14] The breach of the ruling would entail a fine of RMB 1 million per day. [15]

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 9, 2021

Ulla Liukkunen , University of Helsinki (FIN), then outlined the main findings from her chapter on SDG 8 “Decent Work and Economic Growth” In her presentation, she spoke in favor of broadening the perspective on existing regulatory approaches in PIL. In her presentation, she focused on tort law.

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 12, 2023

If damage caused by non-compliance with la Loi de Vigilance, any person with legitimate interest can seek reparation under tort law. Furthermore, BNP also stated its regret in the advocacy groups choosing litigation over dialogue and that it was not able to stop all fossil-fuel financing right away.

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Conflict of Laws

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

On applicable law for environmental pollution (Article 7 Rome II), a pinnacle of business and human rights as well as climate change litigation. Predictability is the core ambition, not a particular outcome in litigation. The refusal to provide information per se is not a tort in the sense of Article 7 No.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 27, 2021

7 Rome II (environmental torts) is one of the main de lege ferenda suggestions I considered in my PhD dissertation ( Private International Environmental Litigation before EU Courts: Choice of Law as a Tool of Environmental Global Governance , Université Catholique de Louvain & Universidad de Granada, 2017.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 30, 2021

The focus is on the question how tort claims are connected if the contracting partners have agreed on confidentiality terms, in particular under a non-disclosure agreement. He based his claim on tort. Finally, the judgment dealt with the classification of various ancillary measures requested by the Belgian authorities.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more. However, my students and I often discuss the remarkably wide range of torts that comes with All Hallow’s Eve. In another June 2023 decision in Munoz v.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Abbott , involving a challenge to the use of nonmutual offensive collateral estoppel to hold that issues resolved in bellwether tort trials bind the defendant in later cases. The court finally denied review on Nov. 20 in six-time relist E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. Remarkably, six petitions still remain from the long conference.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

American torts have long required consent in medical torts. However, the main objectives of the trial remain for the client to “knowingly and voluntarily assume” the risks of a particular course. This right of consent is ongoing and can be exercised at any point in the litigation. Patients and medical consent.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

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. Maine High Court Said State Law Would Not Preempt Local Ordinance Prohibiting Crude Oil Loading. and non-U.S. 20STCP03138 (Cal.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2021

In late October, the Supreme Court rejected an emergency application brought by Maine health care workers challenging the state’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate, which did not allow the workers to request any religious accommodations. The case is Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. University of North Carolina. COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 4, 2023

VoiceScript Ai.Law Elevator Pitch: Provides AI-generated litigation documents, from pleadings to discovery. We are the first AI-driven platform to focus specifically on drafting litigation documents. The substantial amount of time lawyers spend drafting documents during litigation. What makes you unique or innovative?

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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. First Circuit Declined to Bar Construction of Power Line in Maine. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Roati. and non-U.S.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

American torts have long required consent in torts. However, the main arguments and objectives of the trial remain for the client to decide. This right of consent is ongoing and can be exercised at any point in the litigation. As one court explained in Metrick v. Chatz , 639 N.E.2d 2d 198, 653-54 (Ill. Informed Consent.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

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. In addition, the First Circuit asked the Maine Law Court also to address whether the CCA impliedly preempted the local ordinance.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 9, 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. HERE ARE RECENT ADDITIONS TO THE INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE LITIGATION CHART. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Koati.

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