Fordham Law News

OCTOBER 2, 2023

1] On June 20, 2023, the New York State Assembly passed A1278B, amending the state’s current labor law to prohibit non-compete agreements for workers. [2] 14] The new law creates a private cause of action for covered individuals to invalidate a non-compete. [15] 28, 2023), [link] [2] John J. .… [N]o 7, 2023), [link].

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Conflict of Laws

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The 2020 update [2] , 2022 update [3] , and 2023 update [4] were also posted on Conflictoflaws.net. 2023) Gui 71 Xie Wai Ren No. Zhou v Jing [2023] NSWSC 214 (Australia), [21] Yin v Wu [2023] VSCA 130 (Australia) [22] ). (Note: Foreign divorce judgments are excluded in the Case List.) Orient Thai Airlines Co.,

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 18, 2023

The UK Supreme Court ruled that the cause of action in the aftermath of the 2011 Bonga offshore oil spill accrued at the moment when the oil reached the shore. The jurisdiction and applicable law in the specific case of Bonga spill litigation have been closely followed inter alia by Geert van Calster here.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 23, 2023

10, 2023), the Ninth Circuit held that the trial court had properly enforced contractual provisions to find that the Plaintiff’s copyright infringement claims were barred by the agreed-to shortened, statute of limitations period. In an unpublished opinion in the case, Evox Productions, LLC v. Chrome Data Solutions, LP (filed Feb.

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 24, 2025

It should not consider only the claimants pleaded cause of action but should also take into account defences or reasonably foreseeable defences and cross-claims that may arise. If this means that there would be parallel litigation across a few jurisdictions, the courts should not shy away from that conclusion. [28]

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The IP Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

2255, which allows victims of child pornography to bring a civil cause of action. Days before Christmas 2023, the Ninth Circuit issued its opinion in Elden v. In 2021, at the age of 30, he filed his lawsuit and after two rounds of amended pleadings, filed a second amended complaint in January 2022. Nirvana, LLC, et al. ,

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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. 3] Secondly, the challenge is how to finance mass claims, involving millions of affected users.

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 29, 2023

For litigants embroiled in cross-border litigation, the anti-suit injunction has become a staple in the conflict of laws arsenal of common law courts. In fact, Kea had originally advanced a cause of action for abuse of process, claiming that the alleged fraud was an abuse of process of the Kentucky Court.

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 4, 2023

The 2019 HCCH Judgments Convention – Cornerstones, Prospects, Outlook (Hart, 2023) pp. 2684 of 25 January 2023 ). 375 of 23 May 2023 ). e.g., Béligh Elbalti, “Perspective of Arab Countries”, in M. Weller et al. 1983-184ff). Dissatisfied with the outcome, Xs appealed to the Supreme Court (hereinafter “DSC”).

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 15, 2023

The Federal Court Legislation Amendment Rules 2022 (Cth) (‘Amendment Rules’) came into force on 13 January 2023. For example, service may be permitted for a proceeding based on a cause of action arising in Australia (item 1), or where the defendant has submitted to the jurisdiction (item 19).

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Conflict of Laws

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Congress clearly intended its cause of action for trafficking in confiscated property to discourage non-U.S. 2023), the Supreme Court held that federal statutes should be presumed to apply only to conduct in the United States unless those statutes clearly indicate that they apply extraterritorially. Second, U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 17, 2025

In an unusual move, Konan, reprented by the Stanford Law School Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, has filed a conditional cross-petition ( Konan v. In 2023, New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin issued a subpoena demanding extensive records from First Choice, including donor information and internal communications.

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 25, 2024

4] As Three Arrows illustrates though, old habits die hard and the limits of the ‘non-exhaustive’ nature of the jurisdictional gateways remains to be tested by litigants. 8] CLM v CLN [2022] 5 SLR 273; Bybit Fintech Ltd v Ho Kai Xin [2023] 5 SLR 1748. [9] 17] [2023] SGHCR 22. [18] 17] [2023] SGHCR 22. [18]

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JUNE 1, 2023

Goertz , 598 U.S. _ (2023), the U.S. According to the Court majority, when a prisoner pursues state post-conviction DNA testing through the state-provided litigation process, the statute of limitations for a 42 U.S.C. 1983 procedural due process claim begins to run at the end of the state-court litigation.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 16, 2024

The justices agreed to take up the fishing companies’ case in early May 2023, but with a caveat: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson recused herself from the case, presumably because she heard oral argument in the case while she was still a judge on the D.C. Loper-Bright came to the Supreme Court in November 2022, asking justices to review the D.C.

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 27, 2025

On 29 January 2023, the first-instance court dismissed Xs claim on the ground that the Bangladeshi courts lacked jurisdiction since the custody issue had already been decided in Japan, country of the familys last residence. 247 of 2021 dated 29 January 2023). 22 of 2023 dated 12 July 2023).

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2023

On June 15, 2023, the court issued the ultimate judgment not only on the torts claims but perhaps the state of our politics. In another June 2023 decision in Munoz v. The retailer filed a motion for partial summary judgment as to plaintiffs’ cause of action for failure to warn. Six Flags St.

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