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Biggest Personal Injury And Med Mal Court Decisions In 2023

Law 360

Supreme Court ruling addressing states' jurisdiction over out-of-state companies and a key ruling in sprawling multidistrict litigation against Silicon Valley's biggest companies over social media addiction are among Law360's top personal injury and medical malpractice cases for 2023.

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Court of Appeal justice criticizes Supreme Court decision reversing opinion he wrote

At the Lectern

Court of Appeal Justice Brian Hoffstadt writes in today’s Daily Journal about the Supreme Court’s August decision in People v. Gray (2023) 15 Cal.5th The Supreme Court reversed the opinion that Justice Hoffstadt authored in the case for the Second District, Division Two. 5th 152 (see here ).

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August 2023 Update: List of China’s Cases on Recognition of Foreign Judgments

Conflict of Laws

Written by Dr. Meng Yu and Dr. Guodong Du, co-founders of China Justice Observer * On 20 August 2023, China Justice Observer released the 2023 version of List of China’s Cases on Recognition of Foreign Judgments. The full version of the 2023 List of China’s Cases on Recognition of Foreign Judgments is available here.

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Mifepristone is under scrutiny in the courts, but it has been used safely and effectively around the world for decades

LLRX

A flurry of court rulings in April 2023 has left the future of the abortion pill mifepristone in question. Supreme Court decision on April 21 allows the drug to remain accessible without additional restrictions as the merits of the case are weighed in lower court proceedings. For now, a U.S.

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International high-tech surrogacy and legal developments in the Netherlands

Conflict of Laws

Recently, a Dutch District Court dealt with a case on the recognition of US court decisions on legal parenthood over children born from a high-tech surrogacy trajectory in the US, providing many private international law insights on how to assess such request for recognition.

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SCOTUS Clarifies Scienter Standard for False Claims Act Cases

Constitutional Law Reporter

S. _ (2023), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the False Claims Act’s scienter element — which asks whether a defendant “knowingly” submitted a “false” claim to the government — refers to a defendant’s knowledge and subjective beliefs — not to what an objectively reasonable person may have known or believed. SuperValu Inc. ,

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Guest blog post: Japanese Court Upholds Mistakes in post-disaster Energy Policy in Yokosuka Climate Case Decisions

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

Tokyo High Court On February 22, 2024, the Tokyo High Court ruled against an appeal in the Yokosuka climate case. This blog post introduces two judgments of the Yokosuka climate case, one issued in January 2023 and the second in February 2024. million tons, equivalent to about 1/5000th of the world’s emissions.

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