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Justices take up Native health care funding cases and a dispute over sentencing guide

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Share The Supreme Court on Monday morning added two additional hours of argument, in cases involving federal funding of health care services for Native Americans and the Armed Career Criminal Act, to its docket for the 2023-24 term. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit upheld that decision. du Pont de Nemours v.

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Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts (IPRax) 4/2023: Abstracts

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More importantly, the court considered the requirement of a “real connecting link” in the context of Art. The court ruled that in unfair competition law disputes of contractual nature the establishment of such a link must be based on the content of the measure sought, not merely its effects. 7(1) of the Brussels Ibis Regulation.

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New rules for extra-territorial jurisdiction in Western Australia

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Background The rules as to service outside the jurisdiction are important to cross-border litigation in Australian courts. Among other things, the rules on service provide the limits to the court’s jurisdiction in personam : Laurie v Carroll (1957) 98 CLR 310 , 323. See Agar v Hyde , CLR 572 [16].

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Guest Post: Third-Party Litigation Funding: Disclosure to Courts, Congress, and the Executive

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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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The long tentacles of the Helms-Burton Act in Europe (III)

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Besides, Spanish courts had jurisdiction because Spain was the place of the domicile of the defendant and the claim was one of unjust enrichment – i.e. a claim in tort –, not one whose subject matter was the existence or scope of a right in rem over a real estate asset.

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Conflict of Laws - Untitled Article

Conflict of Laws

The EU Commission published a long awaited Proposal for a Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence (CSDDD), COM(2022) 71 final, on 23 February 2022; the EU Council adopted its negotiation position on 1 December 2022; and now, the EU Parliament has suggested amendments to this Draft Directive on 1 June 2023. Brown , 564 U.S.

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China Adopts Restrictive Theory of Foreign State Immunity

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On September 1, 2023, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress promulgated the Foreign State Immunity Law of the People’s Republic of China (FSIL) (English translation here ). Supreme Court has held that issuing foreign government bonds is a commercial activity, even if done for a sovereign purpose.