Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 8, 2025

In case of non-payment, enforcement can be carried out in the State of origin, in the same way as a court decision. They should not be confused with administrative orders, as they are based on a voluntary declaration by the maintenance debtor.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Lower Courts Decision The district court dismissed the case under the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA), which generally bars suits against firearms companies based on criminals misusing their products. A decision is expected before the end of the term in June/July 2025.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 27, 2025

On March 18, 2025, Judge Ronnie Abrams dismissed the lawsuit with prejudice , penning an opinion that upholds Local Law 154 as a valid exercise of local authority beyond the purview of EPCAs preemption clause. District Court for the Northern District of California, which ruled that EPCA did not preempt Berkleys ordinance.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 20, 2025

As is frequently the case when the court denies review in cases that have been relisted repeatedly, denial occasioned dissent, this time from Justice Clarence Thomas, joined by Justice Neil Gorsuch. 7, 2025 conferences.) Relisted after the May 30, 2024 and Mar. Returning Relists Apache Stronghold v.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MARCH 26, 2025

EPA , 604 U.S. _ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court again limited the Environmental Protection Agencys (EPA) power under the Clean Water Act (CWA). According to the Courts five-member majority, the EPA cant enforce requirements in wastewater permits that do not spell out what a permittee must do or refrain from doing.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MARCH 20, 2025

Simon , 604 U.S. _ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court held that alleging commingling of funds alone cannot satisfy the commercial nexus requirement of the expropriation exception of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976 (FSIA). The Courts decision was unanimous. Supreme Courts Decision The Supreme Court disagreed.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 6, 2025

The court granted review of one of last weeks new relists raising a double jeopardy question about a federal sentencing enhancement for using a firearm during a violent crime. Grants are now filling in the 2025-26 term, which will start in October.)

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Broadcast Law Blog

JANUARY 5, 2022

Most, but not all, of these developments follow from last year’s Copyright Royalty Board decision raising webcasting rates for 2021-2025 (see our article here summarizing that decision). The CRB’s decision was published in the Federal Register in October 2021.

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Broadcast Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

With this decision, any lingering doubts (see our article here about the appeal being filed) about the current royalties have been resolved, and the rates will (absent an unlikely further appeal) stay in place though the end of 2020. The process that seemingly never ends….

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Broadcast Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

With this decision, any lingering doubts (see our article here about the appeal being filed) about the current royalties have been resolved, and the rates will (absent an unlikely further appeal) stay in place though the end of 2020. The process that seemingly never ends….

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 18, 2025

On March 7, 2025, Judge Stephen N. Industrial & Commercial Bank of China (2011), another case involving a default judgment against China under the FSIA, in which the court of appeals held that plaintiffs could not use assets belonging to agencies or instrumentalities of China to satisfy a judgment against China itself.

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FDA Law Blog

MARCH 6, 2025

In accordance with Supreme Court precedent, the Department is restoring constitutional accountability so that Executive Branch officials answer to the President and to the people. The impact of this position statementand how it will play out in federal courts with the new administrationis unclear. See Inmar Rx Solutions v. Bondi , No.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

In order to obtain a recognisable filiation decision in favour of the intended parents, a (declaratory) court decision is sought in Ukraine after the childs birth. Such a court decision can be recognised in Germany under procedural law. This case note examines the Supreme Courts decision from both angles.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 3, 2025

The distinction between a decision and other administrative acts in the sense of procedural recognition could have been explored further. Andrae: Correction of the date of birth under civil status and social law based on foreign court decisions and public documents (German) A persons identity includes their date of birth.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 6, 2025

First Dismissal by the Supreme Administrative Court In February 2023, the Supreme Administrative Court of the Czech Republic overturned the Prague Municipal Courts decision and returned the case for further proceedings. Both parties appealed against this judgement. The main reason was the collective nature of the EU NDC.

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Court-MartialTrialPractice

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Deremer , 2025 CCA LEXIS 46, 2025 WL 427756 (N-M.Ct. 2025), NMCCA decided that when an alleged victim has an SVC, the MCIO must notify the SVC of any interviews, especially those with intent to interrogate the “victim” about a false allegation. 202300205, 2025 CCA LEXIS 46, at *11-12 (N-M Ct. United States v.

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 21, 2025

At the heart of this legal uncertainty is the Supreme Courts decision in Republic of Argentina v. With Wye Oak s attorneys petitioning for certiorari in January 2025 , the case presents a critical opportunity for the Supreme Court to resolve the longstanding circuit split on the FSIAs direct effects clause.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 21, 2025

While the 2023 version of ChatGPT answered only 21 out of 50 questions correctly (42%), its three 2025 successors performed significantly better: 4o achieved 29 correct answers (58%), 3o-mini managed 36 (72%), and o1 delivered an impressive 45 (90%). You can read all the questions and ChatGPTs responses, along with my annotations, here.

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Above The Law

MARCH 11, 2025

Widely (and rightly) hailed as one of the judiciarys most incisive and eloquent opinion authors, Bibass February 11, 2025 opinion in Thomson Reuters v. First, the Court found that the headnotes represented an original compilation, but even further each headnote qualified as an individual, copyrightable work.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 21, 2025

Here is the column: On January 20, 2025, the shock and awe campaign of the Justice Department came to an end as President Donald Trump pardoned 1,500 January 6th defendants. In the recent Supreme Court decision in Fischer v. However, the Justice Department itself may have made the strongest case for presidential pardons.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Teare J at first instance held that the English court lacked jurisdictionfinding that the arbitration agreements were governed by French substantive rules and that England was not the appropriate forumwhereas the Court of Appeal reversed this decision by granting a final anti-suit injunction requiring RCA to terminate its Russian proceedings.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Over dissents or statements from several justices, the court denied review in cases that they had considered repeatedly at their recent conferences. The court did not add any new cases to their docket for the 2025-26 term. A federal district court dismissed Carters claims, relying on the courts decision in Feres.

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FDA Law Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Clissold On January 21, 2025, the Trump administration withdrew FDAs proposed ban on menthol cigarettes, which the Biden administration initially introduced in 2022. By Sophia R. Gaulkin & Esther Petrikovsky & David B. This move is the latest step in FDAs long, uncertain, and controversial journey to ban menthol cigarettes.

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Above The Law

JANUARY 24, 2025

Biden appointed the most judges to the Second Circuit in 2021, to the Ninth in 2022, and even had one judge begin active service in 2025 ( Embry Kidd in the Eleventh Circuit). Decision The Ninth Circuit reversed the district courts decision to dismiss the Unruh Act claim, ruling that the federal court should have kept jurisdiction over it.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 19, 2025

9] See Iva Lea Aurer, Guest Commentary: An Assessment of the Hague District Courts Decision in Milieudefensie et al. 10] See Maria Antonia Tigre and Marlies Hesselman, Milieudefensie v Shell: 3 Takeaways and Challenges on the Appeals Court Decision, Climate Law: A Sabin Center Blog, Dec. 26, 2025, [link].

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Above The Law

MARCH 7, 2025

The two graphs below track the Justices word counts across all argument in the 2023/2024 Term and those already completed in this 2024/2025 Term. The remainder of this piece proceeds by breaking down and comparing their argument styles across eight oral arguments, four from the 2023/2024 Term and four from the 2024/2025 Term.

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Above The Law

MARCH 21, 2025

Additionally, cases that reversed lower court decisions or set new legal precedents were considered more significant. Case Outcome: Reversal of Lower Court Decision: 5 points. Affirmation of Lower Court Decision: 2 points. The post Circuit Scoop — February 2025 appeared first on Above the Law.

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Above The Law

MARCH 4, 2025

There are disturbing signs that the administration of President Trump will defy court orders. On several occasions, the administration has proclaimed that the President is not required to comply with court decisions. … We call on the President and all in the executive branch to abide by court orders.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 5, 2024

Federal agencies operate in a rapidly evolving legal landscape, one in which Supreme Court decisions in cases like last week’s Loper Bright Enterprises v. If in 2025 Democrats hold the presidency and a majority in Congress, we may see an Inflation Reduction Act 2.0; if Trump wins, the regulatory vacuum will surely grow.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

But it’s 2025 and half the country already adjusted their schemas to accept hoarding nuclear codes by a toilet, so there’s a population already primed to get BIG MAD that the judiciary might not give our social security numbers to teenagers who’ve already lost jobs for being cybersecurity risks. He needs to be impeached NOW!

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

That (increasingly likely) scenario is not super concerning to one person — Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 9, 2021

In their main conclusions, the plaintiffs seek a Court injunction directing the government to reduce emissions 42 to 48% in 2025 and at least 55 to 65% in 2030. According to news reports, a decision is expected before summer. Kingdom of Belgium & Others (Brussels Court of First Instance). VZW Klimaatzaak v.

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The Estrin Report

MARCH 16, 2025

Oyer, the pardon attorney for the DOJ, was fired March 7, 2025, and asserts her termination resulted from refusal to recommend restoration of firearm rights to Mel Gibson, who lost these rights in a 2011 misdemeanor domestic violence conviction. Will the legal profession be restructured by political intimidation ? Elizabeth G.

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Above The Law

MARCH 4, 2025

Law Firm Following Court Approval. after a court decision made it the first Big Four accounting firm eligible to practice law in the country. The Arizona Supreme Court on Thursday granted the accounting giant final approval to obtain a license to create its own firm, KPMG Law. 2025 March 27, 10:15-11:15AM Central.

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