JURIST

JANUARY 29, 2025

The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant against Almasri on January 18, 2025. The ICC accused Almasri of crimes against humanity and war crimes, specifically of imprisonment, murder, torture, outrages upon personal dignity, and sexual violence under Articles 7 and 8 of the Rome Statute.

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JURIST

MARCH 5, 2025

In early 2025, the IHA informed Amnesty International that Israeli forces had killed 155 paramedics and destroyed 43 emergency centers during the war. Amnesty International wrote to the Israeli military on November 11, 2024, seeking a solution based on the UN Basic Principles. However, it had not received a response.

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Day on Torts

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The 120-day extension of the statute of limitations granted to health care liability plaintiffs who give proper pre-suit notice under the HCLA does not apply to or extend the Saving Statute. The plaintiff had filed an HCLA suit against the defendant after giving proper pre-suit notice under the statute. 3d — (Tenn.

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Day on Torts

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

24, 2025), the plaintiff filed suit against both the city and homeowners after she tripped on a sidewalk in front of the homeowners property. The city eventually filed a motion for summary judgment based on the statute of limitations, asserting that it was not properly served and, thus, the limitations period had run. Code Ann.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Italy’s justice minister, on Wednesday, defended the decision to repatriate accused Libyan war criminal Osama Njeem , blaming the International Criminal Court (ICC)’s allegedly “flawed” arrest warrant. The court demanded an explanation from Italian authorities.

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JURIST

JUNE 3, 2024

The US Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear Delligatti v. The court granted the case certiorari and added it to its docket for the 2024 to 2025 term. ” However, this definition has emerged as controversial as courts have disagreed over applying the definition. This brings the court to the issue in Delligatti v.

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Day on Torts

APRIL 1, 2025

11, 2025), the plaintiff and the defendant were neighbors. In reality, the plaintiff had plead guilty many years ago to a Texas statute entitled deadly conduct to reach a better deal in a DUI case. In Austin v. Plese , No. E2024-00586-COA-R3-CV (Tenn. The plaintiff filed this suit for defamation and false light invasion of privacy.

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JURIST

JANUARY 30, 2025

Furthermore, HRW recommended the ratification of the Rome Statute to enable the International Criminal Court to investigate war crimes that have occurred on Lebanese territory since October 2023. Following the election of President Joseph Aoun on January 9, 2025, the Parliament of Lebanon nominated Nawaf Salam as Prime Minister.

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JURIST

MAY 9, 2024

The cases of murder, torture, persecution, and forcible transfer of the civilian population could amount to crimes against humanity as defined in Article 7 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. This was confirmed by ICC prosecutor Karim A. Khan in January 2024 during a statement.

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FDA Law Blog

MARCH 18, 2025

Even though the PTE provisions established in the Drug Price Competition and Patent Restoration Act are forty-plus years old, courts are still grappling with questions about how to best implement the Patent Term Extension. On March 13, 2025, the Federal Circuit ventured into the world of reissued patents and PTE. (

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Day on Torts

MARCH 19, 2025

A legal malpractice claim filed eighteen months after the Court of Appeals affirmed the underlying conviction was time-barred. 21, 2025), the Court of Appeals affirmed dismissal of a pro se legal malpractice complaint based on the statute of limitations. Richardson , No. M2024-01130-COA-R3-CV (Tenn. Continue reading

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 6, 2025

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has relisted for its upcoming conference. Once again this week, the Supreme Court has been busy sifting through the relists. Grants are now filling in the 2025-26 term, which will start in October.) A short explanation of relists is available here.

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Fordham Law News

MARCH 31, 2025

Delaware has long been the preferred state of incorporation for corporations due to its business friendly legal framework, its specialized Court of Chancery, and its well-developed and unified body of corporate law. However, recent news suggests that corporations are reconsidering their allegiance to the state. [1] In Tornetta v.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MARCH 17, 2025

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in four cases this week, all of which asked the justices to resolve a circuit split. The issues ranged from whether a death row defendant can obtain postconviction DNA testingto what test courts should apply to Title VII discrimination claims brought by a member of a majority group (i.e.

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At the Lectern

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The Supreme Court today announced it will hear only two cases next month. With seven of the terms 11 calendars concluded or scheduled, the court is on track to issue just 36 opinions for its 2024-2025 sessions, which would be an historic low. The court granted review in September 2023. More about the case here.

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Day on Torts

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

29, 2025), the plaintiff sent pre-suit notice of a her HCLA suit to five health care providers. The plaintiff eventually voluntarily dismissed this original suit and refiled pursuant to the savings statute. In Curtis v. Sharp , No. E2023-01583-COA-R3-CV (Tenn. This notice included HIPAA authorizations.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Supreme Court tackled some of the most closely watched cases of the term. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the ban, finding that the governments national security justificationswere valid. The Court also considered five other cases. Upon returning from break, the U.S. In TikTok Inc. Below is a brief summary: Stanley v.

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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. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed. In Hungary v.

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Patently O

JUNE 21, 2024

by Dennis Crouch A second amicus brief has been filed – this one from the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) – encouraging the Supreme Court to grant certiorari in Cellect, LLC v. The case concerns the interplay between the Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) statute, 35 U.S.C. § Vidal , No. Compare Allergan USA, Inc.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MARCH 10, 2025

Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in FCC v. In reaching its decision, the appeals court found that Congress may have improperly delegated legislative power to the FCC in failing to supply an intelligible principle to guide the agencys discretion, and the FCC may have impermissibly delegated the taxing power to private entities.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 29, 2023

Photo by Mathias Reding on Unsplash Climate change litigation has finally reached the world’s highest court. On March 29, 2023, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a resolution requesting an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the obligations of States with respect to climate change.

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LexForti

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

All the above laws and statutes were not according to the prevailing Indian System. The jurisdiction for trial and adjudication of cases related to Shipping and Admiralty Acts in India was vested in the High Courts at Madras, Bombay, and Calcutta. In the case of M. Elisabeth v. British India Steam Navigation Co.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MARCH 4, 2025

Supreme Court closed out its January sitting with oral arguments in four cases. The issues before the justices ranged from where a vape company can bring suit against the FDA to whether courts should apply the moment of the threat doctrine when evaluating an excessive force claim under the Fourth Amendment. Reynolds Vapor Co.:

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FDA Law Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Karst — In the appellate courts lately, it’s been FDA “ Against the Music.” In yet another decision based on statutory interpretation, an appellate court has decided that FDA’s interpretation of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA) is contrary to the plain text of the statute. Koblitz & Kurt R.

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Patently O

JULY 31, 2024

by Dennis Crouch For the vast majority of American history, a judgment of patent infringement (by a court sitting in equity) led almost directly to injunctive relief barring ongoing infringement. This construct was flipped by the Supreme Court’s 2006 decision in eBay Inc. MercExchange, L.L.C. ,

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 14, 2023

The conference was kicked off by a keynote speech by Justice Philip Jeyaretnam (Singapore International Commercial Court), providing an in-depth analysis of the Court of Appeal’s decision in Anupam Mittal v Westbridge Ventures II [2023] SGCA 1 (discussed in more detail here ).

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At the Lectern

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The Supreme Court hasn’t been holding many oral arguments this term: only 23 cases have been heard or scheduled through the court’s recently announced March calendar , which will be its seventh of 2024–2025. The court sent its oral argument letter in September. Faial the court granted review in May 2022.

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At the Lectern

DECEMBER 12, 2024

At its conference yesterday , a double one, the Supreme Court backed up Chief Justice Patricia Guerrero’s recent pledge that a decline in straight grants would be temporary. We can’t remember the last time the court at one conference agreed to hear that many cases. The court agreed to hear Conservatorship of E.A.

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 1, 2025

On 20-21 March 2025, a conference on Characterisation in the Conflict of Laws was convened at St Hildas College, Oxford. with a focus on the courts of England and Wales. He provided seven steps of dealing with how the courts must engage with characterisation. The author of this report is Meltem Ece Oba (Ko University, Istanbul).

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 21, 2023

While previously, according to Kegel , connecting factors were understood to build upon certain generally neutral conflict-of-laws interests, cultural identity is becoming a relevant aspect of party interests, which she demonstrated with the help of different recent judgement of the German Federal Court of Justice.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 8, 2023

Scope 3 Emissions SB 253 would direct CARB to develop standards for GHG emissions reporting by January 1, 2025, with covered entities then required to begin annual reports following these standards in 2026 (for scope 1 and scope 2 GHG emissions) and in 2027 (for scope 3 emissions). [21] 46] The U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Share The Supreme Court on Wednesday will hear a challenge to a Tennessee law that bans the use of puberty blockers and hormone therapy for transgender teens. And with similar laws in 23 other states , the court’s ruling is likely to have broader implications for the protections available to transgender people across the country.

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JURIST

JANUARY 20, 2023

A group of environmental activist groups Thursday filed petition in the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit for the review of the US Maritime Administration’s (MARAD) decision to license the Sea Port Oil Terminal located off the coast of Texas. Transportation of oil is not expected to begin until December 2025.

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JURIST

APRIL 1, 2025

Amnesty International called upon Hungary on Monday to arrest and surrender Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the International Criminal Court ahead of his reported visit to the country. As a member state of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Hungary must arrest him if he travels to the country and hand him over to the Court.

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JURIST

MARCH 4, 2025

The Bombay High Court on Monday directed the Anti-Corruption Bureau ( ACB ) to halt the proceedings on a Special Court order requiring a First Information Report (FIR) against former Securities and Exchange Board of India ( SEBI ) Chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch, three SEBI officials and two Bombay Stock Exchange ( BSE ) executives.

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Customs & International Trade Law

DECEMBER 27, 2024

We look forward to working with you in 2025! Court Challenges In a significant victory, our firm successfully challenged the United States Department of Commerce’s final scope ruling on composite tile, leading to a remand by the United States Court of International Trade.

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Patently O

DECEMBER 18, 2024

by Dennis Crouch The Supreme Court’s December 18, 2024 order in TikTok v. The order consolidates two emergency applications seeking to block enforcement of the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (PAFACAA) before its January 19, 2025 effective date.

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