ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 21, 2023

The climate litigation that finally reached the courts in the mid-2010s was many years in the making. The first wave of climate cases In early 2017, the High Court in Pretoria handed down a judgment in the country’s first climate case: Earthlife Africa Johannesburg v Minister of Environmental Affairs (also known as the “Thabametsi judgment”).

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Broadcast Law Blog

JANUARY 7, 2022

Presumably, GMR has made the calculation that, if too many broadcasters opt out and it is forced to negotiate or litigate with too many declining stations, the savings in time and legal fees that it hoped to achieve by this settlement would not be realized. We wrote about the last CRB decision on those rates here.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JANUARY 31, 2023

The US Court of Appeals will be holding an oral argument on these and other issues raised on appeal on February 17. The CRB also recently published the tentative rates that noncommercial broadcasters will pay to ASCAP, BMI, SESAC and GMR for the period 2023-2027. A decision in the case is expected this summer.

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Parasec

JANUARY 4, 2023

Official documents include court-issued documents, state notices, tax notices and more. While you can often act as your own registered agent, appointing a professional one can help you and your clients avoid many legal problems and mitigate risk. Let me start with the basics. October 1st for limited liability companies.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 11, 2022

One of the most interesting environmental legal disputes in the European Union was recently settled between the Czech Republic and Poland before the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ( Case C-121/21). The CJEU granted the interim measures by Order of the Vice-President of the Court of 21 May 2021.

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 25, 2025

As this approach leads to the application of general conflict of laws rules, he identified some room for a more general legal policy discussion, e.g. about further harmonization of conflict of laws rules or the creation of internet specific conflicts rules. Neither the technological details nor the digital euros legal nature are certain.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Disability rights groups launched a Charter challenge Wednesday against Canada’s medical assistance in dying (MAiD) provisions, seeking a court declaration that portions of the Canada Criminal Code are unconstitutional, and thus of no force and effect. The earliest date of the mental health implementation is now March 17, 2027.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 The Sentencing Bill aims to introduce stricter measures for the most heinous criminals. Any breach of these suspended sentences by repeat offenders would result in a return to court and the possibility of serving the full term in jail. Currently, the legal age for buying cigarettes is 18.

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The Fashion Law

JUNE 10, 2021

They were swiftly followed by a handful of additional filings by other retailers, signaling that there is no end in sight to the constant string of fashion and other retail companies struggling financially and looking to bankruptcies courts for protection from their creditors. June 2021 – Alex and Ani. If approved by the U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 8, 2023

5] For the reasons discussed below, more firms – and their legal and other advisers– should follow them. 9] The proposed legislation in California is both legally solid and helpful for making climate progress. Academic readers of this blog should too! 46] The U.S. Neither SB 261 nor SB 253 is discriminatory in this way. [48]

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The Crime Report

APRIL 25, 2023

The new proposal would subject all individuals with a prior conviction of an offense carrying up to just one year in prison to this regime, thereby extending the net to many people who could legally carry a gun were it not for a minor drug possession conviction decades ago.

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JURIST

MARCH 14, 2025

The proposed procedure seeks to unify the system with common procedures and allow for mutual recognition of return decisions by 1 July 2027. In other words, both origin states and EU member states would not recognize their legal status if the proposal is implemented. Asylum has been a heated topic among the EU member states.

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 28, 2025

Mller-Berg: The effects of the new product liability directive on international product liability The Swiss Federal Court had to decide on the international jurisdiction for a negative declaratory action in a product liability dispute in the case of cross-border manufacturing involving a division of labour.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Although the Paris Agreement (Article 4, Paragraph 2) legally requires parties to submit NDCs and “pursue domestic mitigation measures with the aim of achieving the objectives of such contributions”, the actual fulfillment of the NDC is not legally binding or enforceable. Australia is another example.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JANUARY 22, 2025

EPA (concerning light- and medium-duty vehicle emission standards), that bring the unique perspective of cities and other local governments before the courts. The second Trump administrations likely repeal and replacement of the HDV Rule will face major legal opposition and judicial scrutiny. In Nebraska v.

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