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Australia High Court hears submissions on Cambridge Analytica data breaches

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The High Court of Australia Tuesday began hearing submissions that a Facebook app tied to the Cambridge Analytica scandal contravened national privacy laws. The oral submissions will determine whether Facebook is liable for consumer data breaches in contravention of the Privacy Act 1998 (Cth).

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No cause of action against employers for take-home COVID

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Responding to questions asked by the Ninth Circuit about California law, the court’s unanimous opinion by Justice Carol Corrigan precludes an action alleging a construction worker’s wife contracted COVID from her husband due to his employer’s failure to abide by government health orders at the beginning of the pandemic.

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Relevance of Indian Limitation Law vis-à-vis Foreign-seated International Arbitration With Indian Law As The Applicable Substantive Law

Conflict of Laws

The determination of the law applicable to limitation is a complex exercise. The aim of this post is to explore how would Indian substantive law of the contract impact limitation period and party autonomy, especially in the context of contracting out of limitation in a foreign-seated international arbitration.

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Smith v Fonterra: A Common Law Climate Litigation Breakthrough

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A civil law breakthrough came in 2021, with the ruling of a Dutch court against Shell. In Smith v Fonterra , decided by New Zealand’s Supreme Court this week, we have perhaps the biggest common law breakthrough. All three of Smith’s claims will now proceed to what may the be first full climate tort claim in a common law jurisdiction.

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NO FILING A LATE NOTICE OF CLAIM IN THIS TOWN

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TOWN LAW DIDN’T PERMIT A LATE FILING After a construction company wasn’t paid for highway repair work it performed for the T own of Pendleton , a lawsuit was filed alleging “breach of contract, unjust enrichment and quantum meruit.” Guess they couldn't build a case here. # # # DECISION Accadia Site Contr.,

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Supreme Court will hear election law case with standing issue

At the Lectern

The appellate court also found standing to appeal by non-parties to the superior court action even though they had not filed a motion to vacate the judgment, and it voided the judgment against them because they weren’t parties even though they had funded the lawsuit. Ari Design & Construction, Inc. , See here and here.).

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Anti-Suit Injunctions and Dispute Resolution Clauses

Conflict of Laws

While both decisions canvassed other private international law issues, the primary focus of this comment is the Courts approach to construing the scope of dispute resolution clauses. Subsequently, Asiana also pursued actions against GGS and the directors of the Gate Gourmet Group. The chairman was later convicted in Korean proceedings.

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