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Court rules against plaintiff seeking emotional distress damages for discrimination

SCOTUSBlog

Further, the court has analogized spending clause legislation to a contract and has held that funding recipients are on notice that they are subject to those remedies traditionally available in suits for breach of contract. In Thursday’s ruling in Cummings v. Check back soon for in-depth analysis of the opinion.

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Insurers Get Claims Trimmed In Factory Explosion Suit

Law 360

Insurers for a glass manufacturer cannot pursue most of their claims against two contractors over a 2017 factory explosion, a Michigan federal court ruled, saying waiver of subrogation clauses in the underlying service contracts bar all causes of action except those arising from gross negligence.

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Intentional interference with business relationships under the GTLA.

Day on Torts

This suit followed, asserting several contract and property claims, as well as a tort claim for intentional interference with business relationships. The trial court dismissed the tort claim against the City pursuant to the GTLA, and dismissal was affirmed on appeal. At issue here was Tenn. Code Ann. § Continue reading

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Doctor’s Alleged Misrepresentation of Credential’s Falls Outside of HCLA requirements.

Day on Torts

The Court of Appeals compared the instant case to one in which a patient was wrongly told that his treating urologist had approved a surgical procedure, wherein the claim was ultimately ruled to be one for medical battery. citing Holt v. Alexander, No. W2003-02541-COA-R3-CV, 2005 WL 94370 (Tenn. 13, 2005)).

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Leave to Issue and Serve Originating Process Outside Jurisdiction Versus Substituted Service: A Distinction with a Difference

Conflict of Laws

Historically, Nigerian courts have always exercised jurisdiction over a defined subject matter within a clearly specified territory as provided for under the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended) (the “Constitution”).

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Application of Singapore’s new rules on service out of jurisdiction: Three Arrows Capital and NW Corp

Conflict of Laws

One of them considers the ‘appropriate court’ ground for service out of jurisdiction provided in Order 8 rule 1(1) and touches on the location of cryptoassets; the other is on Order 8 rule 1(3). A parallel provision to Order 8 rule 1(3) can be found in the Singapore International Commercial Court Rules 2021 (‘SICC Rules’).

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Balenciaga’s Bondage Bears: Company Sues Over the Inclusion of Supreme Court Opinion in Ad Campaign

JonathanTurley

The filing is particularly interesting because it focuses not as much on the BDSM or bondage bears being marketed by Balenciaga, but the inclusion the image of a child pornography court ruling. However, the filing sounds like a negligence-based action. The campaign led to an immediate global backlash : Alison H.Centofante. .”

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