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New York sues New Jersey over compact governing Port of New York and New Jersey

SCOTUSBlog

Share This week we highlight cert petitions (and one original action ) that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, whether New Jersey can withdraw from its Waterfront Commission Compact with New York concerning governance and law enforcement over the Port of New York and New Jersey. Texas Entertainment Association, Inc.

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Cross-Border Litigation and Comity of Courts: A Landmark Judgment from the Delhi High Court

Conflict of Laws

Tower Vision Limited , [1] the Delhi High Court (“HC”) held that an appeal before an Indian civil court was infructuous due to a consent order passed by the Tel Aviv District Court in a matter arising out of the same cause of action. The Indian Supreme Court in Modi Entertainment v. Owners and Parties, Vessels MV Fortune Ltd. [3]

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A Critique On The Territorial Jurisdiction Of Courts In India

LexForti

One of the most vital concerns that a legal practitioner is essentially seen to deal with, that is with respect to any particular dispute or one that has arisen out of a legal relationship between the respective parties subsequently brings into consideration the forum which has/will/have the territorial jurisdiction to entertain such a dispute.

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SCOTUS Poised to Decide Fate of Chevron Doctrine

Constitutional Law Reporter

Texas : The Fifth Amendment government taking case involves when property owners can sue for compensation. ” Following the decision, several appellate state courts have held that the self-executing nature of the Takings Clause requires them to entertain claims directly under the Clause without the need for statutory authorization.

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Australia High Court Delivers Major Blow to Free Speech In Defamation Ruling

JonathanTurley

Dirty World Entertainment. 1997) where Chief Judge Wilkinson wrote for the Fourth Circuit: By its plain language, § 230 creates a federal immunity to any cause of action that would make service providers liable for information originating with a third-party user of the service. America Online, Inc., 3d 327, 330-31 (4th Cir.

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A Californian Judgment fails the Provisional Sentence test in South African Courts

Conflict of Laws

Most crucially, the court stated that because the cause of action set out in the summons was based on a foreign judgment that is not a money judgment, the provisional sentence cannot be granted (para 35). Also, the California courts did not constitute a liquid document for a fixed sum of money.

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Personal jurisdiction, habeas, and a possible replacement case

SCOTUSBlog

Last month it granted the petitions filed by the federal government and by a group of schools and libraries seeking to challenge the decision of the U.S. The question at the center of these two cases is whether the same is true when Congress creates a cause of action against foreign nationals and entities. nationals.

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