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IEA v. Brazil: When a court accepts the legally disruptive nature of climate change

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Brazil: When a court accepts the legally disruptive nature of climate change. It can also help solve conflicts of jurisdictions (such as in the IEA case), even if that means recrafting legal doctrines. By Maria Antonia Tigre, Délton Winter de Carvalho and Joana Setzer. Background. Brazil and Federal Prosecutor Office v.

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Fashion Law in 2021: 12 of the Year’s Noteworthy Lawsuits

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Here is a look at a dozen of the many interesting and notable fashion lawsuits and legal developments that we saw in 2021 …. It follows from the similarly-noteworthy July 2021 securities class action lawsuit that an individual named Jeeun Friel filed against Dapper Labs Inc., Nike Sued MSCHF Over Modified “Satan Shoes”.

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Spooky Torts: The 2021 List of Litigation Horrors

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However, there are still some notable additions that raise more legal frights. McKamey insists that it is just a “crazy haunted house” and stops well short of the legal-definition of torture. 1500 Massachusetts Avenue. The retailer filed a motion for partial summary judgment as to plaintiffs’ cause of action for failure to warn.

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Spooky Torts: The 2022 List of Litigation Horrors

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She insists in the video that she knows all of the governing legal rules and shows the path in detail. McKamey insists that it is just a “crazy haunted house” and stops well short of the legal-definition of torture. 1500 Massachusetts Avenue. The Massachusetts case of Smith v. Tauton High School District.

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September 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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The court also denied Minnesota’s motion for attorney fees, concluding that “removal advanced critical legal questions that have not yet been resolved by the higher courts.” On the merits, the court found that the Section 401 certification was not affected by legal error and was supported by substantial evidence in the record.

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Spooky Torts: The 2023 List of Litigation Horrors

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” She even posted a walk-through video and insisted that she knows all of the governing legal rules. McKamey insists that it is just a “crazy haunted house” and stops well short of the legal-definition of torture. 1500 Massachusetts Avenue. She blamed the kid as “old enough to … follow the rules.”

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November 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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The Ninth Circuit was not persuaded by the plaintiff states’ argument that “precedent requires a broad, fact-intensive inquiry into whether altering an injunction is equitable, even if the legal duty underlying the injunction has disappeared.” The plaintiffs plan to appeal.