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Supreme Court to consider multi-pronged constitutional attack on SEC

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The government’s view in this case is that the Constitution affords Congress a broad authority to create new obligations by statute, and that because those statutory obligations were unknown to the common law, they are public rights that Congress can assign to an administrative tribunal without a jury.

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Territorial Jurisdiction for Breach of Contract in Nigeria or whatever

Conflict of Laws

However, the defendant/appellant challenged the jurisdiction of the Kastina State High Court to hear the case on the basis that the contract in issue was concluded in Yobe State, where it claimed the cause of action arose, which it argued was outside the jurisdiction of Kastina State.

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Jack Daniels wins big in challenge to spoofing “Bad Spaniels” dog toy

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Second, the central purpose of the cause of action for trademark infringement in the federal Lanham Act is confusion, specifically, confusion “about the source of a product or service.” That statute has an exception that protects competing uses if their use of the mark is “noncommercial.”

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Mareva injunctions, submission and forum non conveniens

Conflict of Laws

Subsequently, the buyers instituted proceedings in Singapore against Pelletier in Singapore based on two causes of action – s 107(1) of the Cayman Bankruptcy Law (the “Cayman law claim”), and s 73B of Singapore’s Conveyancing and Law of Property Act (the “CLPA claim”) – and applied for a Mareva injunction to freeze his Singapore assets.

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The New Zealand Court of Appeal on the cross-border application of New Zealand consumer and fair trading legislation

Conflict of Laws

Panels of this kind were the main reason why the fire at Grenfell Tower in London had spread so rapidly. The more difficult question would be whether a statute should be given a wider scope of application than it would receive under bilateral choice of law. They alleged negligence, breach of s 6 of the CGA and breaches of the FTA.

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Report of the Oxford Conference on “Characterisation in the Conflict of Laws”

Conflict of Laws

The conferences topic, characterisation, is the process for identifying the nature or category of a particular cause of action (for instance contractual, tortious, proprietary, corporate, matrimonial), so that the correct connecting factor can be employed which then points to the applicable law or to the competent court.

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Has the Battle Just Begun for Collective Action against Big Tech Companies?

Conflict of Laws

Given the power of Big Tech Companies, their enormous financial resources, cross-jurisdictional reach and their global impact on users’ privacy, there are two main litigation challenges for successfully bringing a privacy claim against Big Tech. 3] Secondly, the challenge is how to finance mass claims, involving millions of affected users.

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