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13 Ways Overturning Roe v. Wade Affects You (even if you think it doesn’t)

LLRX

Kathy Biehl is a lawyer licensed in two states, as well as a prolific multidisciplinary author and writer. Wade has been settled law during her entire career. In this article Biehl succinctly and expertly identifies how the upcoming Supreme Court decision in Dobbs V.

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Territorial Jurisdiction for Breach of Contract in Nigeria or whatever

Conflict of Laws

9] This approach is that a Nigerian court cannot assume jurisdiction where the cause of action arose in one State, or another foreign country. This approach is that more than one court can have jurisdiction in matters of conflict of laws where the cause of action is connected to such States.

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SCOTUS Narrows Reach of Identity Fraud Statute

Constitutional Law Reporter

In further support of its decision, the Court noted that it has “traditionally exercised restraint in assessing the reach of a federal criminal statute,” and “prudently avoided reading incongruous breadth into opaque language in criminal statutes.” The Court today rightly rejects that unserious position.”

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The art of justice: Re-examining landmark Supreme Court cases through expressionist paintings

SCOTUSBlog

The perfect antidote is Painting Constitutional Law: Xavier Cortada’s Images of Constitutional Rights , edited by Professors M.C. The book combines art and academic analysis into a refreshing and creative take on major Supreme Court cases — with an added dash of “Florida weirdness” to keep things interesting.

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Foreign Child Marriages and Constitutional Law – German Constitutional Court Holds Parts of the German Act to Combat Child Marriages Unconstitutional

Conflict of Laws

The wife in the case had been fourteen when the case started in the first instance courts; she is now 22, and her marriage certainly no longer a child marriage. And as a matter of fact, the Constitutional Court decision itself is already almost two months old; it was rendered on February 1.

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Greater than Holmes? The life and legacy of John Marshall Harlan

SCOTUSBlog

The nation’s African American leaders, from Frederick Douglass on down, were intensely focused on Harlan’s arguments, and he helped to inspire future generations of African American lawyers. Having lived through Dred Scott , he was deeply conscious of how mistakes by the court could lead to terrible outcomes. Crossen Co.

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SCOTUS Issues Term’s First Decision – Finds ADA Case Moot

Constitutional Law Reporter

The Supreme Court granted review to address the split. However, after a lower court sanctioned her lawyer, Laufer voluntarily dismissed her pending suits, including her case against Acheson Hotels, and filed a suggestion of mootness in this Court. The justices deferred a decision on mootness until after oral argument.

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