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Court endorses private Section 1983 enforcement of spending clause enactments

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Congress attached no modifiers to “and laws,” erasing any doubt that any federal law can secure a right for Section 1983 purposes. Jackson explained that two well-established principles prompted the court to reject HHC’s invitation to reimagine the statute and precedent. HHC argued that spending clause enactments are unique.

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The Critical Role of Lawyers and Bar Associations in Achieving Net Zero

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And that has implications for tort law, contract law, and property law, because it is less clear in many ways how basic legal principles such as negligence, foreseeability, force majeure, and reasonableness will apply to particular problems. John Kerry, then U.S.

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Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts (IPRax) 1/2022: Abstracts

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The regulative advantages of party autonomy, i.e. efficiency, legal certainty and conflict of laws justice, can be productive in choice of law contracts involving artificial intelligence. This problem can be solved in different ways by the substantive law. This essay aims to advance the debate about these challenges.

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