Constitutional Law Reporter

APRIL 4, 2022

The issues before the Court included challenges to North Carolina’s voter ID law, the waiver of arbitration agreements, and international child custody disputes. 333, 339 (2011) that lower courts must “place arbitration agreements on an equal footing with other contracts?” Sundance, Inc.: Concepcion , 563 U.S.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The question presented was whether, under federal admiralty law, a choice-of-law clause in a maritime contract can be rendered unenforceable if enforcement is contrary to the “strong public policy” of the U.S. It held that choice-of-law provisions in maritime contracts are presumptively enforceable as a matter of federal maritime law.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Trustee program and six judicial districts in North Carolina and Alabama under the Bankruptcy Administrator program. The Constitution’s bankruptcy clause gives Congress the power to “establish … uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States.” However, two distinct programs govern U.S. Washington.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The doctrine at the center of the case is known as the voluntary cessation doctrine – the principle that plaintiffs can continue to litigate their case unless the defendant shows that it cannot simply resume the conduct that prompted the lawsuit after the case is dismissed. The plaintiff in the case, Yonas Fikre, is a U.S. Bissonnette v.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 19, 2022

Most professors are not protected by tenure, and universities can cite other reasons for not renewing their contracts. The percentage of tenured professors has been declining for half a century. The investigations and attacks never stopped. Indeed, they resumed with new fervor after he condemned Gov.

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Ivey II Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina School of Law. To date, scholars have written extensively about the enforceability of “ outbound ” forum selection clauses that redirect litigation from one court to another. Guest Post by John Coyle, the Reef C.

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Conflict of Laws

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina School of Law, and Mitu Gulati, the Perre Bowen Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. The Venezuelan Constitution requires legislative approval for contracts in the national public interest. Written by Mark Weidemaier, the Ralph M. Stockton, Jr.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 10, 2023

University of North Carolina. The federal and state governments have long used “set asides” or minority preferences in contracting or benefits. One challenge in litigation could be based on standing. President & Fellows of Harvard College and Students for Fair Admissions v. Bakke (1978).

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

For example, as of August 2016, North Carolina had 1,173 MW of installed solar photovoltaic (“PV”) capacity as a direct result of PURPA. Third, the orders set term length requirements for PURPA contracts with utilities for facilities with a design capacity of two megawatts or less. 20 Year PURPA Contract Term Length.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

And it is true that other states continue to look at various reform measures along these same lines, including Colorado, North Carolina and Illinois. The Autonomy acquisition turned into a fiasco for HP due to alleged accounting improprieties by Autonomy, resulting in both litigation and a write-down of nearly $8.8

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

And it is true that other states continue to look at various reform measures along these same lines, including Colorado, North Carolina and Illinois. The Autonomy acquisition turned into a fiasco for HP due to alleged accounting improprieties by Autonomy, resulting in both litigation and a write-down of nearly $8.8

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Attorney at Work

JULY 21, 2022

Much of Sedaris’s humor is ostensibly autobiographical and self-deprecating and often concerns his family life, his middle-class upbringing in the suburbs of Raleigh, North Carolina, his Greek heritage, homosexuality, jobs, education, drug use, and obsessive behaviors as well as his life in France, London, and the South Downs in England. .

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Meanwhile the Fifth Circuit enforced a forum selection clause in an insurance contract choosing British Virgin Island courts despite evidence that the claims stood little chance in those courts. Extraterritoriality The Supreme Court decided two important extraterritoriality cases.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 8, 2022

Most professors are not protected by tenure, and universities can cite other reasons for not renewing their contracts. Roughly three of four faculty today are what are called “contingent faculty,” or faculty who work contract to contract. After he was cleared, however, the university refused to renew his contract.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit has improperly applied a higher standard for proving a defendant has waived arbitration than it applies to other contract clauses. North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP , 21-248. North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP , 21-248. Sundance, Inc. , Stay safe !

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 11, 2023

For insured claims, the insurer would have to seek the same information in litigation on a case-by-case basis. The solicitor general notes other instances where Munsingwear vacatur was permitted after the executive ceased certain contested policies for reasons “ undertaken in good faith and for reasons unrelated to litigation.”

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. Tennessee Federal Court Allowed Conservation Groups to Proceed with Challenge to TVA Long-Term Contracts. and non-U.S.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 23, 2022

This litigation began in early June 2019 when Vox Media’s writers staged a walkout to call for a collective bargaining contract. He was identified by Reuters as a securities litigator and partner with Block & Leviton in Boston. He then tweeted a condemnation of North Carolina Gov.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 24, 2021

Such complaints can be the precursor for litigation and there is every indication that Ravicher is intent on a showdown with Miami Law School. In his EEOC complaint, he alleges a breach of contract, defamation and discrimination against him based on race and gender. Like all their other dirty tricks, it won’t work.”

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

” However, one item was particularly notable: $160 million to a Canadian electric bus manufacturer which later announced bankruptcy without fulfilling the contract. Cities like Asheville, North Carolina, spent millions to buy more expensive electric buses only to find that they hadto be recharged every 70 miles.

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