SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 23, 2021
An inventor files a patent application on an invention and assigns the patent rights to an assignee — perhaps in exchange for money from the assignee, or perhaps as part of a contract with the inventor’s employer. Wolf principally argued that stare decisis justifies maintaining the doctrine. Matthew Wolf argued for Hologic.
SCOTUSBlog
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
These statutes operate as contracts between the United States and those receiving funds—the United States offers money in exchange for recipients providing services to private individuals, who function as third-party beneficiaries of that contract. Separation of powers and federalism principles strengthen that conclusion.
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SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 18, 2022
The relevant statute , regulating disability benefits, provides that “the United States will pay [compensation] to any veteran” who is “disabled” as a result of (1) “personal injury suffered or disease contracted in line of duty,” or (2) “aggravation of a preexisting injury suffered or disease contracted in line of duty.”
Conflict of Laws
JUNE 13, 2024
This has immense significance regarding the security of contracts, enforcement of obligations, and overall predictability of solutions on these issues. For example, a court may be called upon to interpret contracts and commercial transactions on religious and customary interests. 11] In Great Lakes Insurance SE v.
Patently O
JULY 14, 2024
The Supreme Court directly revisited the rule in Kimble, but ultimately chose to uphold the rule based on stare decisis. 29 (1987), the court noted that it could not reconsider the merits of an award even if the arbitrators made factual or legal errors in interpreting a contract. Citing precedents like United Paperworkers v.
Conflict of Laws
MARCH 10, 2021
When it is said that parties make their own contracts and that the courts will only give effect to their intention as expressed in and by the contract, that should generally be understood to mean and imply a contract which does not rob the Court of its jurisdiction in favour of another foreign forum.” [4].
Conflict of Laws
DECEMBER 17, 2020
Writing on the importance of a private international law system that responds to the interests of Africa, Dr Okoli observed that with growing international trade with Africa comes an inevitable rise in disputes among contracting parties conducting trade on the continent. [4]
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