Conflict of Laws

MARCH 10, 2021

In November 30 2020, the Nigerian Court of Appeal delivered a third decision where it declined to enforce a Commonwealth of Virginia (in USA) Choice of Court Agreement. [3] In the first two decisions delivered in the year 2020, the Nigerian Court of Appeal gave full contractual effect to the parties’ foreign choice of court agreement. [2]

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SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 6, 2021

Virginia concerns the power of a state attorney general to bring lawsuits on behalf of private parties who would otherwise be subject to an arbitration agreement. The case involves a lender, NCFS, who between 2012 and 2018 provided loans to over 47,000 people in Virginia with interest rates that ranged from 34% to 155%.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MARCH 14, 2011

The FCC today released a Public Notice announcing new provisions in its license renewal Form 303S - the form that radio and television stations will be using to file license renewal applications, starting with license renewals for radio stations in DC, Virginia and West Virginia in June.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 2, 2021

She also found that between 1718 to 1775, over 52,000 convicts were transported to the American colonies to labor on farms in Maryland and Virginia — beginning a cycle of intertwining punishment and physical labor in America’s roots. Penal servitude in America quickly escalated.

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LawTechnologyToday

JUNE 17, 2021

Virginia is the latest state to make traction on signing comprehensive data privacy legislation into law, following close on the heels of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the California Privacy Right Act (CPRA). In March, Virginia approved the Consumer Data Protection Act (CDPA), which will take effect starting in January 2023.

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Law 360

APRIL 8, 2024

West Virginia's state treasurer announced Monday that Citigroup Inc., are ineligible for state banking contracts, finding they boycott fossil fuel companies under a Mountain State law, while two other banks escaped such a designation. HSBC Holdings PLC, TD Bank NA and The Northern Trust Co.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 5, 2024

That prompted the challengers – Ohio, Indiana, and West Virginia, along with trade associations and companies affected by the plan – to come to the Supreme Court last fall, asking the justices to intervene. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit declined to put the rule on hold while a challenge to the plan continued in the lower courts.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 19, 2022

You pay attention to lines of precedent, the evolution of IP law, trends in attorney-client relations, and the precision of your contract language. You will find, as did Virginia Wolf’s memorable character Lily, from “To the Lighthouse,” that: Certainly she was losing consciousness of outer things. But just try it.

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Law 360

MARCH 14, 2024

A Virginia federal judge has declined to toss a proposed class action against Apple Federal Credit Union that challenges the bank's alleged policy of assessing additional overdraft fees on already-authorized transactions, saying the credit union has violated its own contract terms and did not properly disclose the fees to customers.

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Mondaq

AUGUST 15, 2022

It is the job of the Virginia legislature to make and change the laws of our Commonwealth. Sometimes, these new or changed laws are plastered all over the news.

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JURIST

JUNE 15, 2024

A US federal judge ordered a retrial on Friday in a case involving allegations that Virginia-based military contractor CACI Premier Technology, Inc. The contractor claimed it should not be held liable for conduct performed in Iraq under US contract, even if that conduct was found to be unlawful.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 21, 2022

It's unclear whether a Virginia taxpayer primarily performed contracting work or also conducted separately licensable business activities, the state tax commissioner said in a ruling released Friday, remanding the case to a local town to reexamine the taxpayer's contracts.

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Mondaq

JULY 7, 2022

West Virginia joins Texas and several other states that have adopted laws targeted at restricting state bodies from contracting with companies that are perceived to boycott fossil fuel.

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Law 360

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

A Virginia federal judge on Wednesday dismissed General Electric Co.'s s trade secrets dispute with Siemens Energy over highly sought-after gas turbine contracts, after the companies said they have reached an undisclosed settlement.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

Given that routine processing of a license renewal will take an absolute minimum of 90 days, and the processing can take much longer if there is a protest or other problem, closing of a contract for the sale of a broadcast station which is signed too close to the license renewal filing may be significantly delayed by the license renewal process.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MARCH 31, 2011

We wrote about the recent reminders about the advertising nondiscrimination clauses that broadcasters must include in their advertising contracts.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Virginia Hospital Association (1990), and hold that spending clause enactments are not enforceable through Section 1983. HHC urges the court to overrule precedent, including Wright v. Roanoke Redevelopment and Housing Authority (1987) and Wilder v. Separation of powers and federalism principles strengthen that conclusion.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Reyets’ CEO Wa’il Ashshowwaf received the Key to Arlington, Virginia , reflecting the organization’s leadership in innovation and social justice. The initiative is supported by funding from Camelback Ventures , Dream.org , and Village Capital and was spotlighted in Ernst and Young’s Better Heroes podcast.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 5, 2011

In less than a month, a four year cycle of radio and television license renewal applications begins with the filing, on or before June 1, of license renewals by radio stations in Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia. FCC Sources of information for the renewal filing are also available.

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Synopsis: An attorney may withdraw from representation, with the permission of the Immigration Court, based on fear of contracting COVID-19 as a result of in-person appearances in the proceeding, where such fear renders it difficult for the attorney to carry out the representation effectively. McCauley, Ethics Counsel, Virginia State Bar.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Although the pernicious racial quotas in Hartford are no longer in effect, high schools such as Stuyvesant, Bronx Science, and Brooklyn Tech in New York City and Thomas Jefferson High School in Virginia reduced admissions standards designed to ensure that enrollees will succeed in the famously competitive environment at those schools.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 26, 2022

In West Virginia, a magistrate candidate must be at least 21, with a high school education or equivalent, and must not be an immediate family member of another magistrate in the county. In the state of Delaware, someone would only have to be 25 years old and a Delaware resident to be a magistrate judge. Kristen Renberg is a J.D.

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Broadcast Law Blog

AUGUST 24, 2010

The cycle begins with radio stations in Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia, who are due to file their license renewal applications on June 1, 2011. Nevertheless, a whole new cycle of Form 303 license renewal applications will soon be upon us - beginning in less than a year.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MARCH 5, 2024

Ohio, Indiana, and West Virginia filed suit, arguing that EPA’s rulemaking process circumvented the Clean Air Act’s cooperative-federalism mandate by forcing its own top-down control over state-level air-pollution reduction, and moved to stay the federal plan pending judicial review. LePage Bakeries Park St.,

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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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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The FAA exempts “contracts of employment of seamen, railroad employees, or any other class of workers engaged in foreign or interstate commerce.” Saxon , 21-309 , presents the justices with yet another case involving the scope of the Federal Arbitration Act , this time in the context of a suit under the Fair Labor Standards Act.

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LettersBlogatory

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

I’ve previously written about efforts by the lawyers for Virginia Giuffre to take evidence from the Duke of York. Update: Please consult my next post , which includes information about other methods of service the plaintiff attempted that were not addressed in the affidavit discussed in this post. I did poke some fun at Ms.

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

23] Such laws are already on the books in Arkansas, Maine, Nebraska, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wisconsin, some of which limit the amount and type of funding entirely. [24] 604C (2021); Nonrecourse Civil Litigation Advance Contracts, Ohio Rev. Virginia , 448 U.S. 555 (1980). 438, 440 (K.

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 28, 2023

The Case Robert Mallory worked for Norfolk Southern for nearly twenty years in Ohio and Virginia. Although he currently lives in Virginia, he sued Norfolk Southern (a company then incorporated and based in Virginia) in state court in Pennsylvania, asserting claims under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act (FELA).

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Conflict of Laws

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Derecho Internacional Privado de la unión Europea y ‘Smart Contracts’ (contratos Inteligentes): Problemas de Competencia Judicial Internacional y de Determinación de la Ley Aplicable”. . María Virginia Aguilar. Alfonso Ortega Giménez. Preguntas y Respuestas. (20 14:00 – 16:00 hrs. . 16:00 – 17:00 HRS. . “La

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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.

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ALPS

DECEMBER 30, 2020

We started in Virginia. I contract with the bar for about 10 hours of my time a week to focus on wellbeing efforts and to take the recommendations of the task force and now the committee and move them forward. CHRIS: Yeah. My role with the Utah State Bar looks a little different I think than my counterparts. MARTHA: Right.

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JURIST

MAY 28, 2021

Virginia Giuffre’s claim that Epstein trafficked her to Dershowitz to perform nonconsensual sexual favors has led to a series of lawsuits between Giuffre and Dershowitz. The lawsuit also alleges breach of contract, promissory estoppel, and fraudulent inducement.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 6, 2017

Fourth Circuit Said West Virginia District Court Lacked Jurisdiction to Consider Coal Companies’ Clean Air Act Jobs Study Lawsuit. The Second Circuit said the Connecticut statutes authorizing the solicitations did not compel utilities to enter into contracts with specific bidders. DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Prisoners are more than five times more likely to contract the virus and three times more likely to die from it than people outside, some of whom are subject to vaccine mandates, but only corrections officers are required to be vaccinated as a condition of their jobs, writes Chandra Bozelko in a column for BizNews Post.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Concepcion , the Supreme Court held that the Federal Arbitration Act requires courts to “place arbitration agreements on an equal footing with other contracts.” In Concepcion , the claim was that California state law treated arbitration contracts less favorably than other contracts. ” (relisted after the Nov.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 5, 2022

When the Sheriff’s Deputy walked into the Nicholas County Community Corrections Day Report center in the mountains of West Virginia on March 16, Bob Henry Baber freaked. A Model West Virginia Program. Penny Loeb is a freelance writer based in northern Virginia. The problem of misleading test results is not confined to New York.

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