SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 24, 2025

When Suri responded no, she suggested that Congress could have simply drafted the law to refer to the applicant instead, and she noted that Congress had done exactly that for a different provision, involving judicial review for decisions requiring the withdrawal of tobacco products from the market.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 6, 2025

First Dismissal by the Supreme Administrative Court In February 2023, the Supreme Administrative Court of the Czech Republic overturned the Prague Municipal Courts decision and returned the case for further proceedings. Both parties appealed against this judgement. The main reason was the collective nature of the EU NDC.

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Law 360

MAY 22, 2023

Supreme Court's decision last week in Amgen v. Sanofi — the first to enforce the patent enablement requirement in a biotech setting — will be enormously impactful, affecting patent drafting, litigation and licensing, and investment in research and development for life-changing therapies, says Irena Royzman at Kramer Levin.

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Hoban Law Group

APRIL 13, 2021

Recent developments have made it even more attractive — for example, the basis for the argument of unconstitutionality of §280E has recently and ably been outlined by the judiciary in three dissenting opinions to a 2019 Tax Court decision (For a summary, see: [link] ). It is not a DIY.

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LawTechnologyToday

AUGUST 17, 2022

Lawyers are using data analytics and predictive coding to review documents, draft contracts and to determine the outcome of court decisions. This project evolved from a case study about the Theranos hoax that I drafted for my course the Fundamentals of Innovation. The second project is the ethics of innovation.

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Patently O

JANUARY 4, 2022

I have a new draft article on the Kessler Doctrine co-authored with my former student Homayoon Rafatijo and welcome comments and suggestions before it is formally published later this month. Kessler is a 1907 Supreme Court decision that we argue should be seen as simply implementing defensive issue preclusion.

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Broadcast Law Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2022

FCC , which rejected the requirement that broadcast licensees independently check two federal databases to verify whether an airtime lessee is a “foreign governmental entity” (see our Broadcast Law Blog article on the Court’s decision here ). The draft Order would extend the temporary freeze on applications in the 12.7

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At the Lectern

MAY 16, 2023

Topics included her service on the Supreme Court and her post-court decision to do some work for an alternative dispute resolution firm. Supreme Court ethics issues — the lavish gifts to Justice Clarence Thomas and the leak of a draft of the Dobbs opinion. She also talked about U.S.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MARCH 20, 2025

Supreme Court held that alleging commingling of funds alone cannot satisfy the commercial nexus requirement of the expropriation exception of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976 (FSIA). The Courts decision was unanimous. Supreme Courts Decision The Supreme Court disagreed.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JULY 24, 2023

Paralegals play an indispensable role in the legal process, handling things such as document review and analysis, legal research, drafting pleadings, and managing case files. Legal research skills Legal research skills are essential for finding and analyzing laws, regulations, and court decisions pertinent to the case you’re working on.

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Patently O

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Judge Markey also wrote a dissent that foreshadowed the eventual Supreme Court decision. After losing before the CCPA, the government then petitioned for Supreme Court review in the name of Marshall Dann, who was President Nixon’s Commissioner of Patents. Rather, the court found the claims obvious.

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Patently O

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

If you’d like to jump ahead to the draft paper itself, here’s a link: [link]. A Historically High Affirmance Rate Our examination of the Federal Circuit’s body of case law on § 101 revealed that from the Federal Circuit’s perspective, the district courts and the PTO are getting the right result nearly every time, boasting an overall 87.2%

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LawSites

APRIL 19, 2022

I built a document automation app online to help people fight their tickets for free using a recent court decision that had come down in Manhattan. There were two other court decisions from just outside of the city that were persuasive as well. It was document automation. Read it here.

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Broadcast Law Blog

APRIL 30, 2010

The draft legislation also proposes lower Lowest Unit Rates in political races where there are significant independent expenditures, more disclosure by broadcasters through an on-line political file , and even mandates for audits by the FCC of the rates charged by television stations to political candidates.

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FDA Law Blog

APRIL 19, 2021

FDA , the Court of Appeals ruled that FDA cannot regulate a medical product – in this case, the radiographic contrast agent barium sulfate – as a drug when the product meets the definition of a device. The decision has wide-ranging implications for FDA’s assertion of discretion in classifying and regulating medical products.

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Conflict of Laws

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

This article deals with a recent ruling by the Higher Regional Court of Cologne, which marks yet another missed opportunity to clarify whether the Erbschein qualifies as a court decision capable of recognition in foreign jurisdictions. grCCP was beyond the “mission statement” of the drafting Committee.1

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 26, 2023

These two provisions, already highly controversial in the drafting process, have been criticised as ill-suited to a voluntary process and likely to provoke ancillary dispute. What is largely missing from the scholarly contributions is that no one has worked out a principled solution to overcome this conundrum.

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 21, 2021

Following Professor Zhao’s presentation, Mr Alexander Blumrosen, Partner at Polaris Law (Paris), provided a historical account of the use of the Evidence Convention in the United States and the significance of the landmark Supreme Court decision Aérospatiale.

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MyCase

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Primary Sources: Primary legal sources are formal documents issued by a state or federal government that establish law such as: Court decisions Case law Statutes Regulations Constitutions Secondary Sources : Secondary sources provide summaries of legal matters and court decisions.

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 7, 2022

The HCCH scaled back the Judgments Project to focus work on the 2005 Convention on Choice of Court Agreements and the 2019 Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments. The aim of this article is to explore the issue of how the proposed convention shall address conflicts of jurisdiction in international litigation.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 23, 2023

The monograph predominantly examines 19 Indonesian court decisions on choice of law in international commercial contracts during the period, 2000-2020. It was especially fascinating to me to discover here that the Indonesian language is usually a legal requirement for drafting contracts involving Indonesians.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 6, 2024

We would also like to thank Professor Beligh Elbalti for his critical comments on the draft blogpost. This may have provoked policy reasons from the Court that would have been very useful in developing the law as it relates business and human rights issues, and protection of employees in cross-border matters.

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FDA Law Blog

APRIL 23, 2021

So, the obvious question to many readers is how does this Supreme Court decision implicate FDA? In other words, can FDA, through the Department of Justice (DOJ), request that a court impose monetary sanctions against a person who violates the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDC Act) in light of the AMG decision?

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 1, 2025

Marshall critically examined the UK Supreme Court decision in UniCredit Bank v RusChemAlliance, demonstrating how the choice of law matters affect the international jurisdiction of English courts.

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Conflict of Laws

JULY 26, 2023

However, a significant difference to the current situation will arise with regard to how strictly courts will continue to follow precedent on the interpretation of the “assimilated law”. Many thanks to Professor Andrew Dickinson for his comments on an earlier draft.

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Conflict of Laws

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

This article has been verbatim transplanted into the most recent draft of revised Arbitration Law which has been published for public consultation since late July 2021. With all that said, a few institutions have set up a special system called “pre-decision notification”?????? Comments.

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Above The Law

APRIL 10, 2025

(Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images) In early June 2022, in the wake of the unprecedented leak of a draft of the Supreme Courts Dobbs opinion, Nicholas Roske, a California man in his mid-20s, was arrested near Justice Brett Kavanaughs Maryland home. Roske, who was reportedly angry about the Courts decision to overturn Roe v.

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JURIST

JUNE 14, 2022

The Supreme Court Police Parity Act of 2022 passed in a 396-27 vote and will now go to President Joe Biden’s desk for final approval. The bill was introduced and passed with unanimous consent in the US Senate shortly after a draft of a Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade leaked.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The court concluded that the Freedom of Information Act’s deliberative process privilege shielded the redactions from disclosure. The court rejected DLNR’s argument that a 2017 Hawaii Supreme Court decision requiring environmental review for aquarium fishing only applied to fishing with fine-meshed nets.

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JURIST

MARCH 4, 2024

The draft law was registered in December 2023 and has been adopted by lawmakers with some amendments. The National Assembly, France’s first house of parliament, approved the draft law in January by a vote of 493-30. France’s parliament voted Monday to include the right to abortion in the Constitution of France.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 16, 2021

This tit-for-tat directive against Texas SB8 is the latest of the bold moves Newsom has taken and responds directly to the Supreme Court decision last week.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Before ATF enacted the rule, the challengers note, Congress had considered, but did not pass, several proposals to amend the 1968 law to cover partially completed frames and receivers and parts kits – indicating that in Congress’s view the law as currently drafted does not cover them.

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Conflict of Laws

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In two prior posts ( here and here ), I discussed a draft of the FSIL (English translation here ). In this post I analyze the final version of the law, noting some of its key provision and identifying changes from the draft, some of which address issues that I had identified. This provision also follows the U.N. but not to “rulings.”

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The Crime Report

JULY 13, 2022

Was the Supreme Court decision last month overruling Roe v. Wade one of the worst decisions in the 233-year history of the Court? public seems to feel the same way. The court determined a national consensus existed by the number of state legislatures that had outlawed juvenile executions. Mangino.

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At the Lectern

MAY 5, 2022

Supreme Court draft opinion in a pending, exceptionally high-profile case has me considering leaks from California’s high court. Neither involved the disclosure of a draft opinion’s full text, just the bottom line of an impending decision. The extraordinary publication of a U.S. I can think of two.

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JURIST

MAY 13, 2022

This rushed, desperate attempt came in the aftermath of a draft US Supreme Court decision leaked earlier this month that would overturn the seminal case of Roe v Wade (1973). The leak and the threat of a Roe reversal has prompted demonstrations both for and against the decision all over the world, including Canada.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 16, 2021

They further claim that subsequent statutes, federal agencies and appeals court decisions have all already recognized the corporations as entities eligible for federal contracting under the ISDA. Chehalis underscores one of the many ironies in the history of Indigenous peoples and federal Indian law.

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