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“Justice Amy Coney Barrett Issues Her First Majority Opinion; The 7-to-2 ruling rejected an environmental group’s Freedom of Information Act request”

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“Justice Amy Coney Barrett Issues Her First Majority Opinion; The 7-to-2 ruling rejected an environmental group’s Freedom of Information Act request”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report. Supreme Court in United States Fish and Wildlife Serv. Sierra Club, Inc. ,

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Brazil’s New Law on Forum Selection Clauses: Throwing the Baby out with the Bathwater?

Conflict of Laws

Until very recently, Brazilian courts would not enforce a clause that selected a foreign forum, arguing that parties could not, by agreement, oust the jurisdiction of Brazilian courts established by law — an approach quite similar to that adopted by U.S. courts prior to the landmark U.S. The process was indeed fast-paced.

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Win More Clients by Using Document Automation Differently

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This is the story of how I accidentally came to dominate the search results for an incredibly competitive legal keyword in New York City, of all places. 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. Schools were silent.

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Appeal on Merits in Commercial Arbitration?–An Overview

Conflict of Laws

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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December 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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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. New York v.

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The High Court’s ‘Self-Inflicted Wounds’: A Backward Look

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Was the Supreme Court decision last month overruling Roe v. Wade one of the worst decisions in the 233-year history of the Court? Forty-two years later, in another embarrassing moment for the High Court, a seven-justice majority ruled, in Plessy v. A CNN poll conducted in May immediately after the leaked Roe v.

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Leaks at the California Supreme Court

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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. Related: Adam Liptak in the New York Times , “A [U.S.]

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