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Conflict of Laws
APRIL 27, 2025
student, Galatasaray University, Turkey A Maltese court has refused to enforce a $740 million default judgment issued by the 15th Judicial Circuit Court of Florida (Palm Beach County) in a defamation suit brought by Applicant Mehmet Tatlici against his half-brother, Defendant Ugur Tatlici. [1]
Broadcast Law Blog
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
For years, they have sued both broadcasters and digital media companies trying to exploit an ambiguity in copyright law over the status of pre-1972 sound recordings – songs as recorded by a particular band or artist before February 1972 when sound recordings first became subject to federal copyright law.
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SCOTUSBlog
AUGUST 1, 2023
The judge-made doctrine of qualified immunity generally shields government officials from liability unless they violate “clearly established” law. In 2018, then 67-year-old Lynn Hamlet was incarcerated in the Martin Correctional Institution, a state prison in southern Florida. A federal district court in Florida ruled for Hoxie.
Law 360
AUGUST 13, 2021
Supreme Court's decision in Facebook v. Duguid closes one door to potential Telephone Consumer Protection Act lawsuits, Florida's newly amended state law — featuring a broader autodialer definition — has opened another, say attorneys at Buchanan Ingersoll. Although the U.S.
Broadcast Law Blog
OCTOBER 27, 2017
In a decision this week, the Florida Supreme Court rejected claims by Flo & Eddie (of the 1960s band the Turtles) that there was a common law public performance right in pre-1972 sound recordings in the state of Florida (the opinion is available here ). Could California decide differently?
Constitutional Law Reporter
OCTOBER 18, 2023
The justices recently granted certiorari in two cases challenging state laws that restrict social media companies’ ability to moderate content on their platforms. The key issue before the Court is whether the Texas and Florida laws violate the First Amendment. Facts of the Cases The two cases before the Court, Moody v.
SCOTUSBlog
FEBRUARY 21, 2022
Gambling on tribal lands first came to prominence with a Seminole casino in Florida in the late 1970s. The Supreme Court first addressed the problem squarely in its 1987 decision in California v. Some background about the general compromise that governs that problem sets the stage for this dispute.
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