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A call for the wider study of Private International Law in Africa: A Review of Private International Law In Nigeria

Conflict of Laws

What I would consider as an ambitious aspect of the book, however, is the authors’ categorical position regarding the non-binding effect of the obiter dicta of some Supreme Court decisions. It is a long overdue contribution to the field of private international law in particular, and to legal scholarship in Nigeria as a whole.

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Supreme Court to decide if Oklahoma must execute Richard Glossip

SCOTUSBlog

In 2015, the Supreme Court put Glossip’s execution (as well as those of two other men) on hold while it considered their challenge to the state’s lethal injection protocol. The firm pointed to (among other things) prosecutors’ “deliberate” destruction of “key physical evidence” and the “deficient and curtailed police investigation.”

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