LawSites

MARCH 18, 2024

Harvard professor Jonathan Zittrain and l were sitting down with Daniel Lewis and Nik Reed , the founders of a legal research startup named Ravel Law, along with lawyers from Harvard’s Office of General Counsel, Debevoise & Plimpton and Gundersen Dettmer. About the Author Adam Ziegler is a lawyer and software builder.

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Court-MartialTrialPractice

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

In this earlier blo g, I commented on the pending litigation over unanimous verdicts at courts-martial. As military defense lawyers we continue to support the advice given that the issue should be raised in all courts going forward. The update is that the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces has decided United States v.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 19, 2022

Arizona is one of the most significant Supreme Court decisions in American criminal procedure. Generally, if the police obtain a suspect’s statement in violation of Miranda , the government cannot use that statement against the defendant in court. Share Miranda v. 5) What about the costs?

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE. and non-U.S. Here are the additions to the U.S. Pritzker , Nos.

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The Fashion Law

OCTOBER 11, 2021

According to the court, its use of a two-stripe design infringed on adidas’s three-stripe mark, which it stated is a well-known trademark among a significant portion of the consuming public. The Dutch Supreme Court decision brings the case to an end.

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 27, 2025

Written by Fikri Soral, Independant Lawyer, Turkey; and LL.M. 2] The Maltese court found that the Florida default judgmentsubmitted as a redacted, one-page certificationcould not be meaningfully reviewed, as the complete, reasoned version was essential to assess whether any part of the judgment violated Maltese ordre public. [3]

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 9, 2024

In a previous ruling, the court of appeals had concluded that the 30-day statutory deadline is mandatory, with no room for flexibility. Based on that ruling, and looking to Supreme Court decisions rigidly construing similar statutory deadlines, the 11th Circuit held that Sanchez and Palacios were out of luck.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Arguing for the college, lawyer Richard Morris told the justices that the First Amendment’s free speech clause “unquestionably protects a member’s right to criticize the body on which they sit, but it does not insulate the member from the elected body’s speech in response.”

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Conflict of Laws

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

As always, we endeavor to collect all Chinese court decisions involving the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments (“REFJ”), and foreign counterparts concerning the recognition and enforcement of Chinese judgments. The Case List is made available for our readers to build reasonable expectations on REFJ in China.

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The first question — if the patentee is involved in concurrent district court infringement litigation, at what step is the patent no longer enforceable? The affirmed PTAB decision found the claim invalid with a preponderance of the evidence. See, for instance, Moffitt v. Garr , 66 U.S. 273, 283 (1861) and Meyer v.

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FDA Law Blog

AUGUST 29, 2021

The second, and arguably more significant, policy prohibited its lawyers from civilly prosecuting companies for violating “requirements” set forth in agency guidance documents. The memorandum cites the 2019 Supreme Court decision, Kisor v. Wilkie , 139 S.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 31, 2021

9] This approach is that a Nigerian court cannot assume jurisdiction where the cause of action arose in one State, or another foreign country. There is no provision of the Nigerian constitution that states that a court’s jurisdiction is limited to matters that occur within its territory.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 22, 2023

As always, we endeavor to collect all Chinese court decisions involving the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments (“REFJ”), and foreign counterparts concerning the recognition and enforcement of Chinese judgments. The Case List is made available for our readers to build reasonable expectations on REFJ in China.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 24, 2022

As always, we endeavor to collect all Chinese court decisions involving the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments (“REFJ”), and foreign counterparts concerning the recognition and enforcement of Chinese judgments. The Case List is made available for our readers to build reasonable expectations on REFJ in China.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 17, 2023

There are state courts and federal courts, state statutes and federal statutes, state common law and federal common law. When I imagine a foreign lawyer trying to explain this system to a foreign client, my heart fills with pity. Do state courts enforce these clauses at the same rate as federal courts?

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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. This fourth chapter summarises and analyses 19 Indonesian decisions from 2000 to 2020. This decision has since been followed by many Indonesian judges. .’

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 10, 2021

Fourth, looking at the bigger picture, I generally acknowledge that the principle of pacta sunt servanda in enforcing choice of court agreements are aimed at enhancing the efficacy of business transactions and, legal certainty and predictability in international commercial litigation. The recent Court of Appeal’s decision in A.B.U.

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Broadcast Law Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2014

While the Court acknowledged that the question of whether pre-1972 sound recordings were entitled to any public performance royalty under state law was one that was being litigated in a number of states (see our articles here and here ), the Court upheld the deduction from the SoundExchange royalty.

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The concepts addressed are Characterisation; Substance and Procedure; and of course, Renvoi which the authors wittingly recall has been described in the past as a subject loved by academics, hated by students and ignored by lawyers and judges. Nigerian lawyers with cross border practices will find these two chapters particularly helpful.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Representing the Republican legislators, lawyer David Thompson maintained that the elections clause vests a state’s legislature with the power to make rules for federal elections. State courts cannot, he stressed, restrict a legislature’s substantive discretion to do so. That test, Thompson said, would create “far more litigation.”.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Share On Wednesday, the court heard oral argument in Shinn v. Ramirez and Jones , two death penalty cases that will determine whether prisoners may develop new evidence to support claims that their lawyers were constitutionally ineffective at trial. But a 2012 Supreme Court decision, Martinez v.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

After a few slow weeks on the relist front, the Supreme Court came roaring back this week with four newly relisted petitions that, if granted, will likely be added to the March 2023 argument calendar. Two years ago, in United States v. Coinbase, Inc. Bielski , 22-105. relisted after the Dec. 2 conference). United States v. Hansen , 22-179.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 2, 2025

Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit agreed with Planned Parenthood and Edwards that the Medicaid Act creates individual rights that can be enforced under federal civil rights laws, and it barred the state from excluding Planned Parenthood from its Medicaid program.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2024

Glossip asked an Oklahoma court to set aside his conviction and sentence last year. In January 2023, he said, he had received for the first time files from the state indicating that prosecutors knew, but had not disclosed to Glossip or his lawyers, that Sneed had been prescribed lithium for bipolar disorder after his arrest.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

After a group of federal judges had recommended that an attorney who had represented her in other ADA cases be suspended from practicing law in Maryland because of repeated ethics violations, she explained, she had voluntarily dismissed her case in the district court and cannot refile it. He argued that she does not.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The Furman litigation was the culmination of a campaign conducted by a group of lawyers under the auspices of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. They hoped the Supreme Court would strike down the death penalty because of its demonstrated racial discrimination and other inequities. The Furman Framework. Austin Sarat.

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 20, 2022

Appraisal of the Success of the Instruments of International Commercial Arbitration vs. Litigation and Mediation in the Harmonization of the Rules of Transnational Commercial Dispute Settlement”, preprint (DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-953987/v1 Breaking) News From The Hague: A Game Changer in International Litigation? Biresaw, Samuel Maigreg.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Appraisal of the Success of the Instruments of International Commercial Arbitration vs. Litigation and Mediation in the Harmonization of the Rules of Transnational Commercial Dispute Settlement”, preprint (DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-953987/v1 Breaking) News From The Hague: A Game Changer in International Litigation? Biresaw, Samuel Maigreg.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 11, 2022

Appraisal of the Success of the Instruments of International Commercial Arbitration vs. Litigation and Mediation in the Harmonization of the Rules of Transnational Commercial Dispute Settlement”, preprint (DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-953987/v1 Breaking) News From The Hague: A Game Changer in International Litigation? Biresaw, Samuel Maigreg.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Breaking) News From The Hague: A Game Changer in International Litigation? The 2005 Hague Choice of Court and the 2019 Hague Judgments Conventions versus the New York Convention – Rivals, Alternatives or Something Else?”, Litigants”, New York University Law Review 94 (2019), pp 1210-1243. Bonomi, Andrea; Mariottini, Cristina M.

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Appraisal of the Success of the Instruments of International Commercial Arbitration vs. Litigation and Mediation in the Harmonization of the Rules of Transnational Commercial Dispute Settlement”, preprint (DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-953987/v1 Breaking) News From The Hague: A Game Changer in International Litigation? Biresaw, Samuel Maigreg.

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Conflict of Laws

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Appraisal of the Success of the Instruments of International Commercial Arbitration vs. Litigation and Mediation in the Harmonization of the Rules of Transnational Commercial Dispute Settlement”, preprint (DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-953987/v1 Breaking) News From The Hague: A Game Changer in International Litigation? Biresaw, Samuel Maigreg.

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 21, 2022

Appraisal of the Success of the Instruments of International Commercial Arbitration vs. Litigation and Mediation in the Harmonization of the Rules of Transnational Commercial Dispute Settlement”, preprint (DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-953987/v1 Breaking) News From The Hague: A Game Changer in International Litigation? Biresaw, Samuel Maigreg.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 31, 2022

Appraisal of the Success of the Instruments of International Commercial Arbitration vs. Litigation and Mediation in the Harmonization of the Rules of Transnational Commercial Dispute Settlement”, preprint (DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-953987/v1 Breaking) News From The Hague: A Game Changer in International Litigation? Biresaw, Samuel Maigreg.

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Conflict of Laws

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Appraisal of the Success of the Instruments of International Commercial Arbitration vis-a-vis International Commercial Litigation and Mediation in the Harmonization of the Rules of Transnational Commercial Dispute Resolution”, Journal of Dispute Resolution 2022-02, pp. Breaking) News From The Hague: A Game Changer in International Litigation?

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

Lawyers objected but the judge let the testimony in. The system is at its most opaque when prosecutors know evidence is unfit for court but choose to game the rules, hoping judges and juries will believe it and vote to convict. People like Faria, defense lawyers and sometimes even the judges are blindsided. “I

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2022

With the District Court of Delaware’s January 4 decision in a similar case (brought by GSK’s lawyers), Amarin v. Relying heavily on the Federal Circuit’s contention that the decision in GSK v. The Federal Circuit twice reversed the District Court decision at issue in GSK v. Teva , but Amarin v.

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