At the Lectern

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Solicitor General has criticized a divided California Supreme Court decision that interpreted federal law so as to increase the amount of a rental subsidy for certain families. The Supreme Court’s August 2020 decision in Reilly v. Marin Housing Authority (2020) 10 Cal.5th

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

One of the main goals of the incoming Netanyahu government is major judicial reform. The plan would replace the current Judicial Selection Committee, under which elected officials, senior judicial figures, and legal professionals share responsibility for appointing the 15 Supreme Court justices.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 22, 2022

Here’s the Wednesday morning read: Supreme Court’s ruling against Maine could reshape religion’s role in public life (Caitlin Andrews, Bangor Daily News). Religion, Schools and the Supreme Court (Editorial, The Wall Street Journal). John Roberts played the long game on state funding of religious schools (Joan Biskupic, CNN).

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

But the court explained that it was “not convinced, however, that Laufer abandoned her case in an effort to evade our review,” and it added that it might “exercise our discretion differently in a future case.” This article was originally published at Howe on the Court.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 6, 2025

The plaintiffs, partially successful in the first instance court (see here ), have already filed a constitutional complaint with the Czech Constitutional Court. Meanwhile, the process of updating the Czech Climate Protection Policy, the main national document regarding climate protection, was halted due to this years elections.

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LawSites

MARCH 18, 2024

We’d all been working for over a year on a contract that would make it possible, someday in the future, for everyone to have free and open access to all the official court decisions ever published in the United States. state and federal court decisions representing the bulk of our nation’s common law. This was not easy.

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 4, 2024

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.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 20, 2023

The main difference is that instead of describing “Old No. Jack Daniel’s relies in particular on a Supreme Court decision that allowed the United States Olympic Committee to enjoin the “Gay Olympics” even without proof of confusion. 2 on your Tennessee carpet.”

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 23, 2023

Kavanaugh reasoned that when “the question on appeal is whether the case belongs in arbitration or instead in the district court, the entire case is essentially ‘involved in the appeal.’” Kavanaugh buttressed the majority’s conclusion with quotes from lower-court decisions and the leading treatises on federal procedure.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 31, 2021

7] Choice of venue rules are used to determine which judicial division within a State (in the case of the State High Court) or judicial division within the Nigerian Federation (in the case of the Federal High Court) has jurisdiction. Choice of venue rules are mainly utilised for geographical and administrative convenience.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MAY 14, 2024

As Chief Justice explained: The application of such a test, however, would often turn on arcane riddles about the nature of a company’s services. Does a pizza delivery company derive its revenue mainly from pizza or delivery?

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

. —————————————— The 2019 Hague Convention on the Recognition of Foreign Judgments will make it possible for foreign, non-EU, decisions to be recognized under common terms in EU jurisdictions, and vice versa. PA, with a case comment by Judge Ms.

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 25, 2023

This aspect of the ruling holds particular significance as lower courts have not always consistently demonstrated sufficient awareness of Morocco’s obligations under the1996 HCCH Conventions. Meknes Court of Appeal, Ruling No. 87 of 14 January 2013 ( ibid ); idem , Ruling No.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The Execution Court granted the petition and ordered the enforcement of the English judgment. The decision was confirmed on appeal. It is likely, however, that the courts relied on the MOJ letter to reach this conclusion. Y appealed to the DSC. 3) The parties have not (yet) been divorced under Pakistani law or Islamic Sharia.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 6, 2024

In the remainder of this post, I discuss the process that led the tribunal to base the opinion on the various scientific reports consulted and argue that the use and interpretation of scientific research can facilitate and improve court decisions.

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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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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Finally, it should be indicated that the position of the Bahraini courts on this issue is broadly similar to that of other countries in the region, as noted in the Introduction. For example, in the aforementioned Supreme Court decision in the Appeal No. 2, 2019, pp.

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 2, 2022

Lagoudi; Court of First Instance Korinthos No 1/2022, on the topic of parental care and maintenance of an out-of-marriage minor by parents of foreign citizenship, with commentary by Dr. G.-A. The ‘Praefatio’ of this Lex&Forum issue has the great honor of hosting the valuable thoughts of the former President of the CJEU (2003-2015), Prof.

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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 decision has since been followed by many Indonesian judges. A robust and clearly expressed methodology of doctrinal and empirical research is applied.

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

But the main takeaway from this FIE expiration determination is that it’s only interchangeable approval and litigation that count towards the FIE expiration calculations. But because the statute sets FIE expiration at the earlier of the relevant conditions, the April 15, 2023 and September 28, 2023 dates were the FIE expiration dates.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 30, 2024

Its main objective is to promote the study of private international law and encourage cooperation with similar academic institutions abroad, as well as coordination among private international law scholars. It suggests that Japan might consider recognizing parentage through foreign decisions. Gakkai ) (hereinafter “PILAJ”).

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Patently O

JANUARY 31, 2023

Overall, however, there was a substantial drop in the number of merits decisions: 532 in 2022, as compared with 643 in 2021. Decisions from all origins actually dropped slightly, but the biggest drop was in the number of decisions arising from the PTO was the main reason: 147 in 2022 as compared with 216 in 2021.

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LettersBlogatory

JANUARY 28, 2022

It seems to me that another hurdle is the worry that the United States might be obligated to enforce “bad” judgments issued by dodgy courts.

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Conflict of Laws

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Building on the comments, the present article authored by the members of the Marburg Group focuses on the main points of critique and considers the present state of discussion on the proposed Regulation.

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Conflict of Laws

JULY 5, 2021

Supreme Court decision in March 2021 in Ford vs. Montana now permits the exercise of specific jurisdiction when the claim arises out of or is (sufficiently) “related” to the defendant’s in-state contacts and activities. The decision also deals with questions of German procedural law. The long-awaited U.S.

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LettersBlogatory

OCTOBER 27, 2021

An international arbitral tribunal, which was aware of the lie, nevertheless credited the main parts of Guerra’s testimony. In later proceedings, Judge Guerra admitted that he had lied to Chevron about the amount of the bribe he had been offered. And Donziger never appealed from the US judge’s findings of fact.

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Broadcast Law Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

The main studio rules themselves are viewed by some as being an anachronism by many broadcasters. Over the years, the FCC has eliminated rules that require specific amounts of programming originated from main studios.

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The IP Law Blog

JULY 6, 2023

The Supreme Court decision in Andy Warhol Foundation v. The Supreme Court in Campbell v. Goldsmith changed the way fair use is analyzed. In determining fair use, four factors are examined. The first fair use factor examines the purpose and character of the use. Some guidance may be found in Sofa Entertainment.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 12, 2022

The main complaint then is that, by not being able to guarantee that CO 2 emissions for a flight can be meaningfully offset, the airline wrongly creates the impression that flying “responsibly” is possible. The new “greenwashing advertisement” court case FossielVrij NL v. At the same time, FossielVrij NL v.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 17, 2023

This means that the federal courts are free to adopt their own view of whether a clause is unreasonable or contrary to public policy without considering prior state court decisions. In theory, the fact that the federal courts apply federal common law to this question should produce uniform results across the nation.

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 1, 2025

Professor Martin Gebauer (University of Tbingen) explored three main themes: striking parallels in time and content, strong contrasts, and finally the tensions in characterisation. Three main examples were given: first, Pertegs Sender explained that drafters increasingly employ provisions that regulate the scope of a Convention.

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 3, 2021

The present case has already yielded an important Supreme Court decision rendered on 18 January 2019 (decision available here ). The main issue that was addressed therein concerned the compatibility of the foreign judgment with the procedural public policy of Japan.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 26, 2025

Justice Clarence Thomas dissented from the courts decision, complaining that it had agreed to rewrite statutory text. Justice Samuel Alito wrote his own dissent in which he contended that his colleagues had resolved the dispute based on an issue that the lower court had not reached and the parties had not really addressed.

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Conflict of Laws

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

In its decision of 11 March 2021, the Cologne Higher Regional Court denied the international jurisdiction of the Cologne courts for permission proceedings under the German Telemedia Act (TMG) in cases of suspected abusive customer complaints in online marketplaces. The starting point is the fraudulent car purchase.

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 26, 2024

Introduction In a previous post , I reported and commented on a decision rendered by the Abu Dhabi Supreme Court (hereinafter “ADSC”) in which the Court addressed the issue of the applicability of the Abu Dhabi Civil Marriage Law (Law No. Comments Two main issues deserve to be particularly highlighted here.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The decision also vacated an injunction from the Northern District of New York and a prior Second Circuit ruling on an Eastern District of New York case. While the two lower court decisions originate from different jurisdictions, both pertain to healthcare workers’ concerns over the COVID-19 vaccine.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Instead, he argued, state courts can only enforce procedural limits on the legislature’s authority. Members of the court saw two main problems with Thompson’s argument. The first was the Supreme Court’s own precedent. David Thompson argues for North Carolina Republican legislators. William Hennessy).

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