JURIST

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Armenia officially became the 124th State Party to the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday after Ambassador Mher Margaryan deposited Armenia’s accession documents in a ceremony held at the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs, where Margaryan presented the instrument of ratification to the Director of the Treaty Section.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 25, 2022

Share Federal courts employ the All Writs Act to serve countless ends, from assisting FBI investigations to prohibiting vexatious litigation to requiring Apple to access data. This statute, which was originally part of the Judiciary Act of 1789, empowers federal courts to “issue all writs” (i.e., Twyford disagrees.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, Netherlands on Tuesday ruled in favor of Somalia in the dispute between Somalia and Kenya concerning the maritime border of the Indian Ocean. The top court ruled unanimously that there was no agreed maritime boundary between Somalia and Kenya.

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Depositions Statute Court Rules Legal 104

Day on Torts

AUGUST 9, 2021

Defendant signed both his own name and plaintiff’s name on the check, then deposited the proceeds into a joint account he shared with his then wife. The trial court found plaintiff’s testimony that she was not involved in setting up the annuity and had no knowledge of it to be credible, and it ruled that defendant was liable for conversion.

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Day on Torts

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Where an HCLA plaintiff’s expert testified at his deposition that he was not very familiar with Kingsport and that he had only reviewed information about Kingsport the night before the deposition, rather than before forming his medical opinions, the trial court did not err by excluding the expert based on the locality rule.

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Day on Torts

APRIL 1, 2022

In support of this motion, defendant filed the deposition of the NP, wherein she stated that she had reviewed decedent’s medical records “for the sole purpose of assessing whether there were any deviations from the nursing standard of care,” but not from the perspective of “whether those deviations caused Decedent’s death.” Code Ann. §

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Day on Torts

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Defendant filed a petition for dismissal pursuant to the TPPA, and after finding that the TPPA applied, that plaintiff was a limited-purpose public figure in the context of this action, and that plaintiff “had not established a prima facie case for actual malice,” the trial court dismissed the case. The TPPA, Tenn. Code Ann. §

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