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A bungled house sale, a bankrupt couple, and a statutory puzzle involving debts incurred through fraud

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The bankruptcy court thought Kate’s situation should be different, because she lacked any “actual knowledge” of the deficiencies in the disclosure statement. Because Buckley’s claim did not involve money obtained by her fraud, the bankruptcy court ruled that Kate could discharge that claim.

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Argument analysis: Justices divided in procedural battle between Baltimore, oil companies in climate fight

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In a speech at Harvard Law School in 2015, Justice Elena Kagan told the audience that “we’re all textualists now” – that is, that any effort to interpret a statute begins (and often ends) with the language of the statute. Kannon Shanmugam argues for BP and other fossil fuel companies (Art Lien).

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Gun Violence: When ‘Self-Defense’ Becomes Murder

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jurisprudence, according to a forthcoming Legal Studies Research Paper published under the auspices of George Washington University Law School. Howrey Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School, state statutes vary widely on defining what constitutes aggression.

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Reflections from Columbia’s Forum on Climate-Related Fiduciary Duty

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The New Climate Fiduciaries Colloquium The New Climate Fiduciaries Colloquium, held at Columbia Law School, brought together approximately three hundred participants who explored whether, and how, corporate directors and officers are obligated to respond to climate change. American Airlines , that American Airlines, Inc.

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‘Invisibility’ of Prosecutor Misconduct Erodes Trust: PA Report

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“American citizens lack the ability to make even the most cursory inquiry into whether their prosecutors operate within the rules,” the report asserted. million judicial opinions published between 2000 and 2016 by federal and state courts in Pennsylvania. Adopt American Bar Association Rules for Defining Prosecutorial Misconduct.

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Novartis En Banc and Amicus Support

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The patentee in the case argues that inherency is too strict a standard and that it goes beyond what is required by the statute and prior precedent. I label the substantive amicus as the “GMU brief” because all-but-one signing professor have ongoing ties to George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School.

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Insights and Future Directions of PIL Based on the 2024 Online Summer Courses at The Hague Academy of International Law

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Supreme Court ruled that comity requires an assessment of the interests of the foreign nation involved and the requesting nation. [3] and English courts do not give effect to foreign blocking statutes, like the French Blocking Statute, but have ruled in favor of disclosure of documents and information.

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