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International tech litigation reaches the next level: collective actions against TikTok and Google

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It also poses very interesting questions of private international law, as in particular the collective actions for damages against tech giants are usually international cases. In an earlier blogpost we reported that the Amsterdam District Court ruled that it had international jurisdiction under the Brussels I-bis Regulation and the GDPR.

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Excluding Puerto Rico from safety-net benefits doesn’t violate Constitution, court says

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Share Residents of Puerto Rico and other U.S. territories do not have a constitutional right to receive certain federal benefits that the government provides to people who live in the 50 states, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday in an 8-1 decision. The case, United States v. Jose Luis Vaello-Madero, a U.S.

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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2021

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Share The first Black woman to clerk on the Supreme Court. Two trailblazing civil-rights litigators. Wade just a few years out of law school. As we did last year , SCOTUSblog looks back and remembers some of the people who died this year and whose lives and work brought them to the highest court in the nation.

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Retail Woes: A Running List of Fashion & Retail Bankruptcies

The Fashion Law

and Puerto Rico. Chairman and CEO Glenn Rupp insisted that the Converse brand and its sales were strong, but the company was simply too overwhelmed by debt dating back to its 1995 acquisition of ApexOne and subsequent litigation. Payless filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in St. Paul Jones said in a statement.

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