Court Court Decisions New York Statute 
SCOTUSBlog
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
The argument revealed a bench deeply skeptical of the uncertainty maritime insurance contracts would face under a lower-court decision limiting the enforcement of choice-of-law clauses in those contracts. The contract, like most American marine insurance contracts, called for the application of New York law.
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. This feeling of pity is compounded when I imagine this same lawyer trying to advise her client as to whether a choice-of-court clause will be enforced by a court in the United States.
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At the Lectern
MAY 5, 2022
Supreme Court draft opinion in a pending, exceptionally high-profile case has me considering leaks from California’s high court. Neither involved the disclosure of a draft opinion’s full text, just the bottom line of an impending decision. As it turned out, the decision did not come as a surprise.
SCOTUSBlog
JUNE 29, 2022
Share This article is part of a symposium on the court’s decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Until Bruen , this judicial interest-balancing test — the “two-part test” — was the prevailing test throughout the lower courts. Joseph Greenlee is the director of constitutional studies at FPC Law.
Constitutional Law Reporter
AUGUST 13, 2024
Supreme Court upheld a federal law that prohibits individuals subject to a domestic violence restraining order from possessing a gun. 922(g)(8) , a federal statute that prohibits individuals subject to a domestic violence restraining order from possessing a firearm. In light of Bruen , the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed.
Broadcast Law Blog
NOVEMBER 17, 2014
On Friday, the US District Court in the Southern District of NY found that there is a public performance right in pre-1972 sound recordings in that state, following two decisions from California finding a similar right under California law (though on different grounds).
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
APRIL 18, 2023
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit handed down a decision in California Restaurant Association v. The court overturned a District Court ruling to invalidate a Berkeley, California, prohibition on natural gas infrastructure in newly-constructed buildings. O n Monday, April 17, 2023, the U.S. City of Berkeley.
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