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Three American Samoans, in ask for birthright citizenship, answer Gorsuch’s call for a chance to overturn Insular Cases

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Share This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, whether people born in United States territories are entitled to birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment. They deserve no place in our law.”. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit panel found that “unincorporated” U.S.

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More Information on the ‘Quiet’ Launch of a New Legal Research Service by LexisNexis Parent RELX

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Recently, I reported here on the “quiet” launch of a new legal research service, Decisis , targeting bar associations and 1-2 lawyer law firms. Pfeifer and I met for the interview at the annual meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries in Denver. Pfeifer , who is chief product officer for LexisNexis in Canada, the U.K.

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RCD Holdings Ltd v LT Game International (Australia) Ltd: Foreign jurisdiction clauses and COVID-19

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By Jie (Jeanne) Huang, Associate Professor, University of Sydney Law School Australia. LT is a company incorporated in the Virgin Islands and registered in Australia as a foreign company. Governing Law. The parties did not dispute that Clause 10 was an exclusive jurisdiction clause choosing courts in Macau China.

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Application of Singapore’s new rules on service out of jurisdiction: Three Arrows Capital and NW Corp

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Application of Singapore’s new rules on service out of jurisdiction: Three Arrows Capital and NW Corp The Rules of Court 2021 (‘ROC 2021’) entered into force on 1 April 2022. Among other things, ROC 2021 reformed the rules on service out of jurisdiction (previously discussed here ).

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Reschedule Watch: Birthright citizenship and torts to members of the armed forces

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Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. This week’s update on the cases that the Supreme Court has newly relisted will be short: There aren’t any new relists. Virgin Islands — do have birthright citizenship by act of Congress.)

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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. The next steps in the TikTok collective action The collective action against TikTok that was brought before the Amsterdam District Court under the Dutch WAMCA in 2021.