SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 17, 2023

Yet, the Navajo Nation does not have water rights to the main stem of the river. The United States never brought the Navajo Nation’s claim to water from the main stem of the Colorado River. At the same time, the government also blocked the Nation’s efforts to intervene on its own behalf to make a claim to the main stem.

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Legal Writing Launch

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The ability to draft clear, concise, and well-structured memoranda ensures that your arguments are compelling and your research is utilized effectively. In practice, lawyers tend to use CRAC in drafting their legal memos because it is more definitive. Below is a step-by-step guide to help you draft an effective legal memo.

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Legal Writing Launch

OCTOBER 24, 2024

It demonstrates your ability to draft clear, concise, and effective legal documents, as well as your understanding of legal principles and arguments. Thorough Research Demonstrate your ability to conduct thorough legal research by incorporating relevant statutes, case law, and legal precedents. ” 9.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Josh Gerstein of Politico, with his colleague Alexander Ward, broke the story of the leaked draft opinion in Dobbs v. Amy Howe has the main account here of an at times lively, at other times dragging argument in a case that has been here before. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. That was normal.”.

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JURIST

MARCH 22, 2022

Her understanding of the text stems from the text at the time of its founding and what was meant by those who drafted it. However, her main argument was that the law was not in accordance with the times. Durbin also asked about court-packing, a concept which deals with changing the size and structure of the Supreme Court.

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Paralegal-Edu.Org

APRIL 26, 2024

Research and Investigation Among the main roles of a paralegal is to perform in-depth legal research and investigation. Starting from document drafting, such as pleadings, motions, and briefs, paralegals assume a major function in making sure that legal documents; together with their contents, are accurate, complete, and consistent.

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Conflict of Laws

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

The publication of this work, called Guide to Good Practice on the Use of Video-Link under the Evidence Convention , was drafted by the Permanent Bureau, with a Group of Experts contributing their insights and comments. The hearing is developed to “serve” more than one main process. Córdoba, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, 2020. [4]

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 29, 2023

Vanuatu published the first draft of the resolution in late 2022. The draft was then altered through a series of consultations with UN delegates in the following months. On March 1, 2023, Vanuatu announced overwhelming support for the draft resolution with 105 co-sponsor states. The initiative gained traction.

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 6, 2022

Statutes in China provide limited grounds for extension of arbitration agreement to a non-signatory. By this logic, the mere issuance of guarantee letter or signature of a standing-alone guarantee is not sufficient to prove parties’ consent to arbitration as expressed in the main contract. This short essay looks into this issue.

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Conflict of Laws

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Not surprisingly, due weight was given to Switzerland and Belgium, as the former is considered to have a model legislation on the discipline and the latter has the “youngest” statute of continental Europe. The opposite path has led to the drafting of the French project, which stems directly from an initiative of the Ministry of Justice.

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 31, 2020

This post briefly lists the main novelties. Transparency also underpins the amendment of Appendices I and II, which respectively gather the Statute and the Internal Rules of the Court. Multi-party disputes (and disputes arising out of multi-tier contracts) will profit from an improved joinder and consolidation regime.

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 1, 2025

Professor Martin Gebauer (University of Tbingen) explored three main themes: striking parallels in time and content, strong contrasts, and finally the tensions in characterisation. She exemplified her views by reference to statutes of limitation.

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InHouseBlog

JULY 29, 2023

Otherwise, the Buyer’s counsel will typically prepare the initial draft purchase agreement based on the deal terms in the offer letter/term sheet/LOI, which will then be commented upon by the Target’s counsel.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 17, 2022

Since 2014 the American Law Institute2 now seeks to draft a new “Restatement” – the Third – of the subject, with the aim to clarify and perhaps to bring more uniformity to the resolution of conflict-of-laws problems. Examples drawn from existing drafts of new provisions may serve to venture some evaluation of these proposed changes.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 9, 2023

The present post is not drafted with the ambition of comprehensively evaluating the request for a constitutional review brought before the Polish Constitutional Court. In particular, Article 87 of the Constitution indicates that the sources of law in Poland are the Constitution, statutes, ratified international agreements, and regulations.

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Legal Writing Launch

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Parentheses Legal Citation Brackets: Following Bluebook Rules Grasping how to use brackets effectively can elevate your legal writing style, from drafting motions to writing appellate briefs. Parentheses ( ): Often used to add supplementary information, comments, or minor digressions that are tangential to the main text.

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LawTechnologyToday

MARCH 3, 2023

It was also completely unable to answer any legal questions that related to a particular statute or citation and was generally unable to grasp the substance of the underlying issue. For general information I’ve found it very helpful to create a first draft that helps organize my thoughts. The site has been slammed.

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 25, 2025

She deemed this differentiation to be of great importance to assess the applicable law: for extrinsic tokens, the statute of the represented asset must be considered. Based on this comparison, they deduced that as long as AI is merely used for assistance with the awards drafting (even if its use was undisclosed), the award will likely stand.

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JURIST

MARCH 13, 2024

According to the bill, the continuation of open trials for war crimes and crimes against humanity, when such trials began before the entry into force of the Rome Statute (2002) and the Convention on the Imprescriptibility of Crimes of War and Crimes against Humanity (2003), is contrary to the principle of non-retroactivity in criminal law.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 8, 2023

23] The draft rule required them only if they are determined to be “material,” which has led to a considerable amount of confusion. [24] 51] That doctrine only applies to federal regulations, however, not to state statutes, so it does not pose a danger to the two California bills. 24] SB 253 does not require materiality.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 30, 2023

A Critical Overview of the Hague Preliminary Draft on Judgments”, Yearbook of Private International Law 17 (2015/2016), pp 1-31 Bonomi, Andrea; Mariottini, Cristina M. The Circulation of Judgments Under the Draft Hague Judgments Convention”, University of Pittsburgh School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series No. 8 (2021), pp.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 28, 2022

Applying that test, Dobbs holds: (a) From the 1200s to 1960, no statute, no English case, no state case, no federal case, no legal treatise, and no law-review article hinted at an abortion right. Yet while the draft changed not at all on these points, the dissent makes just one contrary claim, also raised by critics post-leak.

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Foley Hoag LLP

JUNE 23, 2021

The Act was drafted by the House Financial Services Committee. Additionally, the Act would allow the SEC to incorporate any internationally recognized, independent, multi-stakeholder ESG disclosure standards in defining ESG metrics and the disclosure process.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 7, 2022

Makin , the court struck down a Maine program that provided public funding for students to attend private schools, but prohibited the use of state money at schools that provide religious instruction. Instead, the court simply interpreted the two statutes at issue by looking primarily at the statutes’ text and structure.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

In addition, the First Circuit asked the Maine Law Court also to address whether the CCA impliedly preempted the local ordinance. The court said the petitioner’s comments on the draft and final EIRs concerning the analysis of greenhouse gas emissions were not sufficient to exhaust administrative remedies. Portland Pipe Line Corp.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JANUARY 13, 2021

Maine Federal Court Declined to Enjoin Work on Electric Transmission Project. The records included spreadsheets tracking and analyzing comments, draft ANPRM fact sheets, meeting agendas, and emails and meeting invitations regarding CEQ’s process for managing comments. 1442, or the civil-rights removal statute, 28 U.S.C.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Meanwhile, the Biden administration indicated that it would not reinstate the Clean Power Plan; instead, it is drafting its own rules on greenhouse-gas emissions from power plants. Beyond the question of whether the court has jurisdiction to resolve the dispute at all, the two sides in the case focus on three main questions.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 9, 2021

In Minnesota, the district court granted the State of Minnesota’s motion to remand its case, which asserts state law claims under common law and consumer protection statutes. s consumer protection statute. Federal Court Directed Department of Interior to Search for Drafts of Zinke Order Rescinding Moratorium on Coal Leasing Program.

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Above The Law

MAY 7, 2025

” it’s very clear that’s what he means: Drafting complaints with particular allegations against individual aliens, providing aliens with time to contact counsel and file a habeas petition, and preparing for a hearing before a federal judge takes time and manpower. .” It doesn’t work.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

But the order was poorly drafted, poorly executed and, ultimately, poorly defended. While the order was tweaked and changed, the main ban on Muslim countries remained and challengers took it to the Supreme Court in 2018. The problem is that her statement is untrue. She never declared the order unlawful.

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