SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 24, 2025

In 2009, Congress passed the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, which gives the FDA the power to regulate tobacco products and requires manufacturers to obtain the FDAs permission before putting a new tobacco product on the market. In 2016, the FDA issued a rule indicating that the law applies to e-cigarettes and e-liquids.

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Conflict of Laws

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Background China’s Civil Procedure Law was enacted in April 1991 by the Fourth Session of the Seventh National People’s Congress. The latest amendments to the Civil Procedure Law in 2023, referred to as the new CPL, involve 26 amendments, including 14 modified articles and 15 new additions.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 20, 2024

It mandates that companies, along with their associated partners in the supply chain, manufacturing, and distribution, must take steps to avoid, halt, or reduce any negative effects they may have on human rights and the environment. This disclosure must adhere to national procedural laws.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 17, 2022

American private international law (Conflict of Laws, “Conflicts Law”) addresses procedure (jurisdiction of courts, recognition of judgments) as well as the choice of the applicable law. The following comments first recall the role of restatements in American law.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The mere admissibility of the lawsuit is a victory in itself, given that German environmental law – at least in its express wording – does not give environmental associations the right to sue for the implementation of immediate action programs under the CCA. That incentive function would then be gone.

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