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Over 50 Bar Organizations Stand Up For The Rule Of Law

Above The Law

government can punish lawyers and law firms who represent certain clients or punish judges who rule certain ways. We cannot accept government actions that seek to twist the scales of justice in this manner. We reject the notion that the U.S. We reject efforts to undermine the courts and the profession. Words and actions matter.

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“Does the Gentlelady Have a Problem?” : Yes, Delegate Plaskett Most Certainly Has a Problem

JonathanTurley

Despite being a lawyer, Plaskett has insisted in Congress that hate speech is not constitutionally protected , a demonstrably false assertion. There is no question that the Virgin Island has a high percentage of veterans for its population (which stands at only 104,000). ” The Virgin Islands is not a “colony.”

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British Virgin Islands: The Recoverability Of Foreign Lawyers' Fees - Forbes Hare

Mondaq

When the Legal Practitioners Act, 2015 (the "LPA") came into force in the British Virgin Islands (the "BVI"), it rewrote the rules governing the legal costs that parties to BVI court proceedings can recover.

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

Conflict of Laws

LT is a company incorporated in the Virgin Islands and registered in Australia as a foreign company. Governing Law. The court rejected this argument because no evidence suggested that representatives of the plaintiffs had to be present in Macau for lawyers retained by them to commence proceedings.

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A European Perspective on the Federalization of Shareholders’ Rights

Fordham Law News

4] Moreover, Delaware law promotes shareholder value maximization through the allocation of duties of loyalty and care on directors; this entails heavy reliance on court-litigation, not incidentally consistent with a substantial turnover for local lawyers, [5] rather than on direct shareholders’ engagement.

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Climate Litigation Chart Updates – November 2016

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

In a separate but similar Ninth Circuit appeal, the federal government filed a brief on October 18 urging the court to overturn a district court decision vacating the listing of a ringed seal subspecies as threatened based on climate change threats through the end of the century. United States Virgin Islands Office of the Attorney General v.

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Post-Decency Politics: House Democrats Use Hearing to Attack Both Free Speech and a Free Press

JonathanTurley

Below is my column in The Hill on continued scorched earth tactics of Democrats in attacking any witnesses raising free speech concerns over government censorship. Those words were first asked by lawyer Joseph Welch in his confrontation with Sen. Here is the column: “At long last, have you left no sense of decency?”