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

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LT is a company incorporated in the Virgin Islands and registered in Australia as a foreign company. Governing Law. The contract was signed in Australia. Its Clause 10 provides. “ 1] In exercising its discretion, the court should take into account all the circumstances of the particular case.

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International tech litigation reaches the next level: collective actions against TikTok and Google

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Just last December, Google reached a settlement in a multidistrict litigation involving all 50 states of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. The settlement addressed issues very similar to those raised in this case, as explicitly outlined in the agreement.

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Climate Litigation Chart Updates – November 2016

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Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE. United States Virgin Islands Office of the Attorney General v.

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Recent U.S. Developments Concerning the Hague Judgments Convention and COCA

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Virgin Islands. Because the enforcement of foreign money judgments has been governed by state law in the United States since 1938, and because the ULC has promulgated widely adopted uniform state legislation on this topic, the ULC argued that COCA should be implemented—at least in part—through state law.

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A European Perspective on the Federalization of Shareholders’ Rights

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[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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Choice of Law in the American Courts in 2023

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Meanwhile the Fifth Circuit enforced a forum selection clause in an insurance contract choosing British Virgin Island courts despite evidence that the claims stood little chance in those courts. Extraterritoriality The Supreme Court decided two important extraterritoriality cases. In Yegiazaryan v. In Bartlett v.

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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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4] As Three Arrows illustrates though, old habits die hard and the limits of the ‘non-exhaustive’ nature of the jurisdictional gateways remains to be tested by litigants. 2] For step (a), the previous Order 11 gateways have been transcribed as a non-exhaustive list of factors. [3]