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Climate Litigation Chart Updates – November 2016

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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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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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