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Trying To Find Love In Between IP And Torts? This T14 Law School Has You Covered

Above The Law

We all know Ohio is for lovers, but Massachusetts wants in on the action. The post Trying To Find Love In Between IP And Torts? This T14 Law School Has You Covered appeared first on Above the Law.

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Federal jurisdiction and the constitutionality of eviction moratoriums

SCOTUSBlog

Konan to determine whether the Federal Tort Claims Act provision exempting claims arising from the loss or miscarriage of letters or postal matter extends to claims that the Post Office deliberately refused to deliver mail to an address. The Supreme Court made short work of two of last weeks first-time relists. But on appeal, the U.S.

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Applying Mexican Law in U.S. Courts? Mexico v Smith & Wesson

Conflict of Laws

León Castellanos-Jankiewicz Researcher, International Law T.M.C. Asser Institute for International & European Law, The Hague Mexico’s ongoing transnational litigation against the firearms industry in U.S. legislation—not Mexican laws. and in respect to U.S.

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Transparency, resentencing and preemption questions

SCOTUSBlog

Arguing that “transparency of the judicial process is central to the rule of law,” the ACLU asks the justices for review. United States , a case of statutory interpretation over the 2018 First Step Act, which Congress passed in part to make retroactive a 2010 law that reduced the sentencing disparity between crack cocaine and power cocaine.

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In a first for climate nuisance claims, a Hawai‘i State Court allowed Honolulu to proceed with its case against fossil fuel companies

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

Many of these cases asserted nuisance and other tort law claims. More recently, states and municipalities have asserted claims under consumer protection laws.). which affirmed the dismissal of state-law public nuisance, private nuisance, and trespass claims. Chevron Corp. Chevron Corp.

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Harvard Professor Sued for Allegedly Inseminating Woman With His Own Sperm

JonathanTurley

The complaint below alleged three counts (Intentional misrepresentation – fraud; Fraudulent Concealment; Violation of Massachusetts Consumer Protection Law). The interesting omission is battery in light of the lack of consent for using his own sperm as well as other possible tort claims.

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State “Climate Superfund” Bills: What You Need to Know

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

In the first months of 2024, legislators in four states— Maryland , Massachusetts , New York , and Vermont —have pushed for legislation that would collectively require large fossil fuel producers and refiners to pay for hundreds of billions of dollars of state-level climate adaptation infrastructure.

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