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Word of the Month for August 2019: Stare Decisis

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Thing is, these days law and the decisions courts hand down are very much like that. The kicker is that unlike parents (who, hopefully, are on the same page and the kid realizes that it's unlikely dad will overrule mom), it is critical that courts make the same rulings over and over so that people know how law will be applied.

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Conflict of Laws and Diversity of Opinions—A View of The Nigerian Jurisdiction

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Cosmas Emeziem, JSD Cornell University, Drinan Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Boston College Law School, Newton, MA. The complexity is also illustrated by the embeddedness of Sharia law, and customary law, in private law in different parts of the country. ©Author 2024.

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Back to the Bullpen: Minor League Teams Settle with MLB Over Latest Challenge to Baseball’s Historic Antitrust Exemption

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When it comes to antitrust laws and their impact on American sports leagues, baseball is in a verifiable league of its own. 10] One of the oldest and most periodically contested exemptions to the antitrust laws is one that is solely held by the sport of baseball. 11] Despite the subsequent expansion of the Commerce Clause in Wickard v.

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Animal rights and the First Amendment, due process and a confession of error

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The court ruled that the Supreme Court had not formally overruled earlier case law supporting the theory that registration supports general jurisdiction. Although the railroad’s principal place of business is Virginia, it is registered to do business in Pennsylvania as a foreign corporation, and Mallory sued there. Next up is Kelly v.

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Private rights of action, overtime pay, and the constitutionality of a billboard tax

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Evidently, the petitioner in Mallory (a railroad worker who wants to sue his employer in Pennsylvania) was successful in arguing that his case is a better vehicle for addressing the issue than Cooper Tire & Rubber Company v. McCall , the other case raising the issue, which the court will now hold pending the outcome of Mallory.

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Supreme indifference: What the Texas case signals about the court’s treatment of abortion

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Share Mary Ziegler is a law professor at Florida State University and the author of Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Since the decision of Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. 8 , the Texas law, added a new wrinkle to the so-called heartbeat laws that have become standard fare in conservative states.

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We read all the amicus briefs in Dobbs so you don’t have to

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Jackson Women’s Health Organization , the potentially momentous abortion case concerning a Mississippi law banning abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Against stare decisis. Many amici focus on the principle of stare decisis – and urge the court not to follow it in this case. 1 in support of that law.