Conflict of Laws

MARCH 10, 2021

In November 30 2020, the Nigerian Court of Appeal delivered a third decision where it declined to enforce a Commonwealth of Virginia (in USA) Choice of Court Agreement. [3] In the first two decisions delivered in the year 2020, the Nigerian Court of Appeal gave full contractual effect to the parties’ foreign choice of court agreement. [2]

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Court Contract Stare Decisis Entertainment 52

SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

In an unsigned opinion, the court ruled that Terence Andrus had demonstrated that his lawyer provided deficient performance at sentencing for failing to investigate or introduce mitigating evidence. Texas , a capital defendant’s claim of ineffective assistance of counsel under Strickland v. Washington. Animal Legal Defense Fund.

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Stare Decisis Court Court Rules Legal 94

SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 16, 2024

Justice John Paul Stevens set out a two-part test for courts to review an agency’s interpretation of a statute it administers. If it has not, the court must uphold the agency’s interpretation of the statute as long as it is reasonable. In the Supreme Court, the fisheries are represented by former U.S.

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Stare Decisis Court Statute Government 145

SCOTUSBlog

JULY 7, 2022

Would they strike down Roe and Casey , as lawyers for Mississippi urged them to do, or would they stop short of formally overruling those cases but still uphold the state’s ban? Instead, the court simply interpreted the two statutes at issue by looking primarily at the statutes’ text and structure. And in West Virginia v.

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Laws Stare Decisis Court Statute 99