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US Supreme Court announces January oral argument schedule, will hear issues of privilege, preemption and administrative procedure

JURIST

Specifically, the court will determine whether attorney-client privilege covers communications involving both legal and non-legal advice when the communication was created for the purpose of obtaining legal advice. If so, the tort claim must be litigated before the National Labor Relations Board, not a state court.

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Houston Man Arrested As Police Continue Search For Missing Tiger

JonathanTurley

A story in Houston has everything you would want in a legal controversy: a murder, a mysterious figure known only as “D”, a missing Bengal tiger named India and even Carole Baskin of Tiger King fame. He is facing both criminal and potential tort liability for the tiger incident. Cuevas’ bond now is revoked.

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More on the Validity of the PDVSA 2020 Bonds

Conflict of Laws

Arguably, the debt contravenes domestic law, although the government may obtain legal opinions affirming its validity. We have seen this pattern in Venezuela, Mozambique, Ukraine, Zambia, Liberia, Puerto Rico, and in other sovereign and sub-sovereign borrowers. This post is cross-posted at Transnational Litigation Blog.].