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Maine attorney general sues big oil companies over climate change

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Maine’s attorney general filed a lawsuit Tuesday against multiple large oil companies alleging negligence, nuisance, unfair trade practices, failure to warn and trespass as parens patriae. The complaint maintains that the defendant companies breached their duty of care to Maine’s citizens.

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Overview of the 2023 Amendments to Chinese Civil Procedure Law

Conflict of Laws

Background China’s Civil Procedure Law was enacted in April 1991 by the Fourth Session of the Seventh National People’s Congress. The latest amendments to the Civil Procedure Law in 2023, referred to as the new CPL, involve 26 amendments, including 14 modified articles and 15 new additions.

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Peru dispatch: corruption allegations made by arrested ex-advisor to dismissed Prosecutor throw new light on an old issue

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Jaime Villanueva was the main advisor to the suspended Prosecutor of the Nation (Patricia Benavides). As preventive rules we find: Law No. Pablo Sanchez is the supreme prosecutor investigating Patricia’s sister, and Patricia Benavides’ sister is a superior judge (Emma Benavides).

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“Other Appropriate Connections”: China’s Newly Adopted Jurisdiction Ground

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Written by Jidong Lin, Wuhan University Institute of International Law Background China’s newly amended Civil Procedure Law (“CPL 2024”), which came into effect on 1 January 2024, introduces several distinct and innovative changes. npc/c2/c30834/202112/t20211227_315637.html> html> accessed 13 October 2024. [2]

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EPO and EAPO Regulations: A new reform of the Luxembourgish Code of Civil Procedure

Conflict of Laws

Carlos Santaló Goris , Researcher at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Luxembourg, offers a summary and a compelling analysis of the Luxemburgish domestic legislation regarding the EPO and EAPO Regulations.

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CJEU fitting an order issued in a Member State on the basis of a third State judgment within the Brussels I bis Regime, case H Limited, C-568/20

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Unsurprisingly, as some national procedural laws provide for a possibility to ‘introduce’ a third State judgment within their system through a simplified and/or summary procedure, this question has been debated in the literature. It seems that two elements of major importance paved the way for this affirmative answer.

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Arizona asks court to approve “Kafkaesque” treatment of due-process claim from man on death row

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g) is a procedural mechanism that allows Arizona petitioners to challenge their conviction or sentence when there is a “significant change in the law” that would impact their case. g) purposes. As background, a Pima County jury convicted Cruz of capital murder in 2005.

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