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Maine attorney general sues big oil companies over climate change

JURIST

Insofar as the defendant oil companies were aware of the danger posed to the public by their products, and still failed to warn the public in general, the state argues they ought to be liable to the extent of the costs suffered by the state in adjusting to climate change under Maine’s civil procedure law.

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CfP: 5th German Conference for Young Researchers in Private International Law (14/15 Feb 2025 in Heidelberg)

Conflict of Laws

It will be dedicated to the topic of ‘Digital transformation and Private International Law. After statute theory, Savignyan PIL and Europeanisation, digitalisation has the potential to initiate a fourth evolutionary stage in the history of conflict of laws, which is characterised by decentralisation and delocalisation.

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Limitation Period for Enforcement of Foreign Judgments: Australian Court Recognized and Enforced Chinese Judgment Again

Conflict of Laws

9] While the statute of limitations for enforcement is a two-year period for creditors to apply to the court for execution based on a successful and legal effective document, which is provided in Civil Procedural Law of China and deemed as a procedure issue. Candidate, Institute of International Law, Wuhan University. [1]

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Supreme Court likely to let vape company’s FDA challenge proceed

SCOTUSBlog

Suri told the justices that this was not a question of convenience, but instead about Congresss choice in the statute to delineate where cases can be brought. As a practical matter, he asked Suri, why is it inconvenient for the government to litigate in one circuit instead of another?

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Restitution, medical malpractice, and a capital appeal

SCOTUSBlog

The question is how such laws should be considered when state-law disputes are brought in federal court under diversity of citizenship jurisdiction because the dispute involves citizens of different states. In such cases, the rule is that federal courts apply state substantive law and federal procedural law.

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Truth, Lies and Plea Bargaining

The Crime Report

Lies about law involve lawyers twisting statutes until they no longer represent the original law. Overall, Johnson argues that in order for the plea-bargaining system to make way for sustained and fair justice resolutions, many of the “interlocking and mandatory laws” need to change.

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The Chinese villages win a lawsuit in China to repatriate a Mummified Buddha Statue hold by a Dutch Collector —What Role has Private International Law Played?

Conflict of Laws

After an unsuccessful negotiation, the Committee of Yunchun Village and the Committee Dongpu Village sued Van Overeem to demand the statue’s return both in Fujian Province of China and in Amsterdam of the Netherlands at the end of 2015, [2] fearing that a statute of limitation might bar their case. 626, Date of judgment: 4 December 2020, p.21.

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