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Curtis v Phillips (Civil Dispute) [2020] ACAT 115- a case concerning a Facebook post which made alleged defamatory comments against the claimant and how they conducted their cake making business. [read post]

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No More Two-Step in Texas (and Beyond): the Fifth Circuit Rejects the Two-Stage Lusardi Approach to Conditional Certification in Favor of Employer-Friendly Standard

14 Jan 2021, 8:47 am by Seyfarth Shaw LLP

A little history: in 1989, in the seminal Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc. v. [read post]

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Summary: Supreme Court Oral Argument in Federal Republic of Germany v. Philipp

12 Jan 2021, 10:19 am by Coleman Saunders

Additionally, in Phillip v. [read post]

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Summary: Supreme Court Oral Argument in Hungary v. Simon

12 Jan 2021, 10:19 am by Jeremy Gordon

Readers interested in learning about another Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act case currently before the Supreme Court, Federal Republic of Germany v. [read post]

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Trusteeship and Agency: Where do Creditors Fit into the Picture?

12 Jan 2021, 9:41 am by Jill Roamer, J.D.

These issues were recently litigated in Brownell v. [read post]

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Another Loss in the “But For” Area

8 Jan 2021, 3:30 am by Andrew Lavoott Bluestone

As the IAS court found, the allegations underlying plaintiff’s malpractice claim were couched in terms of “gross speculations” about future events, without the requisite factual basis to support the allegation (see Phillips-Smith Specialty Retail Group II v Parker Chapin Flattau & Klimpl, 265 AD2d 208, 210 [1st Dept 1999], lv denied 94 NY2d 759 [2000]). [read post]

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AB 1885 – Debtor Exemptions: Homestead Exemption

6 Jan 2021, 3:23 pm by Steven J. Tinnelly, Esq.

California Courts have taken this lenient approach because ‘the law and facts to promote the beneficial purposes of the homestead legislation to benefit the debtor’” [Phillips v. [read post]

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A Pro-Se Claim in a Family Court Legal Malpractice Come Up Short

6 Jan 2021, 3:11 am by Andrew Lavoott Bluestone

The court correctly determined that the complaint is devoid of allegations from which it could be inferred that any negligence by defendants in their handling of the family court proceeding was the “but for” causation of any damages (see Dweck Law Firm v Mann, 283 AD2d 292, 293 [1st Dept 2001]; see also Phillips-Smith Specialty Retail Group II v Parker Chapin Flattau & Klimpl, 265 AD2d 208, 210 [1st Dept 1999], lv denied 94 NY2d 759 [2000]). [read post]

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Publication cases post Brexit, Part Two, Jurisdiction and EU Law in the Future – Andrew Stephenson and Sarah Daniel

29 Dec 2020, 4:05 pm by INFORRM

” In Schapira v Ahronson [1999] EMLR 735 Phillips L.J. described it as an “uphill task” for an Israeli newspaper to try to persuade the court that Israel was clearly the more appropriate forum to determine an action for defamation brought in England by an English domiciled claimant whose claim was confined to publication within England and Wales. [read post]

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[Josh Blackman] Second Circuit Rules for Agudath Israel and Brooklyn Diocese

28 Dec 2020, 11:58 am by Josh Blackman

See Our Lady of Guadalupe Sch. v. [read post]

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NY Federal Judge Rules COVID-19 Pandemic Constitutes ‘Natural Disaster’ in Excusing Contract Performance

22 Dec 2020, 10:00 pm