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The U.S. Congress enacted several pieces of legislation with respect to Washington, D.C.'s local judicial system. One required final judgments from the District of Columbia Court of Appeals to be treated like final judgments from the high court of any state; another permitted that Court of Appeals to create rules governing the qualifications and admissions of attorneys to practice in the D.C ...
In ZF Automotive US, Inc. v Luxshare, Ltd., 596 US (2022) (decided June 13, 2022, together with AlixPartners LLP v The Fund for Protection of Investor Rights in Foreign States), the Court unanimously held that Section 1782 did not apply to a commercial international arbitration or an ad hoc UNCITRAL investor-state arbitration. [13]
There are several mechanisms in public international law whereby the courts of one country (the domestic court) can exercise jurisdiction over a citizen, corporation, or organization of another country (the foreign defendant) to try crimes or civil matters that have affected citizens or businesses within the domestic jurisdiction. Many of these ...
The lawyers who successfully argued that a massive pay package for Tesla CEO Elon Musk was illegal and should be voided have asked the presiding judge to award them company stock worth $5.6 ...
The Court then crystallized the current rule: when Congressional legislation regulates matters that implicate "a core aspect of the administration of bankrupt estates", sovereign immunity is no longer available to the States if the statute subjects them to private suits. The Court in Central Virginia Community
Fidelity Trust Co., 263 U.S. 413 (1923) and District of Columbia Court of Appeals v. Feldman , 460 U.S. 462 (1983). The doctrine holds that lower United States federal courts —i.e., federal courts other than the Supreme Court —should not sit in direct review of state court decisions unless Congress has specifically authorized such relief. [ 1 ]
The Supreme Court upheld a tax on foreign corporate investments in a case some worried could imperil any future attempts to enact a wealth tax on the super-rich.
By David Shepardson. WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court blocked on Monday the U.S. Transportation Department's new rule on upfront disclosure of airline fees pending a full review of the ...