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Wednesday, March 24, 2021

Facebook shields records from Mass. AG inquiry

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The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court today ruled on efforts by Facebook to resist disclosures arising from an internal investigation in...

EU sustainability reg reaches companies in U.S., world

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A sustainability regulation from the EU promises to be the next big compliance hurdle deployed on the continent to affect transnational busi...
Tuesday, March 2, 2021

Covid-era eviction elicits ancient injunction plea

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Clameur de Haro was invoked to block the burial of William the Conqueror in 1087. Image from Amable Tastu, La Normandie Historique (1858). ...
Sunday, February 28, 2021

State supreme court upends causation in tort law, promising plenty post-pandemic work for lawyers

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" Cause and Effect " by Marina Noordegraaf CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 The high court of Massachusetts, in a 3-2 decision , has effected a se...
Thursday, February 25, 2021

Despite lack of statute, anti-SLAPP blocks mining company suit as abuse of process in South Africa

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Coffee Bay is a tourist destination on the Eastern Cape. ( photo by Jon Rawlinson CC BY 2.0 ) Two weeks ago, a South African court recogni...
Tuesday, February 23, 2021

Big Oil deploys slick strategy to stay ahead of liability

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Image by Ucheke CC BY-SA 4.0 On February 12, the UK Supreme Court allowed a claim of environmental catastrophe by 40,000 to 50,000 Nigeria...
Monday, February 22, 2021

Sovereign immunity shields Texas power overseer from liability for now: not so privatized after all

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NASA satellite image of Houston with area blackouts, Feb. 16 The cold-induced electric-power disaster in Texas is raising questions about t...