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...Coinciding with the European discovery of the Americas, the war between the Habsburg and Ottoman empires traversed the globe....
...One of his touchstones for anti-competitive behaviour is the late 1990s US v Microsoft case, in which the company was found guilty of using its operating system monopoly to stifle competitors like Netscape...
...The Court first heard oral arguments for Gil v Whitford, a case that challenges the constitutionality of a 2011 redistricting of the state of Wisconsin, in October....
...Astor v Vanderbilt: battle of the belles Even prominent society figures of New York’s Gilded Age were not above displays of petty one-upmanship, writes Georgina Varley....
...Juan Ramon Guerrero, 22 Guerrero was a telemarketer who also studied at the University of Central Florida, the Associated Press reported....
...It is not immediately obvious that there will be closer economic ties with the United States, although Trump may well aim for that....
...The Republic of Argentina and Citibank, N.A. appeal from the July 28, 2014 order (the “Order”) of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Griesa, J.) clarifying that certain...
...After the dust eventually settles on NML v Argentina, will the existing regime be considered just strong enough to survive the rise of litigotiation — or will we get something else?...
...Joseph Cotchett, a partner at Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, one of the law firms that had fought HP on behalf of shareholders and has now joined it to pursue former Autonomy management, rejects the allegation...
...For when historians come to study the Great Calamity of 2014 in international relations between the United States and China, they shall surely whisper one name, in trembling tones. Horatio D....
...Including on whether “recognition of that process is manifestly contrary to United States public policy”: The Special Liquidators request that this United States Court sanction the Irish government’s inappropriate...
...Deal with it, says the Second Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals: We can see that direct warning to redraft pari passu clauses being taken....
...Admittedly, some of the really futuristic parts of Ex-Im Bank v Grenada are in the procedure of holdout litigation....
...Some light reading late on Wednesday… the United States Supreme Court’s ruling in Kiobel v Royal Dutch Petroleum....
...We’ve already seen how NML Capital v Argentina has influenced Grenada’s legal battle with the Taiwanese government-owned Export-Import Bank of the Republic of China....
...A couple of first things — the government’s suit has already been criticised for presenting banks as the defrauded victims of S&P ratings on mortgage bonds....
...Bank of America and Banco de la Nación Argentina, a state-owned lender, have both had holdouts come knocking for this info on Argentine assets going hither and thither through their hands....
...Bank of the Republic of China v Grenada....
...Reed was one of the few colleges in North America to hold calligraphy classes....
...The court also says that it drew this rule from a United Nations convention on states’ immunity from jurisdiction....
...NML v Argentina, and how it may make it harder for sovereigns to avoid holdouts in debt bearing pari passu clauses....
...For another perspective: it’s a chore to go through the 1,500 pages of Bathurst Regional Council v Local Government Financial Services, last year’s landmark Australian case concerning CPDO ratings made by...
...that borrower is an individual, a company, or a sovereign state....
...The lawyers famously faced each other in Bush v Gore, the Supreme Court ruling which resolved the 2000 election result....
...not in the United States, and therefore outside the scope of the court’s enforcement powers under the FSIA.”...
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