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Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Internationalist
Lots of the praise for the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died this past Friday, is a little bit about the Justice and a bit about the concerns of the writer. Former law clerks who have praised their former boss have reminded everyone of their elite credentials. Advocacy groups have praised Justice Ginsburg for……
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Ralph Gants, 1954-2020
Ralph Gants, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, died yesterday following a brief illness. After a career in public and private practice, he was appointed to the Superior Court in the late 1990s by Governor Weld, and then appointed to the SJC, first as associate justice and later as chief justice,……
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Cert. Watch: Changzhou SinoType v. Rockefeller
Readers, here is the petition for cert. in Changzhou Sinotype Technology Co. v. Rockefeller Investments (Asia) VII, a case from the California Supreme Court that you’ll remember from this spring. Here are the facts in a nutshell. A US company wins a big arbitral award against a Chinese company in a US-based arbitration. Rather than……
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Some Background On The Law Of Presidential Elections
I thought my non-American readers might appreciate a (decidedly non-expert) brief outline of US law on presidential elections, in light of President Trump’s unprecedented suggestion that he might seek to delay the US presidential election—an idea so outlandish that when the presumptive Democratic nominee, Joseph Biden, suggested Trump might try it, provoked outraged claims of……
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Editorial: The ABA Should Not Amend Model Rule 1.8(e)
The American Bar Association is contemplating an amendment to Model Rule of Professional Conduct 1.8(e), which today forbids lawyers to “provide financial assistance to a client in connection with pending or contemplated litigation,” with exceptions for advancing “court costs and expenses of litigation” and, in the case of indigent clients, paying “court costs and expenses……