In a 7-2 decision announced today, the Supreme Court held that a safe berth clause in a particular maritime charter party agreement constituted a warranty of safety, making the charterer, who ...

The Supreme Court of Victoria has delivered Australia’s first judgment on a hybrid arbitration clause, emphasising that when ...

After four years of contested litigation, the D.C. Circuit cursorily resolves the meaning of the Emoluments Clauses without any acknowledgment of contrary positions. I won't regale you with the ...

It is being used to challenge Trump in some states from being on the ballot. The intent of the 14th Amendment's disqualification clause is central to the debate over whether former President Donald ...

The United States Constitution provides that “[n]o state shall … pass any … Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts.” (U.S. Constit., Art. I, § 10 ...

Many industry form documents and custom construction contracts contain provisions shifting or limiting the respective parties’ risks. One of the more potentially significant risk-limiting provisions ...

This week, the en banc Sixth Circuit will hear Bormuth v. County of Jackson. The case illustrates how broken establishment-clause jurisprudence has long been. But as Becket and Stanford Law School ...

Disagreeing with successive rulings on the issue by a federal district court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has imposed a preliminary injunction on a Kentucky law that directs the ...

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