Supreme Court

A quest to reclaim a Pissarro masterpiece hinges on the Erie doctrine

A quest to reclaim a Pissarro masterpiece hinges on the <em>Erie</em> doctrine

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At the beginning of World War II, the heir of a prominent German Jewish art collector was forced to surrender her family’s Camille Pissarro painting to the Nazis. Her heirs have been litigating for more than 15 years over rights to the painting, an Impressionist masterpiece once thought to be lost. Whether they will succeed depends on how the Supreme Court decides a very technical question: Must a federal court hearing state law claims brought under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities … Read the rest

Civil Law

Earnings season is here

 From CNN:

https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/14/investing/premarket-stocks-trading/index.html

Tech stocks have been plunging as Wall Street obsesses over the Federal Reserve’s next moves and how aggressively it will hike borrowing costs over the next 12 months to rein in inflation.

But attention could soon shift elsewhere as corporate earnings season arrives, delivering a distraction from the economy and the unknowns that lie ahead.
What’s happening: S&P 500 earnings are expected to have increased by 22.4% compared to the previous year during the final three months of 2021,
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Supreme Court

Reductions on deductions and state courts on out-of-state businesses

Reductions on deductions and state courts on out-of-state businesses

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This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, whether a 2017 law’s cap of $ 10,000 for the deduction for state and local taxes on federal income returns violates the Constitution by coercing states’ tax policies, and whether state courts can exercise jurisdiction over out-of-state businesses on the basis of their registration as foreign corporations.

The 2017 cap on the federal tax deduction for state and local taxes

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Circuit Courts

Judiciary Urges Dialogue on Electronic Case Files Bills, Seeks Delay in Action

The Judiciary sent letters to Congress this week urging lawmakers to defer action on pending bills affecting the federal courts’ electronic records management system until a “meaningful two-way dialogue” between the two branches of government can take place to resolve important concerns.
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Civil Law

Supreme Court Halts Implementation of OSHA Vaccine-or-Test Rule (US)

In a per curiam majority decision issued on January 13, 2022, the United States Supreme Court stayed the implementation of the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (“OSHA”) Emergency Temporary Standard (“ETS”) that would have obligated employers with 100 or more U.S. employees to require proof of COVID-19 vaccination or weekly COVID-19 testing, plus imposed face covering and other mitigation strategies. Last month, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals lifted another federal appellate court’s earlier stay of the ETS, leaving … Read the rest

Supreme Court

Announcement of opinions for Thursday, Jan. 13

Announcement of opinions for Thursday, Jan. 13

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On Thursday, Jan. 13, we will be live blogging as the court releases opinions in one or more argued cases from the current term.

Click here for a list of FAQs about opinion announcements.

The post Announcement of opinions for Thursday, Jan. 13 appeared first on SCOTUSblog.

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Supreme Court

Justices add new cases on bankruptcy, workers’ comp, and relief from final judgments

Justices add new cases on bankruptcy, workers’ comp, and relief from final judgments

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The Supreme Court on Monday morning added three new cases — involving bankruptcy law, civil procedure, and workers’ compensation — to its docket for the 2021-22 term. But the orders that the justices issued from their private conference on Jan. 7 were just as noteworthy for what they did not do: The court did not act on a pair of petitions challenging the consideration of race in the undergraduate admissions process at Harvard University and the University of North … Read the rest