New Jersey courts have developed limitations on choice-of-law clauses in employment agreements, in order to prevent employees from losing the valuable protections of state employment statutes.

In their Commercial Division Update, George Bundy Smith, arbitrator and mediator with JAMS, and Thomas J. Hall, a partner with Chadbourne & Parke, write that New York courts find that, despite a ...

In answering two questions posed to it by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the California Supreme Court on August 29, 2019, addressed two significant issues: 1) whether California’s common law ...

The US Supreme Court Monday agreed to hear a Great Lakes Insurance SE v. Raiders Retreat Realty Co., LLC, which asks the court to determine whether a choice of law clause in a maritime contract can be ...

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A prominent theme in debates about US national privacy legislation is whether federal law should preempt state law. A federal statute could create one standard for markets that are obviously national ...

On February 21, 2024, the United States Supreme Court decided one of the most important marine insurance cases in the United States since 1955. In Great Lakes Insurance SE v. Raiders Retreat Realty Co ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. Oral arguments in Garland v. VanDerStok will begin at 10 a.m. on Oct. 8. (John M. Chase via Shutterstock) Tuesday’s argument ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. As the hour of this morning’s argument in Great Lakes Insurance v Raiders Retreat Realty progressed, it seemed to become more ...

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Applicable state law controls or influences innumerable characteristics of trusts. Among these characteristics are: whether the trust may continue indefinitely; to what extent trust property may be ...