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Supreme Court Rejects Minimum Contacts Requirement to Subject Foreign States to Suits in the U.S. Under FSIA

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On June 5, 2025, in a unanimous decision authored by Justice Alito, the United States Supreme Court held that the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976 (FSIA), 28 U.S.C. §§1330, 1602 et seq., does not require a plaintiff...more

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Client Alert: US Supreme Court Clarifies Availability of US Forum for Victims of Foreign State Expropriation

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On February 21, 2025, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Republic of Hungary v. Simon, holding that allegations of commingling of funds alone cannot satisfy the US commercial nexus requirement of the expropriation...more

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Supreme Court Clarifies FSIA’s Expropriation Exception in Republic of Hungary v. Simon

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Key Takeaways: The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that a party cannot establish the U.S. commercial nexus required to invoke the FSIA’s expropriation exception by alleging a foreign state expropriated property in...more

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Litigating Arbitration Awards: Federal Courts Decline to Punch the Jurisdictional Ticket

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Over two years ago, the United States Supreme Court divested the federal courts of jurisdiction over all but a few disputes concerning the confirmation or vacation of arbitration awards. Since then, the federal appellate...more

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Supreme Court Upholds Mandatory Repatriation Tax as Constitutional

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The U.S. Supreme Court held the Mandatory Repatriation Tax (MRT) constitutional in Moore v. United States, No. 22-800, 602 U.S. _, decided June 20, 2024. The MRT requires some American shareholders of American-controlled...more

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SCOTUS Punts on EMTALA Preemption Question

On June 27, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed Idaho v. United States on procedural grounds and sent the case back to the Ninth Circuit. By doing so, the Supreme Court reinstated the preliminary injunction issued by the...more

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Prequel to Loper Bright Shows What Decisions May Look Like After Chevron’s Demise

In Garland v. Cargill, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) exceeded its statutory authority by issuing a rule that classifies bump stocks as “machineguns” under the...more

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Litigation Byte (May Edition)

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The Litigation Byte is the new name and format for McGlinchey’s Commercial Law Bulletin. Our new format will reflect McGlinchey’s national coverage and our expanded footprint while still serving up the digestible, insightful...more

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SCOTUS Rejects Constitutional Challenge to Mandatory Repatriation Tax, Holding It Applies to Realized but Undistributed Income of...

In Moore v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a constitutional challenge to the Mandatory Repatriation Tax (MRT), holding that the MRT does tax income — the realized earnings of foreign corporations — and thus is...more

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Inside the Courts – An Update From Skadden Securities Litigators - May 2024

Spotlight - Macquarie Ruling Raises the Bar for Securities Fraud Claims - Key Points - - On April 12, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously reversed and vacated the Second Circuit’s decision in Macquarie...more

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Twice Again, Jurisdictional Timing Matters; Battle Among Originalists Leaves Consumer Financial Protection Board Standing - SCOTUS...

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On May 16—for the second time in two weeks—the U.S. Supreme Court, this time unanimously, has taken a lenient, plaintiff-friendly view of whether a filing deadline is jurisdictional in the sense that it is governed by the...more

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Fifth Circuit Scrutinizes Corporate Diversity Initiatives

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After the U.S. Supreme Court held that Harvard University engaged in unlawful racial discrimination against Asian Americans in its efforts to achieve student body diversity, businesses have rightly sought legal guidance on...more

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Public Officials Subject to Suits for Blocking Social Media Critics, “Safety Valve” Relief from Mandatory Minimums Is Limited -...

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On Friday, March 15, a unanimous Supreme Court decided two companion cases (Lindke v. Freed and O’Connor-Ratcliff v. Garnier) that resolved a split in the Circuits concerning whether public officials can be held liable under...more

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What Does the Upcoming Amendment to Federal Rule of Evidence 702 Mean for the Admission of Expert Testimony?

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On December 1, 2023, Federal Rule of Evidence (“FRE”) 702 will be amended, following the Supreme Court’s adoption of the amendment earlier this year. FRE 702 governs the admission of expert testimony in the federal courts,...more

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303 Creative Ruling Sets and Reaffirms Key Precedents for Online Service Providers

The Supreme Court's landmark decision in 303 Creative v. Elenis, No. 21-0576 (U.S. June 30, 2023) held that Colorado cannot force a website designer to create an expressive message antithetical to her beliefs. In so ruling,...more

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Divided Court Gives Primacy to Freedom of Religion, Invokes “Major Questions Doctrine” to Overturn Student Loan Forgiveness...

June 30th is the nominal last day of the Supreme Court’s current term. The Court began the day with the long-awaited decision in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, another 6-3 jurisprudentially ideological split in which, per...more

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Supreme Court Upholds Personal Jurisdiction by Corporate Registration

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In Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co., 600 U.S. __ (June 27, 2023), the United States Supreme Court upheld a Pennsylvania law that enables a plaintiff to show general personal jurisdiction over an out-of-state...more

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Another Election Law Blockbuster: Moore Is Alive, but Independent State Legislature Theory Is Not – SCOTUS Today

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As the end of the term approaches, the Court is increasingly divided in its decisions. However, the composition of the majorities is not often the 6-3 conservative/liberal division stereotype that many observers, critics, and...more

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A Big Day for the Little Guy – SCOTUS Today

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With essential unanimity, though with an array of concurrences in one of them, the Supreme Court ruled against government parties in three cases, two of them in favor of homeowners, and in property rights and environmental...more

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The Academic Advisor - Education Law Insights, Issue 4, April 2023

ChatGPT’s Impact on Education and Student Data Privacy - Data privacy professionals have characterized the data privacy risks associated with ChatGPT as a “nightmare.” In order to function, open artificial intelligence...more

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Jurisdictional or Nonjurisdictional? That Is the Question: SCOTUS Today

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The Supreme Court issued a single opinion yesterday. Wilkins v. United States concerns a property rights dispute between the federal government and two owners of land near the Bitterroot National Forest in rural Montana to...more

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Without Equitable Monetary Relief, No Need for Asset Freeze or Receivership to Preserve Resources, and More Takeaways from the...

The Eleventh Circuit’s opinion last month in FTC v. On Point Capital Partners LLC, et al.,clarifies the ramifications of the Supreme Court’s ruling in AMG Capital Management regarding the prohibition of equitable monetary...more

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