Key Legislative and Jurisprudential Developments of Polish Antitrust Law in 2011 by Agata Jurkowska-Gomułka

“…Presented in its jurisprudential part is a number of 2011 rulings, mainly those rendered by the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals, divided according to their subject matter with respect to particular types of restrictive practices and other problems related to the decision-making process of the UOKiK President.…”
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Neutral in Name: Rothe, the Error of Anticlassification, and the State of Race-Neutral Means by William Sharon

“…United States Department of Defense, where the court of appeals held that a statutory preference awarded to people “who ha[ve] been subjected to racial or ethnic prejudice” does not contain a racial classification. …”
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Patentometric analysis of finance patents filed in the USPTO. by Senthil Kalyana Sundram.

“…Until recently, patenting of financial innovations was considered impossible as the financial innovations were treated as business methods and this changed in 1998, when the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit's (CAFC) decision on the State Street Bank & Trust Co. versus Signature Financial Group case removed the judicially created "business method" exception. …”
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A ‘Wellbeing’ Paradigm: A Concept-Based Study of Body Art and Regulatory Challenges by Nicola Glover-Thomas

“…I argue that, while body modification and body art, as a means of self-expression and empowerment, is relatively easy to access, there are critical gaps in the regulatory framework that may undermine the notion of wellbeing and individual choice. I critique the Court of Appeal’s decision in <i>R v BM</i>, [2018] EWCA Crim 560 which raises particular public interest concerns, but conclude that it is a missed opportunity in relation to how the law understands the promotion of ‘self’ within a model of wellbeing.…”
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The Regulation of on-the-ball Offences: Challenges in Court by Adam Pendlebury

“…Following the Court of Appeal’s judgment in R v Barnes it was argued that on-the-ball contacts in sport, in breach of the rules of the game, were unlikely to be classed as criminal. …”
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The authenticity of probiotic foods and dietary supplements: facts and reflections from a court case by Claudio De Simone

“…The District Court’s monetary judgment was affirmed by the U.S. Court of Appeals in 2021. This article arises from this judicial affair to examine the rules and regulations protecting patients and doctors from misrepresentations and the potential role of class actions brought by consumers to dissuade companies from taking advantage of regulatory deficiencies.…”
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Statistical Properties of the Department of Commerce’s Antidumping Duty Calculation Method with Implications for Current Trade Cases by Douglas N. VanDerwerken, Qing Pan, Weiwen Miao, Joseph L. Gastwirth

“…Several recent cases at the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals have challenged the DOC’s methodology on statistical grounds. …”
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The effect of shareholder litigation rights on female board representation: A quasi-natural experiment by Pattanaporn Chatjuthamard, Ploypailin Kijkasiwat, Pornsit Jiraporn

“…Employing as a quasi-natural experiment an unexpected judgment by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that raised the difficulty of shareholder litigation, we explore the effect of shareholder litigation rights on board gender diversity. …”
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The importance of being worker, or on the United Kingdom Courts dealing with platform work by Vincenzo Pietrogiovanni

“…Although referring to two cases that are currently under discussion at different levels of British jurisdiction (Uber has now reached the Supreme Court, while the Deliveroo judgment is now pending before the London Court of Appeals), the two judgments present at least two points that are relevant to the reader, also an Italian one: first of all, both platforms under consideration have a very similar production model, therefore it seems appropriate to address them together; in addition, both legal questions concern the classification of their status as worker, the intermediate category that British law, at least in the original intentions of the legislator, provides in order to ensure that workers who are not fully subordinated nevertheless enjoy a minimum core of labour protection. …”
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Transgendered Prisoners in the United States: A Progression of Laws by Rudolph Alexander

“…The following year, a Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that medical treatment included psychiatric or mental health treatment. …”
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Exploring the Overlap Between Procedural-Justice Principles and Emotion Regulation in the Courtroom by Steve Leben

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Feminism in Legal Education by Catharine MacKinnon

“…Recently I was in an elevator with a member of a U.S. Court of Appeals — an enlightened, intelligent, sincere and very nice man — who congratulated me on the publication of my recent book, Feminism Unmodified. …”
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The right to appeal on contested procedure under the Republic of Kosovo legislation by Rrustem Qehaja, Arbnor Ajeti

“…Handling the right to appeal against the first instance court judgment is important also due to the fact that in Kosovo according to the new Law on Courts as a competent court to review and decide on appeal submitted by the appellant is the Court of Appeals as a second instance court. In this scientific paper we have used normative, deductive, descriptive methods. …”
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The effect of shareholder litigation rights on female board representation: A quasi-natural experiment. by Pattanaporn Chatjuthamard, Ploypailin Kijkasiwat, Pornsit Jiraporn

“…Employing as a quasi-natural experiment an unexpected judgment by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that raised the difficulty of shareholder litigation, we explore the effect of shareholder litigation rights on board gender diversity. …”
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Enforcing the Right to Family Life in Hong Kong Courts: The Case of Dependant Policy by Matthew Chuen Ngai Tang

“…This paper examines the challenges in enforcing the right to family life in Hong Kong’s Dependant Policy with a particular focus on the Hong Kong Court of Appeal’s recent decision in BI v Director of Immigration. …”
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The Legal Effects of Invalid Judgment in the Code of Civil Procedure by Yaser Basim Thanoon, Saddam Khazaal Yahya

“…And traces procedural are its effects on the measures taken in the proceedings and which vary according to the defect rescinds him whether because of defective self, or because of a void former him, and also lead government falsehood to the depletion of the trial court, which issued a government mandate about it and raising her hand with him, but this provision does not exhausted the mandate of the Court of Appeals if the appeal against the ruling to the Court of appeal of discrimination, especially after the recent ruling of the Court overturn the appeal and return the case to the Court of Appeal to rule them. …”
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Concurrence of wills – a necessary ingredient of an agreement restricting competition.Case comment to the judgment of Court of Competition and Consumer Protection of 8 February 201... by Monika A. Górska

“…This legal battle commenced in 2005 and still has not been resolved, as the judgment of the Court of Competition and Consumer Protection (hereafter, the SOKiK) discussed in this comment has been appealed by the UOKiK President. The Court of Appeals, in its judgment of 20thOctober 2011 (ref. no. …”
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Judicial System: Trial Level and Court Jurisdiction in Islamic Republic of Pakistan by Yasir Munir

“…As the highest court in Pakistan, the Supreme Court is tasked with interpreting the constitution, assessing rulings from subordinate courts, and acting as the last court of appeals. Specialized tribunals are also in place to handle particular legal matters. …”
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Tribunal Unificado de Patentes: Novos caminhos para a proteção de patentes na Europa by Eugénio Lucas

“…Dada a existência de alguns aspetos comuns entre o “United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit” e o Tribunal Unificado de Patentes serão também analisadas algumas questões jurídicas comuns a estes dois tribunais de patentes. …”
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Understanding Consultation and Engagement with Indigenous Peoples in Resource Development by Brendan Boyd, Sophie Lorefice

“…Recently, the Federal Court of Appeal’s decision to overturn the federal government’s approval of the Trans Mountain pipeline project in 2018 has attracted the attention of politicians, media and the public. …”
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