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Vacatur Pending En Banc Review, Ruby Emberling

Michigan Law Review

When a case becomes moot on appeal, as when the parties settle, two primary Supreme Court cases guide the appellate court’s decision about whether to vacate the lower-court opinion. The Court has said that vacatur, an equitable remedy, promotes fairness to parties who were not responsible for the mootness because it erases adverse legal outcomes the litigants were prevented from appealing. Beyond this, vacatur is inadvisable since it eliminates precedential decisions and harms the judiciary’s efficiency and legitimacy. Yet this doctrinal order has not been uniformly brought to bear on the highly similar question of whether to vacate when a …

The Roles Of The Creditor And Debtor In The Settlement Process Of The Debtor's Financial Obligations Under The Debtor's Insolvency Law No. 19 Of 2019, Pierre Mallet

UAEU Law Journal

The UAE Cabinet approved a federal law to regulate cases of insolvency of natural persons or individuals. In 2016, the UAE government had adopted a similar insolvency law for companies which was widely welcomed by businesses and financial institutions. The legal framework for insolvency for both companies and individuals are expected to improve the competitiveness and the ease of doing business of the UAE. Debt restructuring for individuals under legal protection is widely seen as a great step forward in helping those who are unable to pay their debts from going bankrupt. “The approval of a new federal law to …

Appraising Problems, Not Stuff, Chad J. Pomeroy

St. Mary's Law Journal

Abstract forthcoming.

Legal System For Settlement Of Financial Equipment In Administration Contracts Under Algerian Ublie Bargains Law Of 1991, Revised- النظام القانوني لدفع المقابل المالي في العقد الإداري

UAEU Law Journal

The researcher extensively details in Chapter I the right to receive financial equivalent in administrative contracts pointing to its origin and legal nature. In Chapter II he talks about the Admin. liability to comply with due dates, the possibility of activating its contractual obligations, demonstrating the Algerian 1991 public transactions law stipulations in comparison with French & Egyptian laws, indicating similarities & contradictions.

The researcher ended his research with his conclusion. & comments on the above - mentioned law.

Settlement Of Non-Muslim Minorities' Disputes In The Islamic State, Mansour Al-Haidari

UAEU Law Journal

This paper is introduced with a brief introduction on how different legal systems in the past dealt with religious minorities' disputes. Moreover, it shows how different US states were proposing bills and acts to eliminate any religious-based laws or applications. The paper presents how different Islamic schools deal with religious minorities' disputes in the Islamic State. It shows Islamic legal system's tolerance toward minorities in different aspects such as giving their religious leaders a role in solving their disputes according to their religion, and allowing them more freedom in their personal law issues such as marriage, divorce, wills and estates, …

A Path To Data-Driven Health Care Enforcement, Jacob T. Elberg

Utah Law Review

The Department of Justice (“DOJ”) has a long-stated goal of encouraging companies to engage in what the author refers to as “compliant behaviors”—maintenance of an effective pre-existing compliance program, post-enforcement adoption of an effective compliance program, cooperation with a government investigation, and self-disclosure of misconduct. Substantial DOJ guidance over the past two decades, along with the concrete incentive structure of the United States Sentencing Guidelines, have increasingly made clear to organizations when and how such behaviors will be rewarded in criminal matters. Recently, DOJ has made transparency and clarity regarding the benefit of compliant behaviors a priority in calculating and …