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Pemberian Tantiem Kepada Direksi Yang Telah Diberhentikan (Studi Kasus Putusan Mahkamah Agung 2530k/Pdt/2022), A Aru Ogika

Indonesian Notary

This research aims to analyze the legal construction of giving bonuses to a Limited Liability Company, especially giving them to bank directors who have been dismissed by the Company and its correlation with the legal consequences of not giving bonuses. This research was prepared using doctrinal research methods. The research results show that the legal construction in granting bonuses must refer to the principles of benefit and justice. The conditions for granting bonuses as stipulated in several statutory regulations, namely performance, risk and profit generation, are in accordance with the principles of benefit and justice, while the inclusion of conditions …

Problematika Hukum Pengadaan Tanah Ibu Kota Nusantara Di Wilayah Transmigrasi Desa Bumi Harapan Kecamatan Sepaku Kabupaten Penajam Paser Utara (Studi Putusan Pengadilan Tinggi Samarinda Nomor 222/Pdt/2023/Pt Smr), Merry Christiangie

Indonesian Notary

The development of the Capital City of the Archipelago raises several legal problems, one of which is land disputes between transmigrants and local communities. In the process of preparing transmigration settlements, there are six processes, one of which is land provision. This paper is prepared using doctrinal research method. In this research, the issues raised are related to land disputes between local communities and landowners of transmigration areas in the process of land acquisition at the location of the Nusantara Capital City in Bumi Harapan Village and the juridical basis of the judge's thinking which later won the transmigrants in …

Kedudukan Akta Jual Beli Atas Tanah Yang Diperjualbelikan Sepihak Tanpa Melibatkan Ahli Waris Lainnya (Studi Putusan Nomor 359/Pk/Pdt/2020, Oktaviani Nurul Suci

Indonesian Notary

This research is motivated by the existence of a legal act of buying and selling rights to inherited land which should be carried out involving other heirs who have the rights to the inherited land. Heirs have legal rights to certain inheritances and the transfer of these rights must be carried out in accordance with applicable law. The problem in this research is the strength of the sale and purchase deed for the act of sale carried out by one of the heirs which does not involve other heirs and the correlation of Article 32 paragraph (2) PP Number 24 …

The Form Doesn’T Know Anything: A Response To Chowdhury, Chudkowski & Gulati, Glenn D. West

University of Miami Law Review

Merger and acquisition agreements differ significantly from sovereign bonds. While I have criticized the stubborn persistence of harmful or ineffective boilerplate in the M&A deal world, this persistence does not stem from a desire for uniformity or blind adherence to a sacred form. The dynamics involved in negotiating merger and acquisition agreements often dictate that comments on a form agreement be kept to a minimum, making the improvement of the form a secondary goal. Moreover, what one party considers bad boilerplate may be seen as beneficial by another. Many of the myths supposedly debunked by Chowdhury, Chudkowski & Gulati may, …

No Lawyer, No Jail: A Critical Case Study Of Pragmatism And The Flaws Of “Purposeful” Decision Making In Argersinger V. Hamlin, Alisa Smith, Sarah K. Stice

Seattle University Law Review

By releasing conference notes and internal communications, Supreme Court Justices provide insight into the otherwise private decisionmaking process, shedding light on how case outcomes and legal reasoning are framed and negotiated. The watershed case of Argersinger v. Hamlin (1972) extended the constitutional right to counsel to some, but not all, misdemeanor defendants. The case was argued twice, and the Court relied on empirical and authoritative sources to answer complex and practical questions about requiring counsel. This case study employs critical discourse analysis to uncover what influenced the Justices’ decisions and how they framed, shaped, and constructed social realities to foreground …

The Race To Erase: Destruction Of Government Documents Undermines Freedom-Of-Information Laws, Frank D. Lomonte

Seattle University Law Review

In August 2019, reporters with Chattanooga’s daily newspaper, the Times Free Press, filed what seemed to be a routine request for access to emails and other public records held by their local county government. The seemingly unremarkable request set the newspaper’s staff on a months-long journey of unpleasant surprises. The first was a demand to pay the county $717 in advance before being allowed to inspect the documents. The second was that—during prolonged haggling over the fee assessment— the county attorney’s office simply destroyed almost all of the disputed records. Third, and most glaringly, the journalists discovered that Tennessee law …

When You’Re Arrested For A Felony In Seattle, You’Ll Meet Me., Austin Field

Seattle University Law Review

In this Essay, Austin Field, a practicing public defender, uses a first-person perspective to describe what it is like to meet a criminal defendant for the first time. He explains the process from start to finish, detailing everything from the way he introduces himself to how bail works.

"I’ll ask you for your name. Most of the time, you tell me. I check your name against my list. On any given day I’m supposed to interview between five and fifteen people. I have a lot of questions for you. We only have about ten minutes."

The Public Square In A Private-Property Obsessed Country: What New York City’S Pops Regulations Get Right And Why Other Cities Should (Mostly) Copy Them, Carson Mcgregor

Seattle University Law Review

When New York City (NYC) was first becoming the metropolitan monolith it is today, it had a problem: the city streets were chock full of skyscrapers, and sunlight, air, and usable open space were at a premium. In response, the City promulgated its first Privately Owned Public Spaces (POPS) regulations, which allowed developers to build skyward in exchange for providing public space on the street level. Unfortunately, in July of 2023, the New York Times (NYT) discovered that New Yorkers received only a fraction of what they were promised. Building owners received billions of dollars’ worth of added floor space, …

Modern Day Colonialism Through HawaiʻI’S Quiet Title And Partition Laws, Cheyann Fujii

Seattle University Law Review

This Note will attempt to highlight important aspects of Hawaiian history to provide readers with a clear picture on how Native Hawaiians are still impacted by colonialism, specifically when plaintiffs bring a quiet title or partition action against Native Hawaiian owners of kuleana lands. Before colonization, the concept of private land ownership did not exist in Hawai‘i, and Native Hawaiians adopted a feudal system by dividing land into geographical areas. Missionaries and businessmen brought Western ideas to Hawai‘i and influenced legislation such as the Great Māhele and the Kuleana Land Act of 1850, which solidified the concept of private property. …

Data Advantage And Merger Review: Can Entrenchment Theory Reform Antitrust Enforcement?, Shin-Ru Cheng

Seattle University Law Review

A merger involving giant digital companies is likely to dampen competition, as it allows those companies to combine and control data access, enabling them to entrench their dominant positions in relevant markets and extend those positions into related markets. While competition law in many jurisdictions aims to prohibit mergers that may substantially lessen competition or create a monopoly, arguably the review of digital mergers is failing because antitrust agencies lack an effective approach to identify data-generated anticompetitive harms. This Article demonstrates that entrenchment theory, recently reintroduced in the 2023 U.S. Merger Guidelines, would help reform the process of antitrust enforcement. …

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Caution: Potholes In E-Scooter Data Collection, Dakota Rakestraw

Seattle University Law Review

Lime scooters keep ending up in major waterways in Washington state metro areas, a testament to the ubiquity of e-scooters in the metropolitan landscape. How they get there is unclear. Why they get there is even murkier. Perhaps the answer lies in the implications of modern geolocation data collection through e-scooters and gaps in current data collection regulation curbing individual liberties.

Since September 2020, electric scooters have run Seattle’s streets and have dramatically overtaken ridesharing bike trips. For example, from September 2020 to September 2021, there were about 1.4 million scooter and bike trips with September 2021 seeing 300,000 scooter …

Machinists Preemption In The New Administrative Law, Andrew J. Ziaja

Seattle University Law Review

This Article assesses Machinists preemption—a labor-specific form of implied field preemption—while freshly considering implications both for and of new developments in administrative law. The radical transformation of administrative law in the Supreme Court, particularly its newfound emphasis on clear-statement rules, provides opportunities to reconsider the Machinists rationale. Aligning with scholars who have called to question the doctrine’s “ossifying” influence on labor and employment policy, it argues that the modern-day version of Machinists preemption clashes with the Supreme Court’s newly constrained view of delegated power and its differing conceptions of the major questions doctrine.

On the other hand, Machinists preemption might …

Volume 48 Masthead, Seattle University Law Review

Seattle University Law Review

Volume 48 Masthead

Defining Deference: Impacts Of Abandoning Chevron On Emerging Technology Governance And Administrative Law, R. Aubrey Davis Iii

Seattle University Law Review

Emerging technologies, particularly Artificial Intelligence (AI), often lead to unforeseen legal outcomes. Notable abuses in areas such as facial recognition, employment bias, and housing discrimination are well known. However, legislative responses to these issues either have been largely reactive or there has been no legislative response at all. In lieu of legislation, agencies have sought to fill the gap. For example, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently proposed a rule mandating voter notification for all AI-generated political phone calls citing the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) of 1991 as authority. However, the TCPA was originally passed to curtail telemarketing, not …

Intellectual Property Or Modern Folklore? The Problem With Open Gaming Licenses In Tabletop Gaming, Rosie Midget

Seattle University Law Review

This Note addresses how courts and legislatures should address “Open Gaming Licenses” commonly attached to tabletop roleplaying games (TTRPGs), which game publishers use to promote a false image of accessibility—misleading consumers and building goodwill from the misunderstanding. Part I discusses what TTRPGs are, including the defining features of the hobby and culture surrounding it, as well as the unique interplay between publishers and players. Part II explores the question of which elements in a TTRPG system may be subject to copyright protection. Part III examines these elements in practice using Wizards of the Coast’s Dungeons and Dragons TTRPG as a …

Upaya Hukum Bagi Pembeli Akibat Penerbitan Sertipikat Pengganti Dalam Pengikatan Jual Beli (Studi Putusan Nomor 646/Pid.B/2023/Pn. Mtr.), Alda Anabela Adelina

Indonesian Notary

Penelitian ini meneliti tentang penerbitan sertipikat pengganti setelah akta Pengikatan Jual Beli dibuat oleh Notaris. Penerbitan sertipikat pengganti tersebut dilakukan dengan alasan hilang dengan menyerahkan surat keterangan dari kepolisian. Hal tersebut mengakibatkan terdapat 2 (dua) dokumen fisik yakni sertipikat tanah dengan nomor yang sama. Hal tersebut berakibat kerugian terhadap pihak pembeli yang menguasai fisik sertipikat pertama karena dengan penerbitan sertipikat pengganti membatalkan sertipikat terdahulu. Kasus tersebut yang terjadi dalam Putusan Nomor 646/Pid.B/2023/PN.Mtr. Penelitian ini menganalisis kedudukan akta Pengikatan Jual Beli yang kemudian terdapat penerbitan sertipikat pengganti berdasarkan Putusan Nomor 646/Pid.B/2023/PN.Mtr. dan menganalisis upaya hukum yang bisa dilakukan pembeli untuk memperjuangkan …

Keabsahan Perjanjian Perkawinan Yang Dicatatkan Debitor Setelah Dinyatakan Pailit Pasca Putusan Mahkamah Konstitusi Republik Indonesia Nomor 69/Puu-Xiii/2015 (Studi Putusan-Putusan Pengadilan), Nadira Ratunanda Wirjono

Indonesian Notary

Penelitian ini mengkaji keabsahan perjanjian perkawinan yang dicatatkan debitor setelah dinyatakan pailit berdasarkan analisis dari beberapa putusan-putusan pengadilan. Fokus utama penelitian ini adalah analisis perubahan regulasi pencatatan perjanjian perkawinan pasca berlakunya Putusan Mahkamah Konstitusi Nomor 69 Tahun 2015, serta kekuatan mengikatnya perjanjian perkawinan yang dibuat sebelum debitor dinyatakan pailit namun belum dicatatkan terhadap kreditur yang mengajukan permohonan pailit. Untuk itu, penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan doktrinal, dimana analisis dilakukan terhadap putusan Mahkamah Agung Nomor 894 K/Pdt.Sus-Pailit/2019, putusan Mahkamah Agung Nomor 461 K/Pdt.Sus-Pailit/2019, dan putusan Mahkamah Agung Nomor 562 K/Pdt.Sus-Pailit/2021 dalam bentuk penelitian studi pustaka yang menggunakan data-data sekunder, yakni dari berbagai …

Kedudukan Hukum Anak Bawaan Dalam Perkara Kepemilikan Hak Atas Tanah Dalam Perkawinan Campuran (Studi Putusan Nomor 280/Pdt.G/2021/Pn Btm), Rana Mahirah

Indonesian Notary

Pengurusan harta warisan yang melibatkan anak kandung dan pasangan kedua menimbulkan berbagai macam celah hukum jika tidak dilaksanakan sesuai dengan ketentuan yang berlaku, terutama jika perkawinan kedua tersebut merupakan perkawinan campuran yang harus lebih diperhatikan lagi ketentuan ketentuannya terkait harta dan bendanya yang dapat menimbulkan sengketa di kemudian hari. Penelitian ini membahas tentang kedudukan anak bawaan dalam perkawinan kedua orang tuanya dan peran dan tanggung jawab terhadap notaris dalam melakukan pengurusan harta waris, dengan mengangkat kasus dalam Putusan Nomor 280/Pdt.G/2021/PN Btm. Penelitian ini menerapkan metode penelitian doktrinal dengan tipe penelitian eksplanatoris. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa anak bawaan dari perkawinan sebelumnya …

Keabsahan Surat Pernyataan Talak Pada Poligami Siri Menurut Hukum Perkawinan Islam Dalam Perspektif Al-Ahkam Al-Khams Dan Maqashid Al-Syariah, Aisyah Fildzah Khairunnisa

Indonesian Notary

Penelitian ini menganalisis keabsahan surat pernyataan talak pada poligami siri berdasarkan Hukum Perkawinan Islam. Fokus pembahasan penelitian ini didapati sebab dalam masyarakat, perkawinan tidak selalu dilaksanakan sesuai dengan hukum yang berlaku, sehingga masalah mengenai perkawinan berkembang cukup luas. Salah satu masalah perkawinan yang pratiknya masih dilakukan dalam masyarakat yaitu perkawinan poligami siri. Berdasarkan SEMA Nomor 3 Tahun 2018, perkawinan poligami siri tidak dapat melakukan mekanisme itsbat nikah, sehingga pemutusan hubungan perkawinan dapat terjadi di luar Pengadilan. Untuk mengkaji apakah pemutusan hubungan perkawinan yang terjadi di luar Pengadilan adalah penyelesaian yang tepat, maka dilakukan kajian dalam perspektif Al-Ahkam Al-Khams dan Maqashid …

Perbuatan Melawan Hukum Dalam Penyelenggaraan Musyawarah Sebagai Dasar Penetapan Ganti Kerugian Pengadaan Tanah Untuk Pembangunan Bendungan Bener (Studi Putusan Peninjauan Kembali Nomor 1382 Pk/Pdt/2022), Eileen Gani Setiawan

Indonesian Notary

Musyawarah antara pemilik tanah dengan pihak yang membutuhkan tanah merupakan suatu kewajiban dalam pelaksanaan pengadaan tanah berdasarkan Pasal 37 UU Pengadaan Tanah. Namun pada putusan Peninjauan Kembali Nomor 1382 PK/Pdt/2022, proses musyawarah untuk pembangunan Bendungan Bener tidak dilakukan sesuai ketentuan. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode penelitian doktrinal dengan analisis kualitatif. Terdapat 2 (dua) rumusan masalah dalam penelitian ini, pertama, kedudukan dan kekuatan hukum hasil musyawarah sebagai dasar penetapan ganti kerugian pada kasus pengadaan tanah dalam putusan Peninjauan Kembali Nomor 1382 PK/Pdt/2022; kedua, tentang pertimbangan majelis hakim terhadap gugatan perbuatan melawan hukum yang dilakukan oleh para warga dalam putusan Peninjauan Kembali Nomor …

Pengalihan Hak Atas Tagih Piutang Secara Sepihak Yang Menyebabkan Perbuatan Melawan Hukum Berdasarkan Akta Perjanjian Kredit (Studi Putusan Nomor 50/Pdt.G/2020/Pn.Bks), Lidya Dwi Putri

Indonesian Notary

Penelitian ini membahas Perbuatan Melawan Hukum terkait pengalihan Hak Atas Tagihan Piutang secara sepihak berdasarkan akta perjanjian kredit antara kreditur dan debitur. Untuk mendalami topik ini, penelitian ini merujuk pada Putusan Nomor 50/PDT.G/2020/PN.Bks. Fokus utama penelitian ini adalah akibat hukum dari pengalihan hak atas tagihan piutang yang berhubungan dengan Akta Perjanjian Kredit. Selain itu, penelitian ini juga menganalisis Perbuatan Melawan Hukum dalam konteks pengalihan hak atas tagihan (cessie) secara sepihak berdasarkan Akta tersebut. Teori yang dibahas mencakup Kredit, Hukum Perjanjian, Pengalihan Piutang (Cessie), Wanprestasi, dan Perbuatan Melawan Hukum. Penulis juga mengkaji dasar hukum yang relevan untuk Akta Perjanjian Kredit serta …

Urgensi Pengaturan Sanksi Bagi Notaris Pengganti Terhadap Kesalahan Dalam Pembuatan Perjanjian Pengikatan Jual Beli (Ppjb) (Studi Putusan Majelis Pengawas Wilayah Notaris Provinsi Dki Jakarta Nomor: 13/Pts/Mj.Pwn.Prov.Dkijakarta/V/2024), Regina Triana Kamila

Indonesian Notary

Dalam pelaksanaan tugas dan jabatan notaris pengganti, kemungkinan terdapat kesalahan berupa pelanggaran dalam pembuatan akta sebagaimana yang terdapat dalam Putusan Majelis Pengawas Wilayah (MPW) Notaris Provinsi DKI Jakarta Nomor 13/PTS/Mj.PWN.Prov.DKIJakarta/V/2024 dimana terlapor sebagai notaris pengganti dalam membuat Akta PPJB tidak mematuhi ketentuan UUJN dan menjadikan akta tersebut sebagai dasar penjaminan objek tanah jual beli didalamnya melalui pembuatan SKMHT dalam perpanjangan kredit oleh pembeli di Bank. MPW menyatakan terlapor terbukti bersalah melanggar UUJN namun tidak memberikan sanksi apapun karena telah berakhir masa jabatannya. Permasalahan yang diteliti adalah kedudukan hukum Akta PPJB sebagai dasar penjaminan hak atas tanah pada pengajuan kredit di …

Kedudukan Pemegang Hak Guna Bangunan Pada Komplek Pertokoan Jalan Gajah Mada Kota Pekalongan Terkait Sengketa Kepemilikan Dengan Pt. Kereta Api Indonesia (Studi Kasus: Catatan Dalam Sertipikat Hak Guna Bangunan Nomor: 00138/Bendankergon), Nico Rexhan Halimana

Indonesian Notary

Artikel menganalisis mengenai kedudukan Pemegang Hak Guna Bangunan Nomor: 00138/Bendankergon. Pemegang Hak atas Tanah berupa Hak Guna Bangunan seharusnya mempunyai hak dalam melakukan perbuatan hukum sesuai dengan peraturan perundang – undangan. Pokok permasalahannya, dalam Sertipikat HGB Nomor: 00138/Bendankergon terdapat catatan dalam lembar pendaftaran peralihan hak, pembebanan, dan pencatatan lainnya pada kolom sebab perubahan, yaitu: “Selain pelayanan perpanjangan dan/atau pembaruan hak tidak dapat diproses sebelum terdapat kesepakatan antara masyarakat pemegang hak dengan PT. Kereta Api Indonesia dan/atau putusan pengadilan”. Catatan tersebut mengakibatkan pemegang HGB tidak dapat melakukan perbuatan hukum sesuai dengan peraturan perundang-undangan. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah doktrinal dengan tipologi …

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Re-Imagining Tomorrow: A Technology, Innovation Law, And Ethics Symposium On Addictive Technology And Children, Margaret Chon

Seattle University Law Review

In this Foreword, Professor Margaret Chon introduces Seattle University's Technology, Innovation Law, and Ethics (TILE) program, the 2024 TILE Symposium, and Dr. Gaia Bernstein’s Unwired: Gaining Control Over Addictive Technologies.

Keynote Address: The Movement To Protect Kids From Addictive Technologies, Gaia Bernstein

Seattle University Law Review

In this keynote address, I describe my personal journey starting with a school outreach program I created in 2017 to address technology overuse among kids. While I initially advocated for self-help methods, I grew to recognize that the tech industry bore responsibility. This realization led me to write Unwired: Gaining Control over Addictive Technologies, which focused on collective action to pressure the tech industry to redesign its addictive products.

I then describe the movement to control addictive technologies and protect kids, which has gained momentum since the end of the pandemic. This movement combines grassroots parent activism with legal-political action. …

Moral Panic Or Public Health Crisis? Lessons From Drugs And Gambling For “Addictive” Design, Matthew B. Lawrence, Haomin (Kevin) Yan

Seattle University Law Review

Alcohol, automobiles, guns, lottery, loot boxes, meat, music, opioid painkillers, processed foods, prop bets, slot machines, television, tobacco, violent video games. Over the last century each of these has been subject to concerns—some might even say “moral panics”—from parents and policymakers about avoidable harms to kids and adults. In some cases we look back with the benefit of hindsight and dismiss those concerns as naïve or moralistic. In others we look back at them as justified or as having come too late to check an expanding industry before it did unfathomable harm while growing so powerful that it became all …

Responding To Digital Addiction, Ned Snow

Seattle University Law Review

In Unwired: Gaining Control over Addictive Technologies, Professor Gaia Bernstein calls our attention to the growing problem of digital addiction. Digital addiction may sound like something out of a science-fiction novel or something that does not raise the same sort of real-life practical concerns as are present in a physical health crisis or an economic decline. But as Bernstein presents the evidence, we learn that the consequences of digital addiction can be just as harmful as a serious disease or a financial depression. Cognitive development disorders, anxiety, emotional depression, social isolation, and other mental health ills can be debilitating—as much …

The Ai Doppelgänger Dilemma: Cloned Voices In The Music Industry, Elizabeth Shields

Seattle University Law Review

With the rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI), there has been an influx of “voice clones”—deep-learning algorithms that create synthetic speech to realistically mimic human voices. Celebrities and, in particular, music artists, have been subjected to the proliferation of AI voice clones on social media platforms like TikTok and streaming platforms such as Spotify. Despite music utilizing AI voice clones having amassed much popularity, this technology can be harmful and highly invasive to musicians whose livelihoods often depend on their distinct voices. While legal scholars have attempted to articulate various rights that could protect a person’s voice, individuals are largely …