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Health your username 5 days ago Judge Eli Richardson of the Middle District of Tennessee on Monday denied a motion to dismiss by South Carolina-based Medical University Hospital Authority (MUHA) in a suit alleging that the defendant breached an agreement with plaintiffs CHS/Community Health Systems Inc. and CHSOSC LLC stipulating that the defendant would purchase the assets of four hospitals. The plaintiffs alleged in their complaint that the defendant breached their agreement by failing to pay the full agreed-upon price of the transaction and failing to pass on communications regarding sell...

Biden administration backs PennEast pipeline after Supreme Court takes the case Updated Mar 10, 2021; Facebook Share The Biden administration has thrown its support behind a $1 billion natural gas pipeline in the midst of a Supreme Court battle that will shape the future of natural gas and pipeline construction projects across the country. The U.S. Supreme Court decided last month that it would hear the appeal of the PennEast Pipeline Company, which is seeking to build a 120-mile natural gas pipeline that would originate in Pennsylvania and traverse through western Hunterdon County and Merce...

Jury Trials to Resume Again! The world has been battling the COVID-19 pandemic for a year now. All sectors of life, from businesses to schools, to courts, to places of worship, have socially-distanced and shifted to technology to carry out their work. A year ago, on March 14, 2020, Chief Justice Melton of the Supreme Court of Georgia declared a Statewide Judicial Emergency in the State of Georgia due to the “transmission of Coronavirus/COVID-19 throughout the State and the potential infection of those who work in or are required to appear in our courts.”[i] The first order suspended all j...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: China’s most recent amendment to its Criminal Law updates the sentencing framework for non-state functionaries charged with corruption. Under the current framework, non-state functionaries are subject to lighter sentences than state-functionaries for corrupt acts. The amendment addresses this imbalance and aims to render greater protection to the private sector. On December 26, 2020, China’s National People’s Congress (" NPC") promulgated the Eleventh Amendment to China’s Criminal Law (the " Amendment"). The Amendment, which...

By Maya van Rossum The Supreme Court has announced it will take up the case of PennEast Pipeline Co. v. New Jersey. In September 2019, the Third Circuit determined that the PennEast Pipeline Co., as a private company, does not have the authority to use eminent domain to seize lands owned by the state of New Jersey.   The decision effectively blocked PennEast from a third of its planned route through New Jersey, crippling the project. The PennEast Pipeline Co. then petitioned for certiorari in the Supreme Court.    The law is clear, and the Eleventh Amendment protects New Jersey fr...