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2nd Circuit defers to executive will on application of sovereign immunity
The Second Circuit recently held that federal common law protections of sovereign immunity did not preclude prosecution of a state-owned foreign corporation.
Blockchain law
Serving process by airdropping NFTs: The next frontier?
New York Law Journal
Critical to obtaining effective relief against a wrongdoing defendant is being able to serve process on that defendant in a manner that the forum hearing the dispute will deem sufficient, and that meets constitutional due process requirements for giving a defendant notice.
Sometimes, though, this is easier said than done. This is especially so when litigating matters involving cryptocurrencies and other blockchain tokens. In such cases, the defendants being sued not infrequently operate only anonymously or pseudonymously, without ever disclosing their true names, physical addresses or even their general location—and that location might be anywhere in the world.
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Key takeaways from the G7 Competition Summit on Artificial Intelligence
Facing the fast-growing development of AI across the globe, particularly Generative AI (GenAI), the G7 competition authorities and policymakers (Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, the UK and the US) and the European Commission met in Italy on 3-4 October 2024 to discuss the main competition challenges raised by these new technologies in digital markets.
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