More than 300 autonomous members of the Holy Roman Empire came together to create a common currency based on silver in the mid-sixteenth century. Drawing on a new book, Oliver Volckart explains the background to this important moment in Europe’s economic history. In the mid-sixteenth century, the Holy Roman Empire had about 300 largely autonomous…
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1532-1609 OCEAN AVE LLC v. HERTZAN, 2024 NY Slip Op 24180 – NY: City Court, Civil Court 2024: This is a nonpayment proceeding commenced against Dena Hertzan (“respondent”) on the basis of an unregulated lease agreement to pay rent in the amount of $1,800 per month commencing April 1, 2020 and expiring March 31, 2021….
The Appellate Division Second Department recently ruled that, under the procedure followed by objecting neighbors, the local Zoning Board of Appeals (“ZBA”) lacked jurisdiction to rule on the neighbors’ objection. In Matter of Capetola v. Town of Riverhead, the Petitioners/Plaintiffs (“Petitioners”), who owned a property nearby the property in contention, had raised an issue as…
The University of Windsor’s agreements with encampment protesters and a student group have rightly raised concerns about antisemitism given their double standard treatment of Israeli institutions and impact on academic freedoms. While much of the initial emphasis has focused on the ill-advised decision to effectively establish a ban on agreements with Israeli institutions and establish…
The walk and turn has over a hundred little steps, so even a 97% correct is a big fail. Police criteria on whether you pass or fail field sobriety is extremely subjective. What exactly is involved in the walk and turn test?Can we defend this test just based on common sense? Read on to see…
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The Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (“ACPA”) is a federal law – part of the Lanham Act that deals with trademarks and unfair competition. It says that a person can be liable if he or she registers a domain name that contains another’s distinctive trademark with a bad faith intent to profit from that mark. One…
The Bye’s divorced in 2010. In 2015 they entered into a consent order for child support for their two children, who were then 10 and 12 years old. The youngest child turned 19 in August of 2019 and the eldest attained the age of 19 in February 2021. Both remained in the primary residence of Ms. Bye….
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The Globe and Mail runs my opinion piece on Canada’s digital services tax today. I open by noting that the Canadian government’s efforts to regulate big tech companies sometimes feels like a series of high-stakes poker matches in which the government foolishly bets that readily apparent risks can be ignored. That approach has proven costly:…
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Manolis Perakis, Assistant Professor of EU Law, Law School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece In the context of promoting the rule of law as a fundamental value that must govern the action of the Union and its Member States, the CJEU delivered its judgment on appeal in Venezuela v Council case (C-872/19)…
Here’s a common scenario most face when they know of a deceased person who used to live in New York, moved out of the country, but still had a safety deposit box in the state: The deceased died in Ecuador. Years later, the family receive a letter from Chase Bank about the decedent’s two safety…
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