U.S. courts have a long-standing tradition of recognizing or enforcing the laws and court rulings of other nations as an exercise of international "comity." Prior to the enactment of chapter 15 of the ...

The case arose in 2005 when various vitamin C purchasers in the United States filed numerous suits against a Chinese vitamin C manufacturer and its holding company alleging that the defendants and ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. Below, Stanford Law School’s Annasara Purcell recaps Tuesday’s ruling in Levin v. Commerce Energy, No. 09-223. Josh Branson of ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. This term of the court has had plenty of arguably boring cases on statutory interpretation, pre-emption and procedure. But ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

US president Donald Trump will call for unity and “comity” in his State of the Union address later Tuesday amidst a continuing political standoff over a border wall he vowed to build as a candidate ...

Today's word is one we don't hear very often -- perhaps, because there is so little of it anymore. comity(KOM-uh-tee), noun: 1. A state of mutual harmony, friendship, and respect, especially between ...

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