Petitions of the week
This week we highlight petitions pending before the Supreme Court that address the applicability of the government edicts doctrine to works that lack the force of law, the scope of a corporate issuers duty to update under Securities and Exchange Commission Rule 10b-5(b), and the ability of a nonsignatory to an arbitration agreement to compel arbitration under the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards.
Thepetitions of the week are:
Issue: Whether the Supreme Court should resolve the circuit split regarding a corporate issuers duty to update under Securities and Exchange Commission Rule 10b-5(b) and find that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit erred by imposing such a duty to a statement of historical fact that was accurate when made, when the value or weight of that prior statement was later diminished by subsequent events.
Issue: Whether the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards permits a nonsignatory to an arbitration agreement to compel arbitration based on the doctrine of equitable estoppel.
Issue:Whether the government edicts doctrine extends toand thus renders uncopyrightableworks that lack the force of law, such as the annotations in the Official Code of Georgia Annotated.
Posted in Cases in the Pipeline
Cases: Hagan v. Khoja, GE Energy Power Conversion France SAS v. Outokumpu Stainless USA LLC, Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org Inc.