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Uvalde Teacher Opens Court Proceedings Against Gun Maker

The Crime Report

In the first reported legal action taken as a result of the mass shooting, Marin petitioned the court to force the company to sit for a deposition, as well as to produce materials related to its website, profits, lobbying, sales and marketing of AR-15-style rifles like the one used at the shooting.

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Kenya dispatch: DRC joins East Africa bloc in Nairobi ceremony

JURIST

This came after meeting the requisite conditions of membership and legal capacity as established under Articles 3 and 4 of the Treaty for the Establishment of the EAC. The instruments of ratification will afterwards be deposited with the EAC secretary-general. DRC will be part of EAC in all sectors, activities and programmes.

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Updates to CBP’s Global Business Identifier Test

Customs & International Trade Law

To continue this progress, CBP began working with the Border Interagency Executive Council (BIEC) and the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) starting in 2017, to discuss the continuing viability of the data element known as the manufacturer or shipper identification code ( MID ).

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Law School Canons: The Spoils of Discovery

Patently O

The first line of class notes I took in Civil Procedure during our discovery module says, “Spoliation – OLD LEGAL DOCTRINE.” In relevant part, the ‘543 Patent covers a two-step method for manufacturing a sheet pile section with an interlock connector. You can email ideas for future posts to avery@patentlyo.com. – Dennis Crouch.

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The Beginning of the End of the MID

Customs & International Trade Law

Get GBIs (D–U–N–S®, GLN, and LEI), or be in the process of obtaining them, from the manufacturers, shippers, and sellers. Failure to deposit duties or fees in a timely manner. facilitates legal compliance across the U.S. I consider this the beginning of the end of MID’s with an extra layer of snooping for targeting data.

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Tennessee Court of Appeals: HCLA plaintiff should have been allowed to substitute expert.

Day on Torts

During Dr. Allen’s deposition, he testified that the decedent would “probably be alive” if he had sought treatment earlier, and defendant doctor thereafter filed a motion to amend his answer to plead the comparative fault of decedent. Plaintiff identified Dr. Sobel as his standard of care expert and Dr. Allen as his causation expert.

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Texas Professor Sues University After Being Allegedly Threatened Over His Criticism of CRT and DEI

JonathanTurley

The defendants are likely to argue that the instances of reduced speech were manufactured or calculated in anticipation of legal action. If Lowery makes it through a motion to dismiss, he could start to call some of these officials into depositions. Others even lead the mob to target colleagues. Here is the complaint: Lowery v.