JURIST

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Ernesa Shala is a JURIST staff correspondent in Kosovo and a recent graduate of the University of Pristina Faculty of Law. She files this dispatch from Pristina. Due to concerns that the unresolved situation between Kosovo and Serbia could increase instability in the region, NATO Foreign Ministers meeting in Brussels this week are discussing the tensions in the Western Balkans, amid calls for increasing the alliance’s military presence.

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The Estrin Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

By Chere B. Estrin At the ungodly hour of 3:30 a.m., I am jolted awake to pitch-black darkness. Panicking, I fumbled around, desperately trying to figure out why my world had turned into a sightless abyss. No lights, no window, no door, no lights in the backyard, just me, groping for my phone like a blindfolded contestant on a reality show. I get it in my hand but I can’t see it.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Lee Yoon-seop, a 68-year-old man from South Korea, was sentenced to 14 months in jail Monday for writing a poem that praised North Korea and entering it into a competition organised by a North Korean propaganda website, according to the Yonhap News Agency. He was charged with breaching South Korea’s National Security Act which, under Article 7, bans praising, inciting or propagating activities of an antigovernment organization.

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Above The Law

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

ChatGPT can figure out how broken Citizens United was, but then it's not actively on the take. The post Harvard Law School Professor Finds ChatGPT Invents Fake Law Less Than The Supreme Court appeared first on Above the Law.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Panama’s Supreme Court unanimously held Tuesday that the 20-year concession for the Canadian Cobre Panamá copper mine was unconstitutional. In its judgement, the courts found that Law 406 of October 20, 2023, which granted the mining concession to Minera Panama, the Panamanian subsidiary of Canadian First Quantum Minerals, was unconstitutional and struck down the entire law.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In what it appears would be a first for a federal circuit court, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is considering adoption of a rule change that would require lawyers and unrepresented litigants to provide a certification regarding their use of artificial intelligence in preparing court filings. Lawyers and other filers would be required to certify either that they had not used AI in drafting the document or that, if they did, “a human” had reviewed the document for accuracy.

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The Process Street

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

A 2017 study from Pew Research found that more than 70% of the U.S. is scared that robots are going to take over our lives. And, while we can’t perfectly predict the emergence of a Skynet singularity, we can say with some certainty that technology is set to take over the repetitive, dehumanizing elements of our jobs instead of putting us out of work.

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Above The Law

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The Wealth Is Making Its Way Around: Bonuses and salary raises at Cleary , Skadden , Dechert , Proskauer , Hogan Lovells , Baker McKenzie , and Paul Weiss. Looking To Get Fired?: Here's a quick how-to guide. Did You Pay For That?: You can't just use Kim K's likeness without paying for it ! Prepare Ye Cards!: Did you do your submission for ATL's 15th Annual Holiday Card Contest ?

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Share The Supreme Court on Monday afternoon denied a request from the leaders of the Arizona legislature to put on hold an order that would require them to be deposed about the legislature’s enactment of voting laws that make it more difficult to register to vote. In a brief unsigned order without any noted dissents , the justices turned down an emergency filing from Ben Toma, the speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives, and Warren Petersen, the president of the Arizona Senate.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

According to a UN report issued Tuesday, there has been a rise in gang violence in Haiti’s central rural region, an area previously considered safe from the increased instability in the country. The report includes a call for the urgent deployment of the multinational security support mission, as well as reinforcement of local police forces. For the past year, Haiti has seen a sharp rise in killings, kidnappings and sexual violence at the hands of criminal groups in Port-au-Prince and surr

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FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

By Riëtte van Laack & Anne K. Walsh — Although the Consumer Product Safety Act (CPSA) has been around for over 50 years to “protect the public against unreasonable risks of injury associated with consumer products,” it was not until 2008 that the statute was amended to authorize the Consumer Product Safety Commission (“CPSC”) to impose criminal liability against individual directors, officers, or agents of a corporation for violating the CPSA.

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Attorney at Work

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Holiday parties can be more awkward than meeting the parents. Try these tips to become confident. The post How to Take the Awkward Out of Holiday Parties appeared first on Attorney at Work.

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Above The Law

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Illinois indicates that the Machiavellian machinations of corporate colluders over œufs were the culinary culprit in this sense-scrambling story. The post There Really Was A Corporate Conspiracy To Inflate Egg Prices, And It’s Been Proven In Federal Court appeared first on Above the Law.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Once upon a time, in a magical city called San Francisco, three former lawyers came together to develop an innovative legal research platform, as an alternative to traditional legal research services such as Thomson Reuters Westlaw and LexisNexis. They called their new company Casetext. Their original idea was to create a free, comprehensive library of primary legal research materials, supplemented by crowdsourced annotations and edits contributed by users, like a Wikipedia for law.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Amnesty International released a report on Friday urging authorities to protect abortion rights defenders, including healthcare workers, more effectively. The group interviewed 48 abortion rights defenders globally and found that these defenders have experienced increasing difficulty in their work as they have been subject to stigmatization and unjust prosecutions.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Share Wednesday’s argument in Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy was oddly distant from the decision of the lower court and the briefs and arguments of the parties. The decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit – vigorously defended by George Jarkesy, the target of long-running SEC proceedings – accepted three separate constitutional challenges to the SEC’s apparatus.

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The D.C. Court of Appeals reached for — but didn't necessarily find — a limiting principle on Tuesday morning as it heard arguments over whether it should revive a lawsuit accusing Coca-Cola of making misleading statements to consumers about its sustainability efforts to "greenwash" its products.

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Above The Law

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Novo Nordisk’s planned expansion will more than double the footprint of its France production site, bringing new capacity for manfacturing GLP-1 drugs for metabolic conditions. The location is already one of the company’s largest for making diabetes products.

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Attorney at Work

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Brian Greene | The idea of being a jack-of-all-trades is appealing, but we found our sweet spot really getting to know a specific industry. The post How Narrow Focus Can Lead to Broad Opportunities for a Small Law Firm appeared first on Attorney at Work.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The Human Rights Council of Pakistan (HRCP) released a statement Tuesday concerning “state machinery” stopping the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party (led by jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan ) from participating in political activities. The Council denounced the move as being a “fundamental violation of human rights” as leaders and members of the party are being arrested for carrying out political duties.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Share Tuesday’s argument in McElrath v. Georgia will take the justices back to law-school basics – the case could be a question on a law-school examination in criminal law. The facts are simple. Damian McElrath was prosecuted for several crimes after he stabbed his adoptive mother, Diane McElrath, to death in 2012. The case went to trial, where the jury returned a verdict that, among other things, found McElrath not guilty by reason of insanity on a charge of malice murder – the most serious mur

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

A medical wholesaler executive's wife is trying to stop Abbott Laboratories from reaching into her trust in order to satisfy a $33 million judgment against the pair that came after they were found to have engaged in discovery fraud.

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Above The Law

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Now will the rest of Biglaw react? The post Cravath Announces Raises — Comes Over The Top Of Milbank Scale (For Some Associates) appeared first on Above the Law.

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NewYorkCourtWatcher

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Yikes! It's been a few months. First, it was severe neck trauma that kept me totally out of commission for a while, and since then it's been zealously catching up on delayed deadlines and postponed commitments. Now, for better or worse, I'm back!There's lots to address about both the Supreme Court and New York's high court, the Court of Appeals. Let's begin with the latter.

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