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“Justice Amy Coney Barrett Issues Her First Majority Opinion; The 7-to-2 ruling rejected an environmental group’s Freedom of Information Act request”

HowAppealing

Robert Barnes of The Washington Post reports that “ Supreme Court sides with government over environmentalists in Barrett’s first signed majority opinion.” ” John Fritze of USA Today reports that “ Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett delivers first opinion in case involving records disclosure.”

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This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: October 1, 2022 to October 7, 2022

Broadcast Law Blog

FCC , which rejected the requirement that broadcast licensees independently check two federal databases to verify whether an airtime lessee is a “foreign governmental entity” (see our Broadcast Law Blog article on the Court’s decision here ). The draft Order would extend the temporary freeze on applications in the 12.7

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Women of Legal Tech: Nicole Morris

LawTechnologyToday

Lawyers are using data analytics and predictive coding to review documents, draft contracts and to determine the outcome of court decisions. This project evolved from a case study about the Theranos hoax that I drafted for my course the Fundamentals of Innovation.

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China Adopts Restrictive Theory of Foreign State Immunity

Conflict of Laws

In two prior posts ( here and here ), I discussed a draft of the FSIL (English translation here ). In this post I analyze the final version of the law, noting some of its key provision and identifying changes from the draft, some of which address issues that I had identified. These provisions track Articles 7-9 of the U.N. Convention.

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Why File a Protective Claim for Refund for Cannabis?

Hoban Law Group

The filing of “protective” claims for refund as a hedge against the draconian provisions that govern the federal taxation of cannabis, and particularly for marijuana, is one of those things properly placed at the top of the no-brainer list. It is not a DIY.

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Are Alaska Native corporations Indian tribes? A multimillion-dollar question

SCOTUSBlog

Oklahoma last term, the court confronted the complex past of Oklahoma’s Native nations, Chehalis turns on the unique legal history of Alaskan Natives. Though Alaska became part of the United States in 1867, the federal government only fitfully devoted attention to the status of the new territory’s Indigenous peoples.

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Canada dispatch: ‘what will happen in the US if Roe is overturned is not impossible here’

JURIST

This rushed, desperate attempt came in the aftermath of a draft US Supreme Court decision leaked earlier this month that would overturn the seminal case of Roe v Wade (1973). The leak and the threat of a Roe reversal has prompted demonstrations both for and against the decision all over the world, including Canada.