Broadcast Law Blog

JULY 13, 2021

Last week, we wrote about two dissenting opinions in a Supreme Court decision that highlight the debate that is underway on the principles that govern defamation liability in the United States. But would today’s Court see things the same way?

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JURIST

JUNE 9, 2022

The APPGDC reviewed UK Supreme Court decisions, heard testimony from lawyers and judges, and reviewed public statements from Johnson and other member of his government. The report also cited alleged statements through a government source saying Johnson “ wants to get the judges sorted.”

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Human rights groups the Public Law Project, Bail for Immigration Detainees and Medical Justice Monday released a joint report calling upon the UK government to immediately end GPS electronic monitoring of immigration bailees. The tracking devices do not have an expiry date and can only be removed by court decision.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

An Idaho judge has issued a $250,000 arrest warrant for anti-government activist Ammon Bundy, the man who organized a takeover of an Oregon wildlife reserve that left one of his supporters dead, Andrew Buncombe reports for The Guardian. Bundy fell foul of the court after not attending hearings in relation to a $52.5m

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JURIST

MAY 26, 2023

The post HRW: Chad government owes millions in compensation to victims of former war-criminal president appeared first on JURIST - News.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

” This is consistent with past Albertan administrations, which have challenged the constitutionality of federal firearms legislation and the federal government’s carbon tax scheme. .” The current Albertan government has been a regular and vocal critic of the federal government’s emission reduction targets.

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Broadcast Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

With so much focus on the upcoming regulatory fee deadline, broadcasters may well overlook another more imminent deadline – Thursday, September 15 is the deadline for broadcasters to have assured themselves that no buyer of program time on their stations is a foreign government or an agent of a foreign government.

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At the Lectern

JANUARY 31, 2024

The Supreme Court held that evidence falling within the spontaneous-statement exception to the hearsay rule is not automatically admissible at a probation revocation hearing, but that admissibility is subject to a balancing of the “defendant’s confrontation interests against any countervailing interests of the government.”

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The Crime Report

JUNE 17, 2022

The British government has approved an extradition order for Julian Assange, confirming a court decision that he can be sent to the United States to stand trial on espionage charges, reports the New York Times.

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JURIST

APRIL 7, 2024

The Brazilian Supreme Court ordered X Corp. X’s Global Government Affairs account said that the company was “forced by court decisions to block certain popular accounts in Brazil,” adding that no reason was provided as to why or any details given regarding the posts that allegedly violate the law.

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 28, 2023

This includes (i) the law that is applicable to the merits of the dispute, (ii) the institutional rules that govern the conduct of the arbitration, (iii) law that governs the arbitration agreement, including its interpretation, generally referred to as the ‘proper law of the arbitration agreement’. Public policy of which state? –

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The Federal Court of Canada delivered a decision on Thursday overturning the federal government’s order to list plastic-manufactured items (PMIs) under Schedule 1 of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act 1999 (CEPA). It will consider further arguments before deciding.

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At the Lectern

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

.” The court concludes in a unanimous opinion by Justice Joshua Groban that, unlike the Court of Appeal, “We find no clear indication in the record that the sentencing court would have imposed the same sentence had it been aware of ‘ “the scope of its discretionary powers” ’ under the current [Penal Code] section 1170.”

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JURIST

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Pakistan’s Islamabad High Court granted on Thursday former three-time Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif protective bail, according to local media Pakistan Today. The protective bail restrains authorities from arresting Sharif until he appears before court on October 24. The PMLN was founded by Sharif in 1993.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 31, 2023

The court’s Thursday ruling upheld two lower court decisions. In January 2019, the Seoul High Court decided that Hitachi Zosen owed damages to its former workers. The same court then found the same for Mitsubishi Heavy in June 2019. . $116,000), respectively, to victims of forced labor during World War II.

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JURIST

MARCH 8, 2024

The bill includes certain restrictions on “constitutional carry” by restricting the possession of firearms at many government buildings, law enforcement and correctional facilities, schools, daycares and polling places. Permitless carry is now legal in 27 US states.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The petition for reconsideration was brought by Delilah Diaz, a California woman who was convicted of transporting drugs into the US after the government presented expert testimony to disprove Diaz’s claim that she did not know she was carrying drugs.

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JURIST

MARCH 13, 2023

Under the government of Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, politically motivated migration has increased, and between 9 million and 14 million Egyptian people now live abroad. In 2018, hundreds of Egyptian people were added to this “terrorism” list by court decisions that did not allow hearings or challenges from the alleged terrorists.

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Broadcast Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Facially, the service looked much like that offered by Aereo, which the Supreme Court determined seven years ago violated federal copyright law by retransmitting TV stations without first obtaining the consent of the copyright holders (see our article here on the Aereo Supreme Court decision).

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JURIST

APRIL 19, 2024

The Nevada Supreme Court upheld a 2021 state ban on ghost guns Thursday, overturning a lower-court decision that declared the law unconstitutional for being vague. Stiglich authored the opinion of the court. That year, a US District Court also upheld the law, ruling that it did not violate the Second Amendment.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 30, 2022

The Supreme Court has upped the burden of proof for prosecutors looking to hold physicians accountable for their role in fueling America’s opioid crisis, reports Bloomberg News. The government now has to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a doctor intended to or knew they were acting unauthorized when prescribing controlled substances.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Bruen , which stated: [W]hen the Second Amendment’s plain text covers an individual’s conduct, the Constitution presumptively protects that conduct…[T]he government must demonstrate that the regulation is consistent with this Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The nation asserts that the city lacks criminal jurisdiction over Native Americans on the tribe’s lands without express congressional authorization, as per the 2020 US Supreme Court case McGirt v. We continue to welcome government-to-government cooperation with the City of Tulsa.

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ABA Journal

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Supreme Court decisions on Oct. 18 show the justices are continuing to broadly interpret qualified immunity to limit suits against government officials,… Two unanimous U.S.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The case is in the US District Court for the Central District of California. The judge based his ruling on the two-part test from the US Supreme Court decision last year in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Carney found that the California law violates the Second Amendment of the US Constitution.

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Broadcast Law Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2022

These certifications must indicate that the programmer is not a “ foreign government entity ,” a term that includes any foreign government or foreign-government owned entity, an agent of a foreign government, or someone who has been paid by a foreign government to produce the program.

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Law 360

JANUARY 1, 2024

Although 2023 was a tough year for the digital asset industry, upcoming court decisions, legislation and regulatory action will bring clarity, allowing the industry to expand and evolve, and the government will decide what innovation it will allow without challenge, says Joshua Smeltzer at Gray Reed.

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JURIST

JUNE 8, 2023

United States that in order to constitute aggravated identity theft, the use of a person’s identity must be at the “crux” of what makes the conduct criminal, reversing a lower court decision. The government also applied a sentence enhancement under 18 U.S.C.

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HowAppealing

MAY 20, 2022

And online at Vox, Ian Millhiser has an essay titled “ A wild new court decision would blow up much of the government’s ability to operate; The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit’s decision in Jarkesy v.

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JURIST

JUNE 30, 2022

The German government Thursday presented plans to make it easier for transgender people to legally change their first name and gender, ending the current rules which require an expert assessment and court authorization.

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JURIST

MAY 2, 2022

Under the government speech doctrine, the government may communicate its own messages and decide, even based on content and viewpoint, which speech to convey. However, if the government creates a public forum for others to speak, it may not restrict speech based on viewpoint.

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JURIST

MARCH 31, 2021

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Monday denied the federal government’s motion to stay a district court decision striking down the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) eviction moratorium. In response to COVID-19, the CDC ordered a nationwide moratorium on residential evictions last fall.

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JURIST

MAY 19, 2022

The court found that a lower court decision to dismiss the case against Dish was wrong. Vermont National) on behalf of the US government under the False Claims Act. Vermont National alleges that Dish defrauded the US government of $3.3 Vermont National alleges that Dish defrauded the US government of $3.3

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Law 360

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

billion purchase of Activision Blizzard, while the agency waits to learn whether the Ninth Circuit will overturn the lower court's decision to deny the government's request to temporarily pause the transaction. Federal Trade Commission is reviving its in-house opposition of Microsoft's planned $68.7

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

US Senior District Judge David Alan Ezra granted the US Department of Justice’s request for the preliminary injunction pending a final judgment in the dispute between Texas and the US federal government. The DOJ sued pursuant to its enforcement powers in the Rivers and Harbors Act.

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JURIST

APRIL 24, 2021

United States the Court held that in order to convict someone under the statute, the government must prove both that a defendant knew he possessed a firearm and that he knew he belonged to a category of persons prohibited from possessing firearms. Decisions in both cases should come this summer. Two years ago in Rehaif v.

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JURIST

APRIL 28, 2023

UK Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Steve Barclay Thursday welcomed a High Court decision which found that the Royal College of Nursing’s (RCN) strike scheduled for May 2 is illegal. The decision comes only a few days after Barclay announced he would take legal action to prevent the strike.

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