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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Law 360

MAY 29, 2024

After the Delaware Chancery Court's decision in West Palm Beach Firefighters' Pension v.

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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

AUGUST 4, 2023

Aidana Tastanova is a Kazakhstan national and a 3rd year law student attending the Moscow State Institute of International Relations under a Kazakh government scholarship. To date, according to the Prosecutor General, almost 760 billion tenge has been returned to Kazakhstan.

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JURIST

JUNE 2, 2024

The Kansas Supreme Court held Friday that there is no fundamental right to vote in the state’s constitution in a complex ruling related three 2021 election laws concerning false representation of election officials, verification of advance ballots and limitations on their collection.

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JURIST

APRIL 7, 2024

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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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 4, 2024

Last January, the Supreme Court refused to disturb an order by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit that temporarily allowed New York to enforce a new concealed-carry law while multiple challenges to the law proceed. But the court did not specify exactly what history courts must look to.

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 1, 2024

The latest issue of the J ournal of Private International Law was published yesterday It contains the following articles. Saloni Khanderia, The law applicable to documentary letters of credit in India: A riddle wrapped in an enigma?

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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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JURIST

MARCH 8, 2024

Concealed weapons permits are still available for gun owners who wish to have their right to carry recognized in other states via reciprocity laws. 16 other states currently allow legal carry through reciprocity agreements with South Carolina without any other restrictions. Permitless carry is now legal in 27 US states.

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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. We will finally abolish it and replace it with a modern self-determination law.

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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

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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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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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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HowAppealing

MAY 20, 2022

“The 5th Circuit’s Ambush Against the SEC Is Unprecedented and Shocking; Two conservative judges are threatening to turn the executive branch into an instrument of the president’s personal power”: Law professor Blake Emerson has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

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Mondaq

JULY 5, 2022

The law on Indigenous rights and interests in Canada continues to evolve based on court decisions and government policies and legislation.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The argument revealed a bench deeply skeptical of the uncertainty maritime insurance contracts would face under a lower-court decision limiting the enforcement of choice-of-law clauses in those contracts. Often, when the parties are from different jurisdictions, they select a neutral forum and its law.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Russia’s media regulator Roskomnadzor Saturday blocked the website of prominent rights and protest monitoring group OVD-Info after a court decision, the group said in a statement. The Russian government adopted the Federal Law of December 30, 2020, No. Russia has also adopted the Federal Law of July 20, 2012, No.

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Law 360

MARCH 4, 2022

Supreme Court in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency has shed light on how the court's decision could significantly limit the federal government's efforts to address climate change, and reshape administrative law and the separation of powers, say Matthew Sinkman and Andrew Alessandro at Gibbons.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

The Supreme Court of Georgia Wednesday reinstated the state’s six-week abortion ban after a lower court found the 2019 act unconstitutional on November 15. In a one-page order, the court granted the state’s request to stay the lower court decision. The lower court reasoned that Roe v.

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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. Because the law requires a general intent, Stiglich found no risk of arbitrary enforcement.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 30, 2024

The Japanese Yearbook of Private International Law ( kokusai shiho nenpo ) (hereinafter “JYPIL”) is an annual publication of the Private International Law Association of Japan ( kokusai shih? It suggests that Japan might consider recognizing parentage through foreign decisions.

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JURIST

APRIL 24, 2021

The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard oral arguments in two cases involving one of its own precedents regarding felony firearms possession. The issues in both cases involves the federal law that prohibits felons from possessing firearms, 18 USC §922(g). 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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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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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 19, 2022

Share Four years ago, Congress passed the First Step Act , a bipartisan criminal-justice law that aimed to reduce overly severe sentences. Last year, the Supreme Court trimmed the scope of that law, unanimously ruling that one of its reforms does not apply to certain low-level crack-cocaine offenders. The case, Concepcion v.

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JURIST

MAY 22, 2024

While the meeting particularly emphasised the effects these judgments will have on the UK, the experts also discussed the contents of climate-related judgments and their impacts on the rule of law. The committee cut off the public meeting due to time constraints, but further position papers are expected from the experts.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

AUGUST 28, 2023

Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of state laws requiring corporations operating within their borders to consent to personal jurisdiction when they register to do business in those states. According to the Court, such laws do not offend the Constitution’s Due Process Clause. Norfolk Southern Railway Co. ,

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

While Section 14 exempts “any game of mere skill” from the provisions of the Act, Section 14A empowers the state government to exempt any game in which “the element of skill is more predominant than the element of chance.” However, in February 2021, the government issued another notification banning online rummy.

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HowAppealing

AUGUST 2, 2021

” You can access Thursday’s ruling of a partially divided three-judge panel of the U.S.

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Above The Law

AUGUST 26, 2022

This lively debate showcases how Supreme Court decisions can drive conversations in Congress. The post Congressional Responses To <em>Dobbs</em> appeared first on Above the Law.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 28, 2022

In the 2-1 decision, the court dismissed various fraud and theft charges against former hedge-fund partners Theodore Huber and Robert Olan, political intelligence consultant David Blaszczak and former US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) employee Christopher Worrall.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 31, 2023

This blogpost is an edited version of this blogpost written in Dutch by Stichting IJI (The Hague Institute for private international law and foreign law). Furthermore, on July 4 a bill was proposed that encloses several private international law provisions. This blogpost briefly highlights both developments.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Share The Supreme Court on Tuesday morning declined to put a Louisiana trial seeking compensation for the “existential threat” posed by coastal land loss on hold while the defendants in the case, a group of oil companies, seek review of a state court decision rejecting their request to transfer the case.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 23, 2023

Very recently, Indonesian private international law has attracted significant scholarship in the English language. [1] 1] Dr Penasthika’s monograph (‘the monograph’) [2] is one such work that deserves attention for its compelling and comprehensive account of choice of law in international commercial contracts in Indonesia.

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