The Crime Report

APRIL 5, 2022

Recommendations include: Establish national governance guidelines to set standards for 911 systems, including a “high-level federal position and cabinet-level working group.”. Ensure that state statutes require communication interoperability among fire, police, EMS, and alternative responders.

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FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Lewis, Senior Regulatory Device & Biologics Expert — We were preparing this blogpost about FDA’s draft guidance on “Remote Interactive Evaluations” when we learned something. What was added in the new draft guidance? By Douglas B. Farquhar & Richard A. We should explain what RIEs are. Comments on the guidance are invited.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 4, 2021

Independence in no shape or form means that the lawyers or the lawyers’ association will not be responsive toward the government; rather it means that lawyers will kept away from political pressure and thus work in the best possible manner toward ensuring justice to the public.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

How do you convert that into a statute that is focusing on the debtor?”. For Kagan, Harris’s discussion seemed “to be saying that Congress is just careless when it writes this statute.” As Kagan went on to explain, though, congressional carelessness doesn’t suggest a vote for Harris: “There are some statutes where Congress is careless.

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MyCase

APRIL 24, 2024

Survey respondents confirmed they use GAI to streamline firm processes, from drafting marketing content to finding specific statutes. With a detailed prompt or series of prompts, the application can quickly draft, edit, or summarize documents. ChatGPT can produce quick drafts of client emails. Drafting marketing content.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Texas was another instance of a common jurisprudential problem for the justices: how should a modern court, largely devoted to textualism in its statutory interpretation, deal with cases about Native American tribes, which traditionally have depended on historical and contextual understandings only weakly linked to the text of the statute.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Commissioner Andrew Clapham said that many of the acts being committed, in addition to amounting to human rights violations, may be tantamount to crimes under international law provided in the draft statute of the Hybrid Court for South Sudan.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 15, 2022

The question in Boechler is whether the statute bars a taxpayer who missed the deadline from asserting equitable tolling, which allows courts to excuse missed deadlines in some circumstances. Under applicable precedent, if the statute makes the 30-day time limit jurisdictional, then equitable-tolling claims are barred.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 18, 2021

The oil companies contended that Baltimore was seeking to hold them liable for their exploration for and production of fossil fuels at the direction of federal officials – for example, when they produced fossil fuels offshore under leases with the government that gave the government significant control over some parts of the companies’ operations.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 17, 2023

The federal government has ordered the seven Colorado River states to reduce their water usage by one-fifth. The federal government and the states of Arizona, Colorado, and Nevada, which intervened below, successfully sought Supreme Court review. California , governing the apportionment of water from the Colorado River.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 17, 2023

But even though the benefits that smart surfaces offer are quantifiable and significant, there are legal barriers to local governments enacting policies designed to replace traditional surfaces at a large scale. Municipalities are subdivisions of the state that have only the authority granted to them by state law.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 22, 2022

The Prime Minister also suggested that many Indian statutes and legislations currently consist of complicated legal jargon. There is an ease of language which persists in the laws drafted around the world. He pointed out how several countries have a common practice of explaining certain technical terms.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 27, 2021

First, she concluded, “recognized” should be given its ordinary meaning, rather than construed as a term of art for the formal government-to-government relationship between the United States and federally recognized tribes (which, everyone acknowledges, does not encompass the ANCs).

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 28, 2023

The plain text of the statute requires no more, the government contended: An assessment was, in fact, made against Remo Polselli, and each administrative summons was “issued in aid of the collection” of Remo’s assessed taxes. United States , the district court emphasized the need to embrace the plain language of the statute.

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Statute has left little of the common law untouched. The Interaction between a Mandatory Law and an Exclusive Jurisdiction Clause Statutes generally fall into one of three categories (see Maria Hook, ‘The “Statutist Trap” and Subject-Matter Jurisdiction’ (2017) 13(2) Journal of Private International Law 435).

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Paralegal-Edu.Org

APRIL 26, 2024

Understanding the Paralegal Profession Paralegals, who are also be called legal assistants, are the qualifying persons who have specialized knowledge and skills and assist lawyers to work in various legal settings, including private law firms, organizations’ corporate legal departments, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Share The fate of hundreds of millions of dollars in unclaimed money may depend on the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the term “money order” in an arcane 1974 federal statute. A 1974 law, known as the Disposition of Abandoned Money Orders and Traveler’s Check Act, governs certain unclaimed financial products.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 16, 2021

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. Most importantly for Chehalis , ANCSA departed from long-standing models of federal Indian law that governed the lower 48 states.

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LexForti

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Post-independence, the Indian government gave careful consideration to enacting several rules and legislation to ensure safe and efficient maritime trade. All the above laws and statutes were not according to the prevailing Indian System. In this field, numerous laws, rules, and regulations have been enacted. Conclusion.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JULY 28, 2022

The bill that would seemingly have the potential to lift those restrictions is the Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act, a draft bill that would remove marijuana from Schedule I, which is the list of drugs that are prohibited for all purposes under federal law (see draft text here and summaries here and here ).

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Hoban Law Group

APRIL 13, 2021

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. Consider what you may lose by not filing a protective claim.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 30, 2021

However, “laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings” are presumptively valid, implying that arms may be carried in non-sensitive places. Sir John Knight (1686) read the statute to prohibit “going or riding armed in affray of peace,” i.e., in a manner “to terrify the King’s subjects.”

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 23, 2022

Even Justice Clarence Thomas led off the questioning by noting that Arizona’s position that the statute governs would render Martinez “pretty worthless.”. In my oral argument recap , I discussed how several of the conservative justices seemed genuinely to struggle with that question.

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 10, 2022

Over the course of five days, HCCH Members reviewed progress made to date and agreed on the work programme for the year ahead in terms of normative, non-normative and governance work. More information is available here. More information is available here. Publications and Documentation.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 27, 2022

Empire Health Foundation, the Supreme Court had yet another chance to topple the Chevron doctrine , a stalwart of administrative law under which courts generally defer to federal agencies’ interpretations of ambiguous statutes. Kagan found the 2005 HHS regulation consistent with the Medicare statute and the structure of the DSH provisions.

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FDA Law Blog

APRIL 19, 2021

Devices are defined by statute as excluding products that achieve their primary intended purposes through chemical action in or on the body, or through metabolic action (what Genus referred to in its submissions to the Court as the “mode-of-action clause”). In other words, FDA cannot regulate a device as a drug on a whim.

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FDA Law Blog

APRIL 23, 2021

It did that by focusing on the text of the statute. Indeed, the first (and very succinct) point in the Court’s analysis of the statute is that “the language [of §13(b)] refers only to injunctions.” Id. This conclusion should apply to FDA even though the language in the two statutes is somewhat different.

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 7, 2023

Written by Professor Eric Clive The Secretary of State for Scotland, a Minister of the United Kingdom government, has made an order under section 35 of the Scotland Act 1998 blocking Royal Assent to the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill 2022 , a Bill passed by the Scottish Parliament by a large majority. The 2004 Act has none.

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Attorney at Work

JULY 22, 2021

I’ve written attorney general opinions and recently wrote an academic law review article about how AI will transform government social services and court systems. What the average person doesn’t realize about court systems is that they are not like the TV show ‘Law and Order.’

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 29, 2023

Vanuatu published the first draft of the resolution in late 2022. The draft was then altered through a series of consultations with UN delegates in the following months. On March 1, 2023, Vanuatu announced overwhelming support for the draft resolution with 105 co-sponsor states. The initiative gained traction.

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 12, 2022

9] While the statute of limitations for enforcement is a two-year period for creditors to apply to the court for execution based on a successful and legal effective document, which is provided in Civil Procedural Law of China and deemed as a procedure issue. Candidate, Institute of International Law, Wuhan University. [1]

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FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

It finalized a draft guidance published in 2022. These standards would be developed outside the Federal government, leveraging the expertise of the private sector. The standards would, as stated previously, be voluntary, unless mandated by statute or regulation, and they cannot conflict with existing law or regulation.

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Transparency also underpins the amendment of Appendices I and II, which respectively gather the Statute and the Internal Rules of the Court. Particularly, Appendix II features new Article 5, which governs the communication from the Court of the reasons of its decisions. Only exceptionally may the Court refuse such communication.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 30, 2023

Judgments Convention: Application to Governments”, Netherlands International Law Review (NILR) 67 (2020), pp 121-137 Beaumont, Paul; Holliday, Jayne (eds.) “A A Critical Overview of the Hague Preliminary Draft on Judgments”, Yearbook of Private International Law 17 (2015/2016), pp 1-31 Bonomi, Andrea; Mariottini, Cristina M.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

They are elected to nine-year terms by the General Assembly and the Security Council upon the nomination of their home governments. For example, the court would hear about the Draft Articles on the Prevention of Transboundary Harm from Hazardous Activities, promulgated by the International Law Commission in 2001. It sits in the Hague.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 24, 2023

Kavanaugh noted that Congress defined the offenses in the immigration statute more broadly than the federal statute criminalizing obstruction of justice when it included the phrase “relating to” in the statute. Such “redundancies are common in statutory drafting,” Kavanaugh wrote. citizen].”

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Conflict of Laws

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Judgments Convention: Revised Draft Explanatory Report”, HCCH Prel.-Doc. Judgments Convention: Application to Governments”, Netherlands International Law Review (NILR) 67 (2020), pp 121-137. A Critical Overview of the Hague Preliminary Draft on Judgments”, Yearbook of Private International Law 17 (2015/2016), pp 1-31.

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