JURIST
JULY 10, 2022
Junior Sports Magazines, Inc. and several gun rights groups have sued for declaratory and injunctive relief over Assembly Bill (AB) 2571. AB 2571 prohibits firearm industry members from advertising to minors. The plaintiffs filed the complaint in the US District Court for the Central District of California. Violators of the provisions of AB 2571 could face fines of up to USD 25,000.
HowAppealing
JULY 10, 2022
“States’ top lawyers ask Supreme Court to review charity-only class settlements”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Reuters has this post. And you can view the amicus brief at this link.
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JURIST
JULY 10, 2022
Hundreds of Kenyans took to the streets of Nairobi on Thursday, the 7th of July (commonly known here as Saba Saba or “seven seven” day), to protest against the high cost of living in Kenya. The day is significant since it is the day Kenyans came together in 1990 to demand free elections. The protesters were seen carrying empty sufurias ( metallic cooking tins) and empty packets of sugar as they marched from Nairobi’s Central Business District(CBD) to Harambee House, the preside
HowAppealing
JULY 10, 2022
“Doctors Struggle With State Abortion Restrictions at Odds With Federal Law; The law requiring doctors to provide emergency treatment to stabilize certain patients may necessitate performing an abortion in some cases”: Melanie Evans of The Wall Street Journal has an article that begins, “Doctors and hospitals are rushing to reconcile laws in their states barring abortion with a federal law that may require the procedure as part of emergency treatment.
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JULY 10, 2022
by Dennis Crouch. The Federal Circuit has agreed that Kevin Correll’s 5-year suspension from patent law practice should move forward. Correll v. Vidal (Fed. Cir. 2022) ( non-precedential ). Unfortunately, the per curiam decision appears poorly reasoned and seems to lack sufficient legal grounding. The panel included Chief Judge Moore, and Judges Prost and Hughes.
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Broadcast Law Blog
JULY 10, 2022
Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the past two weeks, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations. The FCC has issued a Public Notice confirming the comment and reply comment dates for its Third Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on the adoption of ATSC 3.0.
HowAppealing
JULY 10, 2022
“Vaccines, Religious Freedom and the Military; The Pentagon violates soldiers’ rights and its own regulations”: Christopher J. Motz will have this op-ed in Monday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.
InHouseBlog
JULY 10, 2022
If you are looking for a reading list for lawyers to enjoy this Summer, BTI Consulting has pulled together a helpful post with selections to choose from. While the Summer does not usually mean that lawyers have more pleasure reading time, you might have a chance to grab one or two of these books and put them in your luggage for your Summer vacation.
HowAppealing
JULY 10, 2022
“Judicial committee to investigate hiring of controversial law clerk”: Bill Rankin of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has a report that begins, “A special committee will investigate the hiring of a law clerk by the chief judge of the federal appeals court in Atlanta in light of allegations the clerk had sent racist and xenophobic texts, a judicial panel ruled Friday.” And Nate Raymond of Reuters reports that “ U.S. judicial panel orders probe into hiring of clerk a
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Conflict of Laws
JULY 10, 2022
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JULY 10, 2022
“If Only John Roberts Would Retire”: Columnist Pamela Paul has this essay online at The New York Times.
Mondaq
JULY 10, 2022
He is suing Channel 7 after receiving ‘threats and abuse' resulting from what he says were two false news reports.
HowAppealing
JULY 10, 2022
“What a Reckoning at the Supreme Court Could Look Like”: Columnist Ezra Klein has this essay online at The New York Times.
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JULY 10, 2022
A professor at Laval University (Université Laval) in Quebec City has been suspended without pay for two months for questioning the benefits of COVID vaccines for children. Microbiology and immunology Professor Patrick Provost sent out an email soliciting a discussion on the issue and raising his concerns. He has now been disciplined for merely raising such issues by a university that has discarded any semblance of academic integrity and free speech. .
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JULY 10, 2022
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JURIST
JULY 10, 2022
The US Department of State Saturday announced visa restrictions on 28 Cuban officials allegedly involved in the violent crackdown on the July 2021 protests. This is the US’s fourth round of visa restrictions on Cuban officials. The US Department of Treasury has also instituted four rounds of financial sanctions against many of the same targets.
Mondaq
JULY 10, 2022
In NSW, you can be guilty of an offence if you escape lawful custody or merely attempt to do so.
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JURIST
JULY 10, 2022
The Constitutional Court of Slovenia has legalized same-sex marriage and adoption by homosexual couples. The highest Slovenian authority as far as the constitution is concerned deemed on Friday that the distinction between heterosexual and homosexual couples resulted in discrimination, which is incompatible with the Slovenian Constitution. The Slovenian Ministry of Labour, Family, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities indicated that this was done in response to the recent US Supreme Court ruli
JonathanTurley
JULY 10, 2022
There is a new controversy over the alleged bias of the J6 Committee and the extreme measures used to avoid alternative or conflicting accounts. On Friday, Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), a member of the House select committee, declared that former Trump White House counsel Pat Cipollone” did not contradict” the testimony of previous witnesses like Cassidy Hutchinson.
JURIST
JULY 10, 2022
A Louisiana judge has removed a temporary block on the state abortion law , allowing the state to enforce its ban on nearly all abortions. On June 27, Judge Robin Giarrusso of the Orleans Parish Civil District Court issued a temporary restraining order blocking the state abortion law from going into effect. However, Judge Ethel Julien of the same court on Friday stated that extending the order temporarily blocking the law was beyond her authority.
JURIST
JULY 10, 2022
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has held that using ballot drop boxes is illegal under state statutes. According to the court’s majority opinion, issued Friday, absentee ballots must be returned by mail or personally delivered to the municipal clerk. There are exceptions for voters who are disabled or require assistance in submitting their ballots.
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JURIST
JULY 10, 2022
The Directorate of Enforcement (ED), the Indian government’s financial investigation agency, Saturday filed money laundering charges under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act against Amnesty India International Private Limited (AIIPL) and one of its trusts. On Friday, the ED issued a notice imposing fines of INR 51.72 crores, or more than USD 6.5 million, and INR 10 crores, or more than USD 1.2 million, on AIIPL and its former CEO Aakar Patel, respectively, alleging violations of the
JURIST
JULY 10, 2022
Non-governmental organization Public Eye, along with the Platform to Protect Whistleblowers in Africa and the UNIS association, have filed a criminal complaint with the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland against UBS, the largest Swiss bank. The complaint filed on Friday states that UBS allowed Belgian businessman Philippe de Moerloose to launder money by possibly not exercising due diligence, for the benefit of the family of Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) former president
JURIST
JULY 10, 2022
US President Joe Biden has signed an executive order on abortion to ease access to medical services for abortion and contraceptives in response to the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that eliminated the constitutional right to an abortion provided by Roe v. Wade. President Biden stated during a press conference , “ We cannot allow an out-of-control Supreme Court, working in conjunction with the extremist elements of the Republican Party, to take away
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