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SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet warned Thursday that urgent action is needed to prevent a human rights catastrophe in Myanmar. The UN Human Rights Office issued a new report documenting serious human rights and international humanitarian law violations. This includes violations of the rights of life, liberty and security of person; freedom of expression; and freedom of peaceful assembly.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

“As abortion debate heats up, perceptions of Supreme Court change; A part of the GOP may strongly favor overturning Roe, but if they actually attained their goal these data suggest a political backlash could be immense”: Dante Chinni of NBC News has this report.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

A federal appeals court in Los Angeles overturned the decision to house homeless people living on the streets of Skid Row in a controversial ruling on Thursday. The judgment means that Los Angeles County will not be legally required to house homeless people in Skid Row. A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit unanimously decided Thursday that the decision of Judge David Carter, who oversaw the case in April 2020 , failed to follow legal requirements.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

“With Abortion Largely Banned in Texas, an Oklahoma Clinic Is Inundated; The new law prohibits abortions after about six weeks, a very early stage of pregnancy; Many women are now traveling out of state for the procedure”: Sabrina Tavernise of The New York Times has this report.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA), in collaboration with the Investment Industry Organization of Canada (IIROC), published guidance Thursday to assist crypto trading platforms in meeting their marketing, advertising, and social media compliances under securities law and IIROC rules. The move came after regulators observed a recent surge in marketing campaigns by crypto trading platforms.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

A federal judge ruled Friday that St. Elizabeth Healthcare, a healthcare provider in Cincinnati, has authority to require employees to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. This appears to be the first ruling in the US involving a request for an injunction against a private employer’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate. The employees of St. Elizabeth hospital must receive the COVID-19 vaccine by October 1 or submit a request for a medical or religious exemption.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

“Can the Supreme Court be moved by abortion stories told by real women? We’ll see.” Columnist Robin Abcarian has this op-ed in today’s edition of The Los Angeles Times.

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Broadcast Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Here are some of the regulatory developments from the last week of significance to broadcasters , with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations. At the last minute, the deadline for broadcasters to pay their annual regulatory fees was extended to Monday, September 27, 2021 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

“Neil Gorsuch Is Channeling the Ghost of Scalia; The justice who replaced the late Supreme Court giant aspires to inherit the mantle of conservative intellectual thought leadership”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

“Court Opens a Libel Door and Bruises Free Speech. Should people who post links to disputed articles be exposed to defamation suits? If the possibility sounds scary, that’s because it is.” Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion about a decision that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit issued earlier this month.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Looking for a job? Use these 31 job search tips and hacks to get ahead and make your search as easy as possible.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

“Can Cooper v. Aaron Save Roe v. Wade? Abortion advocates appeal to one exercise of raw judicial power to save another exercise of raw judicial power.” Josh Blackman has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.

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Mondaq

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Many of us have hobbies that bring us joy; some of us have hobbies that bring us additional income. Whether you bake cupcakes and sell them to co‐workers or go fishing after work and sell what you catch to friends.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

“Anita Hill Has Some Perspective to Offer; Thirty years after she testified before the Senate, the law professor talks about the experience, sexual harassment and her growing impatience with the slow pace of change”: Jessica Bennett of The New York Times has this report/interview.

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Mondaq

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

The recent Patent Appeal Board (PAB) decision in Re Antibodyshop A/S (2021 CACP 35), further indicates the PAB's willingness to find valid diagnostic method claims. In this decision.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

“Supreme Court observers see trouble ahead as public approval of justices erodes”: Robert Barnes and Seung Min Kim of The Washington Post have this report.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Join members of the Blakes Arbitration and Infrastructure teams for a discussion about recent legal trends and developments in managing complex infrastructure-project disputes across Canada.

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Why is it that so many lawyer presentations suffer from “hanging fragmentitis”? Here’s how to stop yourself from constantly editing, restarting and revising out loud. When we speak, why do we so often fail to finish our sentences? Linguists must know the answer to this question, but I am at a loss. All I’m sure of is this: Lawyers find it difficult — often impossible — to finish sentences.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Pryor Cashman represented Luokung Technology Corp. (NASDAQ CM: LKCO) in a registered direct offering to accredited investors for aggregate gross proceeds of approximately $32.8 million to the company.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

For law firms, streamlined, effective legal billing software is incredibly important. Enter modern legal billing software. It ensures that your firm’s legal billing processes are efficient and accurate by reducing the steps needed to invoice clients and accept online payments. Read on to learn about the most common billing problems law firms face, and how to help your law firm overcome them.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

On September 22, 2021, Quebec's An Act to modernize legislative provisions as regards the protection of personal information (Bill 64) received Royal Assent after adoption by the Quebec National Assembly.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

My column yesterday discussed the increasing trend to treat the failure to use a person’s preferred pronouns (called “misgendering”) a type of hate speech or discriminatory conduct. A new case highlights the free speech problems associated with the trend. In Meriwether v. Hartop , the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit handed down a major ruling in favor of Shawnee State University Professor Nicholas Meriwether, who was disciplined for refusing to use a studen

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Mondaq

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

On 7th August 2020, the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari GCFR, assented to the Companies and Allied Matters Act, 2020 which repealed and replaced the Companies and Allied Matters Act,

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Rights groups on Friday called for the immediate release of Sosthene Kambidi, a journalist arrested on terrorism charges in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Kambidi works for Congolese news site Actualite.cd and sometimes works with international press agencies such as Reuters and RFI. Kambidi accompanied several other journalists on a reporting trip in March 2017 which revealed mass graves in Congo’s Kasai region.

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