JURIST

MARCH 12, 2023

The Iranian judiciary Sunday confirmed that the Supreme Court served the death sentence for Habib Farajollah Chaab, an Iranian-Swedish dissident on charges of conspiracy and terrorism. According to the Iranian authorities, Chaab had participated in and encouraged terrorist activity in Iran. The court specified the 2017 attack on a military parade where 25 people died and over 250 were injured.

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MARCH 12, 2023

by Dennis Crouch In October 2022, Canada’s largest intellectual property firm became a publicly traded entity. Smart & Biggar , a firm that includes 100+ Canadian patent attorneys and agents (most of whom are also registered with the USPTO) was purchased by the Australian company IPH Limited. The holding company trades on the Australian stock exchange with a market valuation of $1.8 billion Australian dollars ($1.2 billion USD).

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JURIST

MARCH 12, 2023

Thousands of civilians Saturday took part in anti-government protests in Prague, Czech Republic. A new political party, PRO, organised the rallies, as people protested against high inflation rates and the government’s assistance to Ukraine. Protestors gathered in Prague’s Wenceslas Square during an anti-poverty event and demanded that the current coalition government resign.

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HowAppealing

MARCH 12, 2023

“In an unusual move, judge delays public notice of abortion-pill hearing; Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk wanted to minimize protests and threats in connection with the closely-watched case, people familiar with the plan said”: Perry Stein, Ann E. Marimow, and Caroline Kitchener of The Washington Post have this report. And at “The Volokh Conspiracy,” Josh Blackman has a post titled “ Deep in the Heart of Amarillo.” The post “In an unusual move, judge delays publ

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JURIST

MARCH 12, 2023

The Interior Ministry of Iran Saturday announced that over 100 people have been arrested across Iran in connection with the chemical attacks on thousands of school girls. According to a statement issued by the Interior Ministry, the poisonings were carried out with the intention of “shutting down classrooms” and trying to “create fear and horror among people and students.

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JURIST

MARCH 12, 2023

Australia-based Hillsong Church Sunday announced that it will conduct an independent investigation into its financial structure following allegations of fraud and financial misappropriation. Global Senior Pastor Phil Dooley said that the church is making “significant operational changes” following criticism from Tasmanian MP Andrew Wilkie.

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HowAppealing

MARCH 12, 2023

“After Supreme Court declined Parma parody case, time for local action”: Patrick Jaicomo and Maya Rubin have this essay (subscription required for full access) online at The Cleveland Plain Dealer. The post “After Supreme Court declined Parma parody case, time for local action” appeared first on How Appealing.

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JURIST

MARCH 12, 2023

The French Senate Saturday voted in favour of President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform. The reform bill, which will raise the legal age of retirement to 64, was passed by the French Parliament’s upper house with 195 votes for the reform and 112 against. Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne announced , “After a hundred hours of debate, the Senate adopted the text of the pension reform.

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HowAppealing

MARCH 12, 2023

“No one knows when it is legal to perform medically necessary abortions in Texas; Doctors in red states across the country are too scared to perform legal abortions; A Texas lawsuit seeks to fix that in the biggest red state”: Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox. The post “No one knows when it is legal to perform medically necessary abortions in Texas; Doctors in red states across the country are too scared to perform legal abortions; A Texas lawsuit seeks to fix that in

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JURIST

MARCH 12, 2023

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Sudani Sunday announced a new campaign to address the impacts of climate change. During a two-day climate conference in Basra, Sudani promised to take extreme measures to meet a third of the nation’s electricity demands using solely renewable energy, reduce carbon emissions and protect Iraq’s biodiversity. The UN released the speech made my Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert h

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HowAppealing

MARCH 12, 2023

“In the wake of Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, Wisconsin is living in 1849; Wisconsin’s 1-year-old legislature banned abortion in 1849, making it a felony to provide abortion care unless the life of the mother is in danger; Last year, this ban took effect again”: U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) has this essay online at USA Today.

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JURIST

MARCH 12, 2023

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa was cleared of wrongdoing in a preliminary corruption investigation, according to a Saturday statement from his spokesperson Vincent Magwenya. Magwenya confirmed that Ramaphosa’s office received a preliminary report from South African Public Protector Kholeka Gcaleka on Friday which clears Ramaphosa of any wrongdoing in relation to the theft of large amounts of cash from his Phala Phala farm in Limpopo during February 2020.

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FDA Law Blog

MARCH 12, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic emergency forced federal regulators to take extraordinary measures to ensure that patients were permitted continued access to important medicines. These government measures included granting temporary exemptions from certain FDA and DEA legal requirements. When the public health emergency ends on May 11, 2023 , so do these exemptions.

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JURIST

MARCH 12, 2023

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian Sunday announced that Iran and the US had reached a prisoner exchange agreement. However, the US National Security Council denied that an agreement had been reached. According to Amirabdollahian, the countries agreed to the deal “in recent days,” and “if everything goes well from the American side, it will be done in the coming days.” The alleged agreement would involve three Iranian-American citizens imprisoned in Iran.

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Law 360

MARCH 12, 2023

Regulators closed New York-based Signature Bank on Sunday and moved to stem mounting financial contagion fears in the wake of Silicon Valley Bank's failure by announcing plans to fully protect depositors of both banks.

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JURIST

MARCH 12, 2023

Indian Aam Aadmi Party MP Sanjeev Arora Saturday called for adherence to the Charter of Patients’ Rights as deceased patients’ bodies continue to be “held hostage” by hospitals. In a statement to the Indian Express, the MP and a member of the parliamentary ad hoc committee on health and family welfare said that deceased persons were still being withheld at hospitals if their hospital bills were unpaid, in contravention of the Charter.

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Above The Law

MARCH 12, 2023

Hospitals, clinics, nursing homes and other providers collected billions in government aid during the pandemic. Federal auditors may soon come knocking to ensure the money was spent correctly.

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MARCH 12, 2023

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HowAppealing

MARCH 12, 2023

“With rehearings, NC Supreme Court could set extraordinary precedent with political consequences; North Carolina voters put Republicans in control of the state Supreme Court; Now the court’s new GOP majority is moving quickly to rehear election law cases Republicans had previously lost; The court’s decisions could have a far-reaching impact on future elections”: Will Doran of WRAL News has this report.

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JURIST

MARCH 12, 2023

The Indian government Sunday asserted in a filing to the Indian Supreme Court that it opposes recognising same-sex marriages and pushed the court to disregard pushback from LGBTQ couples on the current legislation. Parts of the filing were leaked but the full filing was not made available to the public. However, in the filing, the government cited section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and stated that petitioners “cannot claim a fundamental right for same-sex marriage to be recognised

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MARCH 12, 2023

DAMAGING CONSIDERATION? After Yassely Dominquez sued her former employer for unpaid wages and gender discrimination, the Kings County Supreme Court struck her employer’s answer and ordered a special hearing, or “inquest,” on damages. But after that hearing was concluded, things went a bit awry, because the judge ultimately dismissed Yassely’s case because it thought that she had "failed to establish that defendants discriminated against her on the basis of her gender

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JURIST

MARCH 12, 2023

A spokesman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR) , Matthew Saltmarsh, Friday expressed concern about the growing number of people fleeing their homes as a result of fighting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Saltmarsh emphasized that the DRC has 5.8 million internally displaced people in Africa, making it the continent’s largest internal displacement crisis.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MARCH 12, 2023

Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the past week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations. As widely reported, Gigi Sohn has asked President Biden to withdraw her nomination to become the third Democratic FCC Commissioner (her statement to the Washington Post about her withdrawal is available here ).

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MARCH 12, 2023

Yesterday, I published a column on the disgraceful actions taken by students and Stanford DEI Dean Tirien Steinbach in an event featuring Judge Kyle Duncan of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Steinbach’s condemnation of Judge Duncan was chilling but hardly surprising. It is part of a sweeping environment of intolerance and orthodoxy in our institutions of higher education.

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