JURIST
AUGUST 29, 2021
Circuit Court Judge John Cooper on Friday verbally ruled against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ (R) planned retribution against local school districts that implement masking requirements. Judge Cooper’s ruling will effectively prevent DeSantis from sanctioning school districts that impose such requirements because doing so would violate H.B. 241, also known as the Parents’ Bill of Rights.
Patently O
AUGUST 29, 2021
by Dennis Crouch. The Alice test officially includes two steps. But these are highly correlated steps. Thus, if a claim fails step one, it usually fails step two as well. In this case, the court appears to borrow heavily from typical step two analysis in order to make its step one conclusion: Universal Secure Registry v. Apple and Visa ( Fed. Cir. 2021 ).
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JURIST
AUGUST 29, 2021
The Land and Environment Court of New South Wales on Thursday ruled that the NSW Environment Protection Authority (NSW EPA) had failed in its duty to ensure the protection of the environment from climate change, and further ordered the environmental watchdog to develop “environmental quality objectives, guidelines and policies to ensure environment protection from climate change”.
HowAppealing
AUGUST 29, 2021
“Texas abortion law that bans procedure as early as six weeks set to go into effect after court cancels hearing, denies motions; Senate Bill 8 is poised to officially become law on Wednesday”: Neelam Bohra of The Texas Tribune has this report about orders that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued Friday and today.
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JURIST
AUGUST 29, 2021
Amnesty International (AI) released a statement Thursday detailing cases of at least 50 people who were arbitrarily banned from traveling out of Tunisia over the last month. AI records showed that president Kai Saied has made extensive use of travel bans in the first month since he assumed exceptional powers. AI stated that the number of people so detained could be much higher and includes judges, state officials, civil servants, businessmen, and a parliamentarian.
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JURIST
AUGUST 29, 2021
A two-person panel of the California Board of Parole Hearings on Friday recommended for parole Sirhan Sirhan, the man convicted of assassinating Senator Robert F. Kennedy in 1968. Sirhan was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death for the killing of RFK. Sirhan’s sentence was reduced to life with the possibility of parole when California abolished the death penalty.
HowAppealing
AUGUST 29, 2021
“Judicial Notice (08.28.21): ‘Whatever’; An appellate argument fail, a celebrity lawyer leaves his longtime firm, and other legal news from the week that was.” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.
JURIST
AUGUST 29, 2021
The Delhi High Court issued a notice to the Indian central government on Friday, seeking a reply to WhatsApp’s challenge against the new Information Technology Rules which were created by the government in February 2021. Tech companies have challenged the constitutionality of Rule 4(2) and related provisions requiring social media intermediaries to identify the first originator of information shared on their platforms upon request by government authorities.
Law 360
AUGUST 29, 2021
Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes' defense in her upcoming criminal fraud trial will likely hinge on her mental state during the blood-testing startup's rise and the role Theranos' high-profile board members and corporate counsel played in advising her before its collapse, according to legal experts.
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Corporate Governance
AUGUST 29, 2021
Sharing Profits is Not Enough Professor Reich but you are getting warmer. Your hook was that Sears workers owned 25%. Then you imagine what that magnitude of ownership could mean at Amazon. The spoiler was you then began touting cash bonuses, rather than stocks. True, having ALL retirement tied to one stock is risky. That […]. The post Sharing Profits is Not Enough Professor Reich appeared first on Corporate Governance.
Broadcast Law Blog
AUGUST 29, 2021
Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the last week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations. On Friday, the FCC released its decision setting 2021 annual regulatory fees. In a win for broadcasters, the NAB and other broadcast groups convinced the FCC to lower the broadcast fees that the FCC had initially proposed, avoiding a proposed significant increase in the fees on radio.
Corporate Governance
AUGUST 29, 2021
#FlushPGDirectors is the creative hashtag used by a coalition calling on Procter & Gamble (Ticker: PG) to vote against Angela Braly and James McNerney, key Directors. This is because they have failed to address ESG human rights and environmental violations in supply chains. BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street have made bold commitments to use their […].
FDA Law Blog
AUGUST 29, 2021
By Anne K. Walsh & JP Ellison — Companies often use rebranding to reposition and refocus their business. Sometimes they do it with great fanfare; sometimes it is done quietly and incrementally. The federal government does its own version of rebranding with each change in administration. Just before the July 4 holiday weekend, DOJ quietly rebranded the role of guidance documents, reversing two distinct but related policies regarding such documents.
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Mondaq
AUGUST 29, 2021
While there are developments, in practice nothing has changed yet regarding social insurance for foreigners in Shanghai.
JonathanTurley
AUGUST 29, 2021
As many of you know, I am a fanatical dog lover so this story sent me into a high orbit. In Australia, the Bourke Shire Council in the northwestern part of the state of New South Wales was concerned that people might get or spread Covid when visiting an animal center for dogs. Various solutions would seem to come to mind from virtual viewings to proof of Covid tests.
Mondaq
AUGUST 29, 2021
This process hopefully may help to evacuate a family member from Afghanistan if he/she has a pending visa application.
JonathanTurley
AUGUST 29, 2021
It is now common for universities to list offensive terms to be avoided by faculty and students, as we have previously discussed at schools like Michigan , James Madison , and Berkeley. Now, Brandeis has issued a list of “oppressive” words that include such expressions as “killing two birds with one stone” and “beating a dead horse.” However, the school did not issue a trigger warning because “trigger warning” is now on the list as. well. triggering.
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Mondaq
AUGUST 29, 2021
The article explains the key difference between Enterprise value and Equity value, and how each value is relevant.
Diane Drain
AUGUST 29, 2021
Dirty Little Secret – medical bills are the highest they have ever been and debtor buyers are paying pennies on the dollar to purchase the debts, but then sue the borrower for the full amount of the debt. Article Yahoo!Finance, Adriana Belmone, June 21, 2021. “Medical debt is the no. 1 cause of bankruptcy in the United States, which is something that’s obviously a uniquely American problem,” Allison Sesso, executive director of RIP Medical Debt, said on Yahoo Finance Live.
Mondaq
AUGUST 29, 2021
The Guideline provides a basic standard of practice to assist psychiatrists in observing their professional obligations.
HowAppealing
AUGUST 29, 2021
“As Washington Stews, State Legislatures Increasingly Shape American Politics; From voting rights to the culture wars, state legislatures controlled by Republicans are playing a role well beyond their own state borders”: Michael Wines of The New York Times has this report.
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Mondaq
AUGUST 29, 2021
Despite investment in renewable capacity, there is still not enough capacity to ensure a reliable and affordable grid.
JonathanTurley
AUGUST 29, 2021
There is growing controversy in San Diego after the county board of supervisors introduced a proposal to declare “health misinformation a public health crisis” and enact measures to try to “combat” views deemed untrue or misleading. As a free speech advocate, I do not share some of the objections made to the proposals. However, one item is deeply concerning.
Mondaq
AUGUST 29, 2021
The Court will only allow a caveat to remain on a property where there is a clear interest in the land.
HowAppealing
AUGUST 29, 2021
“Biden’s Supreme Court losses prompt more ‘shadow docket’ scrutiny”: Lawrence Hurley of Reuters has this report. Joan Biskupic of CNN reports that “ Conservative-dominated bench denies Biden same deference it once gave Trump.” And earlier in the week, online at The Washington Post, law professor Steve Vladeck had an essay titled “ The Supreme Court’s ‘shadow docket’ helped Trump 28 times.
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