JURIST
FEBRUARY 6, 2022
Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson declared a state of emergency in the city Sunday, more than a week after a trucker-led protest against pandemic-related restrictions virtually shut down the city centre in Canada’s capital. In a press release in November, the federal government announced certain adjustments to the country’s pandemic-related border measures.
Patently O
FEBRUARY 6, 2022
by Dennis Crouch. Patent attorneys expect an initial office rejection, but clients often want to know: how long must this go on before we get our patent? The chart below provides some data on how many office-action rejections you might expect before a patent issues. To collect the data, I wrote a short bit of code to parse through the file histories of all the issued patents from the past several years and count the number of non-final and final rejections.
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JURIST
FEBRUARY 6, 2022
Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) on Saturday called on immigration authorities to speed up visa processing so that nearly 2000 migrants seeking asylum in the US and Mexico could access documents to regularize their stay in Mexico or let them travel through Mexico without being detained. Many Latin American refugees seeking asylum in the US and Mexico have been stuck in the Mexican city of Tapachula while waiting for receiving countries to process visa applicants.
HowAppealing
FEBRUARY 6, 2022
“‘An amazing legacy’: Justice Breyer’s replacement could be a former clerk he considers family.” Jazmine Ulloa has this front page article in today’s edition of The Boston Globe. And Jessica Gresko and Mark Sherman of The Associated Press report that “ Jackson, in high court mix, traces law interest to preschool.
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JURIST
FEBRUARY 6, 2022
Tunisian President Kais Saied Sunday dissolved the Supreme Judicial Council. In a meeting at the headquarters of the Ministry of the Interior, President Saied called the council “a thing of the past.” The president accused members of the judiciary of corruption and collusion with criminals. He alluded that positions in the judiciary are sold and that judicial motions are established on loyalties.
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JURIST
FEBRUARY 6, 2022
India’s Karnataka state government issued a Directive Saturday validating the decision of certain educational institutions to prohibit female students wearing a hijab from entering its premises. Karnataka Department of Primary and Secondary Education Under Secretary Padmini SN invoked § 133(2) of the Karnataka Education Act to issue the Directive, which allows the state government to “give such directions to any educational institution or tutorial institution as in its opinion are ne
HowAppealing
FEBRUARY 6, 2022
“Judicial Notice (02.05.22): Lesser White Men; Some tragic and untimely passings, a possible landmark libel case, and other legal news from the week that was.” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.
Law 360
FEBRUARY 6, 2022
As companies face more pressure from shareholders to operate as agents of change, employment attorneys must engage in efforts to reduce risks and optimize opportunities related to environmental, social and governance factors — because workplace issues are salient in all three categories, says Lindsay Hedrick, chief labor and employment counsel at Honeywell.
Mondaq
FEBRUARY 6, 2022
Holding the winter Olympics at Beijing is claimed to be diverting the world's attention from China's human rights abuses.
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LettersBlogatory
FEBRUARY 6, 2022
Steven Donziger, represented by Harvard Law School Professor Charles Nesson, filed a cert. petition last week seeking review of the decision of the New York bar disbarring him. It seems to me the petition has a very small chance of success. This is of course an easy prediction to make, since the vast majority of petitions are denied, but it is particularly noteworthy that Donziger has not really tried to fit the case into the Court’s usual criteria for granting petitions to review decision
Mondaq
FEBRUARY 6, 2022
The mining giant has vowed to implement all of the recommendations of the review into its toxic workplace culture.
LegalReader
FEBRUARY 6, 2022
An attorney for the school said that Oxford education officials fulfilled all of their legal duties in addressing concerns about suspected shooter Ethan Crumbley's behavior.
Patently O
FEBRUARY 6, 2022
Recent Headlines in the IP World: Kate O’Flaherty: Apple Patent Hints At Ground-Breaking New AirPods Feature (Source: Forbes). Ben Lovejoy: Ericsson Trying to Ban Reselling in Brazil; Apple Tries to Invalidate Ericsson Patents (Source: 9to5 Mac). Blake Brittain and Jonathan Stempel: Apple, Broadcom Win New Trial in $1.1 Billion Caltech Patent Case (Source: Reuters).
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LegalReader
FEBRUARY 6, 2022
The attorneys general filed a brief saying that firearm manufacturers cannot claim certain legal protections to shield themselves against the Mexican government's claims.
Mondaq
FEBRUARY 6, 2022
In attempt to relaunch the economy after the COVID crisis, the government has made amendments to the laws aimed at accelerating economic development.
LegalReader
FEBRUARY 6, 2022
The state plans to appeal the decision.
Mondaq
FEBRUARY 6, 2022
The SOCI Act has now been expanded from four critical infrastructure sectors to include another nine sectors.
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Attorney at Work
FEBRUARY 6, 2022
This Ruby product review highlights a variety of new intake pathways and shows the expansion of Ruby’s integrated partnerships into 2022. In the classic 1939 movie “The Wizard of Oz,” Dorothy Gale gets swept up in a tornado, commits manslaughter (witch-slaughter?) by house, meets a lot of weirdos, barely escapes a poppy field and battles flying monkeys.
Mondaq
FEBRUARY 6, 2022
Google invites yet another Antitrust investigation by the Indian Fair Market watchdog, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) for its market behaviour in online general web search and advertising services.
JURIST
FEBRUARY 6, 2022
Idaho legislators proposed a bill Friday calling on Congress to close a legal loophole in a region encompassing an uninhabited 50-square mile tract of land within Yellowstone National Park, which supposedly permits the commission of serious criminal acts such as murder and kidnapping without consequences. Titled House Joint Memorial 3 and sponsored by Idaho State Representative Colin Nash, the bill is being seen as a late response to a 2005 Georgetown Law Journal article penned by Michigan State
Mondaq
FEBRUARY 6, 2022
India's leading car brand, Maruti Suzuki, was found guilty of unfairly controlling freedom of its dealers to give discounts on cars sold thereby controlling the resale price of its cars.
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HowAppealing
FEBRUARY 6, 2022
“California’s Supreme Court Was Split. Leondra Kruger Found the Center. Known for her ‘elegant’ mind, the moderate judge, now on President Biden’s short list of potential high court nominees, could be a mediating force in Washington.” Shawn Hubler and Katie Benner of The New York Times have this report.
Mondaq
FEBRUARY 6, 2022
In a recent turnaround from an approval granted earlier vide its order dated 28 November 2019 ( "approval order") to the now famous Amazon-Future Group deal, India's fair market watchdog.
HowAppealing
FEBRUARY 6, 2022
“South Carolina judge is at the center of a political whirlwind around Biden’s Supreme Court decision”: Jeff Zeleny, Kevin Liptak, and Phil Mattingly of CNN have this report.
Mondaq
FEBRUARY 6, 2022
Since the beginning of 2022, the Ministry of Finance has called on all businesses that have not yet become part of fiscalisation, to adapt their systems and become part of the process as soon as possible.
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