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JULY 2, 2023

Canadian unionised port workers in the Pacific coast province of British Columbia went on strike on Thursday. The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) are currently undergoing negotiations on behalf of the workers with the British Columbia Maritime Employers Association (BCMEA). The Collective Agreement which has governed the relationship between the port workers and their employers expired in March, and the parties have failed to reach an agreement.

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JULY 2, 2023

“Supreme Court delivered big conservative wins, and a mixed message; After dramatic reversal of Roe v. Wade last year, Chief Justice Roberts pulls court back toward its right-leaning center”: Robert Barnes has this front page article in today’s edition of The Washington Post. The post “Supreme Court delivered big conservative wins, and a mixed message; After dramatic reversal of Roe v.

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JURIST

JULY 2, 2023

The US Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear a case asking whether banning firearms from people subject to domestic-violence restraining orders violates the Second Amendment. The case is an appeal from the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.The lawsuit specifically asks whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(8) violates the Second Amendment. According to the petition for a writ of certiorari , that law makes it unlawful for persons subject to a court restraining order to possess a firearm.

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JULY 2, 2023

“‘Unabashed’: Justice Jackson marks her first year on the Supreme Court unafraid to stake her own position; As the first Black woman to serve on the court, she brought a new perspective and spoke the most during oral arguments.” Lawrence Hurley of NBC News has this report. The post “‘Unabashed’: Justice Jackson marks her first year on the Supreme Court unafraid to stake her own position; As the first Black woman to serve on the court, she brought a new p

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JULY 2, 2023

The Administrative Tribunal of Paris handed down a judgment on Friday to overturn a decision of the French police to ban the People’s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI) from holding demonstrations. The PMOI planned to have a rally on July 1 to demand the dismissal of the Mullah’s regime aiming to “support the uprising of the Iranian people for freedom and democracy and sensitizing public opinion on the unprecedented increase in the number of executions in Iran.” The F

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JURIST

JULY 2, 2023

Oksana Bidnenko is a staff correspondent for JURIST. She is a Ukrainian law student at the Riga Graduate School of Law in Riga, Latvia, and is currently an exchange student at the University of Oslo, Norway. It was announced last week that Ukraine and other members of the International Coordination and Response Group for the victims of Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752 are filing a lawsuit against Iran at the UN-associated International Court of Justice for the downing of the UIA plan

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HowAppealing

JULY 2, 2023

“The affirmative action ruling is big. Now elite colleges need to think bigger.” Lawrence H. Summers has this essay online at The Washington Post. The post “The affirmative action ruling is big. Now elite colleges need to think bigger.” appeared first on How Appealing.

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JULY 2, 2023

Indian opposition leader, Rahul Gandhi, was stopped by local police Thursday on his way to examine the situation in the violence-struck northeastern state of Manipur. The 53 year-old was traveling to Churachandpur district, which is one of the most affected areas in ongoing violent clashes. Gandhi’s convoy was halted at Bishnupur, around 20 km away from the state capital city of Imphal.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 2, 2023

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here. Someone who files a lawsuit over wrongful treatment might be pleased if the defendant stops its allegedly harmful conduct, rendering the case moot – that is, no longer a live case or controversy.

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JURIST

JULY 2, 2023

The Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine announced charges on Friday against a Russian politician and two suspected Ukrainian collaborators for war crimes related to the alleged deportation of 48 orphans from the Kherson orphanage to Moscow. Their actions were classified as a violation of the laws and customs of war according to the Criminal Code of Ukraine.

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JULY 2, 2023

There is an interesting debate unfolding around the country in the aftermath of the Supreme Court barring the use of race in college admissions. For decades, colleges and universities have sought to downplay the weight given to race in court while insisting that it was one of a number of factors used in maintaining diversity. Now, however, schools are insisting that, without considering race, minority admissions will plummet.

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At the Lectern

JULY 2, 2023

This is shaping up to be a light week for public Supreme Court activity. The court is open tomorrow, but won’t be filing any opinions then. The court is closed on Tuesday the Fourth. There will be no Wednesday conference this week. Even though there are no oral argument sessions in July or August and, for the other months, the court skips conferencing only during those weeks in which it is hearing arguments ( but see ), the court doesn’t conference on the first Wednesdays of the summ

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JURIST

JULY 2, 2023

The US Supreme Court decided Friday that it would take up Muldrow v. City of St. Louis, Missouri , a case determining whether an employee can sue under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act for discrimination based on bias-motivated transfers in the workplace. In Friday’s order, the court stated, “The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted limited to the following question: Does Title VII prohibit discrimination in transfer decisions absent a separate court determination that the t

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JULY 2, 2023

Guest post by Paul R. Gugliuzza & Joshua L. Sohn One of the oddest things about the Federal Circuit is that, in the court’s view, it’s powerless to decide many issues of federal law that arise in the appeals presented to it. Sure, on matters of patent law , what the Federal Circuit says binds district courts, the Patent Office, and future panels of the Federal Circuit itself.

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HowAppealing

JULY 2, 2023

“I’m not a lawyer. But I see what the same-sex wedding website case will mean.” Amanda Katz has this essay online at The Washington Post. The post “I’m not a lawyer. But I see what the same-sex wedding website case will mean.” appeared first on How Appealing.

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JURIST

JULY 2, 2023

In a joint statement on Saturday, the Australian, Canadian and United Kingdom Foreign Ministers urged Israel to reverse its decision to expand settlements in the West Bank. They also expressed concern about the surge of violent attacks in the West Bank and the decreasing prospects for peace agreements between Palestine and Israel. The Israeli government approved over 5,700 new settlement units in the West Bank region of Palestine this week following recent changes to expedite the process for app

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Broadcast Law Blog

JULY 2, 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. Chairwoman Rosenworcel announced that the FCC, at its open meeting on July 20, intends to allow 13 “Franken FM” or “FM6 stations” (i.e., LPTV stations operating on TV channel 6 with an analog audio service that can be received on FM radios at 87.7 MHz) to continue to provide their existing anal

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JURIST

JULY 2, 2023

The US State Department released 24 pages of its 85-page After Action Review (AAR) report Friday on the controversial US withdrawal from Afghanistan. The remaining 61 pages of the report are still classified. The AAR states that, “Many observers had long predicted that the withdrawal of U.S. military forces and those of our allies and partners would precipitate the collapse of the Afghan government and its security forces but estimates as to how long this might take varied.” However,

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