JURIST

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

The European Parliament Thursday condemned Qatari authorities for the alleged human rights abuses and urged FIFA and Qatar to compensate for widespread human rights abuses that migrant workers have endured while building the 2022 World Cup infrastructure. European Parliament supported migrant workers and their families, human rights organization , football associations , sponsors , political leaders , athletes , and labour unions who have criticized the ongoing human rights violations in Qatar.

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LawTechnologyToday

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

The 2022 ABA Legal Technology Survey Report: Technology Basic & Security is now available for purchase! The ABA Legal Technology Survey Report is the most comprehensive study available of lawyers’ actual technology use, spanning a vast range of topics from security and basic office software to technology budgets, marketing tools, and much more.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

The UK government Thursday rejected a proposed legislative amendment to allow judges to dismiss legal cases brought by wealthy oligarchs or businesses to silence journalists and critics. The amendment, tabled by MP Liam Byrne, was aimed at addressing “Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation” (SLAPPs), through which wealthy individuals often use defamation or privacy laws to threaten investigative journalists with extensive legal costs.

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

The past week in London has seen the SFO bring legal action against a Lebanese bank with alleged ties to Hezbollah, a Mancunian Blockbuster-themed cocktail bar sued by the video rental shop for copyright infringement, and IGT hoping for the luck of the draw in a fresh procurement claim against the Gambling Commission. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

The UN Human Rights Council Thursday voted at a special session to create an independent fact-finding mission to investigate alleged human rights violations against peaceful protestors in Iran. The council requested the 35th special session in response to the nationwide protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini at the hands of the morality police in September.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Heidi Crowter, a UK woman with Down syndrome, Friday lost an appeal over late-stage abortions of fetuses with certain health conditions. Crowter argued that the Abortion Act of 1967 , which allows terminations up until birth if there is, “a substantial risk that if the child were born it would suffer from such physical or mental abnormalities as to be seriously handicapped,” including Down syndrome, was discriminatory.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Share Over the past 40 years, the Supreme Court has repeatedly expressed concern about the breadth of federal criminal prosecutions under the mail and wire fraud laws. The court’s decisions have narrowed the scope of federal power, particularly in recognizing the right of state and local governments to operate without undue federal influence. In Ciminelli v.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

An overwhelming majority of the French National Assembly Thursday voted to add the right to abortion to the country’s constitution. The vote was proposed during a niche parlementaire , a day when one of the minority parties in the National Assembly controls its agenda. 337 members of France’s lower house of Parliament voted in favor of the motion, 32 members voted against and 18 abstained.

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LawTechnologyToday

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

The ABA TechReport combines data from the annual ABA Legal Technology Survey Report with expert analysis, observations, and predictions from leaders in the legal technology field. Every Wednesday, we’ll be posting a new report from one of our experts, so stay tuned! Technology has been both a friend and foe to the legal industry. Some embrace technology and continue to look for the best existing and emerging technologies to “turbocharge” their practice, while others fear the disruption and uncer

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

A Northern Ireland court Friday found David Holden, a former British soldier, guilty of the 1988 manslaughter of Aidan McAnespie. McAnespie was shot in the back at an army border checkpoint in County Tyrone, Ireland. Holden is the first British army veteran to be convicted of a historical offense since the 1998 Good Friday Agreement , which ended decades of conflict during the Troubles.

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Patently O

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Happy Thanksgiving to Patently-O readers out there — new and old! I am grateful to you for all your kindness, trust, and support through the years. Let me know how I can help in the future! If you are shopping for holiday gifts for the patent attorney in your life (or perhaps self-indulging), here are a few gift ideas. Autonomous Vacuum : If they don’t have a robot vacuum.

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The Hollywood Lawyer

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Chris Wozniak sues Warner Bros for plagiarizing story elements from several stories he pitched to them in the 1990s. His scripts, including “The Ultimate Riddle” and “The Blind Man’s Hat,” were sent to Michael Uslan, “The Batman” producer, several times. Wozniak is now seeking damages and hopes to have a jury trial against Warner Bros.

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Day on Torts

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

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Attorney at Work

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

A personal injury law firm can boost its productivity by using software to automate, collaborate, and streamline its operations. The post Personal Injury Law Firms: 4 Secret Tools to Increase Productivity appeared first on Attorney at Work.

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LegalReader

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

The Biden administration said that loan repayments will resume 60 days after the June deadline if the debt relief program has not yet been implemented.

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NewmanFerraraLLP

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

We've Only Begun to Fight. On November 19, a crowd gathered for a vigil outside the White Plains Department of Public Safety to remember Kenneth Chamberlain Sr. -- a 68-year-old retired Marine and 20-year veteran of the Westchester County Department of Corrections -- who was killed by White Plains police officers some eleven years ago. Shortly after Mr.

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Conflict of Laws

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

The fourth issue of the Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly for 2022 was published today online. It features the following case notes and articles: A Briggs, Arbitration in Europe: The Luxembourg Torpedo. M Davies, Discovery in the USA for Arbitration elsewhere: A Postscript. A Tettenborn, Marine Collision Claims: Jurisdiction Agreements and Security.

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LPB Network

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

This week on the Courts Law section of JOTWELL is Sergio Campos’s essay, Cutting Into the Texas Two-Step. Sergio reviews Michael Francus’s recent essay, Texas Two-Stepping Out of Bankruptcy, 120 Mich. L. Rev. Online 38 (2022).

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LegalReader

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

The lawsuit accuses the Swedish government of failing to implement a realistic and actionable plan to combat man-made climate change.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

It appears that illegal pot growers are giving thanks this holiday for California lawmakers who legalized pot only to fuel demand for illegal cannabis due to massive taxes. It is the same problem that I wrote about in New York’s program in an earlier Wall Street Journal column. Politicians continue to pile on taxes as if they have no impact on pricing and demand.

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LegalReader

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

An unclean living space can lead to anxiousness, disrupted sleep and low mood.

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Customs & International Trade Law

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Here is a recap of the latest customs and international trade law news: U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is publishing the names of one or more persons that have been placed on OFAC’s List of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (SDN List) based on OFAC’s determination that one or more applicable legal criteria were satisfied. .

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LegalReader

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Data reveals children are considering suicide more often.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

The Russian State Duma Thursday approved a bill prohibiting “LGBTQ propaganda.” The bill passed the Russian Federal Assembly’s lower house in a unanimous roll-call of 397 votes to zero. The legislation will now pass to the upper house, before going to the Kremlin for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s signature. The new legislation seeks to drastically expand similar legislation adopted in Russia in 2013.

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Conflict of Laws

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

The interdisciplinary Zentralinstitut Centre for British Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin is seeking to fill a tenured W3 Professorship for UK Politics, Law, and Economy. . The Institute is looking for an interdisciplinary scholar from Politics, Law or Economics, with a significant and proven UK-related profile and interest in political, legal, and economic research questions. .

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