JURIST
JUNE 4, 2023
On Friday, Polish President Andrzej Duda said that he was proposing amendments to the current law on Russian influence that is set to take effect next week. In a televised statement Duda said that he will be making amendments to the law to address the controversies from critics, including the removal of a ban which allowed people to be expelled from office.
HowAppealing
JUNE 4, 2023
“ProPublica Recycles Old Clarence Thomas News; The site accuses the justice of legal violations — but he was officially cleared more than a decade ago”: Mark Paoletta has this op-ed online at The Wall Street Journal. The post “ProPublica Recycles Old Clarence Thomas News; The site accuses the justice of legal violations — but he was officially cleared more than a decade ago” appeared first on How Appealing.
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JURIST
JUNE 4, 2023
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) denounced on Friday Macau’s decision to expand their national security law, which takes effect this week. The effect of these changes, according to RSF, “increases the pressure on journalists and further threatens the residents’ right to information.” Macau’s National Security Law defines seven crimes that can result in a maximum sentence of up to 25 years’ imprisonment.
Patently O
JUNE 4, 2023
Recent Headlines in the IP World: Christopher J. Moreau: Algernon Pharmaceuticals Receives Notice of Allowance from the Japanese Patent Office for Repirinast and the Treatment of CKD (Source: Yahoo Finance) Blake Brittain: US Jury Says Google Owes Sonos $32.5 Million in Smart-Speaker Patent Case (Source: Reuters) Blake Brittain: Amgen Settles Patent Lawsuit Over Biosimilar of J&J’s Big-Selling Stelara (Source: Reuters) Paul Monckton: Apple Reveals Radical iPhone Camera Flash Upgrade (S
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JURIST
JUNE 4, 2023
The United States warned the Australian Defence Force (ADF) that it may need to end its alliance with Australia’s Special Air Service Regiment because of allegations of war crime committed by Australian soldiers in Afghanistan, according to Wednesday testimony from General Angus Campbell to the Australian Senate. Campbell stated that he “ received a letter from the defence attache of the United States Armed Forces based in Canberra, to me, indicating that the release of the Brereton
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JURIST
JUNE 4, 2023
The Senegal government announced a blanket ban on the use of social media Friday, following clashes between police and supporters of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko that left nine people dead. In a televised press conference, Interior Minister Antoine Felix Abdoulaye Diome claimed that some social media sites were utilized by demonstrators to incite violence, including Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter.
Conflict of Laws
JUNE 4, 2023
“Recognition” and “enforcement” are fundamental concepts when dealing with the international circulation of foreign judgments. Although they are often used interchangeably, it is generally agreed that these two notions have different purposes and, ultimately, different procedures (depending on whether the principle of de plano recognition is accepted or not.
At the Lectern
JUNE 4, 2023
SCOCAblog , the online publication of the California Constitution Center at Berkeley Law and of the Hastings Law Journal (yes, the Hastings name is still used, until the next academic year ) takes a deep dive into Supreme Court data to conclude that “over the past 24 years the court is taking longer to decide fewer cases with increasing unanimity.” The study says that recently, “enough cases are taking much longer that they are both increasing the average and less reasonably ex
JURIST
JUNE 4, 2023
Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed SB 14 on Friday, which bans gender-affirming care for minors and places restrictions on children already taking gender-affirming prescription drugs. The law becomes effective on September 1, 2023. SB 14 provides that child health plans may not provide coverage for services intended to “transition a child’s biological sex as determined by the child’s sex organs, chromosomes, and endogenous profiles.” Additionally, the law makes it unlawful
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Broadcast Law Blog
JUNE 4, 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. The House Energy and Commerce Committee, through its Communications and Technology Subcommittee, announced that its hearing on the AM For Every Vehicle Act will be held June 6, at 10:00 AM EST.
JonathanTurley
JUNE 4, 2023
U.S. District Judge Thomas Parker this week struck down a Tennessee law that put strict limits on drag shows as “unconstitutionally vague.” While many of us have objections to drag shows put on for young children, Judge Parker is right about this law being a threat to free speech. As I have said previously, the law is sweeping and vague, including barring a form of expression that is (in my view) protected under the First Amendment.
JonathanTurley
JUNE 4, 2023
Howard Law Professor Justin Hansford addressed the United Nations Permanent Forum on People of African Descent last week and called for the establishment of a United Nations Reparations Tribunal that could order the payment of reparations to African Americans. Professor Hansford objected that white lawyers and politicians have been allowed to control this debate in the United States for too long: But so far we have left it to the scholars of the past, the lawyers of the past, the white scholars,
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