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OCTOBER 2, 2021

Chile became the first country in the world to protect neuro-rights after the Chamber of Deputies approved Wednesday an amendment to the Chilean Constitution. The bill is expected to be signed into law by their president soon. The amendment to the Chilean Constitution aims at defining mental identity for the first time in history as a non-manipulable right to protect it against technological advancements in neurosciences and artificial intelligence.

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OCTOBER 2, 2021

“Justice Samuel Alito isn’t doing the Supreme Court any favors; If Alito is concerned about public perceptions of the court, maybe he should stop delivering speeches that adversely affect perceptions of the court”: Steve Benen has this essay online at MSNBC.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 2, 2021

The Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly Wednesday passed a resolution urging the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers to adopt an additional protocol to the European Convention of Human Rights establishing an enforceable “right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment.”. The Social Affairs Committee of the Assembly presented the draft proposal in September this year.

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OCTOBER 2, 2021

“Alito’s political broadside against Supreme Court critics — and how it misfires”: Aaron Blake of The Washington Post has this news analysis.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 2, 2021

The Mozambique Islamic State Group, Al-Shabab (unrelated to Somalian group of the same name), has been kidnapping and forcing children to become soldiers, according to a Human Rights Watch report released on Wednesday. Evidence suggests that the armed group has abducted boys, as young as 12, to be trained in bases in Cabo Delgado and forced to fight against the Government forces.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 2, 2021

The Supreme Court of India ruled Friday that a forced DNA test violates the right to privacy and personal liberty. The decision came in a property dispute, wherein the plaintiff claimed to be the son of late Trilok Gupta and late Sona Devi. He filed a lawsuit, naming the daughters of Trilok Gupta and Sona Devi as defendants, seeking a declaration of ownership of the property they left behind.

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OCTOBER 2, 2021

Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and security, often without our situational awareness.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 2, 2021

US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Friday turned down an emergency appeal to block a New York City COVID-19 vaccine mandate for public school teachers. The case concerns an executive order issued by Mayor Bill de Blasio on August 23 mandating that all public school employees get vaccinated by October 1 or be placed on unpaid leave. Four employees filed suit in the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York seeking an injunction to temporarily block enforcement of the mandate

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Mondaq

OCTOBER 2, 2021

The House Committee on Ways and Means' proposed tax plan to pay for the $3.5 trillion infrastructure bill includes a number of significant changes to current estate planning opportunities.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Former Metropolitan Police Service Officer Wayne Couzens was sentenced to life in jail Thursday for kidnapping Sarah Everard as she was walking on a London street before later raping and murdering her. Everard, 33, was walking home when Couzens used his police identification and handcuffs to falsely arrest and abduct Everard. Prosecutors stated that Couzens used the pretext that Everard had broken COVID-19 lockdown laws to deceive her into getting into his car.

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Mondaq

OCTOBER 2, 2021

The U.S. Government Accountability Office ("GAO") recently released a new report finding that Army and Navy contracting officials were unaware of their oversight responsibilities regarding.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 2, 2021

SK Broadband, a South Korean internet service provider (ISP) and a subsidiary of SK Telecom, filed a counterclaim suit Thursday against global streaming giant Netflix for payment of increased network costs and bandwidth usage that the US company has generated in the country’s market. It claimed that Netflix’s traffic on its ISP network has increased by 24 times within the last three years, from 50 gigabits per second in May 2018 to 1,200 gigabits in September 2021.

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Mondaq

OCTOBER 2, 2021

On September 24, 2021, federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of New York (E.D.N.Y.) unsealed a criminal complaint and two criminal informations charging three bank employees in Brookly.

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OCTOBER 2, 2021

One thing I have learned in many years of writing about law cases that are politically or morally important to people is that there really is no market on social media for writing about them as law cases. The Chevron/Ecuador/Donziger case is a great example of this. Years ago, when I was arguing that the law should be that if you get a case dismissed in a US court on forum non conveniens grounds in favor of litigation in another country, you shouldn’t be heard later to complain that that c

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Mondaq

OCTOBER 2, 2021

The complainant alleged discrimination on the basis of a physical disability preventing him from wearing a face mask.

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OCTOBER 2, 2021

About the Institute. The idea of ‘Symbiosis’ is nurtured by Dr. S. B. Mujumdar on the principles of Vedic thought ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam’ which means ‘World as One Family’. Symbiosis Law School (SLS) Hyderabad was established in 2014 inheriting splendid novelty, dynamism and excellence in the education of Symbiosis International University, Pune. About the Centre.

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Mondaq

OCTOBER 2, 2021

On September 17, 2021, the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the Stock Exchange) issued a much anticipated consultation paper on Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs)

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OCTOBER 2, 2021

Against the background of “One Belt, One Road” initiative and the construction of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Great Bay Area, after being elevated to be a national free trade zone a few years ago, Henqin Island located in Zhuhai City of Guangdong Province and neighboring Macau was re-labelled as the deeper integration (cooperation) area between Guangdong and Macau days before.

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Mondaq

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Last week, Coinbase Global Inc. ("Coinbase") headed off confrontation with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") by announcing it was shelving a much ballyhooed digital asset lending product, Lend.

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OCTOBER 2, 2021

by Dennis Crouch. In a June 2021 decision, the Federal Circuit supported the USPTO in its arguments that Gilbert Hyatt long-pending patent applications could be rendered moot based upon the doctrine of Prosecution Laches. Hyatt v. Hirshfeld , 998 F.3d 1347 (Fed. Cir. 2021). Those cases are now on remand and the district court is setting up for trial on the question of whether the 20+ year delay in prosecution was due to Hyatt’s unreasonable behavior and whether the delay has resulted in

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Mondaq

OCTOBER 2, 2021

As previously reported, a proposed class action proceeding against over 50 generic drug manufacturers was commenced in 2020.

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OCTOBER 2, 2021

Do grading systems need a “failure” option? That is the question being increasingly asked in schools across the country. The latest school to eliminate the F is Sunrise Park Middle School in White Bear Lake, Minnesota which posted a videotape on a new grading scale which does not allow for any grade below 50 percent. It also bans the use of a student’s behavior or class record to be considered in grading.

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Mondaq

OCTOBER 2, 2021

This case highlights issues and potential pitfalls relating to social media use, for both individuals and businesses.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 2, 2021

The US Supreme Court added five cases to its docket on Thursday following its “long conference” on September 27. Federal Election Commission v. Ted Cruz for Senate is a suit filed by the Republican Texas senator challenging a federal law that restricts when and how an electoral candidate can repay personal loans to their own campaigns. Cruz is arguing the restrictions violate the First Amendment, while the FEC counters that the law is necessary to protect against apparent and actual

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Mondaq

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Budget 2021 was framed amid extraordinary circumstances of an uncertain economic and societal future. The budget seeks to manage the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic and Brexit.

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