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JANUARY 1, 2024

Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, said on Sunday in an interview with the Russian state-owned RIA news agency that the Russian courts have issued long-term prison sentences for more than 200 members of Ukrainian armed groups for alleged crimes. Addressing an inquiry into the alleged crimes of Ukraine, Lavrov informed the news agency that Russian law enforcement authorities are diligently documenting the alleged “atrocities” committed by Ukrainian neo-Nazis that can be t

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JANUARY 1, 2024

“Trump’s Most Ambitious Argument in His Bid for ‘Absolute Immunity’; The former president says his acquittal by the Senate in his second impeachment trial, for inciting insurrection, bars any prosecution on similar grounds”: Adam Liptak will have this new installment of his “Sidebar” column in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.

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JURIST

JANUARY 1, 2024

The Indian Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Sunday banned the separatist party Tehreek-e-Hurriayt (TeH) Jammu and Kashmir as an “unlawful association” under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 (UAPA) for five years. The ministry says the ban was imposed in response to TeH’s engagement in “fomenting terrorism” and disseminating “anti-India propaganda” in the region of Jammu and Kashmir.

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JANUARY 1, 2024

“New Year, Same Court”: You can access today’s new episode of the “Strict Scrutiny” podcast via this link. The post “New Year, Same Court” appeared first on How Appealing.

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JANUARY 1, 2024

According to members of The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, t he Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) rejected Saturday nominations for the Pakistan general election of former Prime Minister Imran Khan from two constituencies: Lahore and Mianwali. The returning officer for NA-122, which encompasses Lahore, issued a verdict on Sunday according to local media, rejecting Khan’s nomination papers on “moral” and other grounds.

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JURIST

JANUARY 1, 2024

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres officially closed Saturday an international tribunal established to probe the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. The Secretary-General’s spokesperson acknowledged the Special Tribunal’s closure of the Special Tribunal and emphasized that three individuals were found guilty in connection with the assassination in absentia proceedings and sentenced to five concurrent life imprisonment sentences.

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JANUARY 1, 2024

Experiencing imposter syndrome during your job search? Here’s how to combat imposter syndrome and advance your career.

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JURIST

JANUARY 1, 2024

The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), in a press release on Saturday, stated that it has initiated an investigation into a former finance minister and close ally of former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, Tun Abdul Daim bin Zainuddin, under the country’s laws related to abuse of power and money laundering. The MACC emphasized that it had not officially accused Zainuddin of any offenses.

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JANUARY 1, 2024

Law 4 Small Business (L4SB) is proud to announce that it has partnered up with BOI-Labs.com to deliver the most powerful and comprehensive set of tools for Beneficial Ownership Information.

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JANUARY 1, 2024

The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) submitted a review petition in the Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Saturday challenging the court’s suspension of its previous ruling that prevented the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI), one of the three major political parties in Pakistan, from using a cricket bat as its electoral symbol in the upcoming February 8 general election.

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JANUARY 1, 2024

Guest Post by Jordan Duenckel. Jordan is a third-year law student at the University of Missouri and a registered patent agent. He has an extensive background in chemistry and food science. A recent Federal Circuit opinion, K-Fee v. Nespresso, 2022-2042, — F.4th — (Fed. Cir. Dec. 26, 2023) , arises from an infringement suit filed by K-fee System GmbH against Nespresso USA, Inc. in the Central District of California and revives a coffee controversy.

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Law 360

JANUARY 1, 2024

A new venue for patent disputes in Europe, potential legal wrangling over the role of artificial intelligence in developing inventions, and continued scrutiny of how litigation funding impacts patent cases are among the litigation topics attorneys will be closely tracking this year.

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JANUARY 1, 2024

By Douglas B. Farquhar & Aisha T. Evans* & Irene Namata* — Primacy and recency are recognized psychological phenomena: people tend to remember the first thing they hear, and the last. It’s why litigators concentrate on their opening statement to a jury, and their closing argument. Maybe that’s also why FDA last week publicized the highest number of important Warning Letters of the year (compared with prior releases in 2023).

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Law 360

JANUARY 1, 2024

One of the biggest players in Illinois politics faces a criminal racketeering trial, a host of lawsuits filed under a decades-old genetic information privacy law will advance and the state's high court is expected to further weigh in on insurance coverage for litigation under the state's biometric privacy statute in some of the Illinois cases to watch in 2024.

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JANUARY 1, 2024

Implementing a quality management system (QMS software) is an important investment companies cannot overlook. One Harvard Business Review study found that companies with an ISO 9001 certification have much higher rates of “corporate survival, sales, employment growth, and wage increases than a matched group of non-adopters.” For instance, 65% of companies save $25,000 or more in costs within their first year of implementing a QMS.

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Law 360

JANUARY 1, 2024

Love it or hate it, the growing adoption of generative artificial intelligence tools has given society no choice but to grapple with their novel challenges, and in 2024, trailblazing litigation over AI's impact on intellectual property, civil liberties and privacy will be hashed out in courtrooms across the country.

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JANUARY 1, 2024

Happy New Year to everyone on our blog! We rang in 2024 at home in Virginia after returning from Chicago for Christmas. New Year’s Eve is also my wedding anniversary. Twenty-six years ago, Leslie and I eloped in Old Town Alexandria after dating eight years. (We used my high school ring to seal the deal). Once again, we will celebrate two anniversary dates.

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Law 360

JANUARY 1, 2024

In 2024, courts across the U.S. are likely to weigh in on some of the most politically charged legal battles over corporate and regulatory efforts to prioritize environmental, social and governance initiatives, with the future of corporate diversity policies, anti-pollution efforts and corporate greenwashing hanging in the balance.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JANUARY 1, 2024

Constitutional law took center stage in many U.S. Supreme Court and the New Jersey Supreme Court cases decided in 2023. At the nation’s highest Court, the six-member conservative majority continued its trend of issuing transformative decisions, most notably in its landmark decision effectively ending affirmative action. The U.S. Supreme Court’s Most Significant Decisions of 2023 In Students for Fair Admissions v.

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Law 360

JANUARY 1, 2024

Although 2023 was a tough year for the digital asset industry, upcoming court decisions, legislation and regulatory action will bring clarity, allowing the industry to expand and evolve, and the government will decide what innovation it will allow without challenge, says Joshua Smeltzer at Gray Reed.

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HowAppealing

JANUARY 1, 2024

“Pregnancy Resource Centers Spark Funding Row Between Biden Administration, Antiabortion Groups; Conservatives push back on proposal to limit federal money for facilities that discourage women from abortions”: Stephanie Armour of The Wall Street Journal has this report. The post “Pregnancy Resource Centers Spark Funding Row Between Biden Administration, Antiabortion Groups; Conservatives push back on proposal to limit federal money for facilities that discourage women from abor

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Law 360

JANUARY 1, 2024

"Blockbuster," "momentous" and "historic" are all words that have been used to describe the U.S. Supreme Court's current term as the justices prepare for a spring docket jam-packed with questions over the level of deference courts should give federal agencies, whether and how social media companies should be regulated and whether government efforts to combat misinformation crosses the line between persuasion and coercion.

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JURIST

JANUARY 1, 2024

Multiple opposition presidential candidates in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) rejected the provisional election results Sunday, which incumbent President Felix Tshisekedi was announced to have won, and urged supporters to mobilize. Martin Fayulu, the leader of the Engagement for Citizenship and Development party, in a post on X (formerly known as Twitter), rejected the “farcical results” and asked the Congolese people to protest against the coup in line with Article 64 of the

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Law 360

JANUARY 1, 2024

Google enters the new year with few resolutions to litigation targeting its dominance over search, Android app distribution and auctions technology placing ads on third-party websites, and more fights are coming.

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JURIST

JANUARY 1, 2024

The President of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Félix Tshisekedi, was declared the winner of the recent elections Sunday, despite the opposition condemning the results and claiming electoral fraud. The elections, which happened in late December, were marred by widespread disruption. Two candidates for the parliament were killed in separate incidents and the EU cancelled an electoral observation mission due to security concerns.

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