JURIST
OCTOBER 17, 2021
Amazon filed an appeal at the Luxembourg Administrative Tribunal on Friday challenging an $865M fine imposed by Luxembourg National Commission for Data Protection (CNPD). The penalty was handed down for violations of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The retail giant was first brought under scrutiny by La Quadrature du Net , a French Privacy Advocacy group in 2018.
Paralegal Bootcamp
OCTOBER 17, 2021
Did you miss the first episode of the new paralegal podcast that we launched last week? Visit the Episode 1 page to listen to it now. We’ve also included links on that page to listen on Apple Podcast, Spotify, and Google. Every Tuesday we’ll be putting out a new episode of Paralegals on Fire! Podcast show, hosted by Ann Pearson, so be sure to subscribe on your favorite podcast app to get notified when new episodes come out.
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JURIST
OCTOBER 17, 2021
A Russian Court on Thursday imposed one year of restrictions on ophthalmologist Dr Anastasia Vasileya. The sanctions restrict her movements and require monthly mandatory checks with the Russian state supervisor. She is also disallowed from leaving Moscow or attending mass events such as protests or concerts. She was first introduced into the limelight after treating Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny after he was assaulted by pro-Kremlin extremists.
HowAppealing
OCTOBER 17, 2021
“Yale Law School triggers me”: Columnist Kathleen Parker has this op-ed in today’s edition of The Washington Post.
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JURIST
OCTOBER 17, 2021
Kamalakhya Dey Purkayastha, a member of the Assam legislative assembly, wrote a letter Sunday seeking intervention by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) following a series of violent attacks on the Hindu minorities in Bangladesh during the festival of Durga Puja. Purkayastha is the regional working president of India’s leading opposition party, the Indian National Congress, and represents the Karimganj district lying at the border of India and Bangladesh.
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JURIST
OCTOBER 17, 2021
The lead lawyer representing Myanmar’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her government in the several criminal cases initiated against them by the junta said on Friday that a gag order has been issued preventing him from speaking about Suu Kyi’s cases to the media, foreign diplomats or international organizations. Lawyer Khin Maung Zaw and his legal team have been one of the only firsthand sources of weekly developments for the public in the nearly 11 cases ongoing against Suu Kyi.
HowAppealing
OCTOBER 17, 2021
“Ohio Supreme Court Justice Pat DeWine’s refusal to recuse from lawsuit involving father may be unprecedented”: Cory Shaffer of The Cleveland Plain Dealer has this report (subscription required for full access).
JURIST
OCTOBER 17, 2021
An Iranian appeals court has upheld a one-year prison term for British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe on propaganda offenses, according to her lawyer. Zaghari-Ratcliffe is a dual British and Iranian citizen who before her arrest lived in London with her husband Richard Ratcliffe. She previously worked with international development charities through BBC and Thompson Reuters.
HowAppealing
OCTOBER 17, 2021
“John Grisham on Judges, Innocence and the Judgments He Ignores; The best-selling author, whose new book, ‘The Judge’s List,’ is about a murderous member of the bench, talks about the Supreme Court, wrongful convictions and what it means to be ‘review-proof'”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.
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LegalReader
OCTOBER 17, 2021
Ten more students have joined a lawsuit against Liberty University, claiming that the school’s management refused to take action after they reported sexual assaults. According to Yahoo! News, a new status report from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York shows that an existing lawsuit against Liberty has added ten new.
HowAppealing
OCTOBER 17, 2021
“Supreme Court term limits wouldn’t solve anything”: Fourth Circuit Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III has this essay online at The Washington Post.
LLRX
OCTOBER 17, 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.
HowAppealing
OCTOBER 17, 2021
“The secret Supreme Court: Late nights, courtesy votes and the unwritten 6-vote rule.” Joan Biskupic of CNN has this report.
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Broadcast Law Blog
OCTOBER 17, 2021
Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the last week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations. The Copyright Office initiated a study of the rights of publishers, to explore ways to assist local journalism. The notice of inquiry seeks comments on the protections afforded to publishers under Copyright law and whether these protections should expand to shield publishers from the dilution o
Law 360
OCTOBER 17, 2021
Criminal defense attorney Donna Mulvihill Fehrmann argues that law schools have an obligation to address widespread racial and economic disparities in the U.S. legal system by mandating first-year coursework on criminal justice reform that educates on prosecutorial misconduct, wrongful convictions, defense 101 and more.
LLRX
OCTOBER 17, 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.
The Fashion Law
OCTOBER 17, 2021
Talk of an impending deal between online luxury players Yoox Net-a-Porter and Farfetch has been muted since this spring, months after a $1.1 billion mega-deal brought Farfetch, YNAP owner Richemont, and Chinese internet behemoth Alibaba together. As TFL reported at the time, a close read between the lines of the “global strategic partnership” – which saw Alibaba and Richemont invest $600 million ($300 million each) in Farfetch Limited, while also respectively ponying up $250 million for a combin
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Mondaq
OCTOBER 17, 2021
Dans ce IP Monitor intitulé « Anti-suit injunctions and the importance of forum selection in commercial IP agreements » (en anglais seulement), mes collègues William Chalmers,
FDA Law Blog
OCTOBER 17, 2021
By Deborah L. Livornese — Many of us have been waiting not-so patiently for FDA to begin implementing the over-the-counter (OTC) monograph reform provisions of the 2020 Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) (see our blog post here ). While we are aware that behind the scenes the Office of Nonprescription Drugs has been busy hiring, training, reorganizing and otherwise working on implementation, apart from setting the amount of the new fees and related actions (see our b
Paralegal Coffee Talk
OCTOBER 17, 2021
Becoming a Paralegal: Financial Goals (Video 1 of 7). The post Becoming a Paralegal: Financial Goals (Video 1 of 7) appeared first on.
LegalReader
OCTOBER 17, 2021
The activists accused the Biden administration of playing politics with immigrant lives.
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Mondaq
OCTOBER 17, 2021
International investment has never been riskier. What are the risks & how can you mitigate them?
SCOTUSBlog
OCTOBER 17, 2021
Share The Biden administration told the Supreme Court on Friday that a Palestinian man who has been in U.S. custody for nearly 20 years could provide testimony for use in a Polish criminal investigation into the man’s torture at a CIA “black site” in that country. However, Acting Solicitor General Brian Fletcher added, any testimony by Zayn Husayn, also known as Abu Zubaydah, would be subject to a national-security review, and it would not resolve the dispute over whether testimony by two CIA co
Mondaq
OCTOBER 17, 2021
As of September 22, 2021, the province requires individuals age 12 or older to show proof of vaccination to access many non-essential businesses. According to Regulation 645/21 and.
JURIST
OCTOBER 17, 2021
Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on Kuwait to end its suppression of the LGBTQ community in a report published on Thursday , following the conviction and imprisonment of Maha-al-Mutairi, a transgender woman. She was charged with allegedly violating telecommunication laws by “imitating the opposite sex” online. These claims were brought under Article 70 of the Communication and Information technology law and Article 198 of the Penal code.
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