JURIST
JANUARY 8, 2022
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) Thursday issued a final decision that a complaint concerning a bakery’s refusal to fulfil an order for a cake advocating for LGBTQIA+ rights is inadmissible. The dispute arose in 2014 following a third unsuccessful attempt to legalize same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland. Gareth Lee ordered and paid for a cake from Ashers Baking Company.
HowAppealing
JANUARY 8, 2022
“A newly filed lawsuit is trying to upend baseball’s century-old status quo”: Chelsea Janes of The Washington Post has an article that begins, “About 99 years and seven months ago, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and his colleagues issued a ruling that would shape professional baseball in the United States for the next century.
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JURIST
JANUARY 8, 2022
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) Friday initiated an antitrust inquiry into Alphabet Inc.’s alleged abuse of market dominance in news aggregation services. The inquiry was initiated by the antitrust regulator under Section 26(1) of India’s Competition Act in response to a complaint filed by the Digital News Publishers Association (DNPA) alleging that Alphabet Inc.’s search engine provider Google is the largest source of online traffic for news website, accounting for
HowAppealing
JANUARY 8, 2022
“No Laws, Just Vibes”: You can access last night’s new episode of the “Strict Scrutiny” podcast, featuring law professors Kate Shaw , Leah Litman , and Melissa Murray , via this link.
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JURIST
JANUARY 8, 2022
The Judicial Commission of Pakistan (JCP) Thursday approved the elevation of Lahore High Court Justice Ayesha A. Malik to the Supreme Court of Pakistan. If the Parliamentary Committee on Judges, which has the last word on Supreme Court nominations, approves this recommendation, then Justice Malik will become the country’s first woman Supreme Court judge.
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JURIST
JANUARY 8, 2022
The US Justice Department Thursday unsealed an indictment charging a dual U.S.-Egyptian citizen with acting and conspiring to act in the US as an unregistered agent of Egypt. Pierre Girgis is a 39-year-old resident of Manhattan. He is alleged to have acted as an agent of the Egyptian government from approximately 2014 to 2019. During this time, he allegedly tracked and obtained information about Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s political opponents in the US.
HowAppealing
JANUARY 8, 2022
“Meadows urges Supreme Court to take up Trump’s case that aims to keep presidential records secret”: Katelyn Polantz of CNN has this report.
JURIST
JANUARY 8, 2022
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken Thursday announced that the US State Department had imposed visa restrictions on eight Cuban officials accused of silencing protests through repression, unlawful detentions, and harsh prison sentences. In July 2021, thousands of Cubans took to the streets in anti-government protests , motivated by dissatisfaction with the Cuban government’s handling of the economy, the Covid-19 pandemic, and the curtailment of civil liberties.
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JANUARY 8, 2022
“Three Rationales for Vaccine Mandates”: Michael C. Dorf has this post at his blog, “Dorf on Law.
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JURIST
JANUARY 8, 2022
The three white men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery were Friday sentenced to life in prison by a Georgia superior court judge. Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, was killed in February 2020 by father and son Gregory and Travis McMichael and William Bryan, who pursued Arbery in their pickup truck and shot him multiple times. The three men were indicted on nine counts of murder and assault, and they were found guilty in November by a jury after a day of deliberations.
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JANUARY 8, 2022
“Supreme Court ruling on mandates may depend on how the justices value vaccines”: Joan Biskupic of CNN has this news analysis.
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JANUARY 8, 2022
After listening to the oral arguments at the Supreme Court, we think the Court will likely issue an administrative stay to delay implementation of the first ETS deadline by Monday, January 10. U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar admitted that such a stay might be appropriate if the Court needed some breathing space (as it clearly needs) to decide the important issues presented here.
LexForti
JANUARY 8, 2022
Megha Chawla (LLM, RGNUL). In this guest post, the author has explored and described the legality of surrogate advertisements in India. INTRODUCTION. Advertising as a mode of marketing has a strong influence in our lives. Advertisement refers to any announcement or notice in public domain in order to promote any service, product or event. It is a method through which companies encourage the audience to buy their products or services.
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CLM tools have always strived to push contract management into the digital age for almost 30 years. But the complexities of digitising a legal document are numerous. The current scenarios in business development have shown that having a fully automated CLM has become a mandate for every law firm and in-house legal department. To determine if you need a CLM system, it's essential to clearly identify the on-ground business challenges you aim to solve.
JonathanTurley
JANUARY 8, 2022
By Darren Smith, Weekend Contributor. Our host on numerous occasions makes a strong case in labeling today’s zeitgeist as “The Age of Rage”. It would certainly seem to be so if one focuses on what stereotypically comes out of the news media and political figures we lend our ears to. Yet I would go a step further and suggest the root cause of some of this rage is composed of two elements: power-lust and simple human stupidity.
Mondaq
JANUARY 8, 2022
The California Legislature has enacted several new laws that will impact the workplace in 2022.
LegalReader
JANUARY 8, 2022
Interstate Meat Dist. Inc. recently announced a recall for nearly 28,356 pounds of ground beef due to E. coli concerns.
JonathanTurley
JANUARY 8, 2022
For years, I have lamented how the Democratic party has embraced censorship and the criminalization of speech. Coming from a liberal Democratic family in Chicago, the Democratic Party once championed free speech as the defining value of the party. Democratic politicians now lead calls for censorship to silence their opponents and corporate regulations to protect citizens from dangerous choices in reading material.
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Mondaq
JANUARY 8, 2022
New York employers in all industries should incorporate these new standards into their own COVID workplace policies.
JonathanTurley
JANUARY 8, 2022
As many of you know, I have a certain fascination with early mugshots, particularly those from the Victorian period. These photos give an insight into life in the 19th Century with striking and often haunting realism. I recently stumbled across a cache of American mugshots from the Nebraska State Historical Society. I wanted to share a few. This picture is Goldie Williams was arrested for vagrancy on Jan. 29, 1898.
Mondaq
JANUARY 8, 2022
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted final amendments to its rules on December 2, 2021 to implement the requirements in the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act of 2020.
Mondaq
JANUARY 8, 2022
On December 21, 2021, New Jersey amended its telemedicine laws via SB 2559. The new changes expressly allow the use of asynchronous store-and-forward telemedicine as a standalone modality.
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Mondaq
JANUARY 8, 2022
When buying technology or ICT services, issuing an RFP to qualified suppliers is a great way to help frame out requirements and then do a fair, apples to apples comparison of the proposals you receive.
Mondaq
JANUARY 8, 2022
The global financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic have driven the world into the New Normal era. In an era of uncertainty, the focus of corporate management is also moving from growth towards sustainability.
Mondaq
JANUARY 8, 2022
The Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") recently issued proposed regulations affecting certain reporting deadlines under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ("ACA").
Mondaq
JANUARY 8, 2022
Recently, in Siegel v. Snyder, Slip.Op. 07624, New York's Appellate Division, Second Department interpreted New York's peer review/quality assurance confidentiality statute.
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