JURIST

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), an independent humanitarian organization operating in Libya, raised concern on Friday over the mass arrests and detention of more than 500 migrants in Tripoli by Libyan authorities. Libya’s Interior Ministry stated that security forces have carried out a major operation against criminals, liquor and drug dealers, and undocumented people in Gargaresh, Tripoli.

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OCTOBER 3, 2021

by Dennis Crouch. TBL Licensing, LLC v Hirshfeld , Docket No. 1:21-cv-00681 (E.D. Va. Jun 04, 2021). I previously wrote about the TTAB decision denying TBL’s attempt to register the shape of its Timberland Boots as a protectable trade mark. Crouch, Iconic Timberland Boots–Trade Dress Worthy? Now, the company has filed a civil action in the Eastern District of Virginia seeking a court order that TBL is entitled to a registration.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 3, 2021

A UK law firm, Mishcon de Reya, announced Thursday that it is bringing a representative suit against Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) subsidiary DeepMind Technologies over breach of data protection laws arising from DeepMind’s data-sharing arrangement with the Royal Free London National Health Service (NHS) Foundation Trust. In 2015, DeepMind and the NHS announced a collaboration for developing an app for clinicians treating kidney disease.

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OCTOBER 3, 2021

“Supreme Court poised to make landmark rulings on abortion, guns, religious rights; The most contentious case involves abortion”: Jon Brown of Fox News has this report.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 3, 2021

A forensic spatial analysis released by Amnesty International (AI) on Thursday revealed a suspected illegal pushback of Afghan asylum seekers by Poland late in August. The analysis further indicates that the 32 Afghans are presently living in deplorable conditions. Through photogrammetry and other spatial modelling techniques, AI’s crisis evidence lab analyzed various satellite imagery and videos to come up with a 3D reconstruction of the Poland-Belarus border.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The Superior Court of Glynn County, Georgia ruled on Friday that Ahmaud Arbery’s mental health records could not be used as evidence in the trial against the three white men accused of killing the 25-year-old Black man. The defendants, Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael, and William Bryan, chased Arbery in a pickup truck and fatally shot him in February 2020 while Arbery was running on a public street in a Georgia neighborhood.

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OCTOBER 3, 2021

“Scorched-Earth Judging in North Carolina; A liberal state Supreme Court gambit threatens political legitimacy”: This editorial will appear in Monday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Steven Donziger, a former attorney who has spent decades battling Chevron Corp. over pollution in the Ecuadorian rainforest, was sentenced on Friday to six months in prison for criminal contempt of court. The initial dispute originated in 2011 after an Ecuadorian court rendered a $9.5 billion judgment against Chevron for allegedly dumping contaminated waste into the Amazon which caused the pollution of soil and water in the Lago Agrio region of Ecuador.

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OCTOBER 3, 2021

“Supreme Court’s new term could see landmark rulings on abortion, guns and vouchers”: Ariane de Vogue of CNN has this report.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Former France president Nicholas Sarkozy has been found guilty of illegaly financing his 2012 re-election campaign on Thursday, making him the first head of state since the second world war to receive two jail terms. This is the second guilty charge for Sarkozy—he was found guilty of corruption in a separate trial six months prior when he was sentenced to three years in prison.

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Broadcast Law Blog

OCTOBER 3, 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. ViacomCBS and its subsidiary Pluto TV agreed to pay $3.5 million and enter into a consent decree with the FCC because Pluto failed to include captions in streamed programming that had previously been broadcast with captions on TV.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Share In Brown v. Davenport , the justices will grapple once again with how a provision in the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 affects state prisoners’ access to federal habeas corpus review. This case, which will be argued on Tuesday, addresses the standard of review that federal habeas courts should use when assessing state courts’ prior determinations that constitutional trial errors were harmless.

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Mondaq

OCTOBER 3, 2021

In today's day and age, IPR plays a critical role in facilitating the trade and economy of every nation while ensuring that intangible properties such as creative works, trademarks and inventions.

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 3, 2021

On Tuesday, Oct 5, 2021, the Hamburg Max Planck Institute will host its 14th monthly virtual workshop Current Research in Private International Law at 11:00-12:30. Jürgen Basedow (Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law) will speak, in German, about the topic. Aufgabe und Methodenvielfalt des Internationalen Privatrechts im Wandel der Gesellschaft.

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Mondaq

OCTOBER 3, 2021

On May 5, 2021, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia determined the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) did not have legal authority to impose the national eviction moratorium.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Laywers for Twitter confirmed on Saturday that the social media giant has appealed a Paris court decision ordering it to grant full access to documents detailing its measures to combat online hate speech. The order was rendered on July 6 and required Twitter to provide information on the “material and human means implemented” by it since May 2020 to six French anti-discrimination groups.

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Mondaq

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Many believe that non-fungible tokens are poised to revolutionize the esports industry.

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OCTOBER 3, 2021

“The Lawyer Behind the Memo on How Trump Could Stay in Office; John Eastman was a little-known but respected conservative lawyer; Then he became influential with Donald Trump — and counseled him on how to retain power after losing the election”: Michael S. Schmidt and Maggie Haberman have this front page article in today’s edition of The New York Times.

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Mondaq

OCTOBER 3, 2021

As more companies develop Environmental, Social, and Governance ("ESG") goals and advertise their progress towards those goals, we're starting to see more challenges to those ads.

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HowAppealing

OCTOBER 3, 2021

“Back on the Bench, the Supreme Court Faces a Blockbuster Term; The court, which is dominated by six Republican appointees, will confront a charged docket, including a case asking it to overrule Roe v. Wade”: Adam Liptak will have this article in Monday’s edition of The New York Times.

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Mondaq

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Welcome to the latest edition of MoFoReal, our newsletter highlighting recent activities and other developments in MoFo's European Real Estate team.

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OCTOBER 3, 2021

This week, the Supreme Court will again assemble for a new term and pundits and politicians are already handicapping the cases. This term however has more drama and tension as Democrats call for packing the Court with an instant liberal majority and others attack its members in anticipation of opinions that have yet to be written. The reality is summed up in one of my favorite stories about Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes when he was on trip to Washington.

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Mondaq

OCTOBER 3, 2021

最近、上海市知識産権局主導のブランド評価モデルの開発と利用プロジェクトが、正式に開始した。

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Mondaq

OCTOBER 3, 2021

At present, a draft[1] of the new rules on implementation of extended producer/importer[2] obligations (hereinafter - the "New Rules"), which, presumably, will replace the existing one.

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Mondaq

OCTOBER 3, 2021

With vaccination rates on the rise and COVID-19 restrictions relaxing, many employers are reassessing existing policies in preparation for the return of employees to the workplace.

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