JURIST
JULY 17, 2022
The US House of Representatives Friday passed HR 8296, the Women’s Health Protection Act, which seeks to preserve the right to give and receive abortions without state-imposed restrictions. Under the Act, states cannot prohibit any particular abortion procedure before fetal viability. Patients cannot be required to give their health care provider a reason for their abortion.
HowAppealing
JULY 17, 2022
“After New Abortion Laws, Some Patients Have Trouble Obtaining Miscarriage Treatment; Surgical procedures and medication for miscarriages are identical to those for abortion, and some patients report delayed or denied miscarriage care because doctors and pharmacists fear running afoul of abortion bans”: Pam Belluck of The New York Times has this report.
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JURIST
JULY 17, 2022
The Delhi Sessions Court Friday granted bail to journalist Mohammed Zubair who was arrested on June 27 for a 2018 tweet that allegedly hurt religious sentiments and promoted enmity. The Delhi Police arrested Zubair under Sections 153A and 295 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) for tweeting a “questionable image with a purpose to deliberately insult the god of a particular religion.” The tweet contained an image of a hotel’s name being altered from “Honeymoon Hotel” to &
HowAppealing
JULY 17, 2022
“Concealed weapons: California looks to restrict how people can carry guns in wake of U.S. Supreme Court ruling.” Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has this report.
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JURIST
JULY 17, 2022
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced Sunday that he had dismissed the Ukrainian Prosecutor General the head of Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) from their posts amid an investigation that revealed that more than 60 SBU and Prosecutor General’s Office employees are currently engaged in treason against Ukraine. Zelensky said that he made the decision to remove Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova and SBU head Ivan Bakanov after the top SBU officer in Crimea, Oleh Kulinich,
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EvidenceProf Blog
JULY 17, 2022
Federal Rule of Evidence 706(a) provides that On a party’s motion or on its own, the court may order the parties to show cause why expert witnesses should not be appointed and may ask the parties to submit nominations. The.
HowAppealing
JULY 17, 2022
“War on California gun laws revs up after Supreme Court’s ‘right to carry’ decision”: Kevin Rector has this front page article in today’s edition of The Los Angeles Times.
LLRX
JULY 17, 2022
City lights that blaze all night are profoundly disrupting urban plants’ phenology – shifting when their buds open in the spring and when their leaves change colors and drop in the fall. New research Yuyu Zhou coauthored shows how nighttime lights are lengthening the growing season in cities, which can affect everything from allergies to local economies.
HowAppealing
JULY 17, 2022
“A post-Roe surge could reshape this Illinois steel mill town; Granite City, a conservative-leaning community near St. Louis, now offers the closest abortion clinics for many patients across the South and Midwest”: Caroline Kitchener of The Washington Post has this report.
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Broadcast Law Blog
JULY 17, 2022
Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the past week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations. The US Court of Appeals this week determined that the FCC’s requirement that broadcasters confirm by searching DOJ and FCC databases that all buyers of program time on their stations are not representatives of foreign governments was beyond the power of the FCC as authorized by Congress.
HowAppealing
JULY 17, 2022
“Supreme Court ‘Originalists’ Are Flying a False Flag; The new conservative majority promised to heed the intent of the Constitution’s framers to restrain judicial overreach; Instead, it cherry-picks history to rationalize its activism”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.
Mondaq
JULY 17, 2022
Statutory probationary periods apply irrespective of any contractual terms, workplace policies or agreements.
HowAppealing
JULY 17, 2022
“Penn Law dean requests Faculty Senate impose ‘major sanction’ against Amy Wax”: Jared Mitovich of The Daily Pennsylvanian has an article that begins, “Penn Law School Dean Ted Ruger requested that the Faculty Senate impose a ‘major sanction’ against tenured Penn Law professor Amy Wax, an action that brings the University closer to potentially terminating the controversial academic.” And Susan Snyder of The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that “
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Patently O
JULY 17, 2022
Hypo : Copycat would like to copy Competitor’s product. The patent covering the product expired as have patents covering some methods-of-use, but Competitor still has one method-of-use patent in force. The question–when you sell its product, how careful does Copycat need to be to avoid inducing infringement? This hypothetical situation gets trickier when we are talking about FDA regulated drugs because the FDA dictates labeling content for generic (ANDA) filers.
HowAppealing
JULY 17, 2022
“What Will Happen if Doctors Defy the Law to Provide Abortions?” Law professor Dov Fox has this guest essay online at The New York Times.
Mondaq
JULY 17, 2022
When a role is made redundant (no longer required), the employee could be redeployed or retrenched (lose their job).
HowAppealing
JULY 17, 2022
“In the Face of Fact, the Supreme Court Chose Faith”: Columnist Pamela Paul has this essay online at The New York Times.
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iHire
JULY 17, 2022
Companies’ efforts to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace are falling short with Black women. Here are a few ways to improve upon it.
HowAppealing
JULY 17, 2022
“How the Supreme Court recalibrated the abortion debate in just 3 words”: Eliott C. McLaughlin of CNN has this report.
Mondaq
JULY 17, 2022
ASIC is concerned with ensuring that the content produced by Finfluencers is compliant with AFSL requirements.
JonathanTurley
JULY 17, 2022
By Darren Smith, Weekend Contributor. I’ll go out on a limb and make a proposal, based mostly on anecdotal observations I have made during my adult life of both politicians and elected officials–there is a difference–and what these individuals have often gotten us into. I have come to the conclusion that among the various cultivars of politics, the two positions that for me have consistently remained the most benevolently virtuous, and least damaging to ordinary people, are not
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Mondaq
JULY 17, 2022
Opinion piece on the right to protest in NSW.
FDA Law Blog
JULY 17, 2022
By Alan M. Kirschenbaum — Last November, we blogged about a provision of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act that requires new rebates for discarded amounts of drugs that are covered under Medicare Part B, and that are packaged in a single-dose container or single-use package. An example of such a drug is a single-use vial of an injectable cancer drug that is dosed based upon weight, and therefore might not be entirely used for a lighter weight patient.
Mondaq
JULY 17, 2022
We are often asked by our clients: "What are you seeing? Anything interesting in the market on your side?" Our answer, as Cayman counsel, is more often than not that we are a ship floating.
JURIST
JULY 17, 2022
The United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack Friday subpoenaed the US Secret Service (USSS) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in order to obtain erased text messages from January 5-6, 2021. The subpoena , signed by committee chair Representative Bennie G. Thompson, seeks text messages from the USSS concerning the January 6 Attack.
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