JURIST

JANUARY 7, 2023

The Office of Gordon and Sarah Brown Friday called for the UK to back a special tribunal for the crimes of aggression in Ukraine. The office focuses on charitable and pro bono work, emphasizing global education. The statement called on the UK because of its “global influence and historic leadership on human rights issues.” The statement also proposed that the tribunal be based on the same principles that guided the allies in WWII to draft a declaration against Nazi Germany for its wa

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InHouseBlog

JANUARY 7, 2023

Think 2023 is going to be a doozy for the legal industry and its workers? Not according to all players in the field including the President of Major, Lindsey & Africa , a prominent legal recruiting firm. Anyone who watched the mad rush for lawyers at the end of 2021 and beginning of 2022 may be happy to hear that additional robust hiring is on the way.

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JURIST

JANUARY 7, 2023

A disabled Iranian protestor sentenced to death earlier this week was reported tortured beforehand, according to Iran human rights sources Thursday. Mansour Dehmardeh was convicted of “spreading corruption on earth” through his participation in the continuing Mahsa Amini protests. Mahsa Amini was killed in the hands of Tehran morality police in 2022.

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InHouseBlog

JANUARY 7, 2023

Privacy pros and compliance professionals should check out Husch Blackwell’s State Privacy Law Tracker. And if privacy is part of your job, don’t forget to check out the latest in-house counsel jobs requiring privacy law experience. “Update your bookmark, we just released our 2023 State Privacy Law Tracker. With state legislatures starting to open for the 2023 session, lawmakers are already introducing CCPA-like consumer privacy bills.

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JURIST

JANUARY 7, 2023

The New York Times released an article on Friday containing a half-complete document from US Central Command which investigated a failed drone strike in Afghanistan. 66 pages of the unclassified document were released to the New York Times, containing redactions, after a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit. The investigation was instigated shortly after the drone strike, which killed ten civilians , but was never completed.

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JANUARY 7, 2023

$33.5 MILLION WILL MAKE YOU ROYAL The former Prince of England and Duke of Sussex, Harry Charles Albert David, and his wife, Meghan Markle, made media headlines in recent years when they relinquished their status within the Royal family to live a “simpler,” more “private” existence in America. A new Netflix documentary, Harry & Meghan , details that decision and their associated "struggles." And the gorgeous Montecito mansion, where the show was filmed, is no

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Fordham Law News

JANUARY 7, 2023

Consumers have three payment options when checking out in a store – cash, card, or mobile pay. Even without paying particular attention, the average consumer will notice that mobile pay is rapidly overtaking cash and card payments. [1] In 2021, around 101 million Americans—about 30 percent of the U.S. population—used mobile payment systems. [2] This was a massive 9.64 percent jump from 92 million Americans in 2020. [3] Though FinTech’s shift from physical to mobile payment systems provides consu

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Patently O

JANUARY 7, 2023

by Dennis Crouch. I just gave a short (45 min) talk about the past year in patent law. See the slides here: Patent Year in Review. Key points: Director Review and Ex Parte Lobbying : Exercising the constitutional right to petition the government via shadow request for director review. Full Scope Enablement and Written Description : Increased focus by both the USPTO and the Federal Circuit.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 7, 2023

For those of us who have worked in and around Congress for years, last night’s final election of a speaker in the early hours of Saturday was nothing short of an extended Nascar race, particularly if you come to watch the cars crash. The evening had everything from gallows humor to a virtual wrestling match on the floor. It finished as unpredictably as it began.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 7, 2023

Below is my column in the Hill on the recent disclosure of efforts by Rep. Adam Schiff (D., Cal.) to pressure Twitter to censor critics, including a columnist. This effort occurred shortly after Schiff’s office objected to one of my columns accusing him of pressuring social media companies to censor those with opposing views. While publicly denying that he supports censorship, Schiff was secretly pressuring Twitter to censor an array of critics.

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