JURIST

MAY 23, 2021

The European Parliament adopted a resolution Thursday disapproving the sanctions imposed by China on EU entities and personnel. The sanctions imposed by China are considered a retaliation to the restrictive measures imposed by the EU on four Chinese officials and one entity. The EU imposed the restrictive measures on account of the role of the officials and entity in severe human rights violations commissioned against the Uyghur minority.

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MAY 23, 2021

“SC’s Heritage Act protecting Confederate monuments faces critical test in SC Supreme Court”: Jamie Lovegrove of The Post and Courier of Charleston, South Carolina has this report.

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JURIST

MAY 23, 2021

The Verkhovna Rada (Parliament) of Ukraine adopted amendments regarding international crime and humanitarian laws on Thursday. The new law, Bill 2689 , will help provide legal accountability for war crimes committed in the occupied territory of Crimea. The bill passed with 248 members out of 363 voting in favor of adoption. The bill amended provisions of the Ukrainian criminal code.

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MAY 23, 2021

If you missed Friday’s Legaltech Week review of the top stories in legal technology and innovation, here are the video and audio recordings. Two guest panelists joined us this week: Roy Strom , correspondent for Bloomberg Law and formerly a reporter for The American Lawyer and the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, and Julie Sobowale , lawyer and journalist as well as director of communications at the Law Society of Saskatchewan.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 23, 2021

Share We will be live blogging on Monday, May 24, as the court releases orders from the May 20 conference as well as one or more opinions in argued cases from the 2020-21 term. Click here for a list of answers to FAQs about orders and opinion announcements. ?. The post Announcement of orders and opinions for Monday, May 24 appeared first on SCOTUSblog.

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MAY 23, 2021

Q 11: (16 points) By the year 2050, Dean Lidsky has retired and is now spending her time as an inventor. She has created a set of self-replicating crawling “bugs.” To be clear, these are small autonomous robots that do the following: (1) individually move about the world scavenging for parts; (2) once enough parts are collected, a bug will build a replica of itself.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 23, 2021

The Copyright Royalty Board decision on the rates to be paid in the next 5 years by webcasters , including broadcasters who simulcast their programming on the internet, to SoundExchange for the digital public performance of sound recordings is supposed to be released by June 14. These royalties are collected by SoundExchange from noninteractive webcasters (see our articles here , here and here on the difference between interactive and non-interactive webcasters) and are distributed to the artis

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MAY 23, 2021

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Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 23, 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 FCC asked for public comment on a proposal to increase from 100 to 250 watts the maximum power allowed for Low Power FM stations. This proposal has previously been raised by LPFM advocates many times, and thus far it has been rejected by the FCC (see our article here on a prior attempt).

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The Estrin Report

MAY 23, 2021

Law firms leaders quickly learned that a willingness to adopt new technologies into their firms was a requirement for survival during the pandemic. Article By NICOLE BLACK on April 29, 2021 at 12:45 PM Originally published on AboveTheLaw. No matter who you ask, one thing is clear: the pandemic will undoubtedly have long-lasting effects on all aspects of both our personal and professional lives.

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JURIST

MAY 23, 2021

Judge James Boasberg of the US District Court for the District of Columbia denied a request Friday for an injunction to shut down the Dakota Access Pipeline, ordering the parties to file a joint status report on how to proceed. Judge Boasberg said that the plaintiff, the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, failed to show that irreparable harm would result from the pipeline’s continued operation.

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The Estrin Report

MAY 23, 2021

Law firms leaders quickly learned that a willingness to adopt new technologies into their firms was a requirement for survival during the pandemic. Article By NICOLE BLACK on April 29, 2021 at 12:45 PM Originally published on AboveTheLaw. No matter who you ask, one thing is clear: the pandemic will undoubtedly have long-lasting effects on all aspects of both our personal and professional lives.

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JURIST

MAY 23, 2021

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) unanimously voted on Thursday to approve a plan that decreases interstate and international prison and jail phone call rates, making phone calls more affordable. The plan lowers the rate of interstate and international prison and jail phone calls by at least one-third. Prison phone calls cannot exceed 12 cents per minute, and jail phone calls cannot exceed 14 cents per minute.

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MAY 23, 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.

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JURIST

MAY 23, 2021

Judge Brian Amero of Fulton County, Georgia, granted the request of an independent group of election watchers “to inspect and scan the November 3, 2020, general election absentee ballots that are sealed.” The group, called VOTER GA , is led by Garland Favorito and describes themselves as an “anti-fraud” group. Though the recounting of the ballots will not lead to any change in the election results and the votes were counted three times , the group believes it may discover

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MAY 23, 2021

“Trump’s revenge: tilting of supreme court to the right poised to bear fruit; Cases on voting rights, abortion and gun control will be a test of the ex-president’s laser-like focus on reshaping the judiciary.” David Smith of The Guardian (UK) has this report.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 23, 2021

A new lawsuit by the Chinese American Civil Rights Coalition has garnered national attention in the media where former President Donald Trump is being sued for his use of such terms as the “Chinese Virus,” “China Virus,” “Wuhan Flu,” and “ Kung Flu.” What is most interesting about this lawsuit is how it is arguably meritless under both tort and constitutional law.

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MAY 23, 2021

“Supreme Court decisions on abortion and guns could shake up 2022 election; Democrats say gutting Roe v. Wade and rejecting gun limits would awaken their base, which tends to snooze during midterm races when they have the White House”: Sahil Kapur of NBC News has this report.

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