JURIST

JANUARY 28, 2024

Ethiopian Ambassador to Somalia, Muktar Mohamed Ware, issued an apology on Sunday following reports of his possible dismissal over remarks he made regarding the country in an interview with Ethiopian local media. Ware reportedly said that Somalia is a nation “created by colonialists” and that “Somaliland is an independent country which has both de facto and juridical authority to sign international agreements.” He apologised on X (formerly Twitter) to the government and r

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HowAppealing

JANUARY 28, 2024

“The E. Jean Carroll Verdict Exposes the Limits of Libel Law”: Law professor RonNell Andersen Jones has this guest essay online at The New York Times. The post “The E. Jean Carroll Verdict Exposes the Limits of Libel Law” appeared first on How Appealing.

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JURIST

JANUARY 28, 2024

Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) requested on Friday that the Supreme Court block the United States Military Academy at West Point from using race as a factor in applications while its lawsuit makes it way through the lower courts. SFFA is the same group that sued Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, which led to the US Supreme Court effectively ending affirmative action.

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JANUARY 28, 2024

The International Legal Technology Association, whose ILTACON conference in the United States and ILTACON Europe in London are must-attend events for many in the legal technology industry, announced yesterday that it is adding a new annual conference to its roster, called ILTA EVOLVE. It appears that ILTA EVOLVE is the successor to a previous ILTA conference, the LegalSEC Summit, which will no longer be held under that name.

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JURIST

JANUARY 28, 2024

The Hutukara Yanomami Association, an indigenous group in Brazil, released a report for the year 2023 on Friday that assessed initiatives undertaken by the Brazil federal government to improve living conditions and control the practice of illegal mining in Yanomami Indigenous Land. The report underscored the bleak situation of the region and called the initiatives “insufficient.” The report highlighted that the government’s initiatives led to a reduction in illegal miners and a

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JURIST

JANUARY 28, 2024

Denmark’s Ministry of Social of Social affairs released a report on revealing that adoptions of South Korean were subject to “systemic illegal behavior” on the part of South Korea. The report focused on the period between January 1, 1970 and December 31, 1989 and was released on Thursday. The report deplored the lack of adequate regulations and the consequences for adoptees, stating: The inadequate regulation of the mediation system and the South Korean rules on family registra

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LLRX

JANUARY 28, 2024

Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, 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 online security, often without our situational awareness.

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JURIST

JANUARY 28, 2024

An appellate court in Bangladesh granted bail to Nobel laureate Muhammed Yunus on Sunday, as reported by a local media. Yunus was previously sentenced to six month imprisonment for labour law violations in his company Garameen Telecom. Following this bail order, an appeal will now be heard against his case. Yunus was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for his work pioneering microfinance and microlending, which helps poor entrepreneurs start small businesses.

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Patently O

JANUARY 28, 2024

by Dennis Crouch Ficep begins its petition for certiorari with a brilliant statement of how its patented steel manufacturing method has won numerous awards and complements for its innovative approach, been copied by competitors, and led to numerous successful sales. Despite these clear indicia of patentability, the Federal Circuit invalidated claims — affirming the lower court’s judgment on appeal.

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JURIST

JANUARY 28, 2024

The French government introduced a series of urgent measures on Friday that abandon its plan to reduce state subsidies on agricultural diesel. The measures included emergency solutions aiming to make the life of farmers easier and protect their income, and were announced within “a logic of agricultural independence and food sovereignty, with healthy, safe and sustainable production.” In addition to dropping plans to reduce diesel subsidies, the government announced that they would en

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 28, 2024

By Jeffrey N. Gibbs & Steven J. Gonzalez — In a new publication in the Washington Legal Foundation’s (WLF) Legal Backgrounder , we argue that FDA’s recent proposed rule regulating Laboratory Developed Tests (LDTs) is vulnerable to legal challenge, once finalized. FDA’s proposed rule has every hallmark of a case subject to the “major questions doctrine,” according to which agency action must be support by clear congressional authorization.

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JURIST

JANUARY 28, 2024

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese condemned on Saturday domestic neo-Nazi activity after a group of masked men boarded a Sydney train on Australia Day. Three police operations into neo-Nazi demonstrations were conducted across Sydney over the weekend amidst a recent rise in neo-Nazi, antisemitic and extremist right-wing incidents. On Friday morning, about 61 men masked in all-black, balaclavas and sunglasses boarded a train at Artarmon.

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Conflict of Laws

JANUARY 28, 2024

Written by Sandrine Brachotte who obtained a PhD. in Law at Sciences Po, Paris and is a Guest Lecturer at UCLouvain (Saint-Louis, Brussels). PIL and (De)coloniality in Europe This post follows Susanne Gössl’s blog post series on ‘Colonialism and German PIL’ (especially s. 3 of post (1) ) and offers a French perspective of the issue of PIL and (de)coloniality – not especially focused on French PIL but based on a francophone article to be published soon in the law and anthropology journal Droit et

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JURIST

JANUARY 28, 2024

A statue of Captain Cook and a statue of Queen Victoria in Australia, both colonial era leaders, were damaged ahead of Australia Day, a controversial state holiday celebrating the arrival of the first British settlers to Australia which has come under fire in recent years. The century-old Captain Cook statue was sawn off its plinth and left on the grass while the Queen Victoria statue was doused in red paint.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 28, 2024

Independent movie critic Louis Chilton has caused considerable controversy with a recent column raising concerns over Oppenheimer , a film that is not only a commercial blockbuster but a critically acclaimed work with five Golden Globe (including best picture) and 13 Academy Award nominations. The success for Chilton was ominous and prompted his own Oppenheimeresque moment of wondering if “I am Become Death, the Destroyer of [Movies].” He denounced the film as a return to making movi

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JURIST

JANUARY 28, 2024

The United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), a peacekeeping mission in the DRC, reported on Saturday that it protected civilians escaping violent attacks in the eastern region of the DRC by deploying troops to secure a designated corridor. The mission said on X (formerly Twitter) that about 1,000 displaced people have been sheltered and it aims to protect the civilians with the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FADRC

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HowAppealing

JANUARY 28, 2024

“Judicial Notice (01.27.24): Don’t Mess With Texas — Or Kaplans; An $83.3 million verdict against Trump, the passing of an eminent academic, more Cravath partner departures, and other legal news from the week that was.” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site. The post “Judicial Notice (01.27.24): Don’t Mess With Texas — Or Kaplans; An $83.3 million verdict against Trump, the passing of an eminent academic, more C

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 28, 2024

The new CEO for National Public Radio (NPR) has become instant news over social media postings that she deleted before the recent announcement of her selection. Katherine Mahar is the former CEO of Wikipedia and sought to remove controversial postings on subjects ranging from looters to Trump. Shannon Thaler at the New York Post reassembled Maher’s deleted postings including a 2018 declaration that “Donald Trump is a racist” and variety of race-based commentary.

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JURIST

JANUARY 28, 2024

A bipartisan group of Tennessee state legislators unveiled a proposed state constitutional amendment on Friday to grant judges more discretion to detain individuals without bail before trial for specific violent criminal charges. Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton (R-District 25) made the announcement at Memphis City Hall, flanked by Memphis’ Mayor Paul Young (D), Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson (R-District 27), a number of state legislators representing Memphis and Shelby County,

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