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NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The Senate is eyeing the annual defense bill as a vehicle to attach critical provisions to improve the nation’s cybersecurity, reports The Hill. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee ranking member Rob Portman, along with several other Senate committee chairs, introduced an amendment to the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) earlier this month that would give critical infrastructure groups 72 hours to report cyber incidents.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The European Commission Wednesday proposed a new regulation to curb the export of waste to third-party countries. In a statement , Executive Vice-President for European Green Deal Frans Timmermans said, “our new rules to govern waste shipments will boost the circular economy and ensure that waste exports do not harm the environment or human health elsewhere.” The regulation covers all waste, not just those forms of waste that are traditionally understood as hazardous.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2021

It’s close to the end of the year, and if you’re a paralegal working in a law firm with a billable hour requirement, you might be stressing about it. So we asked our podcast listeners to send us their burning billable hour questions, and Ann answered them in a recent episode. You can also read them below. Prefer Audio Instead of Reading? Q. I get asked not to record time spent on a particular project (usually asked by the same attorney).

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The Australian state of South Australia Thursday became the first jurisdiction in the country to formally ban the use of spit hoods on detainees. A spit hood is a mesh-fabric face covering that is fixed to an individual’s neck. The device is used in prisons, immigration detention centers and mental health facilities. The legislation , known as Fella’s bill, makes it an offense for the employees of corrective and other services to use spit hoods on children and adults within South Aus

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NOVEMBER 18, 2021

A report from Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz has found that 60,000 inmates potentially did not properly receive credits for time served under the First Step Act’s recidivism programs, reports ABC News. The inspector general also found that the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) failed to incentivize or reward inmates who completed First Step-related programs.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2021

“Judge Tries to Block New York Times’s Coverage of Project Veritas; The state court order, which The Times said it would immediately oppose, raised concerns from First Amendment advocates”: Michael M. Grynbaum of The New York Times has this report.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The Supreme Court of India ordered the Tripura police Wednesday to refrain from taking any coercive measures, including arrest, against two lawyers and one journalist booked under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act of 1967 (UAPA) for their social media posts and reports on the recent communal violence in Tripura. In October 2021, several reports emerged from Bangladesh of unidentified Muslim men committing acts of violence against the Hindu minority and their temples.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2021

“Crypto Group Is Outbid in Auction of Rare Edition of the Constitution; Private collector beat out a group of cryptocurrency investors who raised more than $40 million to buy the historic document”: Kelly Crow of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Myanmar law students are reporting for JURIST on challenges to the rule of law in their country under the military junta that deposed the civilian government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February. For privacy and security reasons we are withholding this law student’s name and institutional affiliation. The text has been only lightly edited to respect the author’s voice.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2021

“U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan Judges Moot Court Competition at Harvard Law”: Emmy M. Cho of The Harvard Crimson has this report. Harvard Law School has posted on YouTube a video of the event titled “ Ames Moot Court Competition 2021.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Content Warning: the following story discusses the sexual assault of children. The Supreme Court of India Thursday overturned a judgement by the High Court of Judicature at Bombay and ruled that sexual assault under the Protection of Children of Sexual Offense Act (POSCO) does not require “skin to skin contact.” The Supreme Court examined two similar cases at once.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2021

“Authenticity and Finding Your Place in the Law | Karen Vladeck”: You can access today’s new episode of the “Texas Appellate Law Podcast” with Todd Smith and Jody Sanders via this link.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Thursday designated senior Houthi military leader Saleh Mesfer Alshaer. OFAC added Alshaer to the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (SDN) list, which generally blocks designated persons’ assets and prohibits US persons from dealing with them. In an accompanying press release , OFAC Director Andrea Gacki named Alshaer as the principal military officer responsible for seizing the assets of Yeme

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NOVEMBER 18, 2021

“Justices as Speechmakers: Recent sharp-edged speeches by members of the high court have been controversial, but history shows that speechmaking by justices is nothing new.” Tony Mauro has this post at his “The Marble Palace Blog.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The highest court in Mexico Tuesday unanimously declared a reform decree that extended the court’s President and Federal Judicial Council Member terms by two years unconstitutional. The Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación (SCJN) held that the term extension violated Articles 97 and 100 of the Mexican Constitution. Articles 97 and 100 establish the procedures for appointing the court’s president and council members and set forth the term limits for these judiciary members.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2021

“The Federalist Society’s newest enemy: Corporate America; America’s most powerful legal organization has lost faith in the market’s power to impose its values on the nation.” Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Muhammad A. Aziz and Khalil Islam, two of the men found guilty of the assassination of Malcolm X, are expected to have their convictions thrown out after spending more than 20 years in prison, a remarkable acknowledgment of grave errors made in the infamous murder case, reports the New York Times. A 22-month investigation conducted jointly by the Manhattan district attorney’s office and lawyers for the two men found that prosecutors and two of the nation’s premier law enforcement agencies — the

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NOVEMBER 18, 2021

“Will Sixth Circuit Take OSHA ETS Case En Banc? A petition has been filed asking the full court to hear the legal challenges to the OSHA COVID-19 vaccinate-or-test mandate.” Jonathan H. Adler has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.” You can view the Petition for Initial Hearing En Banc at this link.

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The Fashion Law

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

China’s dominance in manufacturing has made it the factory of the world. The subsequent economic growth enriched an ever-expanding middle class , and the country’s retail industry has quickly adapted to supply a growing appetite for consumption. Some of these developments in the way people spend their money, powered by the latest technology, will soon be appearing on a device near you.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2021

“How badly do the Supreme Court’s conservatives want to overturn Roe v. Wade?” Columnist Paul Waldman has this essay online at The Washington Post.

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The IP Law Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

In this episode of the Briefing from the IP Law Blog , Scott Hervey and Josh Escovedo discuss a copyright lawsuit against Buzzfeed, over its practice of embedding images from social media pages into their website. Watch this episode on the Weintraub YouTube channel, here. Listen to the podcast version of this episode on your favorite platform or online, here.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2021

“Can Public Money Go to Religious Schools? A Divisive Supreme Court Case Awaits.” Mark Walsh of Education Week has this report.

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ABA Journal

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

A new truth-telling technology called EyeDetect is said to be more accurate than polygraphs, but the outlook for its widespread admission in court is not…

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NOVEMBER 18, 2021

By: Jacqueline Valle. United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) performed a third random selection of previously submitted H-1B cap subject registrations for fiscal year (FY) 2022 on November 19, 2021. The agency did not receive enough H-1B petitions to fill its minimum annual cap, including advance degree exemptions, for fiscal year 2022.

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ABA Journal

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Lawyers who received litigation funding from Pravati Capital are sometimes tripped up by contract provisions that leave them owing more than double the amount that…

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