JURIST

JANUARY 16, 2022

Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after Taliban takeover. Here, a law student in Kabul offers his perspective on recent conflicts within factions of the Taliban and suggests that if the Taliban cannot somehow connect with the new communities they are now governing there may be greater prospects for yet another war in the country.

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JANUARY 16, 2022

The term probate is very daunting among the executors. Amidst the inconsolable loss of your loved one, it’s too much pressure to handle probate, so most people put it aside. But delaying the legal procedure, even worsens the matter, popping up several troubles in the future. In such cases, professional paralegal probate services can help you go through the process with ease.

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JURIST

JANUARY 16, 2022

A lawsuit challenging the construction of a master-planned community on an undeveloped, environmentally sensitive plot of land approximately 65 miles north of downtown Los Angeles was revived on Friday, even as a settlement in a companion case was reached this week. The California Native Plant Society (CNPS) and the Center for Biological Diversity (“the plaintiffs”) sued the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors over the permit for Tejon Ranch’s Centennial Project , citing inadequa

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The Fashion Law

JANUARY 16, 2022

Hermès has filed a lawsuit against the individual behind the collection of 100 MetaBirkins non-fungible tokens (“NFTs”) that include images depicting furry renderings of its famous Birkin bag. In the complaint that it filed in a New York federal court on Friday, Hermès claims that MetaBirkins creator Mason Rothschild is “a digital speculator who is seeking to get rich quick by appropriating the brand MetaBirkins for use in creating, marketing, selling, and facilitating the exchange of digital as

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JURIST

JANUARY 16, 2022

The Supreme Court on Friday added five more cases to its docket. Each of the five cases are likely to be argued in the court’s April argument session. Kennedy v. Bremerton School District addresses whether a public-school football coach who says a brief, quiet, but highly visible prayer at midfield after a football game is engaging in speech that lacks First Amendment protection due to Establishment clause issues.

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JURIST

JANUARY 16, 2022

A district court judge in Virginia on Friday found Virginia’s online civil court system violated First Amendment rights of the press and public because of the system’s restricted access to newly filed civil complaints. The Officer of the Court Remote Access (OCRA) system makes civil filings available to attorneys through a per-court subscription fee.

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HowAppealing

JANUARY 16, 2022

“Judicial Notice (01.15.22): Sedition; A Yale Law grad gets indicted, a controversial clerk hire gets clarified, and other legal news from the week that was.” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 16, 2022

Share At the beginning of World War II, the heir of a prominent German Jewish art collector was forced to surrender her family’s Camille Pissarro painting to the Nazis. Her heirs have been litigating for more than 15 years over rights to the painting, an Impressionist masterpiece once thought to be lost. Whether they will succeed depends on how the Supreme Court decides a very technical question: Must a federal court hearing state law claims brought under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act app

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HowAppealing

JANUARY 16, 2022

“The Christian right brings a Supreme Court case it actually deserves to win; The case presents a genuinely difficult free speech dispute”: Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.

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LLRX

JANUARY 16, 2022

Privacy and cybersecurity 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 online security, often without our situational awareness.

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Mondaq

JANUARY 16, 2022

Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Chief Medical Officer of Health for Alberta, signed an Order on January 3, 2022, and amended January 10, 2022, creating an exception to the isolation requirements for individuals who are symptomatic or have a confirmed case of COVID-19.

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At the Lectern

JANUARY 16, 2022

Thirty-one years ago, a 5-2 Supreme Court affirmed Ronald Sanders’s death sentence for a murder committed a decade earlier. ( People v. Sanders (1990) 51 Cal.3d 471.) Twenty-two years ago, the court denied Sanders’s main habeas corpus petition, and summarily denied two later habeas petitions ( here and here ), with a dissent on each of the three denials.

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Mondaq

JANUARY 16, 2022

Where your not-for-profit organization is located and how you use the space you have can make a significant difference in the overall success of the organization.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JANUARY 16, 2022

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 announced that CDBS, the database where all broadcast applications were filed before most migrated to the newer LMS database, would stop accepting new applications as of last Wednesday, January 12.

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Mondaq

JANUARY 16, 2022

This week, the Ninth Circuit resolves whether parties can delegate issues of contract formation to an arbitrator

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Patently O

JANUARY 16, 2022

Recent Headlines in the IP World: Blake Brittain: U.S. Chief Justice Roberts Pledges to Review Patent Venue Rules (Source: Reuters). Ryan Selby: PODA Granted US Patent for Closed Bottom Vaporizer Pod (Source: Cision). Nike Sues Lululemon for Patent Infringement Over Mirror Home Gym (Source: Global News). Blake Brittain: SCOTUS Okays Medtronic’s $112 Million Loss in Patent Contract Case (Source: Reuters).

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Mondaq

JANUARY 16, 2022

As discussed in a previous client alert (here), The Boeing Company (Boeing) has faced shareholder litigation arising from the fatal crashes of two 737 MAX airplanes.

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JURIST

JANUARY 16, 2022

Glenn Youngkin, Virigina’s first Republican governor to win statewide office since 2009, signed 11 executive orders on his first day that include banning “critical race theory” and rescinding vaccine mandates for state employees. In his inauguration speech Saturday, Youngkin mentioned education as his policy priority. He promised to raise standards of education and teacher pay, and stated that he would “remove politics from the classroom.

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Mondaq

JANUARY 16, 2022

The administration of the domain names with.tr extension has been handled by Nic.tr operating under Middle East Technical University ("METU") since 1990.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 16, 2022

After the Supreme Court delivered a major blow to his pandemic policies, President Joe Biden does not seem done with federal mandates. The new rule , which took effect this weekend, requires insurance companies to cover the costs of in-home tests. However, according to the New York Times, many insurers are balking that the mandate asks the impractical in the short term and will only create months of frustration for citizens.

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Mondaq

JANUARY 16, 2022

Following on from our article "Decline of the Garden Shed Inventor", (see here), a second research report from the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) provides further analysis.

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Mondaq

JANUARY 16, 2022

On Friday, January 7, 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States heard oral arguments on challenges to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) COVID-19 Vaccination.

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Mondaq

JANUARY 16, 2022

Kişisel Verileri Koruma Kurulu'nun bir perakende giyim mağazasının ihlal bildirimine ilişkin 20 Ocak 2020 tarihli ve 2020/50 sayılı kararı resmi internet sitesinde yayımlandı

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Mondaq

JANUARY 16, 2022

The Personal Data Protection Board issued its decision dated 20 January 2020 and numbered 2020/50 regarding the personal data breach notification of an apparel firm, on its official website.

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Mondaq

JANUARY 16, 2022

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