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JANUARY 22, 2022

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Thursday issued a notice of proposed rulemaking to increase network security monitoring for high and medium-impact bulk power systems to protect against cyberattacks. Existing Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) reliability standards focus on the security perimeter of computer networks, and there is concern that those standards do not address vulnerabilities to internal networks.

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JANUARY 22, 2022

“Anti-Abortion Marchers Gather With an Eye on the Supreme Court; The annual March for Life rally is taking on a celebratory tone this year as participants expect the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade”: Kate Zernike and Madeleine Ngo have this article in today’s edition of The New York Times. And Sean Salai of The Washington Times reports that “ Thousands protest abortion as 49th annual March for Life returns in-person.

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JURIST

JANUARY 22, 2022

The Supreme Court Friday granted review of Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta , a case that will help determine the scope of a ruling from two years ago regarding major crimes committed in Indian country. In 2020 the justices decided McGirt v. Oklahoma , which held that a large portion of eastern Oklahoma, in fact remains an Native American reservation and that only the federal government has the power to try certain crimes committed by any Indian.

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JANUARY 22, 2022

“Roe v. Wade remains law, but the Supreme Court isn’t acting like it; The court is allowing Texas to delay challenges to its abortion law until the court erases abortion rights from the Constitution”: Law professor Jessica Levinson has this essay online at MSNBC.

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JURIST

JANUARY 22, 2022

The chief of Frontex Friday called for the European Union to provide clearer rules on striking a balance between the human rights of asylum seekers and greater border protection. Frontex Border and Coastguard Agency which engages in border control, including preventing human trafficking and smuggling, were scrutinized for violating human rights. Cases under review include Lithuania, which sent Middle Eastern migrants trying to cross the border into Belarus in August.

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JURIST

JANUARY 22, 2022

The National Council of Austria Thursday passed a bill making Covid-19 vaccination mandatory for all adults in the country. If approved by the upper house and signed into law by the President, the bill will come into force on February 1, making Austria the first European country to introduce a vaccine mandate. The Austrian government first announced its plans for a country-wide vaccination mandate in November 2021, merely days after imposing a lockdown that applied only to unvaccinated citizens

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JANUARY 22, 2022

“Civic Education and the Constitution with Jeffrey Rosen”: You can access the first installment of the “High School SCOTUS” blog’s podcast via this link.

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JANUARY 22, 2022

Carlos Santaló Goris, Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Luxembourg, offers an analysis on the recently approved reform of the French Manual on Tax Procedures (“Livre des procédures fiscales”) influenced by Regulation No 655/2014, establishing a European Account Preservation Order (“EAPO Regulation”).

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JANUARY 22, 2022

“VanDyke Writes for Majority, Spoofs Opinion Arriving at Contrary Result; Ninth Circuit Panel Reverses Order Dismissing Action Over Ventura County Closing Gun and Ammunition Shops, Firing Ranges for 48 Hours”: Metropolitan News-Enterprise has this report.

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JANUARY 22, 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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JANUARY 22, 2022

“Sarah Palin v. NYT: Exploring the line between bad journalism and libelous journalism.” Media critic Erik Wemple has this essay online at The Washington Post.

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JANUARY 22, 2022

I held a contest and Apple wins–for having the patent with the largest number of cited prior art references (patents issued 2005-2021). Apple’s U.S. Patent No. 11,037,565 is directed to a version of Siri that works across devices – an “Intelligent digital assistant in a multi-tasking environment.” The total, 9,441 cited references — 3 of which were cited by the examiner.

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JANUARY 22, 2022

“A single word sparks a crossfire between the Supreme Court, NPR and its star reporter Nina Totenberg”: Paul Farhi of The Washington Post has this report.

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JANUARY 22, 2022

Appleton v. Bacon , 67 U.S. 699 (1862). John North was an employee of American Book and Paper Folding Company, hired to design and improve various paper folding machines. That company ceased operation in 1857 and Bacon purchased all the patents, including one issued to North. North kept a machine he had been working on and improved it further in 1858 before filing for patent protection and that patent issued later the same year.

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JANUARY 22, 2022

“What the fallout from the Supreme Court’s Texas abortion ruling means for the future of Roe”: Tierney Sneed of CNN has this report.

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JURIST

JANUARY 22, 2022

The US Department of Justice Friday charged a Texas man for allegedly posting on Craigslist a message containing a threat to injure and kill election-related government officials. On Friday morning, the FBI arrested Chad Stark from Leander, Texas. As per the indictment , on January 5, 2021, Stark posted a message on Craigslist with the subject line, “Georgia Patriots it’s time to kill [Official A] the Chinee agent – $10,000.

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JANUARY 22, 2022

“Roe v. Wade at 49 today”: Lyle Denniston has this blog post today.

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JANUARY 22, 2022

Nina Totenberg slammed Kelly McBride, the ombudsman for National Public Radio (NPR), for concluding that she should rewrite her story accusing Neil Gorsuch of refusing to wear a mask to protect his colleague, Sonia Sotomayor. McBride did not suggest a correction but merely a “clarification.” Totenberg responded to The Daily Beast and declared that McBride “can write any goddamn thing she wants, whether or not I think it’s true.

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