JURIST

DECEMBER 18, 2021

In an unprecedented move, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) Friday suspended the approval given for Amazon’s 2019 investment in Future Coupons Private Limited (FCPL), claiming that the US e-commerce giant concealed critical information while seeking regulatory clearance. It also levied a penalty of ?202 crores on Amazon. In November 2019, the CCI had permitted Amazon to acquire a 49 percent stake in FCPL, the promoter entity of Future Retail Limited (FRL), through a call option within 3-

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 18, 2021

“Lawyer diversity effort gets cold shoulder from Florida Supreme Court”: Karen Sloan of Reuters has this report on a per curiam decision that the Supreme Court of Florida issued Thursday.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 18, 2021

Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. Here, a Staff Correspondent for JURIST in Kabul reports on protests and a death related to the country’s developing economic crisis. For privacy and security reasons, we are withholding his name. The text has been only lightly edited to respect the author’s voice.

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 18, 2021

“The idea of expanding the Supreme Court to blunt its right-wing bias gains traction”: Columnist Michael Hiltzik has this essay online at The Los Angeles Times.

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Broadcast Law Blog

DECEMBER 18, 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. Music licensing organization Global Music Rights (GMR) has agreed to a three-month extension of its current interim licensing agreement. GMR and the Radio Music License Committee (RMLC), which represents commercial radio broadcasters, have been in court for years arguing over whether GMR’s roya

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LexForti

DECEMBER 18, 2021

About the Competition. The Surana & Surana & Shaastra IIT Madras, Intellectual Property Law Moot Court Competition shall be held on 13th, 15th & 16th January 2022 virtually (online). Any clarification sought in respect of the case should be addressed by email to mootcourt@lawindia.com before 2nd January 2022. IP Moot Poster. The competition is open only for students who are enrolled in an LLB three year or five-year course during the current academic year. 16 teams will be selected o

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 18, 2021

“Court-packing is not the answer to this problem”: Columnist Ruth Marcus has this essay online at The Washington Post.

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 18, 2021

Written by Stephen G.A. Pitel, Western University. Many Canadian and some other conflicts scholars will know that the Uniform Law Conference of Canada (ULCC) has drafted (in 1994) model legislation putting the taking of jurisdiction and staying of proceedings on a statutory footing. This statute, known as the Court Jurisdiction and Proceedings Transfer Act (CJPTA), has subsequently been adopted and brought into force in 4 of Canada’s 13 provinces and territories (British Columbia, Saskatch

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At the Lectern

DECEMBER 18, 2021

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday granted certiorari in Viking River Cruises, Inc. v. Moriana. Although the Court will be directly reviewing a California Court of Appeal decision, it will actually be analyzing a seven-year-old California Supreme Court opinion that the Court of Appeal followed. Horvitz & Levy filed an amicus curiae brief supporting certiorari and arguing the California Supreme Court case was wrongly decided.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 18, 2021

Former Covington Catholic High School student Nicholas Sandmann has reached another settlement with a major news organization over the widespread false reporting of his encounter with a Native American activist in front of the Lincoln Memorial on January 18, 2019. Sandmann previously settled with the Washington Post and CNN. He has now settled his $275 million defamation lawsuit against NBC.

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SquirePattonBoggs

DECEMBER 18, 2021

As you probably know by now , the Sixth Circuit vacated the stay of OSHA’s vaccine mandate on Friday evening, allowing OSHA to move enforce its regulation, with an substantial, careful opinion by Judge Stranch (who was joined by Judge Gibbons) finding that OSHA has the statutory authority to issue and enforce the emergency temporary standard. Judge Larsen, the third judge on the motions-turned-merits panel, dissented with another significant opinion.

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 18, 2021

This post has been prepared by He Qisheng, Professor of International Law, Peking University Law School, and Chairman at the Peking University International Economical Law Institute, has published the 7th Survey on Chinese Practice in Private International Law. This survey contains materials reflecting the practice of Chinese private international law in 2020.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 18, 2021

The Biden Administration scored a victory Friday in its ongoing battle to enforce a nationwide vaccine mandate for businesses when the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals dissolved a stay , allowing the rule to move forward. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) had issued an emergency temporary standard (ETS) on November 5, requiring all businesses with 100 or more employees to require employees to either get vaccinated or undergo regular testing.

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 18, 2021

After the Coman judgment of 2018, the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has again rendered a judgment in the field of free movement of citizens that is of importance for private international law. Like in Coman, the judgment in V.M.A. of 14 December 2021 concerned a non-traditional family of which the members sought to make use of their right to free movement in the EU under the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) and Directive 2004/38.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 18, 2021

Share As the COVID-19 pandemic enters its third year and the omicron variant causes a spike in cases, challenges to efforts by policymakers to respond to the pandemic continue to arrive at the Supreme Court. On Friday night, within hours of a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit that reinstated the Biden administration’s vaccine-or-test mandate for large employers, several of the plaintiffs challenging the rule came to the court, asking the justices to stay the 6th Circuit’s r

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