JURIST
MARCH 7, 2021
The US Senate on Thursday unanimously passed an Act to impose limitations on Confucius Institutes situated on college campuses. The Confucius Act, sponsored by Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana, governs cultural organizations “directly or indirectly” funded by the Chinese government. Confucius Institutes hold cultural events, teach Chinese, and sponsor trips to China on college campuses.
EvidenceProf Blog
MARCH 7, 2021
The qualified immunity doctrine insulates governmental agents from liability for unconstitutional acts as long “as their conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.” Harlow v. Fitzgerald, 457 U.S.
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JURIST
MARCH 7, 2021
Germany’s cabinet on Wednesday launched the bill for the Act on Corporate Due Diligence in Supply Chains (or Supply Chain Act) aimed at strengthening the protection of human rights, health and the environment in German companies’ global supply chains. The bill mandates German companies with at least 3,000 employees to comply with supply chain standards throughout the manufacturing process by analyzing human rights-related risks, taking measures to prevent and mitigate human rights
HowAppealing
MARCH 7, 2021
“Josh Hawley Is ‘Not Going Anywhere.’ How Did He Get Here? The senator’s objection to the election results surprised some supporters. But interviews with dozens of people close to him show his growing comfort with doing what it takes to hold on to power.” Elaina Plott and Danny Hakim will have this article in Monday’s edition of The New York Times.
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JURIST
MARCH 7, 2021
While welcoming of the commutation of the death sentences of three Shia Muslim minors in Saudi Arabia, UN experts on Wednesday called for the country to quash their convictions and release them. The new sentence is 10 years imprisonment, including the time served. Ali al-Nimr, Dawood al-Marhoon and Abdullah al-Zaher were under the age of 18 when they were convicted of crimes after attending protests. .
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JURIST
MARCH 7, 2021
The Constitutional Court of Moldova on Thursday granted a partial victory to President Maia Sandu in her bid to be allowed to appoint new ministers. Sandu won the presidency in a landslide election last November, defeating pro-Moscow incumbent Igor Dodon. Following her election, the previous administration resigned, leaving Sandu at odds with the parliament, which is dominated by Dodon’s Socialist party.
HowAppealing
MARCH 7, 2021
In Bashman News from India: Bellie Thomas of The Bangalore Mirror has an article headlined “ Turmoil on the terrace: Mum, son bash man who wanted quiet.
JURIST
MARCH 7, 2021
JURIST EXCLUSIVE – Police and soldiers in Myanmar launched violent attacks on peaceful protesters assembled in several major cities Sunday and then launched raids on residential areas and university campuses. Law students reporting for JURIST in Mandalay said that over 100 people were arrested in that city alone after authorities used tear gas, flash-bangs and smoke bombs to disperse university students who had been holding sit-down strikes in the street to support democracy and human rig
LegalReader
MARCH 7, 2021
Dolce & Gabbana filed a lawsuit against two U.S. bloggers over defamation allegations.
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SCOTUSBlog
MARCH 7, 2021
We will be live blogging on Monday, March 8, as the court releases orders from the March 5 conference and opinions from the 2020-21 term. This live blog is sponsored by Casetext: making litigation more efficient with A.I. and machine learning technology. The post Announcement of orders and opinions for Monday, March 8 appeared first on SCOTUSblog.
LegalReader
MARCH 7, 2021
Shkreli allegedly used a "contraband" cell phone to continue manipulating drug prices from prison.
Corporate Governance
MARCH 7, 2021
Experiences at Virtual Shareholder Meetings: Guest Post Dear Investors, I have conducted a study on how virtual shareholder meetings affect communication with shareholders, How Shifting from In-Person to Virtual Shareholder Meetings Affects Shareholders’ Voice. To expand the study I am conducting a survey aimed at investors who have participated in past in-person shareholder meetings of publicly listed […].
LegalReader
MARCH 7, 2021
The families of two UF students are suing after the young girls were killed in accidents on West University Avenue.
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Cenza
MARCH 7, 2021
Celebrated all over the world as International Women’s Day, March 8th holds special significance for the women’s rights movement. By employing more women in the workforce, organizations can proactively work towards bridging the gender gap but is that what’s happening now? Data says otherwise. The recent World Economic Forum report reveals an alarming status quo on gender parity that calls for swift action.
LPB Network
MARCH 7, 2021
Now on the Courts Law section of JOTWELL is Roger Michalski’s essay, Conflict Scholarship in Partisan Times. Roger reviews Symeon Symeonides’ Choice of Law in the American Courts in 2020: Thirty-Fourth Annual Survey, 69 Am. J. Comp. L. (forthcoming 2021).
Conflict of Laws
MARCH 7, 2021
You are kindly invited for the conference on “Regional Migration Governance: Soft Law and the Diffusion of Policies on Integration and Inclusion (Focus on South America Regionalism) ” by Dr. Verónica Ruiz Abou-Nigm (senior Lecturer in Private International Law at Edinburgh Law School and the principal investigator of the GCRF funded project Migration in Latin America ( MiLA )) on March 9, 2021, Tuesday between 12.30-13.30 (GMT+3).
JonathanTurley
MARCH 7, 2021
There is a saturation of coverage of the upcoming interview of Oprah and Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex. The increasingly public spat between the Crown and the couple is turning nasty with an investigation into alleged bullying and abuse of household staff by Meghan. All of that sensational coverage has distracted from a far more substantive and costly matter.
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Conflict of Laws
MARCH 7, 2021
The COVID-19 Pandemic has impacted on commercial dispute resolution in China, Singapore and Australia. The important question is whether these impacts will be transformed into legal doctrines and shape the development of law for commercial dispute resolution in the long term. Experienced panellists will consider how Covid-19 has promoted online trials in China, influenced forum non conveniens and other aspects of international commercial litigation in the Singapore courts, and challenged service
JURIST
MARCH 7, 2021
The Mississippi House of Representatives passed the SB2536 Bill on Wednesday, which bans transgender athletes from female designated sports. The Bill was introduced in the Mississippi Senate, which it passed earlier last month with a vote of 34-9, and now the House of Representatives with a vote of 81-28. The Bill requires public schools, member schools of the Mississippi High School Activities association, public institutions of higher education, or any higher education institution which is a m
JonathanTurley
MARCH 7, 2021
By Darren Smith, Weekend Contributor. After a two year long impasse, the Iraqi Parliament enacted law recompensing Yazidi and other similarly stationed ethnic groups for the genocide and other crimes against humanity they suffered at the hands of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. It is hard to imagine how any human being could be made whole after having suffered such inhumanity prosecuted against these people.
JURIST
MARCH 7, 2021
The Tennessee Senate passed SB0228 Bill on Monday, a move which bans participation of transgender athletes from female designated sports. The Bill, introduced earlier this year, passed with a vote of 27-6 and amends Title 49 of the Tennessee Code. In its push for biological determinism over one’s self-identified gender, the Bill requires a student athlete’s gender for purposes of participation in a public middle school or high school interscholastic athletic activity or event to be determined ba
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JonathanTurley
MARCH 7, 2021
We have been discussing the expanded censorship on the Internet and the threat to both free speech and free press rights. As stated recently in testimony before the House , I remain an unabashed “ Internet Originalist ,” favoring the free forum for speech that once defined these Big Tech companies. The expanding censorship of the Internet continues to show bias and contractions as Democratic members push for “robust modification” to silence opposing views of everything fr
JURIST
MARCH 7, 2021
The Alabama Senate passed the controversial anti-trans SB10 Bill on Tuesday, effectively prohibiting the performance of gender affirming medical treatment on minors. The Bill, which shall be called the Alabama Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act, was introduced by Senator Shay Shelnutt and passed with a vote of 23-4. Section 3 of the Bill prohibits any person from engaging in, counseling or making a referral for performance of various treatments such as through hormone therapy, pubert
LegalReader
MARCH 7, 2021
Republican lawmakers claim that Democrats are effectively trying to "defund the police" by requiring that law enforcement make itself more transparent.
JURIST
MARCH 7, 2021
Democratic Representative Eric Swalwell filed a civil lawsuit in federal court against former president Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Rudy Giuliani, and Republican Congressman Mo Brooks on Friday, alleging that the deadly Capitol insurrection on January 6 was a “direct and foreseeable consequence” of the defendants’ unlawful actions. Only the United States Attorney General can file a criminal lawsuit against a former president.
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