JURIST

DECEMBER 10, 2022

A Texas state court Thursday dismissed a lawsuit filed against a physician who violated Texas’s state law that bans abortions after six weeks. A lawsuit was filed against Dr. Alan Braid claiming he violated the Texas state law banning abortion after six weeks of pregnancy. The six-week abortion ban took effect in September of last year. The law states that it “shall be enforced exclusively through the private civil actions.” Dr.

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 10, 2022

“Illinois Supreme Court makes history with female majority on bench”: Jerry Nowicki of Capitol News Illinois has this report. The post “Illinois Supreme Court makes history with female majority on bench” appeared first on How Appealing.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 10, 2022

A Hong Kong district court Saturday sentenced pro-democracy activist and media entrepreneur Jimmy Lai to almost six years of imprisonment on fraud charges. Lai is already serving a 20-month prison sentence in Hong Kong for his participation in a vigil commemorating the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. Lai also has a separate trial still forthcoming on additional National Security Law (NSL) violations.

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LLRX

DECEMBER 10, 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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LegalReader

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Employees at the candle factory, which was destroyed in a devastating 2021 tornado, claim that their supervisors threatened to fire them if they went home amidst severe weather alerts and tornado warnings.

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Jeanne Huang. University of Sydney Law School. Both Russia and Ukraine are member states of the 1965 Convention on the Service Abroad of Judicial and Extrajudicial Documents in Civil or Commercial Matters (Hague Service Convention (HSC)). After Russia occupied the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and its capital city, Sevastopol, and exercised control over certain areas of Ukraine (the “Occupied Areas”), Ukraine filed a declaration (“Ukraine’s Declaration on Crimea”) under the HSC.

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LegalReader

DECEMBER 10, 2022

The unusual lawsuit, filed in a Canadian court, alleges that Epic Games intentionally designed Fortnite to be as addictive as possible.

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At the Lectern

DECEMBER 10, 2022

The Supreme Court yesterday issued an alternative writ. That doesn’t happen too often, but it wouldn’t be particularly newsworthy. except the alternative writ’s recipient is a Court of Appeal. That is in the man-bites-dog category. The subject of the proceeding is one that is near and dear to the hearts of California’s appellate practitioners — whether parties to an appeal have the unfettered right to stipulate to a 60-day extension of a briefing deadline.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 10, 2022

The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit Friday issued a permanent injunction against the enforcement of Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which would require medical providers to provide gender-affirming medical services to transgender individuals. Two groups of Catholic employers and health care providers, the Religious Sisters of Mercy and the Catholic Benefit Association (CBA), challenged the ACA’s prohibition on discrimination “ based on race, color, national

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here. In April 2019, the Food and Drug Administration ordered the end of sales of pelvic mesh , a medical device marketed to help women with certain urinary or vaginal conditions, to treat a common ailment called pelvic organ prolapse.

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Rocket Matter

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Speaking for the Rocket Matter family, we would like to thank you for entrusting your business with us. Our team has delivered new features this year that has enhanced our users’ overall experience and provided top-notch seamless security. Security enhancements included our integration with LexShare for encrypted document sharing and e-signatures , as well as Microsoft Single Sign On capability. .

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JURIST

DECEMBER 10, 2022

The Canadian province of Alberta’s legislature Thursday passed Premier Danielle Smith’s Sovereignty Act , empowering the provincial government to dismiss federal law, programs, and policies. The Alberta Sovereignty within a United Canada allows for the provincial government of Alberta to, ​if the cabinet considers a federal law “unconstitutional or harmful to Albertans,” be empowered by the legislature to render inoperative portions or the entirety of federal statutes in the province, and to rep

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 10, 2022

In a major decision, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit upheld a lower court on Friday that enjoined the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) from forcing doctors with conscientious objections to perform gender transition surgeries. The case, Sisters of Mercy v. Becerra , concerns a 2016 rule that religious hospitals may be subject to non-discrimination provisions under the Affordable Care Act and that would require them to perform gender transitions.

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