JURIST

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Danielle Smith, who took office as the new Premier of the western Canadian province of Alberta in October, said Saturday that her government is considering revising the provisions of the proposed provincial Sovereignty Act which would empower the provincial cabinet to unilaterally rewrite laws without legislative approval.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The push follows a significant uptick in the number of active FCA investigations, the level of resources the government is putting into them, the number of agents that are working them, and the level of teamwork and coordination between US attorneys and Main Justice. In fiscal 2021, DOJ obtained $5.6 In fiscal 2021, DOJ obtained $5.6

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 23, 2023

Share On Thursday, the Supreme Court held that a federal prisoner cannot raise a claim of legal innocence if he has already challenged his conviction – even if that claim was unavailable at the time he filed his challenge. They could also include challenges to the conditions of detention, rather than the legality of the sentence.

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JURIST

JANUARY 22, 2021

The Thai government filed a criminal complaint against political leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit Wednesday, citing crimes against the monarchy. He criticized the government’s administration of recently developed COVID-19 vaccines. He criticized the government’s administration of recently developed COVID-19 vaccines.

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FDA Law Blog

AUGUST 4, 2022

Kirschenbaum — In a recent decision, the Second Circuit upheld the HHS Office of the Inspector General (OIG)’s position that Pfizer’s proposed copay assistance program for its high-cost heart treatment would violate the Federal Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS). The Second Circuit’s Interpretation of the Anti-Kickback Statute. Pfizer, Inc.

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 28, 2024

Gonzalez — In a new publication in the Washington Legal Foundation’s (WLF) Legal Backgrounder , we argue that FDA’s recent proposed rule regulating Laboratory Developed Tests (LDTs) is vulnerable to legal challenge, once finalized. By Jeffrey N. Gibbs & Steven J.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

In an effort to promote tribal self-governance, Congress allows tribes to contract with the agency to oversee these programs themselves. Under the federal statute governing these contracts, tribes can then keep third-party insurance revenue so long as they spend it on health care. On appeal, the U.S. In Becerra v.

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JURIST

APRIL 20, 2022

The US Supreme Court Tuesday heard opening arguments for two cases concerning legal errors and whether courts can, and should, correct them. United States , the Court is considering which provision of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure applies to a prisoner’s effort to re-open a judgment based on a legal error. In George v.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 18, 2022

In February, Paxton issued a non-binding legal opinion stating that transgender therapy for minor children constitutes child abuse. To be clear, there has been no change in the law governing child abuse, nor will there be for at least a year, since the Texas Legislature is not currently in session and meets biennially.

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MyCase

APRIL 24, 2024

AI tools like ChatGPT are creating a buzz in the legal field. According to the Legal Industry Report 2024 , nearly one-quarter (24%) of law firms have adopted legal-specific generative artificial intelligence (GAI) tools. GAI can free lawyers from repetitive tasks so they can focus on higher-level legal strategy.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

In 2017, Oklahoma sued J&J, Purdue Pharma and Teva Pharmaceuticals under the state’s public nuisance statute alleging that the drug manufacturers deceptively marketed opioids within the state. This plan appropriated money to 21 government programs to combat opioid abuse statewide.

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JURIST

AUGUST 3, 2023

Under rational basis review, a court will uphold a law as constitutional if the government has a legitimate interest in enacting the statute and the law is rationally related to that interest. The court also disagreed with the plaintiffs’ equal protection challenge to the statute.

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JURIST

JANUARY 17, 2024

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Wednesday in two cases involving a requirement for herring fisheries to pay for the observers the government used to monitor overfishing. The case centers around a legal concept known as the “ Chevron Doctrine ,” established in the Supreme Court’s 1984 opinion in Chevron v.

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MARCH 16, 2024

” The case is important because social media is increasingly used by government organizations to push-out information; while those same avenues provide an important public mechanism for voicing opposition. Using “government staff to make a post” will very likely be deemed an official act. ” 42 U.S.C.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 25, 2022

This statute, which was originally part of the Judiciary Act of 1789, empowers federal courts to “issue all writs” (i.e., orders) that aid the exercise of their jurisdiction even though no statute expressly authorizes the orders. As background, one of the statutes governing habeas proceedings, 28 U.S.C.

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JURIST

MAY 12, 2021

” This interpretation has harmonized the statute with the First Amendment, under which “abusive language” can be criminalized only if the government proves that the language had the direct tendency to cause immediate violence by the person to whom it was individually addressed.

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JURIST

AUGUST 22, 2021

” The statute for apprehension and detention of non-citizen immigrants, 8 U.S. The government appealed, hoping that the appeals court would rule in its favor that requiring the burden of proof to be placed on the immigrant satisfied due process. However, the court held that the burden must be placed on the government.

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JURIST

MAY 2, 2024

The Italian government sought the sculpture’s return on multiple occasions. German authorities brought charges against the art dealer but these too ultimately failed for a lack of evidence, leading the Italian government to drop its investigation. The legal process remains unresolved at present, per court documents.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Alberta’s legislature passed a resolution which resolved to “urge the Government to use all legal means necessary to oppose the implementation and enforcement of the Federal Initiative in Alberta.” ” It is unclear what effect, if any, the resolution will have.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

So far, the country has adopted several laws to strengthen the legal framework towards achieving these goals. These suits were brought forward through a unique legal mechanism called ‘ Acción de Cumplimiento ’ (roughly translated as compliance action). Among the main legal statutes are: Law 164 of 1994 on the UNFCCC.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 14, 2023

Cordero-Garcia , involving whether a federal law that allows the government to deport noncitizens convicted of “an offense relating to obstruction of justice” applies even to cases that are not connected to open investigations or judicial proceedings. The government’s reading of ‘relating to,’” they warn, “has no meaningful limit.”

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 17, 2022

Share On Wednesday, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that a VA benefits decision that was based on an agency regulation in effect at the time the decision was rendered does not constitute “clear and unmistakable error” even if the agency regulation is later deemed to conflict with the text of the relevant benefits statute.

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JURIST

JUNE 15, 2023

The US Supreme Court declined on Thursday to disturb a federal statute governing the adoption and foster proceedings for Indigenous children in the US. Petitioners’ contended that the proceedings fall within the realm of family law, which is usually governed by state law. The court issued three findings in its Thursday decision.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 2, 2023

.” It also provides that “both Parties shall refrain from any action which might aggravate or extend the dispute before the Court or make it more difficult to resolve” On October 31, Guyana asked the court to indicate provisional measures under Article 41 of the ICJ statute.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Evidence suggests that the armed group has abducted boys, as young as 12, to be trained in bases in Cabo Delgado and forced to fight against the Government forces. The post HRW reports Islamic State in Mozambique is using child soldiers appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Bolsonaro has repeatedly stated that his government has been the victim of an international “campaign of lies” and asserts that no country protects the environment better than Brazil. The Rome Statute lays out the “crimes against humanity” for which the ICC is its sole adjudicator.

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JURIST

APRIL 21, 2021

In May 2014, the Chinese government launched the “Strike Hard Campaign against Violent Terrorism” in that region. Since then, according to HRW, the Chinese government has oppressed the Uyghurs and other Turkish Muslims in the region through actions including arbitrary detainment, torture and murder.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

The Venezuelan government has agreed to cooperate and comply with the investigation plan despite its differing views on the issue, which was even reflected in the agreement. The Venezuelan government keeping in mind the requirements of Article 53(1) , has moved from the preliminary examination phase to the investigation stage.

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JURIST

MARCH 31, 2021

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Monday denied the federal government’s motion to stay a district court decision striking down the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) eviction moratorium. The government moved to stay the district court’s order pending appeal, which the Sixth Circuit denied on Monday.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The report comes as a legal challenge to the Protocol has reached the UK Supreme Court. The Ireland-Northern Ireland Protocol was negotiated between the UK government and the European Union with the intention of ensuring the continuance of free trade across the Irish border as the UK left the EU.

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JURIST

JANUARY 23, 2023

The Canadian government Saturday announced a $2.8 Members of the not-for-profit entity will elect the directors in accordance with its by-laws, articles of incorporation and the governing corporate statute. ” The trust will be administered by a permanent board consisting of nine Indigenous directors. .”

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JURIST

APRIL 29, 2021

The report identified 11 themes common among many of the cases that signified a systemic pattern of racism, such as the use of pretextual stops that lead to excessive force, excessive use of lethal restraints, targeting of Black immigrants and complicity of legal actors in racist police killings through qualified immunity.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

Officials first brought the case in January of 2019, when the government contended Shevchenko violated Article 284.1 The statute enables the Prosecutor General’s Office to ban international organizations deemed “undesirable” to Russia’s security and national interests. Prosecutors sought five years in prison.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

It is the first major sporting event New Yorkers can bet on since the state legislature legalized online sports betting last month. The press release cites a barrage of misleading advertisements that have flooded the state since legalization, including those for “risk-free bets” and “$1,000 welcome offers.”

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APRIL 17, 2024

The briefs also discuss, to a limited extend, patent law’s false marking statute, 35 U.S.C. § INTA argues that the existence of the false marking statute, which prohibits deceptively marking an unpatented article as patented, supports the notion that false claims about patent protection are actionable under the Lanham Act.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 4, 2021

Independence in no shape or form means that the lawyers or the lawyers’ association will not be responsive toward the government; rather it means that lawyers will kept away from political pressure and thus work in the best possible manner toward ensuring justice to the public.

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Attorney at Work

JULY 22, 2021

For a recent Reinventing Professionals podcast, I talked with Jacqueline Schafer, the founder and CEO of Clearbrief , a platform that uses AI to improve the accuracy of legal writing by identifying how well a writer’s sentence is supported by the source document. Legal writing has really specific requirements. seed round.

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