JURIST

JANUARY 21, 2022

A consortium of 25 civil society organisations Wednesday published a letter sent to Facebook on January 3 2021, against the delayed release of the India Human Rights Impact Assessment (HRIA) report and lack of action towards addressing grave concerns about the company’s human rights record in India.

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Corporate Governance

MAY 21, 2021

Amazon 2021 annual meeting is May 26, 9 AM Pacific Time. The post Amazon 2021 Proxy Votes appeared first on Corporate Governance. To attend, vote, and submit questions during the Annual Meeting visit here. You will need the control number you got from ProxyVote or elsewhere. Amazon will limit questions to one per shareholder.

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JURIST

JANUARY 16, 2023

Beyond this, companies should also take steps to prevent future harmful end-use of their products through robust due diligence to identify, prevent, and mitigate the risk of harm associated with the sale/licensing and deployment of their products. The military junta declared a two-year long state of emergency while dissolving the parliament.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 20, 2024

Introduction After extensive negotiations, on 24 April 2024, the European Parliament approved the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD or CS3D) as part of the EU Green Deal. From an older date is a 2014 special issue of Erasmus Law Review , co-edited by Kramer and Carballo Piñeiro on the role of PIL in contemporary society.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 30, 2022

84 people were charged for blasphemy in 2021, according to the Center for Social Justice (CSJ). Human Rights Without Frontiers reports that 1,860 people were accused of blasphemy between 1987 and August 2021, with 200 cases filed in 2020, which indicates a sharp rise.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

A webinar event on “Corporate Due Diligence and Private International Law” organized by the NOVA Centre for Business, Human Rights and the Environment, will hold on February 25, 2021 at 15:00 – 17:30 CET. For more information on the event and how to register see here.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Further, IFF noted, the measures are in derogation of rule 4(8) of the Information Technology Rules, 2021 , under which YouTube is required to provide due notice and hearing to a user before disabling access to their account, and the Santa Clara Principles.

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LLRX

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The foundational issue regarding privacy is that you must be proactive, diligent and persistent in evaluating and using multiple applications for email, search, file transfer, and social media. There is no "one size fits all" solution, and your vigilance and willingness to implement solutions will be an ongoing process.

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JURIST

JANUARY 3, 2022

In August 2021, in its motion to dismiss the lawsuit, the bank argued that despite in-depth investigations and continual monitoring over the years, it had not become aware of a single instance of any misuse of data derived from any of its own sources. The bank has also made assurances that it would upgrade its data security practices.

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Diane Drain

MAY 21, 2021

EFFECTIVE MAY 5, 2021. On May 5, 2021, the State Bar of Arizona entered an immediate order of disbarment against Scott Michael Forrester. Forrester “ willfully violated orders of this court ….” “ l ack of attention and diligence as to the files he is handling …” “ evidence that papers are being filed without review by the clients….which

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JURIST

DECEMBER 31, 2020

“We will continue to diligently pursue those who prey on investors and abuse their trust.” Altieri is scheduled for sentencing on March 31, 2021 and faces up to 20 years in prison. Best, Director of the SEC’s New York Regional Office, in a press release.

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Attorney at Work

AUGUST 26, 2021

Others — about 30% of organizations using contract staff in 2021, by Tower Staffing’s count — are doing so for the first time. Both resolved their issues by bringing in contract attorneys to do the routine due diligence and discovery, freeing up their partners and associates to do more substantive work.

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 20, 2024

2021): The Private Side of Transforming our World – UN Sustainable Development Goals 2030 and the Role of Private International Law. Interested researchers should consider themes such as the ones explored in Michaels/Ruiz Abou-Nigm/Van Loon (eds.)

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The Attorney General in Canada revealed, citing a report made by the National Security and Intelligence Review Agency (NSIRA) in 2021, that the CSE disclosed information collected pursuant to the court’s warrants in a manner that violated the CSIS’s key principle presented to the court.

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 1, 2022

As reported in this blog before (see CSDD and PIL: Some Remarks on the Directive Proposal ), the European Commission on 23 February 2022 adopted a proposal for a Directive on corporate sustainability due diligence. The text of the Recommendation can be found here. This post is cross-posted at the EAPIL blog].

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Mondaq

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

On August 27, 2021, the Federal Reserve Board, the FDIC and the OCC (the "Agencies") jointly released a guide titled "Conducting Due Diligence on Financial Technology Companies—A Guide for Community Banks" (the "Guide").

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 14, 2021

Our blog has reported earlier on the Proposal and Report by the Committee on Legal Affairs of the European Parliament for a Resolution on corporate due diligence and corporate accountability. On 10 March 2021 the European Parliament adopted the Resolution with a large majority. . *

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Day on Torts

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

When plaintiff filed a motion to alter or amend, the trial court specifically noted that it “considered…the extreme lack of due diligence exhibited by the Plaintiff” and that “no additional due diligence was performed by Plaintiff from July 2020 to January 2021.”

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Conflict of Laws

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The European Group for Private International Law (GEDIP) at its annual – virtual – meeting in September 2021 adopted a Recommendation to the EU Commission concerning the PIL aspects of corporate due diligence and corporate accountability. 17 of Rome II by way of exoneration [5]. [1] 2] [link]. [3]

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Mondaq

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

On August 8, 2021, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) released the "Guidelines on Respect for Human Rights in Responsible Supply Chains (Draft)".

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Mondaq

AUGUST 22, 2022

The LSTA published an Excel version of its ESG borrower due diligence questionnaire, the latest step in an asset manager ESG diligence initiative that started in June 2021.

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Mondaq

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

On August 27, 2021, the federal banking agencies (Federal Reserve, FDIC, and OCC) published "Conducting Due Diligence on Financial Technology Companies: A Guide for Community Banks" (the Guide).

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Patently O

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The appellate court reflected that bank clerks are generally quite clever and diligent in their pursuit of efficiency. John Deere , it offers an example of the level of ordinary skill in the art likely made a difference.

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The Fashion Law

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Here is a look at a dozen of the many interesting and notable fashion lawsuits and legal developments that we saw in 2021 …. One of the most interesting lawsuits of 2021 was actually one of the quickest to come off of the docket. The post Fashion Law in 2021: 12 of the Year’s Noteworthy Lawsuits appeared first on The Fashion Law.

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LawSites

MARCH 9, 2023

Zuva , the company that spun off from Kira Systems after Kira was acquired by Litera in 2021, is offering a completely free version of its AI-powered contract review technology, which can be used by anyone just by uploading contracts to Zuva’s website.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 22, 2024

” The tribunal also emphasized that article 194, paragraph 1, of UNCLOS imposes a due diligence standard on States that is “stringent”. The tribunal noted that the due diligence standard may also vary in accordance with State capabilities and available resources.

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Mondaq

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 were enacted in February 2021, imposing strict due diligence requirements on intermediaries.

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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

APRIL 13, 2021

Of course, managing two calendars, one as a ‘backup’ of sorts, could also lead to errors, if not diligently managed. If you want to ‘backup’ your calendar in 2021, you’re likely talking about backing up calendar data, just like you would with your client files and related information. It’s hard to know.

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

All three were uploaded to the server, and the patentee argued that a person of ordinary skill in the art could not have found Park or Zhou using reasonable diligence before the patentee’s priority date of December 13, 2011. by Dennis Crouch. M&K Holdings, Inc. Samsung Electronics Co., M&K’s U.S.

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Cenza

JUNE 23, 2021

Year on year, we have been diligently observing the event, rain or shine, and thus, Cenza employees look forward to this day when we all gather under one roof and revere the contributions of each one of us in sustaining the organizational progress. Proof of our efforts is our employees’ views on the organization.

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JURIST

JULY 21, 2021

The court noted that Microsoft request for an emergency ex parte relief in this instance was not due to lack of due diligence on its part but based upon the “nature of defendant’s unlawful conduct,” and relieved Microsoft of the duty to provide defendants with prior notice of Microsoft’s motion for the TRO.

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Patently O

MAY 25, 2021

I had my midterm on March 19, 2021 – six days before the Ford Motor Co. 1017 (2021). Crouch [1] diligently placed Ford on our class’s radar as the midterm approached, and I was crossing my fingers every day to hope that my new Civil Procedure book wasn’t going to become outdated less than six months after I bought it.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Afghan law students and young lawyers in Afghanistan have been reporting on the ground from that country since the Taliban took Kabul in August 2021. Here, one of our correspondents in Kabul files a dispatch on an explosion at an education institute earlier today that killed over 20 people, most of whom were female students.

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LawSites

JULY 12, 2021

The Fastcase 50 for 2021 are: Jason Adaska , Chief Technology Officer, Juris Futura; Director of Innovation Lab, Holland & Hart. We celebrate the diligence, discipline, passion, and creativity of these Fastcase 50 honorees. Haley Altman , Global Head of Corporate Development, Litera.

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JURIST

MARCH 9, 2022

6, 2021,” Matthew Graves, the U.S. “I would like to thank the jury for upholding the rule of law and for its diligent service in this case.” .” “Today a jury in the District of Columbia held Guy Reffitt accountable for his actions on Jan. Attorney for D.C.

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Mondaq

JULY 22, 2021

agencies updated an advisory to urge businesses to conduct human rights due diligence for supply chain links to Xinjiang, China. Last week, six U.S.

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Pennsylvania Bar Association and Philadelphia Bar Association, Joint Formal Opinion 2021-100 (March 2, 2021). ABA Formal Opinion 498 (March 10, 2021). When practicing virtually, lawyers must particularly consider ethical duties regarding competence, diligence, and communication, especially when using technology.

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