JURIST

JULY 26, 2024

In 2022, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) charged 12 police commanders under the International Crimes Act, which incorporates the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) into Kenyan law. The court directed that the accused police commanders and officers appear on October 3 , 2024, to take their plea.

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JURIST

MAY 15, 2024

The first phase will be dedicated to completing investigations between May 2024 and the end of 2025. The case was unanimously referred to the ICC by the Security Council as Libya is not a party to the Rome Statute. So far, the investigation has resulted in three cases, with five arrest warrants issued.

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JURIST

JUNE 3, 2024

The court granted the case certiorari and added it to its docket for the 2024 to 2025 term. More specifically, there has been debate over the use of force language in the statute. United States and reassess the definition of a “crime of violence” under 18 U.S. Code § 924(c)(3). ” In Delligatti v.

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The Researching Paralegal

JUNE 30, 2024

Imagine you need to research legislative history to determine the meaning of an ambiguous statute, these are the folks who can teach and help you take a deep dive into the committee notes, revisions, and everything you would need to determine the legislative intent for the statute. I would not miss this one.

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JURIST

JANUARY 12, 2024

The Trumbull County prosecutor’s office stated that, after evaluating the case, they believed Watts did not violate the Ohio Criminal Statute of Abuse of a Corpse. More decisions on access to reproductive care are to come in 2024. The grand jury responded by returning a no bill—effectively dismissing the case.

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JURIST

MARCH 5, 2024

Pre-Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Court (ICC) held on Monday that a hearing on charges against Joseph Kony, a fugitive Ugandan militant who founded the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), can take place in his absence in October 2024.

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 26, 2024

On Tuesday, July 2, 2024, the Hamburg Max Planck Institute will host its 46th monthly virtual workshop Current Research in Private International Law at 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm (CEST). statutes that do rebut the presumption at step one? Under this framework, U.S. Are there limits on the applicability of U.S.

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JURIST

JULY 19, 2024

.” The court therefore found that FOG did not “demonstrate that its shows are arguably adult-oriented performances that lack serious value for a reasonable 17-year-old” and that the plaintiff “cannot rely on the argument that the statute might be misconstrued by law enforcement.”

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OilandGasLawyer

JUNE 13, 2023

Governor Abbot has signed House Bill 456, passed by the Legislature, granting certain charities an exemption from ad valorem taxes on their oil and gas royalties, effective January 1, 2024. The bill amends the statute to provide an ad valorem tax exemption for mineral and royalty interests, but only for some charitable organizations.

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Patently O

JULY 17, 2024

July 11, 2024). Back in March 2024, the dismissed the case on two primary grounds – both stemming from the fact that the asserted patent had expired in January 2022, more than a year before the lawsuit was filed. May 20, 2024). . § 1927 and its inherent powers to directly sanction VDPP’s attorney William P.

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JURIST

JUNE 18, 2024

They argued that Yost’s enforcement of the statute “functions as an unconstitutional obstacle to their ballot access and their ability to speak about and advocate for their proposed amendment as they wish, in violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments.”

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Day on Torts

APRIL 8, 2024

Tennessee court holds that publicly available information triggered the duty to inquire and claim being barred by the statute of limitations. The Facts In First Community Bank, N.A. First Tennessee Bank, N.A. , E2022-00954-COA-R3-CV (Tenn.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The 10th of February 2024 was a particularly dark day for the citizens of Myanmar. At 8:00 PM, the Ministry of Information under the ruling State Administration Council (SAC) issued a significant notification regarding the People’s Military Service Law, a compulsory military service statute originally enacted in 2010.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Hamburger Mary also claimed that the law violated of the US Constitution’s First Amendment and that the statute was too vague to be properly enforced. The district court blocked the Protection of Children Act from coming into effect with a preliminary injunction, ahead of a trial scheduled for June 2024.

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Day on Torts

JUNE 10, 2024

Where decedent was survived by two children, and those two children filed a wrongful death claim pro se purporting to assert claims on their own behalf and on behalf of the other four children, the complaint was only proper to the extent the two plaintiffs were asserting their own right under the wrongful death statutes. In Grose v.

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JURIST

JANUARY 27, 2024

Article 8 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) defines both “[i]ntentionally directing attacks against the civilian population” and “[i]ntentionally directing attacks against civilian objects” as war crimes.

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Day on Torts

MAY 14, 2024

April 9, 2024), plaintiff filed an HCLA suit against defendant doctor related to an allegedly negligent surgery. Later, he filed a motion to dismiss based on insufficient service of process and the statute of limitations. W2022-01714-COA-R3-CV (Tenn.

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 26, 2024

After statute theory, Savignyan PIL and Europeanisation, digitalisation has the potential to initiate a fourth evolutionary stage in the history of conflict of laws, which is characterised by decentralisation and delocalisation. by 23 September 2024. All submissions need to be sent to nachwuchstagung@ipr.uni-heidelberg.de

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JULY 21, 2024

Department of Transportation merits attention as one of only two Federal Circuit cases granted certiorari for the October 2024 Supreme Court term, alongside the veterans benefits case of Bufkin v. The case stems from the Federal Circuit’s interpretation of the differential pay statute, 5 U.S.C.

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Day on Torts

MAY 17, 2024

April 10, 2024) (memorandum opinion), plaintiff filed a legal malpractice claim against defendant attorney. Because the statute of limitations for such claims is six years, defendant argued that the claims still existed and plaintiff suffered no damage. Vaughan , No. E2023-00930-COA-R3-CV (Tenn. Continue reading

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 16, 2024

A first view article was published online on 12 April 2024 in International and Comparative Law Quarterly. First, admissibility is a concept peculiar to international law and not embodied in domestic arbitral statutes. However, this double transposition from international law to commercial arbitration is misguided.

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

” Copyright’s statute of limitations bars claims not “commenced within three years after the claim accrued.” MGM and SCA Hygiene Products stating that the statute of limitations “ordinarily” begins with the wrongful act. 51 ABA Preview of US Supreme Court Cases February 2024, at 12. ” 17 U.S.C. §

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 3, 2024

Share In a list of orders released on Monday morning , the Supreme Court added one new case to its argument docket for the 2024-25 term. The statute defines “crime of violence” as one that “has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person or property of another.”

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FDA Law Blog

MARCH 24, 2024

They argue that the 340B statute had never intended to give contract pharmacies such an outsized role in the program, in part because their proliferation stretched HRSA’s enforcement capacity and resulted in widespread noncompliance. On March 12, 2024, a three-judge panel of the Eighth Circuit affirmed. 22-3675, 2024 U.S.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JUNE 10, 2024

601 U.S. _ (2024), the U.S. The Supreme Court went on to find that the CFPB’s funding statute contains the requisite features of a congressional appropriation. In Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Community Financial Services Assn. of America, Ltd.,

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 1, 2023

Natural Resources Defense Council , the Supreme Court ruled that courts should defer to a federal agency’s interpretation of an ambiguous statute as long as that interpretation is reasonable. Raimondo , is likely to be argued in the fall, with a decision to follow sometime in 2024. Share Nearly 40 years ago, in Chevron v. Circuit.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Kirtz , 601 U.S. _ (2024), the U.S. Given that the United States, as a sovereign, is generally immune from suits seeking money damages unless Congress chooses to waive that immunity, the Court’s “clear statement” rule allows a suit against the government only when “the language of the statute” is “unmistakably clear” in allowing it.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JUNE 17, 2024

Nealy , 601 U.S. _ (2024), the U.S. The Court did not address when copyright infringement claims accrue with regard to the statute of limitations. In reaching its decision, the majority noted that the Copyright Act’s statute of limitations establishes a three-year period for filing suit, which begins to run when a claim accrues.

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Patently O

JUNE 17, 2024

2024-1137 (Fed. June 17, 2024). The appellate court held that the district court’s analysis was deficient in several key respects, including not addressing the statute of limitations defense, defining trade secrets too broadly, and not sufficiently assessing irreparable harm and the public interest. .”

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Patently O

JULY 2, 2024

When reason why it is so big is that Chevron deference is premised on ambiguity in the statute. 2024), the Supreme Court overruled the Chevron U.S.A. 2008) (giving Chevron deference to PTO’s interpretation of “original application” under the reexamination statute). Raimondo , 603 U.S. 837 (1984). Iancu , 138 S.

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JULY 8, 2024

Recognize here that we have a strong obviousness statute — although it uses similar nomenclature, ODP is not based upon Section 103. To do this, I created a database of patents issued over the past 20 years – January 2005-June 2024, and queried for what I call “at risk” patents.

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

by Dennis Crouch and Timothy Knight On February 21, 2024, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of Warner Chappell Music v. Although the statute does not make any distinction between a right to file an action and a right to back damages, the distinction stems from ambiguous dicta in the Court’s 2014 Petrella v.

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JURIST

JANUARY 8, 2024

TRIAL International informed on Thursday that Ousman Sonko, a former Gambian Minister of Interior, will be tried by the Swiss Federal Criminal Court (FCC) in Bellinzona on January 8, 2024, and the trial will last till January 30.

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Patently O

MAY 13, 2024

In its decision, the Supreme Court applied the Chevron framework, concluding that the statute grants the USPTO leeway to enact rules that are reasonable in light of the text, nature, and purpose of the statute. In re Chestek PLLC , 92 F.4th 4th 1105 (Fed. Chestek has now filed her petition for writ of certiorari to the U.S.

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Patently O

MAY 9, 2024

By Dennis Crouch and Timothy Knight On May 9, 2024, the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Warner Chappell Music v. 2024) , resolving a circuit split over the availability of back-damages in copyright infringement cases. 20, 2024). 20, 2024). Nealy , No. 22-1078, 601 U.S. ” See 17 U.S.C. § 504(a)-(c). .”

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JayS.Rothman&Associates

JANUARY 31, 2024

It is the public policy of California to protect employees from being retaliated against by their employers for disclosing information that the employee has reason to believe involves a violation of a state or federal statute or law or for refusing to participate in an activity that would violate a state, federal, or local rule or regulation.

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Intelligize Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The ruling led some experts to label Sarbanes-Oxley “…one of the most employee-friendly whistleblower-protection statutes in the nation.” Attorney Damian Williams in announcing the program as part of his office’s priorities for 2024. The SEC kept the ball rolling in 2024. Meanwhile, a new program spearheaded by the U.S.

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