JURIST

JULY 14, 2024

The Philippine Senate ordered the arrest of a small-town mayor on Thursday who failed to attend hearings probing her suspected connections to Chinese criminal networks. The Senate president signed the arrest order, authorizing the Senate’s sergeant-at-arms to detain Mayor Alice Guo, also known as Guo Hua Ping, after she missed a second consecutive hearing on Wednesday, citing stress as her reason.

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Above The Law

JULY 14, 2024

Walgreens’ financial performance is still rocky, but experts agree there is a good chance that CEO Tim Wentworth can lead the company to recovery. To make this happen, Walgreens will have to let go of its retail clinic dreams and focus more on making its core pharmacy business as strong as possible. The post Walgreens’ Finances Are in Dire Straits — But All Hope Is Not Lost appeared first on MedCity News.

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JURIST

JULY 8, 2024

Human Rights Watch reported on Monday that Iranian security forces employed lethal force against predominantly Kurdish border couriers that passed rugged terrain to transport goods between Iraq and Iran. Kurdish border couriers interviewed by Human Rights Watch said that Iranian security forces shot them and killed their relatives, and beat them in detention.

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Above The Law

JULY 11, 2024

The latest details of the Supreme Court justice's luxury trips keep getting more surreal. The post No Big Deal… Just Clarence Thomas Using GOP Donor Money To Visit Russians appeared first on Above the Law.

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JULY 9, 2024

Guest post by Professors Mark A. Lemley and Lisa Larrimore Ouellette of Stanford Law School. Two of the most controversial patent law changes of the past year have involved obviousness-type double patenting, which allows applicants to patent obvious variants of their earlier patents by disclaiming the extra term of the later-expiring patent. First, the Federal Circuit held in In re Cellect that patents tied by double patenting must expire on the same day even if one of the patents has received a

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LawSites

JULY 9, 2024

Last October, during its annual Clio Cloud Conference, the law practice management company Clio announced its plan to roll out an e-filing service, called Clio File, during 2024, starting with Texas, which would make it the first law practice management platform with built-in e-filing. Today, it delivered on that promise, launching Clio File for e-filing in Texas courts.

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JURIST

JULY 12, 2024

Indonesia’s Jakarta Corruption Court sentenced former agriculture minister Syahrul Yasin Limpo to 10 years in prison over graft charges on Thursday, according to local media The Jakarta Post. Judge Rianto Adam Pontoh said Limpo was fined and ordered to compensate 300 million rupiah and about 14.6 billion rupiah, respectively. The court found Limpo guilty of misappropriating public funds, with Judge Rianto Adam Pontoh asserting that Limpo did not serve as a positive example of an official,

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Above The Law

JULY 11, 2024

First Amendments. how do they work?!? The post Free Speech Galaxy Brain Elon Musk Promises Lawsuit Against Advertisers For Not Giving Him Their Money appeared first on Above the Law.

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Patently O

JULY 8, 2024

by Dennis Crouch Many have been thinking of the potentially large impact of Cellect v. Vidal , which is now pending before the Supreme Court. This week I uncovered striking data that a very large number of patents have been impacted. Some background : Many patentees divide their patents into multiple filings all based on the same original priority application.

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Law 360

JULY 12, 2024

Johnson & Johnson wants a New Jersey federal judge to toss a proposed class action alleging that the company has tried to intentionally prevent talc claimants from getting their day in court through a scheme of fraudulent corporate transactions, arguing that the cancer patients failed to show how any of the challenged transactions left it unable to pay its talc claims.

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JULY 10, 2024

Whether you are a purchaser, designer or user of legal tech in your firm or organization, it is important to understand the basics of user experience and user interface design. Now there is an online course to help you do just that.

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JURIST

JULY 9, 2024

Gambian lawmakers endorsed recommendations presented by the Joint Committee on Health and Gender on Monday to maintain the country’s ban on female genital mutilation (FGM) in anticipation of an upcoming vote later this month on the potential decriminalization of the practice. The recommendations were adopted with 35 members voting in favor, 17 voting against and two abstaining.

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Above The Law

JULY 12, 2024

Get a blog, Clarence. The post Clarence Thomas Learned Nothing From The Mess He Helped Create Regarding Section 230, Blogs Ignorantly About 230 Yet Again appeared first on Above the Law.

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Patently O

JULY 9, 2024

by Dennis Crouch I recently provided a set of interesting data on the large number of patents that are “at risk” of being invalidated based on the Federal Circuit’s Cellect decision. This post follows up with a discussion of a recent article titled “ Fixing Double Patenting ” released in draft form by Stanford Professors Mark Lemley and Lisa Larrimore Ouellette.

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Law 360

JULY 11, 2024

Counsel for Carlos Watson on Thursday told a Brooklyn federal jury not to trust prosecutors' "shady" claims that the Ozy Media founder and CEO defrauded lenders and investors by falsely inflating the news and entertainment startup's bottom line.

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Attorney at Work

JULY 9, 2024

Jay Harrington | When it comes to building your practice, specificity is your roadmap, and action is your vehicle. The Specificity Funnel gives you both. The post The Specificity Funnel: From Ambition to Action appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.

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JURIST

JULY 13, 2024

The Missouri Supreme Court on Friday upheld an execution warrant for Marcellus Williams even though a prosecutor filed a pending motion beforehand to vacate Williams’s 2003 first-degree murder conviction and death sentence. The court initially issued a warrant of execution set for January 28, 2015. It later vacated the execution date after Williams petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus claiming he was entitled to further DNA testing to prove his innocence.

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CLM tools have always strived to push contract management into the digital age for almost 30 years. But the complexities of digitising a legal document are numerous. The current scenarios in business development have shown that having a fully automated CLM has become a mandate for every law firm and in-house legal department. To determine if you need a CLM system, it's essential to clearly identify the on-ground business challenges you aim to solve.

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Above The Law

JULY 12, 2024

A summer associate's weekend assignment prompts some backlash. Has everyone gotten too soft on summer work? The post Should Law Firms Have Summer Associates Working Nights And Weekends? appeared first on Above the Law.

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LLRX

JULY 13, 2024

Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, 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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Law 360

JULY 12, 2024

Catch up on this week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority, including one Big Four retail leader's take on mall potential, the U.S. Treasury's increasing scrutiny of land deals with national security concerns, and a midyear look at private real estate fundraising trends.

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L4SB

JULY 8, 2024

When the Federal Trade Commission released its final ruling for the ban on non-compete clauses, it defined what a “worker ” for an employer was and whether the specific types.

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JURIST

JULY 13, 2024

Amnesty International and four other human rights organizations on Thursday criticized China’s new judicial guidelines targeting individuals advocating for Taiwan’s independence, calling the guidelines “a blow for human rights protections.” Amnesty International, the Anti-Death Penalty Asia Network, The Rights Practice, the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty and the Capital Punishment Justice Project jointly condemned the guidelines, stating that the directives enc

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Above The Law

JULY 8, 2024

The lawsuit against Northwestern Law would be comic if its subject matter weren't so tragic. The post Northwestern Law School Sued For Having ONLY 83 Percent White Faculty appeared first on Above the Law.

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Attorney at Work

JULY 10, 2024

David Hunter | The biggest factor driving your financial health is your behavior — understand where your money is going and focus on these four metrics. The post Attorney Financial Planning Made Simple: 4 Vital Signs You Need to Track appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.

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Law 360

JULY 12, 2024

ConocoPhillips said in a Friday securities filing that the Federal Trade Commission has issued a second request regarding the top independent oil producer's late May agreement to acquire Marathon Oil for $22.5 billion, the latest sign that the rapid consolidation rippling through the oil and gas industry features prominently on the regulator's radar.

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JULY 9, 2024

The Supreme Court’s list of matters scheduled to be considered at tomorrow’s conference includes Office of the State Public Defender v. Bonta. (See: Supreme Court is now making public the cases that will be discussed at its weekly conference.) That’s the original writ petition filed in the Supreme Court three months ago claiming the State’s death penalty system, because it is “administered in a racially discriminatory manner,” violates the State Constitution’s equal protection

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JURIST

JULY 12, 2024

Finland’s parliament passed a law Friday allowing border guards to stop asylum seekers from Russia. Parliament declared the bill “urgent” and quickly passed by a vote of 167-31. The law is temporary and will only be effective for one year after its enactment. In that timeframe, it allows the government to review and restrict the reception of applications for asylum.

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JULY 14, 2024

As recently highlighted by contributions on this blog , new technologies have a significant impact on the development of the law. Hence, the Curatorium of the Hague Academy of International Law has chosen for the the 2025 edition of the Centre for Studies and Research (18 August – 5 September 2025) to focus on the emerging topic of “ Artificial Intelligence and International Law “ This year, the selected researchers will be work under the guidance of the Directors of Research ,

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