JURIST

DECEMBER 21, 2021

(formerly Facebook) Monday filed a lawsuit in federal court against Social Data Trading Ltd, a Hong Kong-based social media analytics company, for allegedly scrapping account profiles of more than 91 million Instagram users and selling the scraped data as “demographics and insights about influencers and their audiences.”

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JURIST

MARCH 19, 2021

I accepted this difficult task out of the conviction that we as an institution and I as a person have a duty to make those affected heard, to hold the perpetrators accountable and to break down the systemic causes of sexual abuse. Dominikus Schwaderlapp and Official Dr. Günter Assenmacher from duty.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Philippines lawmakers approved a key provision in the proposed Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) Card Registration Act mandating that social media accounts are created using a legal name and phone number, according to a statement made by a senator Thursday. In order to become a law, the bill must be signed by President Duterte.

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JURIST

MARCH 19, 2025

According to the Executive Director of Amnesty International Peru, leaving approval decisions to the authorities would increase the risk of arbitrary restrictions on civil society activism and could result in the removal of organizations critical of the government from the APCI register.

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JURIST

MARCH 9, 2024

Biren Singh, announced the deportation via his X (formerly Twitter) account. Commenting on the implementation of the controversial National Register of Citizens (NRC), Singh added: The decision has to be taken by the central government. Chief Minister of the Indian state of Manipur, which borders Myanmar, N.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 12, 2023

People who qualify as foreign agents must register with the US Attorney General. As a public official, Menendez is prohibited from acting as a foreign agent, even if he had registered properly. ” These charges come soon after Menendez was indicted for various corruption-related charges.

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JURIST

MARCH 10, 2021

Finally, voters will be removed from active voting lists if they miss a single general election and do not report a change in address or register as a voter again. All of these additional steps promote more transparency and accountability, giving Iowans even greater confidence to cast their ballot.

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JURIST

MARCH 4, 2025

Germany reportedly continued to receive the highest number of applications, accounting for nearly 23 percent of the EU+ total. Spain, Italy, and France also remained primary destinations, with Spain registering an increase in applications from Malian and Senegalese nationals, reflecting the migration pressures from West Africa.

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JURIST

MARCH 18, 2025

The report included accounts of hate speech, a general increase in ethnic profiling, and physically and verbally abusive conditions during detention by police and immigration services in Russia. HRW noted an increase in physical violence towards Central Asian migrants.

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JURIST

APRIL 12, 2024

John was convicted in February of inciting others to commit secession by posting seditious statements on the Hong Kong Independence Party’s social media accounts between July 1, 2020 and November 1, 2022. The Hong Kong Independence Party was registered as a Britain-based political party in 2015.

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JURIST

JUNE 11, 2024

To hold Russia accountable for reparations, a special register was created in April, enabling Ukrainians to file claims for damages as a result of the invasion. Hundreds of applications have already been accepted into the register, which began the creation of a mechanism for international compensation.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The nine counties in the Atlanta metro area account for nearly half of Georgia’s registered voters, but only 38 percent of the state’s polling places.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JANUARY 27, 2023

In this blog, I want to dive into three traits we haven’t discussed yet: accountability, professionalism, and perseverance. Accountability Do you have accountability? I’m not asking if you’re being held accountable. What is Accountability? Well, what is being accountable?

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JURIST

MAY 26, 2021

Nearly 2,100 women lawyers in India wrote to Chief Justice Shri NV Ramana Tuesday, urging him to take cognizance of the post-electoral violence in the state of West Bengal by constituting a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to register First Information Reports (FIRs) and investigate the matter.

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JURIST

MARCH 2, 2022

I registered an account there yesterday but I was blocked very soon after posting a couple of posts. Also, Ukrainian government has opened the access to the Russian social network VKONTAKTE which has been banned in Ukraine since 2017 to spread the truth to Russians and Belarusian people as they are isolated in the informational way.

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JURIST

JUNE 30, 2023

It will also give parents the right to suspend accounts belonging to their children under 15. France forbids social media platforms to register users who are minors under the age of 13. Under the new legislation, social media sites are required to install functions that limit children’s usage time.

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JURIST

MAY 18, 2024

Zourabichvili took to her Twitter account to announce the veto, saying, “Today, I vetoed the Russian law. The law, which is known as the Law on Transparency of Foreign Influence, would require any organization in Georgia that receives more than 20% of its income from foreign sources to register as a foreign agent.

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JURIST

APRIL 3, 2024

Ukrainian Foreign Minister, Dmytro Kuleba, announced Tuesday that Ukrainian people are now able to file claims for damages incurred following Russia’s invasion, through a newly-established register in the Hague.

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JURIST

JUNE 8, 2022

In April, the FBI submitted a search warrant application with the US District Court for the Central District of California, seeking evidence that Allen lobbied on behalf of Qatar while failing to register as a foreign agent. Olson, who pleaded guilty to undisclosed lobbying last week.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 21, 2021

They allegedly falsely represented themselves as Meta’s services and induced users to provide account credentials. Meta previously sued domain name registrar Namecheap for registering domain names that deceive people by purporting to be affiliated with its services. It also seeks damages and injunctive relief under the 15 U.S.C.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Having lived in the Tampere region for the past 10 years as a registered Finnish resident, 51-year-old Massaquoi was detained by the Finnish police last March. Laitinen went on to detail Massaquoi’s brutal methods of torture, including burning his victims alive and several accounts of sexual violence.

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JURIST

MARCH 27, 2024

Dowden said the UK government will hold China accountable for “ongoing patterns of hostile activity targeting … collective democracies.” Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Oliver Dowden highlighted the UK government’s determination to defend its democratic system against cyber attacks.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

.” Specifically, the SEC’s notice said they may recommend action against Paxos regarding BUSD because, allegedly, “ BUSD is a security and that Paxos should have registered the offering of BUSD under the federal securities laws.” Paxos has always prioritized the safety of its customers’ assets.

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JURIST

APRIL 23, 2021

The South Korean government maintains that the 1965 agreement had not taken into account the individual suffering of victims. Min noted that out of the 240 South Korean women registered with the government as victims, 99 had already received compensation from the Reconciliation and Healing Foundation set up following the 2015 agreement.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 27, 2023

It was all akin to wild beasts tearing apart their prey in a jungle, with no fear of accountability or any hint of civility. Baloch national organizations, like Voice for Baloch Missing Persons, contest these figures, claiming the registered cases to be around 23,000, strongly challenging the commission’s data.

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L4SB

DECEMBER 29, 2021

The post Can I Register a Disparaging Trademark? appeared first on Law 4 Small Business, P.C.

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JURIST

JUNE 2, 2022

Having no election for years cost Nepali citizens their access to transparent, prompt and accountable local government. Morang, a district of Nepal, required 820 voting booths as it had the highest registered voters while Manang, also a district of Nepal constituted only 28 voting booths as it has the lowest registered voters.

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JURIST

APRIL 10, 2022

They also challenged Sections 12 and 17, which mandated all foreign contributions to be deposited in an FCRA-specific account created in a specified branch of a scheduled bank. ” The formal inflow of foreign contributions into India almost doubled between 2010 and 2019.

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Patently O

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The sanctions are quite firm: Proceedings involving submissions filed by Respondents are terminated (this is about 15,000 TM registration cases, many are already registered others are pending). One part of the sanction that folks need to consider has to do with violation of TEAS terms of service and sharing USPTO.GOV accounts.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The unofficial election drew over 600,000 voters — about 13% of registered voters in the country. ” The court also took into account conduct that took place before the enactment of the 2020 NSL to assess the seriousness of the plan and the role of each defendant.

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CosmoLex

JANUARY 15, 2025

Additionally, finding a solution that integrates with your processes and systems (such as practice management or accounting software) allows you to accept multiple lawyer payment methods and enhance financial management from one place. What about when dealing with trust accounts?

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CosmoLex

JANUARY 29, 2025

When it comes to keeping accurate records of your law firms accounts, its essential to use tools that give you a clear picture of your firms performance and meet your legal, regulatory, and ethical requirements. What is law firm accounting ? What is general accounting?

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 28, 2021

EDT, the Constitutional Accountability Center will host a discussion on the events and decisions that have shaped the current Supreme Court term, and what to expect as we head toward its close. Click here for more information and to register. Share On Thursday, April 29, at 12 p.m.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

The court stated: That regulation is essentially intended to assure consumers that agricultural products bearing a registered geographical indication have, because of their provenance from a particular geographical area, certain specific characteristics.

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JURIST

JANUARY 6, 2022

The app posted doctored images of hundreds of Muslim women, along with personal information stolen from their social media accounts, as though they were being auctioned off to the app’s users. ‘Bulli Bai’ is a GitHub-based app that pretended to auction Muslim women. Bulli’ is a derogatory term used for Muslim women.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The Home Affairs Minister, Clare O’Neil in a statement to ABC news, said that, “ A permanent strike force, which will move around the immigration system and address the big problems that we see and make sure that the people who are responsible are routed out and held accountable.”

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JURIST

AUGUST 10, 2022

Tension began to slowly rise on the eve of the elections when Kenya’s Court of Appeal ruled in favor of the United Democratic Alliance Party (UDA) and rejected the use of manual registers during voting. This was especially true in the Mount Kenya region where most polling stations barely reached 30% of their registered voters.

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