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JURIST
JULY 14, 2024
Over 20 MSDF members and officials improperly consumed free meals in SDF base cafeterias. The scandal emerges as Japan seeks closer military cooperation with the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, and other Western partners amid regional threats from China and North Korea.
JURIST
SEPTEMBER 10, 2023
argues that AB 587 violates the First Amendment because its “true intent is to pressure social media platforms to ‘eliminate’ certain constitutionally-protected content viewed by the state as problematic.” ” X Corp. Other bodies have also called for social media platforms to publish their moderation policies.
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JURIST
JUNE 24, 2024
The Australian Federal Government announced on Monday that it would make the Food and Grocery Code of Conduct mandatory for Australia’s grocery giants, opening up the possibility of $10 million fines. Most importantly, however, remains Recommendation 1: “The Food and Grocery Code of Conduct should be made mandatory.”
The Fashion Law
MAY 5, 2021
federal court to force its much smaller rival to limit the sales of its Australian-made boots to Australia and New Zealand in order to not interfere with the sales of its boots and its trademark-protected name. While “evidence of how Australians used the word ugg could be relevant to consumer perceptions in the U.S.,”
Mondaq
SEPTEMBER 24, 2021
New draft legislation proposes to amend the ACL and the ASIC Act in relation to the unfair contract terms regime.
The Fashion Law
DECEMBER 8, 2021
Supreme Court will not take on a case over the trademark-protected name of Ugg boots following a years-long, bi-national trademark fight that has pitted Ugg owner Deckers Outdoor Corp. Given that the term “ugg” was generic in Australia and U.S. against Australian Leather Pty. and awarded Deckers $450,000 damages as a result.
The Fashion Law
AUGUST 3, 2021
Such burgeoning attention to BNPL makes sense given that American consumers, alone, spent an estimated $20 billion to $25 billion in 2020 by way of deferred payments , such as those offered by Afterpay, as well as its competitors Klarna and Affirm, according to a March report by analytics firm CB Insights. Image via Bloomberg.
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