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Cockfighting in Puerto Rico and trade-dress protections for snack foods

SCOTUSBlog

Puerto Rico is a United States territory, with its own constitution. For the past 400 years, cockfighting has been practiced on the island and is still today proclaimed by Puerto Rican law to be a “cultural right of all Puerto Ricans.” In Ortiz-Diaz v. The district court and the U.S. United States. QBE Seguros.

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“Does the Gentlelady Have a Problem?” : Yes, Delegate Plaskett Most Certainly Has a Problem

JonathanTurley

Plaskett rose to demand recognition and to know why she was not allowed to vote: “I note that the names of representatives from American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the District of Columbia were not called, representing, collectively, 4 million Americans.

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Jamaican green-card holder asks court to overrule precedent on “crimes involving moral turpitude”

SCOTUSBlog

De George , the Supreme Court held that the term “crime involving moral turpitude” in federal immigration law is not unconstitutionally vague. He became a lawful permanent resident after marrying a U.S. Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here.

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This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: April 3 to April 7, 2023

Broadcast Law Blog

This week, on our Broadcast Law Blog, we published an article on the legal issues of using Artificial Intelligence to create synthetic voices of celebrities and using such voices on the air or online. Many televisions station owners have been requesting action by the FCC.

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This Week in Regulation for Broadcasters: September 17, 2022 to September 23, 2022

Broadcast Law Blog

The FCC issued an Order that denied a request for review of a Media Bureau decision rejecting an objection to the grant of a construction permit for a new FM translator to rebroadcast an AM station. Similar objections have been rejected by the FCC in the past (see our Broadcast Law Blog article on this issue).

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Transforming legal borders: International judicial cooperation and technology in private international law – Part I

Conflict of Laws

Abstract: In a globalized world, International Judicial Cooperation (IJC) and advanced technologies are redefining Private International Law (PIL). Keywords: private international law, international judicial cooperation, new technologies, videoconferencing, Iber@, Apostille. This is Part I.

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Reschedule Watch: Birthright citizenship and torts to members of the armed forces

SCOTUSBlog

People born in the other territories — Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Fitisemanu and the Tulis argue that the 14th Amendment, adopted after the Civil War, embraced the founding-era common-law understanding of birthright citizenship. citizenship. territories. 28 and Oct. 7 conferences).

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