JURIST
JULY 12, 2022
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Tuesday struck down a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) order which required broadcasters verify sponsors’ identities before leasing them air time. The regular Section 317(a) rule requiring reasonable diligence, however, remains in effect.
LawSites
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
District of Columbia Court of Appeals, Committee on Unauthorized Practice of Law, Opinion 24-20 (March 23, 2020). When practicing virtually, lawyers must particularly consider ethical duties regarding competence, diligence, and communication, especially when using technology. (These are organized by opinion date.).
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Patently O
MAY 13, 2022
The district court sided with the USPTO with a sua sponte summary judgment order — finding that the USPTO was already working diligently on the applications based upon its recent filing of “numerous office actions on plaintiff’s applications.” The reviewing court shall—. (1) Whether the mandamus standard of Norton v.
SCOTUSBlog
MAY 27, 2022
In district court, Georgia corrections admitted that its policy substantially burdened Smith’s religious exercise, but it argued that various safety and security concerns justified its refusal to allow beards of any greater length. Convicted CEO asks justices whether Brady imposes a due diligence requirement on defendants. In Smith v.
SCOTUSBlog
JANUARY 21, 2022
Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in early 2019. Jam began in 2015, when farmers and fishermen who live near the Tata Mundra Power Plant in Gujarat, India, as well as other petitioners, sued the IFC in federal district court in Washington, D.C.
SCOTUSBlog
JANUARY 11, 2022
Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit concluding that tolling is available for a similarly worded tax provision. Despite diligent representation from a law school tax clinic, Castillo’s CDP notice of determination reportedly was sent to the wrong address and/or lost in the mail.
Broadcast Law Blog
MARCH 25, 2019
Although recreational marijuana use is now legal in 10 states and the District of Columbia, and medical marijuana is legal in 33 states, it remains an illegal Schedule I drug under the federal Controlled Substances Act. But is it legal?
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