JURIST

JULY 4, 2024

However, because of the “often vague and poor drafting of offences like “obstructing a road”, “preventing a business undertaking”, or “causing annoyance” to participants of a meeting their application extends to all movements, the report said.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 4, 2021

Independence in no shape or form means that the lawyers or the lawyers’ association will not be responsive toward the government; rather it means that lawyers will kept away from political pressure and thus work in the best possible manner toward ensuring justice to the public.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Kirtz presents a routine statutory drafting problem arising out of a run-of-the-mill consumer lending dispute. The government contends, though, that it has sovereign immunity and thus cannot be forced, as a private lender could be forced, to comply. The government would limit that situation to two narrow statutory scenarios.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 26, 2024

Writing for a six-justice majority, Justice Brett Kavanaugh explained that state and local governments already regulate gifts to officials, and so the federal law “does not supplement those state and local rules by subjecting 19 million state and local officials to up to 10 years in federal prison for accepting even commonplace gratuities.”

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The Crime Report

APRIL 5, 2022

Recommendations include: Establish national governance guidelines to set standards for 911 systems, including a “high-level federal position and cabinet-level working group.”. Ensure that state statutes require communication interoperability among fire, police, EMS, and alternative responders.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Commissioner Andrew Clapham said that many of the acts being committed, in addition to amounting to human rights violations, may be tantamount to crimes under international law provided in the draft statute of the Hybrid Court for South Sudan.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 18, 2021

The oil companies contended that Baltimore was seeking to hold them liable for their exploration for and production of fossil fuels at the direction of federal officials – for example, when they produced fossil fuels offshore under leases with the government that gave the government significant control over some parts of the companies’ operations.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Alberta’s legislature passed a resolution which resolved to “urge the Government to use all legal means necessary to oppose the implementation and enforcement of the Federal Initiative in Alberta.” The resolution invoked the Alberta Sovereignty Within a United Canada Act.

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Attorney at Work

JULY 22, 2021

I’ve written attorney general opinions and recently wrote an academic law review article about how AI will transform government social services and court systems. What the average person doesn’t realize about court systems is that they are not like the TV show ‘Law and Order.’

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 15, 2022

The question in Boechler is whether the statute bars a taxpayer who missed the deadline from asserting equitable tolling, which allows courts to excuse missed deadlines in some circumstances. Under applicable precedent, if the statute makes the 30-day time limit jurisdictional, then equitable-tolling claims are barred.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Texas was another instance of a common jurisprudential problem for the justices: how should a modern court, largely devoted to textualism in its statutory interpretation, deal with cases about Native American tribes, which traditionally have depended on historical and contextual understandings only weakly linked to the text of the statute.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 22, 2022

The Prime Minister also suggested that many Indian statutes and legislations currently consist of complicated legal jargon. There is an ease of language which persists in the laws drafted around the world. He pointed out how several countries have a common practice of explaining certain technical terms.

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FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Lewis, Senior Regulatory Device & Biologics Expert — We were preparing this blogpost about FDA’s draft guidance on “Remote Interactive Evaluations” when we learned something. What was added in the new draft guidance? By Douglas B. Farquhar & Richard A. We should explain what RIEs are. Comments on the guidance are invited.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 17, 2023

The federal government has ordered the seven Colorado River states to reduce their water usage by one-fifth. The federal government and the states of Arizona, Colorado, and Nevada, which intervened below, successfully sought Supreme Court review. California , governing the apportionment of water from the Colorado River.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 16, 2021

Though Alaska became part of the United States in 1867, the federal government only fitfully devoted attention to the status of the new territory’s Indigenous peoples. Most importantly for Chehalis , ANCSA departed from long-standing models of federal Indian law that governed the lower 48 states.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 27, 2021

First, she concluded, “recognized” should be given its ordinary meaning, rather than construed as a term of art for the formal government-to-government relationship between the United States and federally recognized tribes (which, everyone acknowledges, does not encompass the ANCs).

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 28, 2023

The plain text of the statute requires no more, the government contended: An assessment was, in fact, made against Remo Polselli, and each administrative summons was “issued in aid of the collection” of Remo’s assessed taxes. United States , the district court emphasized the need to embrace the plain language of the statute.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 23, 2022

Even Justice Clarence Thomas led off the questioning by noting that Arizona’s position that the statute governs would render Martinez “pretty worthless.”. In my oral argument recap , I discussed how several of the conservative justices seemed genuinely to struggle with that question.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 30, 2021

However, “laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings” are presumptively valid, implying that arms may be carried in non-sensitive places. Sir John Knight (1686) read the statute to prohibit “going or riding armed in affray of peace,” i.e., in a manner “to terrify the King’s subjects.”

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Hoban Law Group

APRIL 13, 2021

The filing of “protective” claims for refund as a hedge against the draconian provisions that govern the federal taxation of cannabis, and particularly for marijuana, is one of those things properly placed at the top of the no-brainer list. Consider what you may lose by not filing a protective claim.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Share The fate of hundreds of millions of dollars in unclaimed money may depend on the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the term “money order” in an arcane 1974 federal statute. A 1974 law, known as the Disposition of Abandoned Money Orders and Traveler’s Check Act, governs certain unclaimed financial products.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 17, 2023

But even though the benefits that smart surfaces offer are quantifiable and significant, there are legal barriers to local governments enacting policies designed to replace traditional surfaces at a large scale. Municipalities are subdivisions of the state that have only the authority granted to them by state law.

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Paralegal-Edu.Org

APRIL 26, 2024

Understanding the Paralegal Profession Paralegals, who are also be called legal assistants, are the qualifying persons who have specialized knowledge and skills and assist lawyers to work in various legal settings, including private law firms, organizations’ corporate legal departments, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JULY 28, 2022

The bill that would seemingly have the potential to lift those restrictions is the Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act, a draft bill that would remove marijuana from Schedule I, which is the list of drugs that are prohibited for all purposes under federal law (see draft text here and summaries here and here ).

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Constitutional Law Reporter

MARCH 20, 2025

Respondents complaint alleged that Hungary and MV liquidated the expropriated property, commingled the proceeds with other government funds, and later used funds from those commingled accounts in connection with commercial activities in the United States.

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Statute has left little of the common law untouched. The Interaction between a Mandatory Law and an Exclusive Jurisdiction Clause Statutes generally fall into one of three categories (see Maria Hook, ‘The “Statutist Trap” and Subject-Matter Jurisdiction’ (2017) 13(2) Journal of Private International Law 435).

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At the Lectern

AUGUST 21, 2024

It held the “wrongful death claim sounds in professional negligence” and is thus governed by Code of Civil Procedure section 1295 , an arbitration statute in the Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act, as interpreted by the Supreme Court in Ruiz v. Podolsky (2010) 50 Cal.4th Arbitration grant-and-holds. In People v.

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MyCase

APRIL 24, 2024

Survey respondents confirmed they use GAI to streamline firm processes, from drafting marketing content to finding specific statutes. With a detailed prompt or series of prompts, the application can quickly draft, edit, or summarize documents. ChatGPT can produce quick drafts of client emails. Drafting marketing content.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 29, 2023

Vanuatu published the first draft of the resolution in late 2022. The draft was then altered through a series of consultations with UN delegates in the following months. On March 1, 2023, Vanuatu announced overwhelming support for the draft resolution with 105 co-sponsor states. The initiative gained traction.

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LexForti

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Post-independence, the Indian government gave careful consideration to enacting several rules and legislation to ensure safe and efficient maritime trade. All the above laws and statutes were not according to the prevailing Indian System. In this field, numerous laws, rules, and regulations have been enacted. Conclusion.

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FDA Law Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Javitt — On September 28, 2022, the FDA issued the long anticipated final Clinical Decision Support Software Guidance (CDS Guidance), which replaces the revised draft guidance document from 2019. You can find our preliminary blog post on the release of this guidance here , and our blog posts on the draft CDS guidances here and here.

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 12, 2022

9] While the statute of limitations for enforcement is a two-year period for creditors to apply to the court for execution based on a successful and legal effective document, which is provided in Civil Procedural Law of China and deemed as a procedure issue. Candidate, Institute of International Law, Wuhan University. [1]

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

They are elected to nine-year terms by the General Assembly and the Security Council upon the nomination of their home governments. For example, the court would hear about the Draft Articles on the Prevention of Transboundary Harm from Hazardous Activities, promulgated by the International Law Commission in 2001. It sits in the Hague.

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 10, 2022

Over the course of five days, HCCH Members reviewed progress made to date and agreed on the work programme for the year ahead in terms of normative, non-normative and governance work. More information is available here. More information is available here. Publications and Documentation.

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CARET Legal

JULY 19, 2024

Missed deadlines can include missed statutes of limitations, missed deadlines to obtain alias and pluries summons, missed discovery deadlines, and missed appellate deadlines. Here’s how it works: Customizable Rules The first step in setting up a rules-based calendar system is to define the rules that govern your deadlines.

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FDA Law Blog

APRIL 19, 2021

Devices are defined by statute as excluding products that achieve their primary intended purposes through chemical action in or on the body, or through metabolic action (what Genus referred to in its submissions to the Court as the “mode-of-action clause”). In other words, FDA cannot regulate a device as a drug on a whim.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 6, 2024

We would also like to thank Professor Beligh Elbalti for his critical comments on the draft blogpost. ’ [para 60] The US Supreme Court further established the importance of reciprocity and asserted that the Foreign Judgements (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act 2018 was the primary Act governing foreign judgments.

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