JURIST
MARCH 9, 2025
The K’ moks First Nation of Vancouver Island overwhelmingly voted for a treaty and constitution granting self-governance on Saturday. Regarding the recent vote, K’ moks chief councilor Nicole Rempel stated: This has been a momentous day for our nation. The treaty vote is a critical democratic process for our community. Every member’s voice counts.
NCBA Law Practice Management Blog
MARCH 9, 2025
Traditionally, attorneys have struggled to communicate value to leads & clients. Sometimes, lawyers linger on legalese, or theyre simply talking over the heads of the people they most desperately need to understand what theyre doing. Generally speaking, lawyers are really good at talking to other lawyers its why most law firms are built on referral-based marketing but, when it comes to consumers: its a whole other story, that sometimes does not have a happy ending.
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JURIST
MARCH 9, 2025
A Delhi, India court on Friday dismissed a challenge from local Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Cabinet Minister Kapil Mishra to a summonsin a case involving allegations that he made inflammatory communal statements during the 2020 Delhi Legislative Assembly elections. Special Judge Jitendra Singh upheld the summons issued against Mishra, rejecting his argument that his statements did not promote enmity between communities under Section 125 of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 (RPA).
FDA Law Blog
MARCH 9, 2025
The American Conference Institutes 12th Annual Legal, Regulatory, and Compliance Forum on Cosmetics & Personal Care is scheduled to take place from March 27-28, 2025, at the New York City Bar Association, New York, NY. The conference is the premier event on cosmetics and personal care products, where industry leaders will provide essential updates on compliance with Modernization of Cosmetics Regulation Act of 2022 (MoCRA), state legislative reforms, and new FTC advertising guidelines.
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HowAppealing
MARCH 9, 2025
“The Urgent Supreme Court Case Thats Not Getting Enough Attention”: Linda Greenhouse has this guest essay online at The New York Times.
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HowAppealing
MARCH 9, 2025
“MAGA mirrors far left in calling Justice Barrett a ‘DEI hire.’ Knock it off. MAGA supporters are starting to mirror the far left. True conservatives applaud the independence of the Supreme Court and the judicial branch of our government.” Columnist Ingrid Jacques has this essay online at USA Today.
Patently O
MARCH 9, 2025
by Dennis Crouch The Federal Circuit is currently reviewing a trademark opposition dispute, Heritage Alliance & AFA Action, Inc. v. The American Policy Roundtable (Appeal No. 24-1155), centered around two competing marks: IVOTERGUIDE.COM and IVOTERS.COM. The following are, more than anything, a set of my notes on the case as I'm thinking through its importance.
HowAppealing
MARCH 9, 2025
“Amy Coney Barrett Isnt What the Conservative Legal Movement Expected; The Supreme Courts second-newest justice is proving herself to be a non-hackto the increasing consternation of MAGA”: Matt Ford has this essay online at The New Republic.
JURIST
MARCH 9, 2025
The Italian Council of Ministers approved on Friday a draft law introducing the crime of femicide and punishing it with life imprisonment. Under the proposed legislation, femicide is defined as causing the death of a woman as an act of discrimination or hatred because she is a woman, or with the view to repress her rights, freedoms, or expression of personality.
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HowAppealing
MARCH 9, 2025
“The Constitutional Truth At The Heart Of The DOGE Cases: Elon Musk cannot, as a legal matter, be simultaneously leading DOGE and also not leading DOGE.” You can access yesterday’s new episode of Slate’s “Amicus” podcast via this link.
JURIST
MARCH 9, 2025
Italy’s highest appeals court ordered the government to provide financial compensation to a group of migrants who were confined to an overcrowded coast guard ship for ten days on Friday. Most of the 190 Eritrean migrants were not allowed to disembark at a port in Malta following an order from the former interior minister Matteo Salvini in 2018.
JonathanTurley
MARCH 9, 2025
Recently, after the speech of Vice President J.D. Vance in Munich, various European leaders went public to express their shock and disbelief that they would be accused of rolling back on free speech. For many of us, it was a laughable display of denial, particularly from UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer. In a country that has eviscerated free speech, Starmer told Bret Baier that the UK “guards” free speech and “we don’t believe in censoring speech.” Now, the governmen
JURIST
MARCH 9, 2025
A US federal judge declined Friday to block employees of the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (“DOGE”) from accessing sensitive US Treasury data, finding that retiree and union plaintiffs failed to show an imminent risk of irreparable harm. US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said the plaintiffs failed to show irreparable harm because although mistakes in setting up DOGE access at Treasury were “understandable and no doubt widely shared,” the unions
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MARCH 9, 2025
“With Congress on the sidelines, judges and world leaders defy Trump; Federal judges have lifetime tenure, and foreign leaders answer to their own citizenry; For now, theyre acting as the emergency brakes to Trump as he pushes to remake the world”: Peter Nicholas and Garrett Haake of NBC News have this report.
JURIST
MARCH 9, 2025
The United States withdrew from the board of the UN’s climate damage fund, according to a letter from the US Treasury Department made public on Friday. The letter stated that the US would no longer be a member of the UN Board for the Fund for responding to Loss and Damage , a climate damage fund that seeks to assist developing countries particularly affected by climate change.
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MARCH 9, 2025
“Nothing like this in American history: the crisis of Trumps assault on the rule of law; Even if the supreme court were to resist the presidents onslaught, it has little means to enforce its decisions.” Ed Pilkington of The Guardian has this report.
JURIST
MARCH 9, 2025
Georgetown Law School’s dean rejected on Thursday a warning from the top federal prosecutor for Washington D.C. that his office will not hire the school’s students if it does not eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion programs (DEI). Edward R. Martin. Jr, US Attorney for the District of Columbia wrote in a letter that his office will not accept any application for fellowships, internships, and employment from Georgetown Law students as long as the school continues to “teach
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MARCH 9, 2025
“Fear of Trump Has Elite Law Firms in Retreat; Executive orders against Perkins Coie and Covington & Burling have chilled industry”: Erin Mulvaney and C. Ryan Barber of The Wall Street Journal have this report. In commentary, online at The New York Times, columnist David French has an essay titled “ The MAGA Culture War Comes for Georgetown Law.” And Chris Geidner has a Substack post titled “ Trump lashes out, acting as an authoritarian in attacks on perceived o
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