JURIST

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The New York Times (NYT) and The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) revealed previously redacted details Saturday of a US multi-state lawsuit against Facebook parent company Meta, alleging that Meta purposefully designed its social media platforms to be attractive to children and collected children’s personal data despite the company’s guidelines barring young children from joining its platforms.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Share The argument on Wednesday in Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy will present a remarkable spectacle of three entirely distinct constitutional challenges to wholly disparate attributes of the SEC. Ordinarily, the ability of the justices to control their docket would allow them to wait on each question for the development of a circuit conflict and select a suitable case in which to resolve each issue.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development confirmed to German public broadcaster Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) last week that four local Afghan employees of the German government aid organization Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) office in Afghanistan have been arrested by the Taliban-backed Afghan government. According to a confidential EU security report obtained by WDR on Thursday, one employee, detained in early November, was arrested and is still being h

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ABA Journal

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Updated: A Connecticut lawyer charged with third-degree assault for slapping another lawyer has received a suspended sentence after pleading no contest.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) Nicholas Haysom stressed that South Sudan must secure public confidence to ensure that its first post-independence elections in December 2024 will be held peacefully. Haysom suggested Thursday that South Sudan improve gender and political representation in the country by reconstituting government bodies such as the Political Parties Council, National Elections Commission and National Con

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Farzona Kayumova is a staff correspondent for JURIST in Uzbekistan and a law student at Tashkent State University of Law. President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev hosted the 16th summit of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) on November 9 held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan’s capital. The Economic Cooperation Organization is a regional intergovernmental organization established in 1985 in Tehran (Iran).

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ABA Journal

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The ABA Journal is read by half of the nation's 1 million lawyers every month. It covers the trends, people and finances of the legal profession from Wall Street to Main Street to Pennsylvania Avenue.

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Above The Law

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

No, 'till death do you part' is not a valid defense. The post And It Says Right Here You Can’t Try To Kill Your Former Husband With An Axe And Expect Money From Him appeared first on Above the Law.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Share Tuesday’s argument in McElrath v. Georgia will take the justices back to law-school basics – the case could be a question on a law-school examination in criminal law. The facts are simple. Damian McElrath was prosecuted for several crimes after he stabbed his adoptive mother, Diane McElrath, to death in 2012. The case went to trial, where the jury returned a verdict that, among other things, found McElrath not guilty by reason of insanity on a charge of malice murder – the most serious mur

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Above The Law

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Novo Nordisk’s planned expansion will more than double the footprint of its France production site, bringing new capacity for manfacturing GLP-1 drugs for metabolic conditions. The location is already one of the company’s largest for making diabetes products.

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FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

By Riëtte van Laack & Anne K. Walsh — Although the Consumer Product Safety Act (CPSA) has been around for over 50 years to “protect the public against unreasonable risks of injury associated with consumer products,” it was not until 2008 that the statute was amended to authorize the Consumer Product Safety Commission (“CPSC”) to impose criminal liability against individual directors, officers, or agents of a corporation for violating the CPSA.

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Above The Law

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

LockBit threatened to publish the Biglaw firm's data unless it negotiated a price by November 28, and now the firm has been removed from hackers' site on the dark web. What could this mean? The post Top Biglaw Firm Removed From Notorious Hackers’ Website 1 Day Ahead Of Ransomware Deadline appeared first on Above the Law.

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OneLegal

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Commingling of funds occurs when personal funds are mixed with client funds, creating a blur in financial clarity and accountability, and can be an easy trap to fall into. Here's what you need to know about it. The post Understanding the commingling of funds and why law firms must avoid it appeared first on One Legal.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Sierra Leonean president Julius Maada Bio declared a nationwide curfew with immediate effect on Sunday, a few hours after several unidentified gunmen attacked the Military Barracks at Wilberforce in the capital Freetown in the morning. According to a statement released by Sierra Leonean Minister of Information and Civic Education Mustapha Jambai Massaquoi, the attackers were trying to break into the military armory at Wilberforce Barracks, but all of them were rebuffed.

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Above The Law

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Your chances of making partner aren't the best they've ever been. The post It’s Really Not A Good Time To Be A Capital Markets Senior Associate appeared first on Above the Law.

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HowAppealing

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

“This lawsuit could disrupt the U.S. tax system. Key facts are in dispute. Supreme Court to hear challenge to new tax on offshore earnings that was part of Donald Trump’s 2017 tax overhaul.” Ann E. Marimow and Julie Zauzmer Weil of The Washington Post have this report. And in commentary, online at Vox, Ian Millhiser has an essay titled “ The Supreme Court case seeking to shut down wealth taxes before they even exist; A SCOTUS case aiming to protect rich people from taxes could

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Above The Law

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

We've got a legal recruiter to provide you with some of her best-kept secrets. The post Move Along: How And Why Partners Switch Law Firms appeared first on Above the Law.

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HowAppealing

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

“Supreme Court Needs a Real Ethics Code. The justices have rightly responded to public criticism. But the self-policing system they’ve proposed doesn’t inspire much confidence.” Bloomberg Opinion has published this editorial. The post “Supreme Court Needs a Real Ethics Code. The justices have rightly responded to public criticism. But the self-policing system they’ve proposed doesn’t inspire much confidence.” appeared first on How Appealing.

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Above The Law

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Client correspondence can be one of the most time-consuming tasks that stack up throughout a lawyer’s day. Here are three ways to tap into generative AI’s power to craft clear, concise communications that avoid misunderstandings. The post How AI Can Assist Lawyers With Client Correspondence appeared first on Above the Law.

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HowAppealing

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

“Justices Search for Middle Ground on Mandatory Sentences for Gun Crimes; A federal law imposes a mandatory 15-year sentence for possessing a gun after committing three serious drug offenses; But which offenses count?” Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report. The post “Justices Search for Middle Ground on Mandatory Sentences for Gun Crimes; A federal law imposes a mandatory 15-year sentence for possessing a gun after committing three serious drug offenses; But which o

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Meta Platforms Inc. knows its platforms are used by millions of underage children and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally shot down a proposed policy to ban image filters found to be harmful to social media users' mental health, according to a newly unsealed version of states' lawsuit filed last week.

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HowAppealing

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

“Parsing Invalidating Statutes (Part I)”: John F. Coyle has this post at the “Transnational Litigation Blog.” Therein, he writes, “There are hundreds of state statutes that direct state courts not to give effect to choice-of-law and forum selection clauses.” The post “Parsing Invalidating Statutes (Part I)” appeared first on How Appealing.

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ABA Journal

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

A Maryland law requiring those who want handguns to wait up to 30 days for a “handgun qualification license” violates the Second Amendment, a federal…

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HowAppealing

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

“Today at SCOTUS: Guns or Drugs?” Michael C. Dorf has this post at his blog, “Dorf on Law.” The post “Today at SCOTUS: Guns or Drugs?” appeared first on How Appealing.

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