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JULY 18, 2021

The European Union (EU) blocked the UK from joining a European accord for recognizing civil court judgments on Friday. The Lugano Convention (“the Lugano”) determines which countries may hear cross-border disputes between the 27 EU member states, Iceland, Norway and Switzerland in civil and commercial cases. Additionally, the Lugano also ensures recognition of judgments across the member states, which in turn significantly reduces legal costs for individuals and small business seeki

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 19, 2021

Share In a sign that the Supreme Court is slowly returning to normal business, the court on Monday rescinded COVID-related orders that relaxed certain procedural requirements during the pandemic. For petitions seeking Supreme Court review, the extended 150-day filing deadline returns to the 90-day filing deadline (the norm under the Supreme Court’s rules ).

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The Fashion Law

JULY 21, 2021

On the heels of its short-lived legal battle against MSCHF over the company’s heavily-publicized Jesus and Satan sneakers , Nike is taking on the increasingly problematic custom market by way of a newly-filed lawsuit, with the Beaverton, Oregon-based sportswear behemoth asserting that it – and its wildly valuable trademarks – are facing “a growing threat [of] unlawful infringement and dilution by others that seek to unfairly trade-off of Nike’s successes by leveraging the value of Nike’s brand t

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The Crime Report

JULY 20, 2021

Illustration courtesy UNODC. A report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime on long-term imprisonment trends found that the number of prisoners worldwide has increased by more than 25 percent between 2000 and 2019, while the population grew about 21 percent during the same period. By the end of 2019, there were about 11.7 million people incarcerated globally.

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JURIST

JULY 23, 2021

Austria’s Supreme Court of Justice referred four fundamental questions regarding the legality of Facebook’s collection and use of EU customers’ data to the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) on Tuesday. The questions arose in a civil case filed by Maximilian Schrems , an Austrian lawyer and privacy activist, who alleges that Facebook deprives users of the rights and protections they enjoy under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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The Fashion Law

JULY 19, 2021

Days ahead of the start of trial, Versace and Fashion Nova have settled the copyright and trademark infringement lawsuit that the high fashion brand filed against its fast fashion counterpart. In an order on July 15, Magistrate Judge Rozella Oliver of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California states that the parties “agreed to a settlement in principle and will finalize the outstanding matters before the pretrial conference scheduled for July 16, 2021, with the district judg

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The Crime Report

JULY 19, 2021

In Los Angeles on March 3, 1991, four police officers brutally beat Rodney King with Tasers, batons, their own feet, and fists. King, a Black man who had been pulled over after speeding, was beaten so badly that he sustained 11 skull fractures , a broken eye socket, facial nerve damage and permanent brain damage. After the incident, the police officers involved filed an internal report, saying that King suffered only cuts and bruises “of a minor nature. ” Sgt.

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JURIST

JULY 17, 2021

The High Court of Madras noted Friday that an accused person who is acquitted from all the charges is entitled to have their name redacted from all court orders in relation to the offences they were accused of in order to uphold their fundamental right to privacy. In the case before them, the petitioner had been acquitted of all criminal charges by the court and had pleaded to redact their name from all the court orders.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 23, 2021

Share Melissa Murray refused to recant her view: The newly minted conservative court is poised to effect great change in the country. Murray, a professor of law at New York University and co-host of the podcast Strict Scrutiny, co-authored an article last September predicting that the transition on the Supreme Court from Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to Justice Amy Coney Barrett would spell “seismic consequences.

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Above The Law

JULY 23, 2021

More Opening Announcements : We could talk about the specific firms announcing their openings or just link to the tracker. Why not do the latter? Is That A Lot? : Kavanaugh garnered 4,500 tips during his confirmation and guess what the FBI did about it? I Got Questions : Does this count for adverse possession? Honest Practice Question : Why make a bunch of ridiculous arguments that won't sway the panel?

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The Crime Report

JULY 20, 2021

The demographic profile of people placed in long-term solitary confinement differs substantially from that of the general prison population, reports an article published in Justice Quarterly. People sent to long-term confinement are disproportionately young, male, Black and experience mental health issues, according to an examination of administrative records from the Florida Department of Corrections.

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JURIST

JULY 19, 2021

The District Court of The Hague convicted Friday Ahmad al Kehdr, a Syrian refugee and former member of the Syrian military, of war crimes and sentenced him to 20 years in prison. The court possessed video evidence of Al Khedr participating in the execution of a Syrian government official in 2012. Presiding Judge Jan van Steen noted that the execution took place in a country where a “non-international armed conflict” was in progress, deserving careful scrutiny.

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LawSites

JULY 22, 2021

Lou Andreozzi , the former chairman of Bloomberg Law and CEO of LexisNexis North American Legal Markets, has been appointed to the board of directors of global managed services provider Integreon , the company said today. The news comes a month after Integreon was acquired by the private equity firm EagleTree Capital. Integreon said that Andreozzi will serve on the board in a non-executive capacity, consulting with Integreon CEO Bob Rowe and other senior Integreon managers, as well as with the E

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Above The Law

JULY 20, 2021

A recent decision is in line with a developing consensus that patent cases are crowded enough with issues requiring adjudication so as to make spending time on litigation funding arrangements a hard sell.

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The Crime Report

JULY 21, 2021

The planned closure of the Rikers Island jail complex presents an opportunity to reimagine — and reduce — New York City jail populations, argue the authors of a joint report by the Independent Commission on New York City Criminal Justice and Incarceration Reform and the Center for Court Innovation. Titled “Closing Rikers Island: A Roadmap for Reducing Jail in New York City,” the July report incorporates original research and interviews with over 60 criminal justice professionals and advocates, c

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JURIST

JULY 17, 2021

The European Court of Justice ruled Thursday that employers can forbid their staff from wearing visible symbols of religious or political belief, including headscarves, in order to present an image of neutrality. The Court decided on the matter following referrals from the Labour Court of Hamburg and the Federal Labour Court of Germany, which had requested the European Court consider whether the dismissal of two Muslim women from their employment over their non-compliance with orders to refrain

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JULY 23, 2021

by Dennis Crouch. Today’s decision by the Federal Circuit includes an example of thinly sliced bologna, with the court rejecting a PTAB IPR decision because the precise obviousness argument regarding a functional limitation was not expressly stated. The court also does another go-round with the PTAB failing to consider commercial success. . Oren Tech v.

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Above The Law

JULY 20, 2021

* Representation Matters: Confirmed that the Party really against voter fraud hired fake supporters. [ MSNBC ] * Ku Klux Klan not all that bad apparently, says Texas Senate. I know I shared something similar yesterday, but history clearly repeats itself. [ HuffPost ] * Guy who committed light treason gets 8 months in prison. [ USA Today ] * What? A politician suspended from Twitter because they shared information that could cause deaths?!

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The Crime Report

JULY 20, 2021

Every Saturday morning, private buses drop off groups of people at prisons across New York State. Women and children, mostly, leave the city in the dead hours of night and travel on these buses for six hours or longer only to wait sometimes for three or more hours to get inside the facility to see their loved ones. The waiting area usually consists of a dreary small room or trailer encircled with uncomfortable plastic chairs where a few officers approve who will enter the facility.

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JURIST

JULY 18, 2021

The Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice of England and Wales on Friday permitted an Iranian-American businessman to sue Dechert LLP for hacking into his email account and leaking his personal information on BitTorrent sites. The aviation tycoon Farhad Azima alleges that the international law firm hired illegal hackers to steal privileged information about his business, leading to a London judge holding him liable for defrauding the sovereign wealth fund of UAE’s Ras Al Khaimah e

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LawSites

JULY 21, 2021

The practice management platforms Tabs3 and CosmoLex, both of which share a common owner, have each launched their own payment processing services to allow their customers to accept credit card and electronic check payments, Tabs3Pay and CosmoLexPay. Both companies already offered credit-card processing through third-party providers — Tabs3 through LawPay and ProPay and CosmoLex through LawPay — but these new services support electronic payments natively within each platform.

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Patently O

JULY 22, 2021

by Dennis Crouch. Obviousness is the central doctrine of patent law. It is both the most common reason for rejection and often the most complicated issue because of both factual and legal complexities. The new Chemours Co. decision provides an important addition to obviousness doctrine in two areas: (1) teaching away; and (2) commercial success. The majority sided with the patentee and reversed the IPR Board’s single-reference obviousness determination.

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The Crime Report

JULY 19, 2021

Following the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, elected officials and terrorism experts revived previous calls for Congress to pass a domestic terrorism statute that would empower the federal government to investigate and pursue white supremacists and other domestic terrorists with the same tools it uses to go after international terrorism. But a forthcoming Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review paper warns that strengthening the federal government’s anti-terrorist statutes to encompass US individua

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JURIST

JULY 21, 2021

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court decision on Monday rejecting an environmental challenge to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The plaintiffs are individuals and organizations who identify themselves as environmentalists and include natural resource conservation groups and cattle ranchers from Arizona, California, Colorado, and New Mexico.

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The Fashion Law

JULY 22, 2021

Canada Goose is facing off against a similarly-named outerwear company that it claims is intentionally mimicking the “look and feel” of its products and logos. According to the complaint that it filed in a federal court in Illinois on June 30, Canada Goose claims that the like-named Goose Country is on the hook for trademark infringement, trademark dilution, unfair competition and false designation of origin, and unjust enrichment in connection with its continued sale of products that not only b

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