JURIST

JUNE 1, 2023

Pirani that federal securities law requires plaintiffs to prove their shares are directly traceable to misleading information in a registration statement in order to sue. He claimed that Slack had filed a “materially misleading registration statement” and should therefore be held accountable for the loss.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The algorithm had detected suspected child sexual abuse material. The algorithm had detected suspected child sexual abuse material. The court said that when the images came into the task force’s possession, the task force already knew that they were suspected child sexual abuse material.

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JURIST

MAY 10, 2025

The register will act as a record of damages, including human casualties and material losses, as a result of Russian aggression, and it will facilitate compensation to victims. President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen said : As we celebrate Europe Day, we move closer to justice for the people of Ukraine.

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MARCH 1, 2024

A federal judge in Arizona upheld two state laws on Thursday that require voters to provide documentation to prove their US citizenship before registering to vote. After a 10-day bench trial, Bolton issued a 109-page opinion upholding the laws. US District Judge Susan Bolton’s decision upheld HB 2492 and 2243.

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JURIST

JANUARY 18, 2024

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled on Wednesday that Texas legislation aimed at restricting or banning “sexually explicit” books in public school libraries likely violates the Constitution, affirming a lower court’s injunction against it. However, immediate legal pushback ensued.

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JURIST

JULY 30, 2023

Brooks blocked Arkansas on Saturday from enforcing Act 372 , a law that penalizes librarians for “furnishing harmful item[s] to minors.” Judge Brooks ruled that the law is unconstitutional because it is overbroad and vague. The plaintiffs argue that the law violated their First and Fourteenth Amendment rights.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The court is split on whether failing to count these votes would violate the Materiality Provision of the Civil Rights Act. The Materiality Provision prohibits disenfranchising voters based on immaterial errors or omissions on voting-related paperwork. The court granted the petition in part and denied it in part.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA), in collaboration with the Investment Industry Organization of Canada (IIROC), published guidance Thursday to assist crypto trading platforms in meeting their marketing, advertising, and social media compliances under securities law and IIROC rules.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit temporarily blocked a California law on Wednesday that bans firearm advertising that is “attractive to minors.” and several gun rights groups’ motion to block implementation of the California law. .” Circuit Judge Kenneth K.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Tuesday became the first US appeals court to propose a new rule requiring lawyers to certify that they either did not use generative artificial intelligence (AI) programs, like Chat GPT, to draft filings or that humans reviewed AI-generated material.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The Supreme Court of India ruled on Monday that individuals can face criminal liability for viewing, downloading, storing, or distributing child pornography. Pardiwala, who authored the 200-page ruling, noted that this ongoing exposure deepens the psychological scars from the initial abuse. Justice J.B.

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JURIST

AUGUST 28, 2021

The appeal, which was founded on three grounds, is majorly related to the interpretation of Rule 118(3) of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence (the “Rules”), which was adopted by the pre-trial chamber in maintaining Abd-Al-Rahman’s detention. This formed the crux of the appeal.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 27, 2021

A New York state judge Friday upheld a ruling banning the New York Times from publishing documents related to Project Veritas. Judge Charles Wood of the Westchester County Supreme Court ordered the New York Times to turn in physical copies of documents in question and delete digital versions of the documents.

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OCTOBER 22, 2024

” They characterized the ruling Socialist Party as dictatorial, “operat[ing not] based on constitutional principles and law but rather on hatred, primitive revenge, political orders, and police-state methods of a dictatorial regime.”

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JURIST

JULY 19, 2024

A US appeals court on Thursday dismissed a challenge to a Tennessee law that restricts drag performances, reversing a lower court’s decision that blocked the law from taking full effect. ” FOG, however, said it was “shocked and disappointed” by the court’s decision on Thursday.

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JURIST

AUGUST 30, 2021

The Office of Communications (Ofcom), UK’s communication services regulator, on Friday imposed two fines of £100,000 on Chinese state-owned broadcaster Star China Media Limited (SCML) for failing to comply with the country’s broadcasting rules on fairness and privacy. His face was shown unobscured.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The period was chosen because it coincides with Facebook SEC filings, shareholders meetings, and earnings calls where the company and its top executives made statements that Perez calls materially false and misleading. Perez argues that the material falsity of Meta’s statements was uncovered by these articles.

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JURIST

JULY 18, 2021

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 emirate. Azima had been ordered to pay $4.1

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JURIST

JUNE 11, 2022

The votes, which could tip the scale in the election, are contested on the grounds that their envelopes were not dated in violation of state election law. In November the county board of elections voted to include the ballots, reasoning that they were received on time and that their violation of state law was a mere technicality.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 31, 2025

A state labor commission ruled that the exemption did not apply because even if Catholic Charities has religious motivations, its activities are secular. Rassbach faced some skeptical questions about the limits of his proposed rule. The Wisconsin law mirrors a federal unemployment tax law, she noted.

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JURIST

MAY 3, 2024

The UK High Court ruled Friday that the Government’s climate strategy is inadequate and therefore violates the UK Climate Change Act 2008. The ruling comes nearly two years after a previous High Court judgment ordered the Government to strengthen its net zero strategy to bring it in line with the Climate Change Act.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

What will happen to the SEC’s March 2024 climate disclosure rule under the new federal administration? A paper published by Columbia University’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI) seeks to contribute to the upcoming debates on this question.

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JANUARY 11, 2021

The US Supreme Court granted review in 14 new cases on Friday on issues ranging from the eligibility of temporary protected status immigrants to become lawful permanent residents to the application of the CARES Act to Alaska Native Corporations. Becerra and Thomas More Law Center v. The first two cases are Americans for Prosperity v.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Justice Elena Kagans succinct opinion for a unanimous court squarely rejected the lower courts approach, ruling that profits only of the named defendant can be awarded. The post Only named defendants profits can be awarded in trademark suit, justices rule appeared first on SCOTUSblog.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 31, 2023

US federal Judge Stephen Locher on Friday blocked key provisions of SF 496 , an Iowa law prohibiting school libraries from distributing books containing LGBTQ+ and gender identity issues. Judge Locher stated that the law “sweeps so broadly,” that more than 500 books, including literary classics and self-help books, faced removal.

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JANUARY 27, 2025

In addition to targeting defense and technology sectors directly contributing to the war, the sanctions have included other major economic sectors, including financial, energy, and raw materials, that help Russia maintain its war economy. The measures will now be in force until 31 July, 2025. The EU is set to provide up to 18.1

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 10, 2025

The UNGA requested the ICJ render an opinion on the following questions: (a) What are the obligations of States under international law to ensure the protection of the climate system and other parts of the environment from anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gasses (GHG) for States and for present and future generations? (b)

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FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) Tuesday ruled that searches conducted by Russian authorities in flats and prayer halls of 14 Jehovah’s Witnesses more than ten years ago violated their fundamental rights to freedom of religion and liberty. One of the applicants, Ms.

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JURIST

JANUARY 12, 2022

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) Tuesday held Bulgaria’s laws on secret surveillance, including retention and accessing of communications data, violate the right to respect for private life and correspondence under Article 8 of the European Human Rights Convention.

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MARCH 20, 2024

The case is an appeal from the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which ruled against the councilwoman. Later, the police charged Gonzalez with violating a state law prohibiting impairing or removing government records. However, Justice Sonia Sotomayor noted that some warrants are false and based on “material falsehoods.”

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Above The Law

APRIL 17, 2025

Casting your client as a carbon copy of an earlier, favorable case is the whole point of a common law system. Lets get one thing straight: there are many ways for a lawyer to mess up a case. You can miss deadlines. You can ignore counsel. You can forget to ask for an extension until after the clock hits zero. Which shouldn’t be a thing.

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Above The Law

APRIL 21, 2022

In a nutshell, the Source Rule is a method used to assess the legality of a cannabis material based on where the material comes from. The post Did The DEA Seed Letter Abolish The ‘Source Rule’? appeared first on Above the Law.

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MARCH 14, 2024

One of the major groups advocating for books bans, Moms for Liberty, has been designated a far-right extremist anti-government group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, a national civil rights organization. Public libraries saw a particular increase in censorship demands, with a 92 percent increase from 2022.

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Above The Law

APRIL 23, 2025

The NCBE’s testing venue rules had pushed California’s resources to the limit with the most populous state in the union forced to book massive, expensive, and mostly inconvenient locations every time it offered the test. Everyone’s going to be chill about this, right? But things didn’t quite work out this time.

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

This is the question that many large and small law firms and solos ask themselves. In addition, many social media platforms appear to be continually shifting guidelines and tweaking their rules, making it increasingly difficult to define an effective strategy. Too Many Platforms. Each social media platform has a different audience.

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JURIST

JANUARY 11, 2022

The US Supreme Court Monday announced that it had granted review to three additional cases dealing with civil procedure, bankruptcy law, and worker’s compensation. Washington , deals with the federal government’s challenge to a state worker’s compensation law in Washington. The first case, United States v.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 14, 2022

” Under 34 USC 12601, it is “unlawful for any government authority… to engage in a pattern or practice of conduct by law enforcement officers… that deprives persons of rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States.”

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