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Plaut – Spring 2022 – MJEAL

States Challenge the Constitutionality of the American Rescue Plan

Edward Plaut

The American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) is a major legislative accomplishment of the Biden Administration. The $1.9 trillion bill provides an array of policies responding to the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent economic downturn, including carve outs for stimulus checks, funding vaccination distribution, and child tax credits.[1] Included is the Coronavirus State Fiscal Recovery Fund (CSFRF), a nearly $190 billion fund meant to assist State governments to “mitigate the fiscal effects” of the pandemic.[2] The CSFRF gives recipients broad discretion in how to use the money, allowing states

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RightCon 2022 – Reflections by Jeni Tennison

RightCon 2022 – Reflections by Jeni TennisonRightsCon is the world’s leading summit on human rights in the digital age. RightsCon offers a platform for thousands of participants around the world to converge, connect, and contribute to a shared agenda for the future. It enables business leaders, activists, technologists, policymakers, journalists, philanthropists, researchers, and artists from around the world to interact and explore opportunities to advance human rights in the digital age. The 11th RightsCon Summit in 2022 took place from 6-10 June.

Jeni Tennison attended the summit and has provided some reflections from the following sessions.

a) Decolonizing co-design: Global South perspectives

This session looked at

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Young Co-Chair at International Council for Commercial Arbitration › The Legal Lock

About ICCA

ICCA is a worldwide NGO devoted to promoting the use and improving the processes of arbitration, conciliation and other forms of dispute resolution. Its activities include convening congresses and conferences, sponsoring authoritative dispute resolution publications, and promoting the harmonization of arbitration and conciliation rules, laws, procedures and standards.

About the Opportunity

We are now accepting expressions of interest from potential co-chair candidates

Roles and Responsibilities

  • Young ICCA Co-chairs direct and manage all activities of Young ICCA.
  • The Co-chairs generally work very closely with the ICCA Bureau and assist with a variety of projects and tasks, including, for example,
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Upcoming Webinars! 2022 Trade Secrets & Non-Competes Year in Review | Seyfarth Shaw

Trade Secrets Year in Review Webinar

Tuesday, January 24, 2023
1:00 pm to 2:00 pm Eastern
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm Central
11:00 am to 12:00 pm Mountain
10:00 am to 11:00 am Pacific

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In the second installment of the 2023 Trade Secrets Webinar Series, Seyfarth attorneys will review the noteworthy legislation, cases, and legal developments from across the nation over the last year in the areas of trade secrets and data theft, non-competes and other restrictive covenants , and computer fraud. Plus, they will provide predictions for what to expect in 2023.

Seyfarth attorneys, Michael Wexler, Robert Milligan, and Joshua Salinas will address

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Hopkins – Spring 2022 – MJEAL

Howling at the Government: The Fight to Get Wolves Back on the Endangered Species List

Taylor Hopkins

Introduction

In Ojibwe, an Indigenous language spoken by the Anishinaabe people, the word for “wolf” is Ma’iingan.[1] When describing the significance of the wolf in Anishinaabe culture, Marvin Defoe, a member of the Red Cliff Tribe, said: “the Ma’iingan are our brothers. The legends and stories tell us as brothers we walk hand in hand together. What happens to the Ma’iingan happens to humanity.”[2]

In the wake of the removal of Endangered Species Act (ESA) protections for the gray wolf

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Why Jen Shah’s Fraud Sentencing is Postponed—’RHOSLC’ Star’s Case Update

The Real Housewives of Salt Lake CityJen Shah’s sentencing in her federal fraud case has been postponed.

According to court documents obtained by Page Six, United States attorney Damian Williams filed a letter on Thursday, October 6, requesting that Shah’s sentencing be moved from November 18, 2022, to December 15, 2022.

This was reportedly requested due to a “scheduling conflict on the part of several members of the Government team.”

Judge Sidney H. Stein approved the request shortly after, per Page Six.

Why Jen Shah’s Fraud Sentencing is Postponed—’RHOSLC’ Star’s Case Update
“The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” star Jen Shah’s fraud case sentencing has been postponed.
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US prosecutor on Durham probe joins law firm Kasowitz Benson

(Reuters) – Law firm Kasowitz Benson Torres said Monday that it has hired Jonathan Algor, a prosecutor formerly assigned to US Special Counsel John Durham’s probe into the FBI’s 2016 investigation of possible collusion between Donald Trump’s campaign and the Russian government.

Algor, who also worked as a federal prosecutor in the Eastern District of New York, will be a partner in New York focused on white-collar defense and commercial and international litigation.

He said he joined the firm, which has represented Trump and his company, because of its expertise in white-collar work and its growing focus on cross-border investigations

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Regulating Online Safety: Lessons from Australia

Author: Dr. Rys Farthing

Seven years ago, Australia passed its first online safety bill, the Enhancing Online Safety Actupdating and expanding it in 2021 with the Online Safety Act. While both Acts had problems and pitfalls, these were ‘global firsts’ at attempts to legislate to address the problem. As the UK’s Online Safety Bills slowly passes its way, under a now caretaker government, through its Third reading and into the House of Lords, it is timely to reflect on some of the lessons from the Australian experience over the past seven years. Below are four reflections on how the

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