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TVN24 Studio in Poland Discovery Inc Poland’s president, Andrzej Duda, has vetoed a controversial new media ownership law that Discovery had condemned as an “attack” on freedom of speech and a threat to the future of independent media after the country’s parliament passed it before the holidays. The controversial legislation was designed to block companies from outside the European Economic A...

Instead, Republicans are circulating a trio of petitions that would allow them to circumvent Whitmer and create new laws of their own, a maneuver that experts say is clearly legal but has never been utilized with such frequency — and such high stakes. The Michigan Constitution includes an indirect initiative process allowing legislators to adopt measures initiated by petitions that are signed...

Poland's President Andrzej Duda speaks during a joint news conference with Hungary's President Janos Ader and Slovakia's President Zuzana Caputova after a Visegrad Group meeting at the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest, Hungary, November 29, 2021. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo WARSAW, Dec 27 (Reuters) - Poland's President Andrzej Duda said on Monday he vetoed a controversial media bill as he shared s...

Now Playing: Episode 1. California’s “Pay-for-Delay” Law For a legal perspective on the past year in biosimilars and a look ahead at 2022, Tony Hagen, senior editor for The Center for Biosimilars®, spoke recently with Chad Landmon, chair of the Intellectual Property and Food and Drug Administration Practice Groups at Axinn, a New York–based antitrust, intellectual property, and litigation la...

Slaves work in California gold mines in 1852. Bob Egelko has been a reporter since June 1970. He spent 30 years with the Associated Press, covering news, politics and occasionally sports in Los Angeles, San Diego and Sacramento, and legal affairs in San Francisco from 1984 onward. He worked for the San Francisco Examiner for five months in 2000, then joined The Chronicle in November 2000. His...

Crain's New York Business recognizes partner Ilene Farkas for exemplary work in law. She has been named on the publication's 2022 list of Notable Women in Law. Ilene is an Executive Committee Member, the co-chair of the firm's Music Litigation practice, and a member of the firm's Litigation, Intellectual Property, and Media + Entertainment Groups. According to Crain's: lene Farkas, recognized...

Booming business, recruiting wars shaped legal industry Ongoing uncertainty over pandemic is early story for 2022 Firms are thriving and lawyers are working more than ever, and there appears to be no end in sight as the industry adapts to the second year of Covid-19. This year saw surging associate compensation, record levels of deals activity, a hot talent market, and multiple rounds of o...

(Shutterstock) A Little Rock law firm received a partial victory this month at the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals over attorneys’ fees awarded by a U.S. District Court judge, the latest skirmish in a long-running dispute between the judge and the employment law firm. The 8th Circuit sent the case back to U.S. District Judge Billy Roy Wilson to determine the amount of pay Sanford Law Firm PLLC...

SCOTUS dropped judges from case over abortion law Bench trial on validity of Texas’ damages cap set for Jan. 7 A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision holding that Texas state-court judges weren’t proper defendants in a case challenging a state abortion law led a federal court to release two jurists from a suit seeking to invalidate a medical malpractice damages cap. Medical malpractice victim...

ATLANTA — Several law enforcement agencies blocked off traffic as they collected evidence near Atlantic Station early Monday morning following an incident. Atlanta Police and the Georgia Bureau of Investigations were blocking off parts 17 St. NW before 6 a.m. near the 17 St. bridge. The 17 Street exit from I-85 was also shut down. The Atlanta Police Department said officers responded to a dis...