test

MEDIA ROOM BY STORY.KISSPR.COM

Stories: News - Press Releases - Blogs
November 29, 2021

UAE Eases Drug Laws: No More Jail for Those Bringing in THC - U.S. News & World Report

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates has eased some of its harsh drug laws, relaxing penalties for travelers who arrive in the country with products containing THC, the main intoxicating chemical in cannabis. The new law, published Sunday in the UAE’s official gazette, says people caught carrying food, drinks and other items with cannabis into the country will no longer...
November 29, 2021

Why Dictators Always Pretend to Love the Law - Council on Foreign Relations

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi attends the Arab summit in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, May 31, 2019. Last week, Egypt’s House of Representatives approved amendments to the country’s anti-terrorism law that strengthen the powers of the presidency and the country’s armed forces. With these changes, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi can undertake “measures to preserve security and public order.” N...
November 29, 2021

2021 APPELLATE LAW Q&A - Virginia Business Magazine

Pangle Lucas I. Pangle Wharton Aldhizer & Weaver PLC, Harrisonburg Title: Associate Other legal specialties: Administrative law, occupational safety and health, and bankruptcy Birthplace: Maurertown in Shenandoah County Education: Bachelor’s degree in neuroscience, Duke University; law degree, William & Mary School of Law Fan of: Duke Blue Devils basketball Recently read book: “The Co...
November 29, 2021

DLA Piper Adds Partner to Hong Kong Corporate Practice - Law.com

Hong Kong’s Exchange Square/Credit: Kapi Ng/Shutterstock.com
November 29, 2021

Law roundup: Sketchy man peddles tattoos from camper - Daily Inter Lake

A “very sketchy” man was allegedly selling tattoos out of a parked camper trailer. An intoxicated man wearing dark clothing was seen lying in a building driveway by an employee who called the Kalispell Police Department. Officers requested an ambulance to take him to the hospital for extreme intoxication. An employee wanted a man falling asleep in the casino area moved along after he refused ...
November 29, 2021

English universities risk breaking law over offer withdrawals, say ministers - The Guardian

Universities in England risk breaking competition laws if they add loopholes letting them withdraw offers from students at the last minute if courses are oversubscribed, ministers and regulators have told vice-chancellors. For the last two years, the surge in A-level grades allowed more students than forecast to meet their offer targets, and some universities withdrew offers when it became cl...
November 29, 2021

Boston Patent Law Association Response To USPTO Request For Information On The Current State Of Patent Eligibility Jurisprudence In The United States - Intellectual Property - United States - Mondaq News Alerts

Jonathan Roses co-authored on behalf of the Boston Patent Law Association's (BPLA's) Patent Office Practice Committee an October 2021 Response to USPTO Request for Information on the current state of patent eligibility ("§101") jurisprudence in the United States, and how current jurisprudence has impacted investment and innovation, particularly in critical technologies such as quantum computi...
November 29, 2021

Ghislaine Maxwell's sex-trafficking trial begins Monday - WKOW

Ghislaine Maxwell's sex-trafficking trial begins Monday  WKOW
November 29, 2021

Indonesia to ensure legal certainty after ruling on investment law, president says - Reuters

JAKARTA, Nov 29 (Reuters) - Indonesia's President Joko Widodo on Monday said his government would ensure legal certainty for investment, after a court last week ruled a controversial job creation law was unconstitutional. The court said there were procedural flaws in formation of the legislation passed last year, which saw the revision of more than 70 existing laws, and told the government to...
November 29, 2021

Lawyers turn to romcoms in fight for rule of law in Poland - The Guardian

Instead of drafting legal papers, award-winning group make short films intended to explain assault on judiciary It was a summer day in 2017 when Sylwia Gregorczyk-Abram, a 34-year-old lawyer, heard a crazy idea. She had been messaged by a legal acquaintance, Michał Wawrykiewicz, who like her was worried about changes that Poland’s nationalist government was introducing to the judicial system....