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Parliament is legally distinguishing between its own citizens in order to 'optimise' a Jewish demographic advantage Ahmad Tibi and Ayman Odeh, members of the Israeli Knesset for the Joint List, attend a protest against the Israeli citizenship law in Jerusalem on 29 June 2021 (AFP) With the world’s attention focused on the war raging in Ukraine, the Israeli parliament last week passed a law th...

“Targeted” Law in Iowa Ruled Unconstitutional by Federal Judge  Pork Magazine

Just when you thought no one actually reads law review articles anymore, Columbia Law got dragged into the middle of an academic standoff between a noted short seller and one of the school’s rising academic stars. Professor Joshua Mitts wrote a paper in 2018 on the impact an investor website has on depressing stock prices. Carson Block, an investor specializing in shorts, has had records subp...

Clock. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) (The Hill) — Legislation to make daylight saving time permanent passed the Senate last week, but the House is not ready to be a rubber stamp, spelling potential trouble ahead for its passage in the lower chamber. Leaders on both sides of the aisle have made clear they are not in a rush to act on the legislation, with some citing the focus on the crisi...

Source: AFP/Getty Images Bloomberg News A Moscow court banned Meta Platforms Inc.’s Facebook and Instagram in Russia Monday, in what was the first use of the country’s sweeping law on “extremism” against a foreign technology company. The presiding judge backed the prosecutor’s request to ban the social networks with immediate effect ruling them “extremist” organizations, Tass reported from th...

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson at the University of Chicago Law School in February 2020. (tinyurl.com/2p8zbtuu; CC BY-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) On Feb. 25, President Biden nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court. She would replace Justice Stephen Breyer, for whom she once clerked. And if confirmed, Jackson would become the first Black woman ...

Law Society announces 2022 award recipients  Yahoo Finance

On February 10, 2022, Congress passed the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act of 2021 with bipartisan support. President Biden signed the bill into law on March 3, 2022. Effective immediately, the law adds a new Chapter to the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) and renders unenforceable: Arbitration agreements with respect to a case relating to a sexual assault o...

Pity the guy who has to inform Nyssa al Ghul that her “beloved” is pregnant by another woman. That fate in fact befell me, when in the course of speaking with Katrina Law about NCIS‘ upcoming crossover with NCIS: Hawai’i (airing next Monday, March 28), I brought up Sara Lance’s unexpected and nearly improbable pregnancy, as affirmed and shared with wife Ava in the Legends of Tomorrow season f...

Screenshot: Erin Patrice O’Brien (Fair Use) Stephen L. Ball, a Harvard Law School alumnus, has been appointed as Harvard Law’s first Black Dean of Students, reported Michigan Daily. Ball’s journey went from simply studying law to mentoring other students on how to be litigators like himself while helping them navigate the racial disparities in the field. Ball completed his bachelor’s and mast...