By James Parker The Supreme Court waited 27 years after deciding the 1994 landmark case of Cambell v. Acuff Rose to revisit the issue of fair use in Google LLC v. Oracle America Inc. Decided in 2021, the court took an expansive view of the doctrine of fair use, agreeing […]
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Court in Barcelona issues injunction against Mango’s NFT use in the metaverse – TechnoLlama
NFTs on the metaverse, we just need AI for buzzword bingo. Courtesy of the Commercial Law Court in Barcelona (Juzgado de lo Mercantil), we are getting one of the very first rulings dealing with the interface between intellectual property, NFTs, and the metaverse (previous decisions have been about property itself). […]
Is TRUMP TOO SMALL for the Supreme Court?
by Dennis Crouch Vidal v. Elster (2022) Over the past decade, a number of traditional prudential limits on trademark coverage have been found to be unconstitutional limits on free speech. See, Matal v. Tam, 137 S. Ct. 1744 (2017) (disparaging marks) and Iancu v. Brunetti, 139 S. […]
B.R. Ambedkar Moot Court Competition by J.B. Law College
J.B Law College is organizing the B.R. Ambedkar Memorial Annual Human Rights Moot Court Competition on 10th December 2022. About the Organiser Jnanadabhiram Barooah Law College, popularly known as J.B. Law College (JBLC) came into existence in the year 1969 with the objective of advancing legal education in the entire […]
Andy Warhol Art Headlines Busy Week for Supreme Court of United States
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in four cases last week. The most high-profile case, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts v. Goldsmith, will determine whether Andy Warhol infringed photographer Lynn Goldsmith’s copyright when Warhol used Goldsmith’s images of the musician Prince to create a series of silkscreens […]
A Rare Inside Look at Our Corrupt Supreme Court
I suspect that every member of the National Press Club may at one time have met the Reverend Rob Schenck. This indefatigable evangelical pastor has used the club many times—to thank the kingdom of Morocco for its cooperation with Christian missionaries in 2010, for example, or to decry the creation […]
Code of Civil Procedure 874.320 CCP – Court ordered open-market sale; sealed bids; auction (Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act)
(a) If the court orders a sale of heirs property, the sale shall be an open-market sale unless the court finds that a sale by sealed bids or an auction would be more economically advantageous and in the best interest of the cotenants as a group. (b) If the court […]
Court of Appeal Rules Against Scomi Group Judicial Management Appeal
Today, the Court of Appeal dismissed Scomi Group Bhd’s appeal against the High Court decision dismissing its judicial management application. As set out earlier, the High Court had ruled on two points when dismissing the judicial management application of Scomi Group Bhd, being a listed company. First, the High Court […]
Chief Justice Warns PM Nabbanja on Interfering With Court
Chief Justice Owiny Dollo Chigamoy has responded to the theatrical act by Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja that happened on Monday 21st October 2022. The Right Honourable Premier stormed the office of His Worship Amon Magezi at Mengo Chief Magistrates’ Court and chaired a televised meeting where she held his decisions […]
Ontario Court of Appeal Confirms Employers May be Liable for Longer Notice Periods During COVID-19 and (Possibly) Beyond
In September 2022, the Ontario Court of Appeal in Pavlov v. The New Zealand and Australian Lamb Company Limited (“Pavlov“) confirmed that an employer may be liable for a longer notice period, even for a short-term employee, based on prevailing economic factors beyond the parties’ control. In this case, it […]
Can a child be a witness in Court proceedings?
A child is a person below the age of eighteen years. A witness is one who knows and has information about something or a series of events. A witness must be competent and mentally stable to testify. Children are often protected by the law from any criminal responsibility and its […]
California Court of Appeal Limits the Permissibility of Time Rounding
Rounding is the practice of capturing time entries on a time clock and converting them to the closest five, ten, or fifteen minute equivalent. For example, both entries at 8:58 and 9:04 may be converted to 9:00 a.m. A recent California Court of Appeal decision, Camp v. Home Depot U.S.A., Inc., calls […]
High Court Decision on Interaction between Judicial Management and Insolvency
The High Court in Exxobrite Sdn Bhd v Value Plus Industries Sdn Bhd (grounds of judgment dated 29 July 2022) dealt with the moratorium effect of a judicial management order and the insolvency repercussions arising from the judicial management process. Summary of the Decision and SignificanceGrounds by: Nadzarin bin Wok Nordin J […]
East African Court of Justice – what it is and what its powers are
This article was first published by The Conversation on 28th November, 2022 and is republished here with permission. Martha Karua, the running mate of Raila Odinga, the losing candidate in Kenya’s 2022 presidential election, continues to dispute William Ruto’s slim victory over him. According to the politician and lawyer, the Kenyan electoral commission […]
Court Refuses to Halt Museveni’s Suit Against Daily Monitor
An application to stay/halt court proceedings in respect of a suit filed by President Yoweri Museveni against the Daily Monitor Newspaper pending the determination of a constitutional petition filed by the newspaper’s lawyers Counsel James Nangwala and Counsel Mugweri Nangwala has been denied by Justice Musa Ssekaana at High Court […]
Supreme Court to Hear Jack Daniel’s Dog Toy Dogfight
The U.S. Supreme Court recently granted Jack Daniel’s petition for review in its case against the makers of “Bad Spaniels,” a dog chew toy that mimics a bottle of Jack Daniel’s whiskey. The dog toy made by VIP Products LLC parodies Jack Daniel’s famous bottle, replacing “Old No. 7” and […]
Supreme Court to Consider Landmark Affirmative Action Cases
When the U.S. Supreme Court begins its new time period up coming month, the justices will listen to two potential landmark cases involving affirmative action. Each situations, College students for Fair Admissions v. President & Fellows of Harvard Faculty and College students for Truthful Admissions v. College of North Carolina, […]
Promoting Court Appearance & Improving Responses to Non-Appearances – North Carolina Criminal LawNorth Carolina Criminal Law
On Oct 28, 2022, from 12:30pm to 2pm, the UNC Faculty of Authorities Criminal Justice Innovation Lab will host a Free webinar, Courtroom Physical appearance Matters: Marketing Justice & Effectiveness by Addressing the Issue of Missed Courtroom Dates. Missed appearances lead to process-broad inefficiencies and case backlogs, use additional regulation […]
Judge Heela Capell tells Women’s Bar what it’s like in Housing Court right now
Hon. Heela Capell was this month’s guest speaker at the Brooklyn Women’s Bar Association’s regular Lunch with a Judge event. She talked about her career, how it led her to become a judge, and what Brooklyn’s first in-person trials are like. Screenshots via Zoom As a judge in the Kings […]
Tribe’s Supreme Court Win Roils Justice System in Oklahoma
When police officers found the bodies of two children inside a hot pickup truck in Tulsa, Oklahoma, blame quickly fell on their father. Dustin Lee Dennis was supposed to be watching the 3- and 4-year old; instead, he slept the June afternoon away while they climbed into the truck, prosecutors […]
Legal Insider: Supreme Court Rules that Sexual Orientation Discrimination is Illegal
This is a sponsored column by attorneys John Berry and Kimberly Berry of Berry & Berry, PLLC, an employment and labor law firm located in Northern Virginia that specializes in federal employee, security clearance, retirement and private sector employee matters. By John V. Berry, Esq. The U.S. Supreme Court, on June […]