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Thursday, September 28, 2023

Injured contractor finds no award in ruling spanning worker comp, premises liability, conflict of law

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Roof collapsed by snow (illustrative; not this case). Richard Allaway via Flickr CC BY 2.0 A worker hired to remedy a dangerous property co...
Tuesday, September 26, 2023

Per 'modern ethical standards,' Mass. museum surrenders $5m bronze for repatriation to Turkey

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Portrait of  Lady ( AD 160-180) Public domain/Daderot via Wikimedia Commons A story of art crime touched Massachusetts early in September, ...
Monday, September 25, 2023

Armenia, Azerbaijan maintain tentative ceasefire

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Yerevan, Armenia: Opera House at center. RJ Peltz-Steele CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 At the time of this writing, an uneasy but long sought peace is hol...
Monday, September 18, 2023

War rages in Sudan; lives lost top 14,000 in North Africa

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The sad news just keeps coming from the African continent: this morning, heartbreaking images of Khartoum's Greater Nile Petroleum (GNP)...
Saturday, September 16, 2023

Patents 'sound less NASA and more Starfleet,' attorney says; is sci-fi's 'anti-gravity' already in the works?

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Artist conception of Gravity Probe B and space-time. NASA Universe via Flickr CC BY 2.0 A number of U.S. patent filings over the last decad...
Friday, September 15, 2023

£5.41m reg fine over energy traders' WhatsApps cautions attorneys also on retention, spoliation, FOI

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Electrical pylons on the Leeds-Liverpool Canal, England. Mr T via Geograph CC BY-SA 2.0 The British gas and electric regulatory authority (...
Thursday, September 14, 2023

U.S. Soccer, FIFA lose antitrust appeal; defense shows short-sighted strategy to develop soccer in America

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Cristiano Ronaldo plays for Real Madrid against Barcelona in 2011. Jan S0L0 via Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0 U.S. Soccer and the Fédération Internat...
Wednesday, September 13, 2023

Big Ag plays Goliath in film about GMO-seed litigation

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A worthwhile movie you might have missed during the pandemic is Percy vs. Goliath (2020), starring Christopher Walken and Zach Braff, invol...
Tuesday, September 12, 2023

'Fisk' is the civil-practice lawyer you've been looking for

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If you're looking to fill that Netflix queue as the writers' strike drags on, check out the Australian sitcom, Fisk . When I put tog...
Monday, September 11, 2023

Gladstone, Doctorow game out tech reg quagmire

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Cory Doctorow Houari B. via Flickr CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 On the Media 's Brooke Gladstone talked to Cory Doctorow, author, internet activist,...