NH Supreme Court Holds Waiver Granted to Different Project Five Years Earlier Did Not Apply to Subsequent Application for Elderly Housing Facility

This post was authored by Tracy Feldman, Jacob D. Fuchsberg Touro Law Center Property owners, who are seeking to construct an elderly housing facility, appealed from a denial of a requested waiver of density requirements set forth in the zoning ordinance. The requested waiver had been denied, first by the town planning board and then […]

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Government priorities

World Health Organization WHO AFib History is not currently approved and/or available in all regions. AFib History is available on Apple Watch Series 4 and later, including Apple Watch SE, and requires the latest version of watchOS and iOS. Sleeping Respiratory Rate feature measurements are not intended for medical use, including self-diagnosis or consultation with […]

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In UVA shooting, Virginia attorney general to appoint special counsel

The office of Virginia’s state attorney general said Thursday that it will name a special counsel to review how University of Virginia officials assessed the potential threat that Christopher Darnell Jones Jr. posed to the campus in the weeks before he was allegedly shot and killed three of his fellow students. At the same time, […]

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FTX Lawyers Accuse Bankman-Fried of Undermining Bankruptcy

(Bloomberg) — Embedded cryptocurrency mogul Sam Bankman-Fried is undermining efforts to reorganize his crumbling empire with “incessant and disruptive tweeting” that appears aimed at moving assets away from the control of a US court in favor of one in the Bahamas, US lawyers for the bankrupt crypto platform FTX said in a court filing. Most […]

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Yale and Harvard law schools part way with US News & World Report best law school rankings

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut — Yale and Harvard law schools, two of the premier law schools in the country, have each held a spot on the US News & World Report’s list of best law schools for decades. Now, the schools are bowing out. Every year, US News releases a list of the country’s best colleges, […]

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TX Appeals Court Holds Property Owners Were Entitle to Written Notice of Proposed Changes to the Land Development Code Under State Statute

This post was authored by Victor Gesuele of Touro University Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center The City of Austin commenced a thorough revision of its land development code (LDC). A public hearing was held on October 26, 2019, by the city’s “zoning commission, named planning commission.” Notice of the hearing was published in a local […]

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New details in scandal and fraud at Tom Girardi’s law firm

Tom Girardi at trial in 2014. (Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times) A filing in federal court in Maryland on Wednesday offered new details about how Tom Girardi’s chief financial officer conducted what prosecutors have called a “side fraud” inside the massive corruption at the legal titan’s Los Angeles-based firm. In an affidavit justifying the arrest of […]

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Ally and the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation announce the 2022 Ally Legal and Public Policy Scholars

Published: Nov. 17, 2022 at 9:00 AM CST|Updated: 4 hours ago Scholarship and mentorship program aimed at enhancing career pathways for Black students pursuing legal and public policy degrees CHARLOTTE, NC, Nov. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Ally Financial Inc. (NYSE: ALLY) and The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Inc. (CBCF) today announced the 2022 cohort of […]

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Dior Did Not SADDLE on Distinctive Character of Its Iconic Bag

Another unfavorable decision on non-traditional trade marks has landed, now in relation to Dior’s iconic Saddle bag. The EUIPO’s Second Board of Appeal decided that Dior’s Saddle bag is not distinctive with respect to handbags. The decision is seen as surprising yet not unpredictable, given the recent history of unsuccessful trade mark applications for 3D […]

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Companies That Use Noncompetites Face Increased Risk of Government Action Following FTC’s Unilateral Expansion of its Enforcement Powers

Maybe we were wrong. Or perhaps we were just not thinking creatively enough. After President Biden issued his “Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy,” in which he “encourage[d]” the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to “consider” exercising its statutory rulemaking authority “to curtail the unfair use of non-compete clauses and other clauses or […]

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