Interesting
summary. Can't wait for the memo.
In
response to consolidated lawsuits filed by the ACLU and The New York
Times, the Second Circuit recently ordered the Obama administration
to disclose (with redactions) one of the legal memos authorizing the
government’s premeditated killing of Anwar al-Aulaqi, an American
citizen. The government has challenged certain aspects of the
court’s decision, apparently with some degree of success (more on
that below), and it has managed to defer the release of the memo by
two months. To its credit, though, the court appears unwilling to
allow the government to delay the release of the memo indefinitely.
If the court holds to a plan it set forth ten days ago, it will
publish the memo itself this coming week.
…
It seems likely that the
court will publish, as early as Monday, a redacted version
of the Barron memo, a revised version of its April ruling, and an
opinion relating to the government’s petition for rehearing.
“We
thought that laws only applied to the second class citizens we
pretend to serve...” Or perhaps the law is too new and Congress
needs a few more decades to adjust (before repealing the law)
SEC
sues for congressional papers in insider trading probe
The
Securities and Exchange Commission has filed a lawsuit in New York
seeking to compel the House Ways and Means Committee and a top House
health care aide to turn over documents in an insider trading probe,
a development that could begin a power struggle between two branches
of government.
U.S.
District Judge Paul Gardephe in Manhattan on Friday ordered the
committee and staffer Brian Sutter, a possible source of the leak,
according to the SEC, to appear before him July 1. He said the
committee must show why it should not be ordered to produce documents
demanded by the SEC in May.
The
SEC sought the subpoenas in an investigation testing the limits of
federal insider-trading laws on whether the committee or staff
members illegally passed on nonpublic information about a change in
health-care policy. In seeking compliance with the subpoena demand,
the SEC cited a 2012 law
that requires public officials to keep confidential any nonpublic
information about government matters that could move stock prices.
The
regulator is investigating a spike in trading of health insurance
companies, including Humana Inc., ahead of a government announcement
last year that increased, rather than cut, payments to health
insurers.
Anything
new here? I don't see it.
Justices
limit patents on software technology
The
justices on Thursday ruled unanimously against an Australian company
that sought exclusive intellectual property rights for INVENTCO, a
computerized system for creating and exchanging financial instruments
such as derivatives.
The
court concluded Alice Corp.'s idea would "add nothing of
substance to the underlying abstract idea," since that
idea had been longstanding, and merely programmed for use on a
computer.
…
The legal dispute prompted a range of interested parties to file
"amicus" or supporting briefs to the high court, including
Facebook, IBM and Google.
…
The case decided Thursday is Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International
(13-298).
This
could be useful.
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Create interactive video experiences that engage learners. Create a
Zaption tour from your own video library, or from clips on YouTube.
Add response elements throughout your tour, including multiple-choice
questions, continuous polls, discussions, and more. Then publish it.
This
should scare anyone considering law school.
–
The Legislative Branch and the Executive Branch of the United States
are two large and complex systems which make up the US Government.
the legislative side, Congress and the Senate have numerous
committees. Legislative Explorer tries to make sense of it all.
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