JAKARTA, March 21 (Reuters) – Indonesia’s parliament on Tuesday passed into law an emergency decree on jobs and investment, eliminating legal uncertainty hanging over measures by President Joko Widodo has pushed to spur investment in Southeast Asia’s largest economy. The new law replaces the 2020 Jobs Creation law, which was criticized by foreign investors for […]
Continue ReadingLOS ANGELES — A federal judge on Monday blocked key provisions of a California law that drastically restricted the sale of new handguns in the state, saying parts of the legislation violated the Second Amendment. A lawsuit challenging the law was filed last year by the California Rifle & Pistol Association and other gun rights […]
Continue ReadingPhoto Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Reuters/Getty As Donald Trump prepares for an indictment that could come any minute now, one of his top lawyers is apparently trying to use another case to siphon information about every possible pending investigation into the former president—including ones that Trump might not even know about yet. That covert […]
Continue ReadingPresident Volodymyr Zelenskyy has signed Law No. 8381 on introducing transparency in defense procurement. Source: Bill on the website of the Verkhovna Rada Details: It is reported that the document was returned with the President’s signature on it on 21 March. backgrounds: On 24 February, the Verkhovna Rada approved bill No. 8381 On Amendments to […]
Continue ReadingThe Board sent shockwaves through employment law in its February 21, 2023, decision in Mclaren Macombwhich held that simply offers a draft settlement agreement with broad confidentiality and non-disparagement provisions violated the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”). We previously blogged about the mclaren decision and encourage you to read that post for a summary of […]
Continue ReadingOn appeal from: [2021] CSHI 29 This appeal concerns whether the appellant (trading as Moulsdale Properties) should have charged value added tax (“VAT”) on the sale price of a property which he sold to a purchaser who had no connection to him in September 2014. Sales of land and buildings are generally exempt from VAT […]
Continue ReadingSigns from Kansans for Life are held by young anti-abortion activists in front of a statue of Abraham Lincoln during January’s March for Life event at the Kansas Statehouse. Kansans for Life and other anti-abortion groups are pushing to redefine abortion under state law. A proposed new legal definition of “abortion” in Kansas pushed by […]
Continue ReadingPeople walk near the Google offices on July 04, 2022 in New York City. John Smith | View Press | Getty Images Google’s parent company, Alphabetshas stacked its legal team with former Department of Justice employees as it fights two separate antitrust lawsuits from the agency, public profiles show. Former DOJ employees make up both […]
Continue ReadingNEW YORK — Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is standing firm against Donald Trump’s increasingly hostile rhetoric, telling his staff that the office won’t be intimidated or deterred as it nears a decision on charging the former president. Bragg sent an internal memo late Saturday, hours after Trump unleashed a three-part, all-caps social media post […]
Continue ReadingJAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s parliament on Tuesday passed into law an emergency decree on jobs and investment, eliminating legal uncertainty hanging over measures championed by President Joko Widodo to spur business sentiment in Southeast Asia’s largest economy. The decree was tabled in December 2022 to replace an almost identical 2020 law that the Constitutional Court […]
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