A Human Rights Watch (HRW) report published on Thursday stated that the President of the European Union (EU) Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, overlooked the EU’s founding principles and guidelines on human rights in the mission letters she wrote to the European commissioners for the new mandate of 2024 to 2029. The report found that…
A Codex committee has made progress on guidelines for preventing and controlling food fraud. The draft guidance has been sent to the Codex Alimentarius Commission for adoption, which will meet in Switzerland in November. The United States chaired the electronic working group. It will also lead a group dealing with outstanding issues and comments, especially…
On September 17th, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) issued a proposed rule entitled “Recordkeeping for Custodial Accounts” with comments due sixty days from the date of publication in the Federal Register (it has not yet been published). The rule impacts a variety of custodial accounts and has the potential to significantly impact prepaid cards,…
Litigation continues to serve as much of the legal profession’s bread and butter, with demand trending up for all but the Am Law 50. Despite the fact that this practice area is moving away from the top firms, clients still want the very best when it comes to the quality of work on their litigation…
Left: Valeria Hamilton (Detroit Police Department). Center: Ethan Belcher (obituary). Right: Shane Shelton (Detroit Police Department). A Detroit, Michigan, mother and stepfather were found guilty this week of torturing and murdering a 5-year-old boy and beating his 3-year-old brother after damning texts and horrific evidence of the abuse made jurors cry on a daily basis….
Amnesty International called on Cameroonian authorities on Thursday to immediately release three supporters of a youth organization—Moustapha Tizi, Mohamadou Ballo, and Ibrahim Oumarou—and their relatives. Tizi, Ballo, and Oumarou were allegedly arrested on September 9 in Figuil, Cameroon for wearing shirts with the name of the organization they supported “Pouvoir au Peuple Camerounais” (PPC) on…
The number of confirmed patients in an outbreak of infections from the Cyclospora parasite continues to increase, with 60 people now sick. A source of the parasites has not yet been found. The Food and Drug Administration first reported the outbreak on Aug. 7 and the patient count has steadily increased. The agency has begun…
This year, our DLA Piper Tech Index is global, and captures the views of an even wider cross section of organizations working in the technology space. The report itself contains fascinating and granular findings on a range of important topics, and we consider here the key points relevant for CGFR organizations – a sector well-known…
(Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images… with slight edit) Backing the Blue is more than just a rallying cry to support the police — it is an ethos that retroactively makes right any previous wrongs. Reports say that people don’t respect officers as much as they used to? Back the Blue. Studies show that the police…
Left: Jarvis Butts (Michigan Sex Offender Registry). Right: Na’Ziyah Harris (Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office). Michigan authorities on Thursday announced the arrest of a 41-year-old man who they say murdered a 13-year-old girl after learning he impregnated her with his child. Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said her office charged Jarvis Butts with first-degree murder, criminal…
