Changes may be coming to the “de minimis” exception under Section 321 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, which allows goods valued less than $800 to enter the United States free of duty and taxes, and generally free from formal review, when shipped to individual consumers.

Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Representatives Neal Dunn (R-FL) and Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) introduced the Import Security and Fairness Act (“the Act”) on June 15, 2023, the most recent of several legislative efforts proposing changes to the “de minimis” threshold. The Act would make goods sourced from perceived

The Canadian government is working to pare back the law that has driven Meta Platforms, Google and other tech companies to threaten to cut news links out of their feeds rather than share revenue with publishers.

The Online News Act, which is slated to take effect in less than six months, requires that digital platforms reach deals with Canadian news outlets to share revenue for their content. Google and Meta, the respective parents of Facebook and Instagram, lobbied against the law, and have pledged to block Canadian news rather than pay up.

But after months of appearing steadfast in enforcing

Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles on Wednesday announced a list of types of driver’s licenses from Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Rhode Island and Vermont that are invalid in Florida under a new law targeting undocumented immigrants.

The prohibited licenses mostly offer limited driving privileges to undocumented immigrants while not being considered valid identification.

The Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles said on its website that the list “unavoidably is evolving, may change due to the revision of driver license issuance requirements in other states, and will be updated periodically.”

‘Destructive’: Central Florida

Hearings in the Supreme Court are now shown live on the Court’s website.

On Wednesday 5^th July the Court will hand-down judgment in R (on the application of Officer W80) v Director General of the Independent Office for Police Conduct and others [2023] UKSC 24. The Court will determine whether, in the context of police misconduct proceedings, it is open to a reasonable disciplinary panel to make a finding of misconduct if an officer’s honest, but mistaken, belief that his life was threatened was found to be unreasonable . The hand-down will begin at 9:45am in Courtroom 1.

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CALL FOR PAPERS

ILPC Annual Conference 2023 – Human in the Machine: Digital Rights and AI

We are pleased to announce this call for papers for the Information Law and Policy Centre’s 8^th Annual Conference on 23-24 November 2023 hosted by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) and supported by the School of Advanced Studies (SAS) and Bloomsbury’s Communications Law. You can read about our previous annual events here.

We are looking for high quality contributions that explore the impact of policymaking on human-data interaction, automated and self-learning systems, including generative AI, that are used across

The ILPC is honored to announce that Robert Spanoformer President of the European Court of Human Rights, will deliver the ILPC Annual Lecture 2023.

Mr Spano is a Partner in the London office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Oxford and a tenured Professor of Law, University of Iceland. Mr Spano is an Honorary Bencher of the Middle Temple and has published extensively in the areas of international dispute resolution, public international law, digital rights, and human rights law. During his time at the Strasbourg Court, he took

INVESTIGATION REMINDER: The Schall Law Firm Announces it is Investigating Claims Against Prudential plc and Encourages Investors with Losses to Contact the Firm

The Schall Law Firm, a national shareholder rights litigation firm, announced that it is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Prudential plc (“Prudential” or “the Company”) (NYSE: PUK, OTC: PUKPF) for violations of the securities laws .

The investigation focuses on whether the Company issued false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose information pertinent to investors. Prudential disclosed on May 31, 2023, that Chief Financial Officer James Turner had resigned during a probe of a

Hearings in the Supreme Court are now shown live on the Court’s website.

On Wednesday 7^th june the Court will hand-down judgment in London Borough of Merton Council v Nuffield Health [2023] UKSC 18. Section 43(5) and (6)(a) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 provides for a mandatory 80% relief from non-domestic rates on premises which are occupied by a charity and used wholly or mainly for charitable purposes . The Supreme Court will determine whether Nuffield Health is entitled to this mandatory relief in respect of its occupation of its members-only gym at Merton Abbey. The hand-down