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Column on Loeffler violated newspaper policy
A letter to the editor criticizing Editorial Page Editor Adam Van Brimmer for his column on then U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler astutely pointed out the piece violated the newspaper s stance on political candidate endorsements. Van Brimmer s piece called Loeffler a poor candidate and said nothing of her opponent, Raphael Warnock, who didn t even know what a senator did.
I think there are times when one has to analyze the ramification of their vote, be the candidate a Republican or Democrat the worst or best. How did this vote affect the country? This time it meant whether we were going to have one party in power or two. Had Loeffler or David Perdue won their races, the Republicans would have held onto the Senate majority.
ABA webinar explores how the tax system plays favorites Share:
In the webinar â#BlackTaxpayersMatter: Intersection of Race, Tax Systems, Laws and Enforcement,â tax experts discussed institutional racism in the tax system. They gave a historical overview of racism in international and domestic tax systems and how the systems target Black and Latinx taxpayers.
âWe donât know who is paying taxes by race,â says Donnie Charleston, director of Public Policy & Advocacy for E Pluribus Unum. âIt makes no sense, from the standpoint of this is the most important thing we do as citizens, but we donât have any insider data with respect to race and the tax code.â
Thursday, January 7, 2021
On Jan. 1, 2021, the U.S. Senate joined the House in voting to override President Trump’s veto of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2021 (NDAA), which includes several new anti-money laundering (AML) provisions that may be of keen interest to dealers and other participants in the art and antiquities markets. The legislation comes on the heels of a lengthy report issued by the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigation in mid-2020, entitled
In this post, blog host Kevin Ray, past co-chair of the American Bar Association Section of International Law Art & Cultural Heritage Law Committee, discusses the implications of these developments with fellow Greenberg Traurig shareholder Kyle R. Freeny, a former Department of Justice (DOJ) money laundering prosecutor who focuses her practice on helping businesses faced with government enforcement inquiries and complex AML issues.
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IP Ethics Atty Urges Justices To Take Up Standards Case
Law360 (January 5, 2021, 8:37 PM EST) The chairman of an American Bar Association ethics committee for intellectual property lawyers has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to take up the question of whether an invalidity issue should be reviewed under an abuse of discretion standard or a de novo one.
Michael E. McCabe Jr., who chairs the American Bar Association Section of Intellectual Property Law s ethics and professional responsibility committee, filed an amicus brief Monday in support of GS CleanTech Corp. s petition for the high court s review of the Federal Circuit s decision affirming that its patents were invalid under the on-sale bar, which prohibits an invention from being patented.
What to expect on the religious scene in 2021: Experts cast their sights on the year ahead
We asked scholars, faith leaders, activists and other experts to reflect on some of the issues they’ve seen on the religious landscape and what they anticipate for 2021. Photo by Drew Beamer/Unsplash/Creative Commons
December 31, 2020
(RNS) This past year upended U.S. religious life in ways no one could have predicted and in some ways many have.
A devastating coronavirus pandemic led to countless deaths, a shift to online services and, in some quarters, a mostly partisan-driven defiance of public health restrictions.
It was also a year filled with large-scale racial unrest after the deaths of several unarmed Black people, leading to a renewed reckoning with the legacy of white supremacy in American Christianity.