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Today, the California Supreme Court took a page from Justice Sotomayor's concurrence in Viking River Cruises v. Moriana by holding that an aggrieved employee does not lose standing to pursue...

  The Korea Herald republishes a weekly legislative report by local law firm DR & AJU LLC to provide the latest information on bills approved, proposed, pending and set to be promulgated. -- Ed.   Proposed bill: Partial Amendment to the Act on the Promotion of Mutually Beneficial Cooperation Between Large Enterprises and Small and Medium Enterprises Proposed by Rep. Lee Dong-ju (Democratic Party of Kore...

South Korea traditionally counted newborns as one-year old but Yoon Suk Yeol-led government introduced the new rule.

In Korea, it has traditionally been the case that a person is considered to be one year old when he or she is born, counting the time spent as a fetus in his or her mother’s womb as the first year of life. A person ages one year at the turn of the calendar year, instead of on his or her birthday. For instance, if a person is born on Dec. 30, 2023, he or she is a year old. Two days later, on Jan. 1, 2024, they w...

Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa says Africa and Zimbabwe can develop using their own resources and outsiders should only come in to support. Writing in his column in the Sunday Mail, Mnangagwa listed five things that need to be done for Africa to be its own master and rejected the notion that Africa was a new

Rick Morain: Under Democratic and Republican administrations, Senator Grassley has been committed to protecting inspectors general.

The Madras High Court has observed that the Essential Commodities Act ,1955, is one of the "primary reasons of the very existence of our democracy" and that both central and state governments are...

Legislation is currently before the legislature to tweak the wording of the Act

As we reported (here), on June 15, 2022, a near unanimous U.S. Supreme Court held that the Federal Arbitration Act ("FAA") preempted the California Supreme Court's controversial decision in Iskanian v. CLS Transportation Los Angeles, LLC, 59 Cal. 4th 348 (2014).

The office of the federal auditor general says it will not investigate private donations received by the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, despite a letter from the board's chair requesting an audit.