Some U.S. far-right groups are warning members to avoid the armed rallies planned before President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, alleging that the federa
As President-elect Joe Biden enters office with a Democrat-controlled Congress by his side, immigration rights advocates are calling on his administration to shift resources out of the country’s sprawling immigration enforcement system and into community services. But with billions of taxpayer dollars already earmarked for detention and deportation, and powerful political and corporate interests aligned to continue operations, Biden will face hurdles to making transformative changes, experts and advocates told Capital & Main.
Biden has already promised that “tackling our dysfunctional immigration system is among his high priorities,” according to one of his top advisers. The big question will be whether Biden is as willing as his predecessor to use his far-reaching presidential powers. “The previous administration decided that it didn’t really care about the courts or the Administrative Procedure Act or the press reaction,” said Katherine Hawkins, a senior legal analyst
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Berger Singerman Bolsters International Transaction Practice With Addition of David Camhi and Daniel Hudson
January 15, 2021 GMT
MIAMI - January 15, 2021 - ( Newswire.com )
Berger Singerman, Florida’s business law firm, is pleased to announce that David Camhi and Daniel W. Hudson have joined the firm as partners on the Business, Finance & Tax Team. They bring decades of experience to the firm’s thriving International & Cross Border Transactions practice, which assists clients with both inbound and outbound activities and transactions and provides counsel for foreign clients in planning and implementing their commercial activities in the United States.
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Trump leaves ‘banana peel’ for Biden climate team Source: By Jean Chemnick, E&E News reporter • Posted: Wednesday, January 13, 2021
EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler released a rule on industrial carbon emissions this week. Francis Chung/E&E News
Two years ago, EPA officials proposed relaxing Obama-era carbon regulations on new power plants after arguing that the rules relied on unready technology and would cripple the coal-fired power industry.
Then in a surprise move yesterday, the agency posted a final rule that does nothing to change those regulations.
Instead it doubles down on an issue that was raised only in a footnote in the December 2018 proposal: whether EPA should create a new metric for which industrial sectors contribute to climate change enough to trigger regulation.
07-12-2020
The exponential growth in trademarks and patents filed in the US from China may be partially fuelled by subsidies by the Chinese government, according to a new report released by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
The USPTO stated that the growing number of suspect trademark applications filed in the US from China prompted the office to study the reasons for this development
According to IP data firm Clarivate, the office filed more than 700,000 classes in 2020, compared to 673,233 in 2019. Chinese applicants accounted for 30% of all US trademark applications; in September this soared to 43%.
In 2019, authorities in China received 7.8 million trademark applications and