Cannabis use disorder is increasing among young adults and can cause psychological distress.
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Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., has issued his 2021 Year-End Report on the Federal Judiciary.
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In the recent OOR determination in the matter of Zaid v. Upland Borough, OOR Dkt. AP 2021-2961 (Dec. 29, 2021), an appeal was rejected as premature in light of not taking into account the days that the government agency was closed due to the Christmas holiday. Thus, the agency’s 5-day period to respond had not expired at the time of the appeal. But the decision allowed for a new appeal to be filed at the appropriate time.
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The first Black woman to clerk on the Supreme Court. Two trailblazing civil-rights litigators. The unofficial barber of the justices. The woman who argued Roe v. Wade just a few years out of law school.
These were among the lives lost in 2021.
As we did last year, SCOTUSblog looks back and remembers some of the people who died this year and whose lives and work brought them to the highest court in the nation. Some were lawyers. Some … Read the rest
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Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. To suggest a piece for us to consider, email us at roundup@scotusblog.com.
Here’s the Wednesday morning read:
- The Supreme Court has upheld state and local vaccine mandates. That may not save Biden’s. (Tierney Sneed, CNN)
- The year Supreme Court conservatives made their mark (Ariane de Vogue, CNN)
- The Return, Abortion, Guns, and Breyer: Supreme Court in 2021 (Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson
On December 18, 2021, regulations implementing the Trademark Modernization Act of 2020 went into effect. According to the USPTO’s website, the changes provide individuals, businesses, and the USPTO with “new tools to clear away unused registered trademarks from the federal trademark register” and give the USPTO “the ability to move applications through the registration process more efficiently.”
Summaries of the new procedures and the changes to existing procedures are located on the USPTO’s website, and we previously blogged about them … Read the rest
CDC sends an urgent message to the American people about getting vaccinated.
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Gabe Roth, the executive director of Fix the Court, discusses the Biden court commission’s final report and why he believes term limits are the superior court reform.
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