The Center has ordered setting up a committee that will review whether existing antitrust laws in the country are equipped to deal with the challenges that have emerged from the digital economy, and submit to the government a draft Digital Competition Act within three months. The move comes amid increased regulatory antitrust-related scrutiny over big tech companies like Google, which last year was fined by the Competition Commission of India in two separate instances for allegedly abusing its market dominance in the Android mobile device ecosystem, and the app store market . Apart from that, a Parliamentary panel has, in a report released last year, also proposed to frame ‘ex-ante’ regulations to curb the market dominance of large tech companies.…
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Activision fell on concern that the UK may oppose the Microsoft deal
Rich Polk/Getty Images Entertainment Update 7:50pm: Updates shares, adds Microsoft comment to NYT on UK antitrust review. Activision (NASDAQ:ATVI) fell almost 5% on a report that Microsoft’s legal team (NASDAQ:MSFT) is said to expect that the UK’s antitrust authority may oppose its $69 billion videogame megadeal, according to a New York Times reports on Saturday, which cited four people familiar with the matter. The NYT updated its story later on Monday to include that Microsoft (MSFT) said it believes it has a strong case in the UK and it has not “predetermined,” nor been advised by its lawyers that the merger will be blocked.…
Man shot by Indianapolis police in grandmother’s driveway files legal demand
The city of Indianapolis and its police department have been sent a legal demand for financial compensation by a man who says officers shot him multiple times at the same time they were asking him to put his hands up. Anthony Maclin was hit three times by gunfire from Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers while he was in a rental car outside his grandmother’s house early in the morning of Dec. 31. He had a gun on his lap, but his attorneys say body camera footage from the shooting never shows Maclin with the gun in his hand. more:Indy police shoot home owner’s grandson in parked car with gun next to him “The officers had no justification whatsoever to use deadly force on Anthony,” Maclin’s attorneys wrote in a tort claim sent to the city Monday.…
Law Society Introduces “Strategic Priorities”
The New Zealand Law Society has announced its moves to adapt to the rapidly changing legal marketplace by working on ‘strategic priorities’. A news release from the Society (published below) shows that the Society is developing a “fit-for-future” role as the profession’s regulator after a tumultuous time both within the profession and within the NZ Law Society itself, following the resignation of both the former recently appointed Chief Executive Joanna Simon and the resigning of the elected president Jacqui Lethbridge. Among the strategic changes being made by the Society include changes to the Conduct and Client Care Rules, which include mandatory reporting of bullying, harassment and discrimination.…
Bipartisan Bill Introduced by Senate relating to Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2020
On August 2, 2022, Senators Bob Menendez (D-New Jersey) and Marco Rubio (R-Florida) introduced the Sanctioning Supporters of Slave Labor Act, legislation that would expand the categories of persons that could be sanctioned under the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act of 2020 (UHRPA). Rep. Jim Banks (R-Indiana) filed a companion in the House of Representatives. Currently, UHRPA imposes sanctions on certain entities and individuals named by the President as allegedly having committed certain human rights violations in Xinjiang. The bill would expand the scope of this reporting requirement to include “every foreign person who knowingly provides significant goods, services, or technology to or for a person identified in such a report; and each foreign person that knowingly engages in a significant transaction relating to any of the acts described” in UHRPA.…
Opinion: How can we move forward, now that the divisive Bill C-18 is law
Taylor Owen is the Beaverbrook Chair in media, ethics and communications and the director of the Center for Media, Technology and Democracy at McGill University. Supriya Dwivedi is the director of policy and engagement at the Center for Media, Technology and Democracy. Ever since the passage of Bill C-18, the Online News Act, both the Canadian government and the companies it is seeking to regulate – Meta and Google – have backed themselves into respective corners. The government pushed forward with the controversial bill, hoping that Google and Meta would expand the deals they currently have with some Canadian publishers to a wider range of outlets.…
Playbook PM: A busy day for legal news in Trump world
Judge Aileen Cannon’s new timeline for the classified documents case is a blow to Donald Trump, whose legal team requested the court push the trial until after the 2024 presidential election. | Carmen Mandato/Getty Images MARK YOUR CALENDARS — Federal judge AILEEN CANNON has set the court date for former President DONALD TRUMP’s trial for allegedly mishandling classified documents: May 20, 2024 in Fort Pierce, Fla. More from Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney The case was initially scheduled for mid-August of this year. Cannon noted in her filing that she wanted the trial date moved because “the interests of justice served by this continuance outweigh the best interests of the public and Defendants in a speedy trial.”…
The legitimacy of ‘customer’ in the Supreme Court gay rights case raises ethical and legal flags
A Christian graphic artist who the Supreme Court said could refuse to make wedding websites for gay couples pointed during her lawsuit to a request from a man named “Stewart” and his husband-to-be. The twists? Stewart says it never happened. The revelation has raised questions about how Lorie Smith’s case was allowed to proceed all the way to the nation’s highest court with such an apparent misrepresentation and whether the state of Colorado, which lost the case last week, has any legal recourse. It has served as another distraction at the end of a highly polarizing term for a Supreme Court marked by ethical questions and contentious rulings along ideological lines that rejected affirmative action in higher education and President Joe Biden’s $400 billion plan to cancel or reduce federal student loan debts .…