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What Has Been the US' Legislation Response to Gun Violence Over the Last 10 Years?

13th November 2017
Post-Pulse, post-Las Vegas, there was a flurry of gun legislation. Where does it stand? What happened with the bump stock legislation?
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What Would Happen If the US Applied a Gun Amnesty?

1st November 2017
After Stephen Paddock killed 58 people in Las Vegas and wounded more than 400, another unfortunate mass shooting in the US has yet again brought the ever-important point to moot: if there needs to be tighter gun control laws imposed in the US, and what could be done. And even though homicide rates have massively […]
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Allen & Overy and Linklaters Advise China on its First US$ Sovereign Bond Since 2004

30th October 2017
Allen & Overy has advised the joint lead managers and joint bookrunners in connection with the offering of USD2 billion sovereign bonds by the Ministry of Finance of the People’s Republic of China. This is the first foreign currency bond offering by the Ministry of Finance since 2004. The USD2 billion sovereign bond issue consisted […]
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Apple Vs Samsung Patent Retrial on the Cards

25th October 2017
Around ten months back, the US Supreme Court concluded that a previous ruling in favour of Apple was unjust and sent the case back to District Court. Now just last weekend, a District Court judge in California wrote in a retrial for the Apple Vs Samsung case surrounding three iPhone 3G patents. The retrial date […]
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The US Alice Decision’s Positive Impact for UK Patent Litigators

24th October 2017
Following the recent expiration of Amazon’s infamous 1-Click US patent coupled with the Federal Circuit’s remarkable ruling in Visual Memory, Nick Shipp, Partner at Kilburn & Strode, explains the need for more stricter specifications and how these decisions affect patent law in Europe. The recent decision in Visual Memory LLC v NVIDIA Corp. (Visual Memory) […]
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Player to Sue the Whole of NFL Over Collusion

17th October 2017
US quarterback and former San Francisco 49ers player Colin Kaepernick is taking legal action against the entirety of the NFL’s team owners on grounds of collusion. According to Mike Freeman of Bleacher Report, Kaepernick has hired an attorney and will claim NFL league team proprietors have colluded to keep him unemployed and out of the […]
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NRA Happy to Restrict Bump-Stocks but Opposes a US Ban

10th October 2017
Over the weekend, big time gun lobbyists, the National Rifle Association said they would oppose an outright bump-stock ban. A bump-stock is a device that enables rifles automatic firing, such as we saw in the recent Las Vegas massacre, where 58 people died. According to police, Stephen Paddock, 64, fitted 12 of his weapons with […]
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