It s being reported today that in an unusual joint effort, Apple Inc and its frequent court opponent, patent plaintiff (and patent troll) Uniloc, persuaded a U.S. appeals court on Wednesday to keep their patent licensing deal secret
Sunday December 13, 2020 - 10:24:00 AM In 2012, then President Barack Obama by Executive Order the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA often called “Dreamers”), giving young unauthorized immigrants the right to seek work permits and deportation relief through the DACA program. On September 5, 2017, with a stroke of a pen, Trump phased out over six months unless Congress stepped in with its own plan for these childhood arrivals, but gave the Republican-controlled Congress until March 6, 2018 to replace it. Trump promised to sign the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act (Dream Act) that would have granted legal status to certain undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children and went to school here.
Focus The New York Times – December 9
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) this Wednesday completed a rule that could weaken federal authority to issue clean air and climate change regulations by changing the way the costs of pollution and benefits of pollution control are measured. Under the new rule, EPA economists would be required to calculate and disclose in the rulemaking process the value of benefits to public health that directly stem from a new environmental regulation separately from the value of ancillary benefits, or “co-benefits,” such as the reduction of additional pollutants not directly governed by the regulation. Industry supporters of the new rule applauded it for promoting transparency. Critics argue that breaking out co-benefits in the cost-benefit calculation would give opponents of future rules an argument, unwarranted by the Clean Air Act, to challenge future emissions limitations. The new cost-benefit rule is not expected to survive the inco