Category «Government Documents»

G.O.P. Bills Rattle Disabled Voters: ‘We Don’t Have a Voice Anymore’

The New York Times:  “Legislation across the country would restrict voting methods and accommodations that people with disabilities are disproportionately likely to rely on… For years, advocates have worked to mobilize Americans with disabilities — more than 38 million of whom are eligible to vote, according to researchers at Rutgers University — into a voting …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Congress, Government Documents, Legal Research, Legislation

DOJ requested data on 73 phone numbers and 36 email addresses from Apple

CNN – “The Department of Justice sent a broad request in February 2018 to Apple as part of its investigation that collected data on members of Congress, staffers and their families. The department demanded metadata on 73 phone numbers and 36 email addresses from Apple, the company said Friday evening. Apple received the subpoena from …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Courts, E-Records, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research, Privacy

Private Sector Implications of Biden’s Executive Order on Climate-Related Financial Risk

Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance: “The Biden Executive Order on Climate-Related Financial Risk (the Executive Order) is the latest significant step by the Administration to analyze and mitigate the risks that climate change poses to the U.S. economy, businesses, workers and the financial system. [1] It aims to advance the Biden Administration’s policy …

Subjects: Climate Change, Congress, Economy, Environmental Law, Government Documents, Legal Research

How to Protect Species and Save the Planet—at Once

IPBES-IPCC Co-Sponsored Workshop – Biodiversity and Climate Change Workshop Report, June 10, 2021 “In December 2020, 50 of the world’s leading biodiversity and climate experts, selected by a 12-person Scientific Steering Committee assembled by IPBES and IPCC, participated in a four-day virtual workshop to examine the synergies and trade-offs between biodiversity protection and climate change …

Subjects: Climate Change, Education, Energy, Environmental Law, Government Documents, Knowledge Management

Federal agencies can lift caps on number of employees working on-site

Washington Post – “The Biden administration Thursday told federal agencies that they no longer have to limit the number of employees allowed in the workplace, but kept in place an expansive telework policy that was instituted during the coronavirus pandemic, an approach that could slow the return to federal buildings. The long-awaited guidance, the first …

Subjects: Government Documents, Health Care

How Companies Can Navigate Political Risks Successfully

Knowledge@Wharton: “Companies are facing heightened political risks across the globe, but the majority of them are underprepared, reactive, and lacking confidence in their ability to navigate those risks successfully. Geopolitical risks are the biggest, especially with COVID-19 disrupting supply chains, the rise of nationalization and protectionism, the hardening of U.S.-China trade tensions, and increasing confrontations …

Subjects: Economy, Energy, Financial System, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Deep Fakes and National Security

CRS In Focus – Deep Fakes and National Security, Updated June 8, 2021: “Deep fakes”—a term that first emerged in 2017 to describe realistic photo, audio, video, and other forgeries generated with artificial intelligence (AI) technologies—could present a variety of national security challenges in the years to come. As these technologies continue to mature, they …

Subjects: AI, Congress, Defense, Government Documents, Legal Research

Ohio sues Google, seeks to declare the internet company a public utility

The Columbus Dispatch: “Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost has filed a lawsuit asking a court to declare Google a public utility that should be regulated as such. “Google uses its dominance of internet search to steer Ohioans to Google’s own products – that’s discriminatory and anti-competitive,” Yost said in a statement. “When you own the railroad or …

Subjects: Courts, Government Documents, Internet, Legal Research

CRS Defense Primer: Emerging Technologies

CRS In Focus – Defense Primer: Emerging Technologies, Updated June 8, 2021: “Both U.S. national strategy documents and Congress’s own bipartisan Future of Defense Task Force Report have identified a number of emerging technologies that could have a disruptive impact on U.S. national security in the years to come. These technologies include artificial intelligence, lethal …

Subjects: Congress, Defense, Economy, Government Documents

Senate Report focuses on security, planning and response failures related to January 6 attack on the Capitol

WASHINGTON, D.C. – “Today, U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI) and Rob Portman (R-OH), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Roy Blunt (R-MO), Chairwoman and Ranking Member of the Committee on Rules and Administration, released a bipartisan report on the security, planning, and response failures …

Subjects: Congress, Government Documents, Legal Research

Search Canada Parliamentary Historical Records

“The Library of Parliament, in collaboration with the Canadian Research Knowledge Network, is pleased to provide access to Canadian Parliamentary Historical Resources, a free searchable database of digitized versions of parliamentary publications from the 1st Session of the 1st Parliament (1867) until coverage at ourcommons.ca and sencanada.ca begins. The publications that are made available are: …

Subjects: Government Documents, Legal Research, Legislation

As Companies Plan for Return to Work, These New Resources Help You Advise Them On the Law

LawSites: “As companies plan for safely returning to the office, two new resources — including one that is free — are available to help legal professionals advise them with access to comparative federal and state legal requirements and case law.One of these new back-to-office resources is an expansion of the COVID-19 State & Federal Compare …

Subjects: Government Documents, Health Care, Legal Research