JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia will impose interim child protection guidelines on social media companies while the government carves out a law to set a minimum age for users of the platforms, a senior communications ministry official said on Wednesday. On Monday, communications minister Meutya Hafid said the government planned to issue a regulation to set…
Dec 27 (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court has halted enforcement of an anti-money laundering law that requires corporate entities to disclose the identities of their real beneficial owners to the U.S. Treasury Department ahead of a deadline for most companies to do so. The New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals late Thursday reinstated,…
Dec 24 (Reuters) – The U.S. federal judiciary’s leadership on Tuesday called President Joe Biden’s decision to veto a bill that would have added 66 new judges to understaffed federal courts nationally “extremely disappointing” and urged lawmakers to again try to enact the “essential” legislation. U.S. District Judge Robert Conrad, the director of the Administrative…
WASHINGTON, Dec 13 (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear a bid by an arm of a Catholic diocese in Wisconsin for a religious exemption from the state’s unemployment insurance tax in a case with potential implications for constitutional religious rights. The justices took up an appeal by the Catholic Charities Bureau, the…
Dec 26 (Reuters) – Major U.S. law firms scaled back from Greater China’s legal market at a rapid pace in 2024, highlighting an uncertain future for foreign firms in the world’s second largest economy. At least 11 U.S. firms closed or said they would shutter offices in Shanghai, Beijing and Hong Kong this year amid muted deal…
