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Postal Code For Chinese Manufacturers To Be Required By US CBP Beginning This Weekend

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As part of a continued effort to enforce the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) and to provide early warning to importers and their representatives that goods may have been produced in the Xinjian Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) ) will require businesses to provide a valid postal code for Chinese manufacturers from which they are importing goods when reporting via the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) system beginning on March 8, 2023. The following Q&A will help your business understand the steps it needs to take to comply with the requirements:

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Man shot by Indianapolis police in grandmother’s driveway files legal demand

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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.

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Client Legal Update: Whistleblower Protection Act

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Summary

  • much back and forth, the German Whistleblower Protection Act (Hinweisgeberschutzgesetz; HinSchG) was passed by the German parliament on 12 May 2023 and will come into force one month after its announcement (most likely mid-June 2023).
  • The HinSchG is intended to create standardization and comprehensive protection for whistleblowers in the implementation of the European Whistleblowing Directive (EU) 2019/1937.
  • The HinSchG applies to companies with more than 50 employees and the transition periods are very short:
  • Companies with more than 249 employees must establish and operate a whistleblower system after the HinSchG comes into force.
  • Companies with 50-249 employees have until
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States With Legal Recreational, Medical Marijuana: Map

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  • Marijuana is legal for adults in 22 states and Washington, DC. Medical marijuana is legal in 38 states and DC.
  • Delaware is the latest state to legalize recreational cannabis.

Marijuana legalization is spreading around the US.

In April 2023, Delaware became the latest state to legalize cannabis, pushing the total number of states where adults can legally consume marijuana to 22, along with Washington, DC and Guam.

Last year, legalization votes failed in deep-red South Dakota,

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