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Virginia highest court rules city can remove two Confederate statues

JURIST

The Supreme Court of Virginia Thursday ruled that the city of Charlottesville can remove two Confederate statues, including one of General Robert E. Among the plaintiffs in the lawsuit filed against the city were the Virginia Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, Inc., and The Monument Fund, Inc.

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SCOTUS hears oral arguments in bankruptcy amendment, Washington workers’ compensation law cases

JURIST

After the Amendment took effect on January 1, 2018, Circuit City, a US chain of electronics retail stores, refused to pay the increased fees and brought suit in the Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, claiming that the 2017 Amendment, which creates nonuniform bankruptcy laws, was unconstitutional.

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Justices take up Native health care funding cases and a dispute over sentencing guide

SCOTUSBlog

United States , the justices will return to a familiar statute: the Armed Career Criminal Act, which imposes an enhanced sentence for unlawful possession of a firearm if the defendant has three convictions “committed on occasions different from one another.” The court designated six cases as bellwether cases. And in Erlinger v.

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What constitutes “identity theft”?

SCOTUSBlog

In recent years, the Supreme Court has expressed misgivings about white-collar prosecutions under broadly worded statutes. United States (involving the prosecution of the former Virginia governor), Kelly v. This week’s installment will be brief, because there’s only one newly relisted case: Dubin v. United States.

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AI Systems May Invent, But Are They Inventors?

The IP Law Blog

Alternatively, if the Patent Act requires inventor(s) must be human, are AI-created inventions not patentable at all under the current statute? District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, which granted summary judgment in favor of the USPTO. Then Thaler appealed the district court’s ruling to the Federal Circuit.

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Gun Violence: When ‘Self-Defense’ Becomes Murder

The Crime Report

Howrey Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School, state statutes vary widely on defining what constitutes aggression. This means that the court must find beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant meant to harm the individual before being provoked or engaging in a mutually combated altercation.

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Fourth Circuit Overturns Conviction Of Retired Air Force Colonel For Using Racial Slur

JonathanTurley

In a major but likely controversial victory for free speech, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit overturned the conviction of a retired Air Force Colonel for using a racial epithet at the shoe store on the Marine base at Quantico in Virginia. Bartow was charged under Virginia Code § 18.2-416,

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