The IP Law Blog

AUGUST 19, 2021

How many of the lawyers out there liked hypotheticals in law school? So, for those of you who enjoy hypotheticals, here it is: Company A, a North Carolina LLC, owns four patents. Company B has the same corporate address in North Carolina and the same five shareholders as Company A.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Share Walter Dellinger, a constitutional scholar and skilled advocate who argued 24 cases at the Supreme Court, died on Wednesday at his home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He was a long-time member of the Duke Law School faculty, which he joined in 1969. William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law at Duke Law School.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2022

University of North Carolina and Students for Fair Admissions v. The one unfortunate exception to this rule has been the Supreme Court’s approval of racial discrimination in education, which has allowed discrimination against Asian students, most prominently, to fester and grow. President & Fellows of Harvard College.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

I am happy to announce the publication of my latest law review article, The Unfinished Masterpiece: Compulsion and the Evolving Jurisprudence Over Free Speec h. The work not only discusses the recent 303 Creative ruling of the Supreme Court, but an important case now pending before the Court for possible review, Porter v.

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Court-MartialTrialPractice

JANUARY 30, 2021

.’” Michele Benedetto Neitz, Pulling Back the Curtain: Implicit Bias in the Law School Dean Search Process , 49 SETON HALL L. So, does a court violate the Constitutional rights of an African American defendant by precluding his attorney about implicit bias during jury selection? 629, 656 (2019) ( quoting J. Redfield ed.,

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Patently O

OCTOBER 21, 2022

by David Hricik, Mercer Law School. That, said the court, was unethical: “Although a client can decide on its own whether to directly contact his adversary, a lawyer cannot advise a client to contact his adversary, or do anything that the attorney could not do directly. In North Carolina Legal Eth. 2012-7 (Oct.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Law schools are also facing controversial mandates. In 2022, the American Bar Association required law schools to “provide education to law students on bias, cross-cultural competency, and racism: (1) at the start of the program of legal education, and (2) at least once again before graduation.” and Maurice C.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

For example, according to Josie Caves Sivaraman, a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University School of Medicine, North Carolina has no restriction, and anyone over the age of 18 can purchase a firearm. Darrell Miller, an attorney and a Melvin G.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Notably, the most-downloaded episode featured a discussion of how law schools should teach tech, with April G. Dawson , associate dean of technology and innovation and professor of law at North Carolina Central University School of Law. How Law Schools Should Teach Tech, with April Dawson.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Notably, the most-downloaded episode featured a discussion of how law schools should teach tech, with April G. Dawson , associate dean of technology and innovation and professor of law at North Carolina Central University School of Law. How Law Schools Should Teach Tech, with April Dawson.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 31, 2023

Supreme Court Photographer Fred Schilling, 2022. We previously discussed how Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson included a false claim to support her dissent in the Court’s recent opinion barring racial discrimination in college admissions. It saves lives. Experts immediately objected that the claim was wildly off base.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2022

University of North Carolina and Students for Fair Admissions v. Bernstein holds a university professorship chair at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School. The Supreme Court should no longer countenance this charade. President & Fellows of Harvard College. A preview of the case is here.

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The Crime Report

MAY 19, 2022

Supreme Court case of Brady v. The North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commission , created after a high-profile case of prosecutorial misconduct in 2006, has since helped secure 15 exonerations. The National Registry of Exonerations estimates that 30 percent of exoneration cases feature prosecutorial misconduct.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Ho of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit recently made headlines when he publicly declared that he would no longer consider graduates of Yale Law School for clerkship positions due to the erosion of free speech rights at the university. Judge James C.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 31, 2024

There is a curious resolution of a civil right complaint against University of Minnesota Law School over a diversity fellowship sponsored by the law firm of Jones Day. Despite being created by a law firm and administered by a law school, the fellowship violated federal law in excluding white and male applicants.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The trial penalty that coaxes both the guilty and innocent to enter pleas is exacerbated by mandatory minimum statutes, which trigger automatic penalties if invoked by the prosecutor, as well as sentencing enhancements within the discretion of the prosecutor, such as whether to file notice with the court of a prior offense. In fact, the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Share In 2003, a divided Supreme Court ruled in Grutter v. Bollinger that the University of Michigan Law School could consider race in its admissions process as part of its efforts to assemble a diverse student body. How, Alito asked, can a court determine whether the benefits of diversity have been achieved?

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LegalTalkNetwork

AUGUST 22, 2016

Being an election year and with tumultuous police/citizen relations, a vacancy at the Supreme Court, an uptick in terrorism, and a worldwide refugee crisis, there was certainly a lot to talk about. Day one’s late day coverage began just following our arrival in San Francisco, when we talked about Terrorism, FISA Courts, and the Zika virus.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Researchers at the Quattrone Center, based at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, created what they said was a unique dataset of 4,644 opinions in which allegations of misconduct were raised in the more than 1.5 million judicial opinions published between 2000 and 2016 by federal and state courts in Pennsylvania.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

In the realms of legal technology and innovation, the pandemic had yielded silver linings – greater adoption of technology, more flexible workplaces, hybrid courts – that promised a future in which the legal profession and justice system would better serve those who need them. Do courts fully reopen or not?

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 20, 2021

We recently discussed the case of University of North Carolina law student Sagar Sharma, a student of color, who faced a recall election as the first-year class co-president. The charges are connected to the prior controversy and raise serious free speech and retaliatory concerns at the law school. .

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JonathanTurley

JULY 8, 2023

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has delivered a body blow to free speech as well as academic freedom in a ruling against a statistics professor at North Carolina State University. Professor Stephen Porter objected to what he considered the lower standards used by his school to hire minority faculty.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 3, 2022

Here is the column: The first major decision of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson after her Supreme Court nomination may be to recuse herself from one of the most significant cases before the court. For a lower court judge, this would be a no brainer. Judge Jackson’s nomination magnified the controversy in an unexpected way.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

In the realms of legal technology and innovation, the pandemic had yielded silver linings – greater adoption of technology, more flexible workplaces, hybrid courts – that promised a future in which the legal profession and justice system would better serve those who need them. Do courts fully reopen or not?

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LegalTalkNetwork

MARCH 4, 2020

We also learned some new things about “ deepfakes ” and how that could affect legal practice, why litigation finance is about to get really interesting, how ODR is closing one part of the A2J gap, and why virtual reality may become a real staple in courts very soon.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2020

A government lawyer who argued at the Supreme Court more than anyone else in the 20th century. As the year comes to a close, SCOTUSblog looks back at some of the individuals who died in 2020 after living lives that brought them – at different times and for different reasons – to the Supreme Court of the United States.

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Above The Law

MAY 1, 2023

Bloomberg Law News ] * North Carolina overrules precedent from last year because nothing matters and it's just a superlegislature. Splash 247 ] * A profile on how ASS Law leverages Supreme Court connections to artificially inflate its apparent prestige. [ appeared first on Above the Law. NY Times ] *.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 8, 2022

It was always doubtful that a law school would take the unprecedented step of barring a sitting Supreme Court justice. The problem is that most targets of these campaigns have neither the status nor the day job of a Supreme Court justice. The reason? His vote to overturn Roe v.

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Above The Law

MARCH 14, 2023

Bloomberg Law ] * Can partisan gerrymandering get worse? Today the North Carolina Supreme Court will reconsider the issue, which could have major repercussions for national politics. Reuters ] * Supreme Court to consider whether the Constitution provides protection against anti-trans discrimination.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 27, 2022

Below is my column in the Hill on the Supreme Court accepting two cases dealing with racial preferences in college admissions. Here is the column: Last year, I wrote about the Supreme Court’s “train whistle” docket with cases on abortion, guns, immigration, and other issues barreling down the track. Second, courts change.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 29, 2022

the University of North Carolina and Students for Fair Admissions v. The state of Texas writes that college admissions “stand alone” as a departure from the court’s “long-held skepticism regarding racial discrimination” as seen in its rejection of diversity as a compelling interest in secondary schools and faculty hiring.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 12, 2022

In a series of tweets this week, Professor Heidi Li Feldman has denounced “lawless” and “actively rogue” Supreme Court justices and professors who disagree with her views on the Constitution. She has called for “genuine” law professors not to fall “into complicity with lawlessness” in teaching such subjects.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 8, 2021

This trend has reached law schools, which is ominous since these students are the future judges and lawyers who are expected to defend these core principles. From high schools through law schools, free speech has gone from being considered a right that defines our society to being dismissed as a threat.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 8, 2022

Then we all read the rationale from Law Dean William Treanor , who adopted a technicality that not only avoided a full endorsement of Shapiro’s rights but left a menacing uncertainty as to his (and any other conservative’s) future protections at Georgetown University Law School. It was a stupid and offensive tweet.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 3, 2023

At the University of North Carolina (Wilmington) one such campaign led to a professor killing himself a few days before his final day as a professor. Other faculty have had to go to court to defend their free speech rights. Polls now show that 60 percent of students fear sharing their views in class. It is that easy.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Below is my column in The Hill on the start of the new Term for the Supreme Court. ” Does that make the three liberals justices voting together on the Court the “judicial arm of the Democratic Party”? .” That is, of course, manifestly true for the highest court in the land. University of North Carolina.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

A professor at the University of North Carolina recently sent me an article on a “free speech event” held at the UNC Center for Media Law and Policy as part of the University’s 13th First Amendment Day celebration. Moreover, if there is defamation, the courts allow for stripping away anonymity in many cases.

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