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MAY 10, 2022

A bill approved by the Senate and now set to go before the House of Representatives, known as the Supreme Court Police Parity Act, will provide police protection to the immediate families of the nine justices and other officers of the court, reports NPR. Introduced by Sen. John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, the bill follows a leak last week of a draft Supreme Court opinion that, if unchanged, would overturn Roe v.

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MAY 10, 2022

Clearview AI (Clearview) Monday settled a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). The ACLU alleged “that Clearview repeatedly violated the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), a law adopted in 2008 to ensure that Illinois residents would not have their biometric identifiers – including faceprints – captured and used without their knowledge and permission.” Clearview still denies and disputes all claims in the complaint.

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Above The Law

MAY 10, 2022

Slight exaggeration, which OAN is no doubt entirely comfortable with. The post OAN Settles One Election Defamation Suit, Only One Million To Go appeared first on Above the Law.

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MAY 10, 2022

Former US President Jimmy Carter Monday filed an amicus brief to state his disagreement with a decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, calling the ruling “deeply mistaken” and “dangerous.” In March, the Ninth Circuit reversed a decision by the United States District Court for the District of Alaska setting aside a land exchange agreement approved by then-Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt.

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“These GOP politicians aren’t pro-life. They’re pro-forced birth.” Columnist Catherine Rampell has this essay online at The Washington Post. Also online there, columnist Jennifer Rubin has an essay titled “ Criminalizing abortion: Cue the enforcement nightmare.

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MAY 10, 2022

“The Horrifying Implications of Alito’s Most Alarming Footnote; A ‘domestic supply of infants’ is exactly what the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment intended to abolish”: Dahlia Lithwick has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

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MAY 10, 2022

The European Parliament Monday released a report from a year-long conference among EU citizens spelling out 49 proposed changes for the EU. The report calls for greater EU leadership on the world stage and even recommends removing the principle of unanimity, which requires approval from all EU member states to advance certain actions, from EU decisions.

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MAY 10, 2022

“We Should Tell The Truth About Judicial Clerkships; While law schools are currently part of the problem, they can be part of the solution”: Aliza Shatzman has this post at “Above the Law.

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MAY 10, 2022

Belarusian law students enrolled at European Humanities University are filing reports with JURIST on current circumstances in Belarus under the constitutionally-disputed presidency of Alexander Lukashenka. For privacy and security reasons, we are withholding the name of the correspondent filing this report. The text has only been lightly edited to respect the author’s voice.

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“With Roe on the rocks, the Roberts court exists in name only; The chief justice who has long urged associates to call balls and strikes is increasingly losing sway in an era of justices wanting to pitch and bat”: Kelsey Reichmann of Courthouse News Service has this report.

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JURIST

MAY 10, 2022

Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. Here, a female Afghan law student shares her views on a strict new Taliban decree issued Saturday requiring Afghan women to wear full hijabs under threat of sanction against themselves or their male “guardians” For privacy and security reasons, we are withholding our correspondent’s name.

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MAY 10, 2022

“Sam Alito Is Pushing a Dangerous Myth About Abortion and Eugenics; When history does not comport with the conservative legal movement’s extremist policy goals, conservatives are liable to just make some history up”: Adam Cohen has this post at Balls and Strikes.

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JURIST

MAY 10, 2022

The lone survivor of a 2009 Yemeni airline plane crash Monday attended the opening Yemenia Airways’ trial. In 2009, a Yemenia flight crashed into the Indian Ocean; every passenger, except 12-year-old Bahia Bakari, died. Yemeni is charged criminally with Bakari’s injuries and the death of the 65 other French citizens on board and faces a potential fine of up to 225,000 euros.

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MAY 10, 2022

“Texas asks Fifth Circuit to reinstate social media law; A panel of federal appeals judges heard arguments in a case challenging a Texas law that regulates the ability of social media sites to remove content or users”: Sabrina Canfield of Courthouse News Service has this report. And Paul DeBenedetto of Houston Public Media reports that “ Texas argues Facebook and Twitter are a ‘modern-day public square’ in defense of censorship law; Lawyers for the social media comp

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MAY 10, 2022

Speculation in the British media about the next head of Scotland Yard has been high since the May 4 application deadline. But it isn’t the calibre of any of the potential applicants that’s in question: It’s whether—and why—anyone would want the job. The salary of £292,000 pounds (about $366,000 US) is by far the largest salary offered to chief officers for what is the biggest and most difficult job in British policing.

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MAY 10, 2022

“Brett Kavanaugh is not in danger — unlike the abortion precedent he’s ready to overturn; A vigil outside Kavanaugh’s house led to predictable pearl-clutching; But a country in which the powerful can seize rights without even nonviolent protest is not a democracy”: Noah Berlatsky has this essay online at NBC News.

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MAY 10, 2022

A majority of Asian Americans say violence against them is increasing and worry about being threatened or attacked, with a third saying they have changed their daily routine because of these concerns, reports Pew Research Center. About six-in-ten Asian adults (63 percent) say violence against Asian Americans in the U.S. is increasing, while 19 percent say there has not been much change and 8 percent say it is decreasing.

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MAY 10, 2022

“Abortion and the Free Exercise Clause: What if a doctor feels a religious obligation to perform abortions, (e.g., because he believes doing so is necessary for him to be the Good Samaritan, by removing a threat to his patient’s mental health)?” Eugene Volokh has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.

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MAY 10, 2022

Photo by Cannabis Culture via Flickr. A New Jersey Supreme Court case could decide how cannabis impairment is — or isn’t — measured by police, reports NewJersey.com. State v. Olenowski involves the state Office of the Public Defender challenging the scientific validity of how police officers detect drug impairment, including on drivers suspected to be under the influence of THC, the psychoactive ingredient in cannabis.

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MAY 10, 2022

“Security tightened for Supreme Court justices as protests extend to Alito’s home; GOP Sen. Mitch McConnell compared the demonstrations to ‘the rule of mobs'”: Libby Cathey of ABC News has this report.

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MAY 10, 2022

Facial recognition startup Clearview AI has agreed to permanently stop selling access to its face database to private businesses or individuals around the U.S., ending a two-year-old lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups alleging that it collected people’s photos without their consent and in violation of Illinois digital privacy law, reports the Associated Press.

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MAY 10, 2022

“That 13th-century law treatise Alito uses? Here’s what else it says.” Columnist Dana Milbank has this op-ed in today’s edition of The Washington Post. Also in today’s edition of that newspaper, law professor Jill Elaine Hasday has an op-ed headlined “ On Roe, Alito cites a judge who treated women as witches and property.

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The Crime Report

MAY 10, 2022

A two-year investigation by Georgetown University law center has found that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has strayed well beyond its duties as an immigration body to become what is in effect a domestic surveillance agency, reports The Guardian. According to the investigation, ICE has amassed a formidable armory of digital capabilities that allows its agents to “pull detailed dossiers on nearly anyone, seemingly at any time.”.

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MAY 10, 2022

“If Roe is overturned, it might mark the first time the Supreme Court declared an individual right, then took it back”: Bob Egelko has this front page article in today’s edition of The San Francisco Chronicle.

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Above The Law

MAY 10, 2022

When it comes to IP cases, what is obvious to lawyers is not necessarily so clear to their clients or other interested parties in the outcome of a litigation. The post Is It Halftime Yet? appeared first on Above the Law.

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