The Crime Report

JUNE 14, 2021

Are efforts to help the homeless by diverting them to mental health services doing more harm than good? Over the weekend, several advocacy organizations based in Venice, Ca., claimed recent action by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department aimed at helping the 60,000 people experiencing homelessness in the area have resulted in the “forced displacement and criminalization of unhoused people,” according to the Daily News. .

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LegalReader

JUNE 15, 2021

Drug tests benefit both employers and employees in terms of safety and productivity. However, the rights and privacy of the employers shouldn’t be violated.

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JUNE 13, 2021

The German Parliament passed a law on Friday requiring large and medium-sized businesses to do their due diligence in combating human rights violations along their supply chain. The law introduces a shift to mandatory compliance with international norms on labor exploitation. The Bundestag adopted the draft law by a large majority. The law introduces obligations for companies above a certain size to adopt and implement due diligence procedures that prevent human rights and environmental abuses a

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CourtTechBulletin

JUNE 18, 2021

One of my more strongly held observations from working with court data is the statistical perceptions of case backlogs, or “pending cases” as they are generally used are simply wrong. I think that this is because they often do not really describe the court’s caseload situation. I explain. Read more ».

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 17, 2021

Share The Supreme Court on Thursday threw out a lawsuit alleging that two U.S.-based companies, Nestlé and Cargill, facilitated human-rights abuses on cocoa plantations in the Ivory Coast. By a vote of 8-1, the justices ruled that the lawsuit cannot go forward because it is based on conduct that occurred overseas. Although the decision was obviously a victory for the two companies, it was not the sweeping one that the business community had sought.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 17, 2021

While juvenile incarcerated populations have dropped by about 60 percent in the past 20 years, racial disparities persist in the youth justice system, says a panel of scholars and experts. White justice-involved youth receive alternatives to juvenile detention at greater rates than youth of color, said David Muhammad, executive director of the National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JUNE 14, 2021

The Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) on Friday released the rates and terms for webcasting royalties for 2021-2025 , and the rates are going up. While the full decision explaining the reasoning for the rate increases will not be released to the public until the parties to the case have the opportunity to seek redaction of private business information, the rates and terms themselves were released and can be found here.

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JUNE 14, 2021

Share A defendant convicted of being a felon-in-possession of a firearm under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) after the Supreme Court’s 2019 decision in Rehaif v. United States is not entitled to a new trial or plea hearing unless he “makes a sufficient argument or representation on appeal that he would have presented evidence at trial that he did not in fact know he was a felon,” the court ruled Monday in the cases of Greer v.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 18, 2021

The pandemic was a disaster for most of the American economy — except for one industry. Legal cannabis sales in the U.S. hit a record $17.5 billion in 2020, a 46 percent increase compared to the previous year, according to a report by BDSA , a cannabis sales data platform. Much of the increase was powered by online ordering, reflecting the same surge in business experienced by major online marketers like Amazon.

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JURIST

JUNE 16, 2021

The US Senate unanimously passed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act Tuesday to commemorate the end of slavery in the US by establishing Juneteenth as a legal public holiday. Juneteenth was celebrated as “Emancipation Day” in some southern states after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation to declare “all persons held as slaves” in rebellious states as free people.

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LegalReader

JUNE 15, 2021

So, can you fly with CBD oil? Absolutely yes! For this, you have to follow a couple of simple rules: bring only CBD products that contain 0.3% THC and carry the associated CoA.

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LawSites

JUNE 15, 2021

Legal professionals agree that the pandemic accelerated the critical role of technology in the future success of their law firms and legal departments, but only a third believe their organizations are well prepared for addressing technology’s increasing importance. This is a key finding of the 2021 Wolters Kluwer Future Ready Lawyer Survey Report , the third year that Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S. has conducted this survey, designed to provide insights into how the legal profession

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The Crime Report

JUNE 15, 2021

Few figures have been as transformative in U.S. policing as Bill Bratton. It’s not only because he ran police forces in two of America’s largest cities ?New York (twice) and Los Angeles ?but because many of the senior officers who served under him went on to run police forces of their own, in effect spreading the Bratton style of technology-informed, community-oriented law enforcement that has become standard operating procedure in police command headquarters across the nation.

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JURIST

JUNE 14, 2021

Swiss citizens voted against three environmental laws Sunday, rejecting proposed initiatives that sought to improve their long-term quality of life. The first initiative sought to ensure clean drinking water and healthy food by eliminating subsidies for the use of food pesticides and antibiotics. The second initiative proposed banning all synthetic food pesticides.

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JUNE 15, 2021

Companies who play corporate games creating and shifting shell companies sometimes face serious consequences when painted into a corner. In Cirba, Inc. (DBA Densify) and Cirba IP v. VMWare (D. Del. 2020), a jury sided with the patentee Cirba Inc. and awarded $235 million in damages. That verdict though has been vacated because Cirba Inc.’s subsidiary Cirba IP actually owns the patent rights.

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Intelligize Blog

JUNE 17, 2021

Imagine you’re a director of a real estate company tasked with hiring a new chief executive. “Understands best practices in information security” might not be on your list of must-have qualifications. But maybe it should be. The Securities and Exchange Commission this week announced that it settled charges against First American Financial Corporation stemming from […].

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The Crime Report

JUNE 17, 2021

People over 60 were the special targets of COVID-19-related Internet schemes and financial fraud in 2020, with 28 percent of the total fraud losses sustained by seniors, according to the FBI. These Internet fraud schemes reaped approximately $1 billion in losses purely from seniors in 2020, the FBI said in a report released Tuesday. “This represents an increase of approximately $300 million in losses reported in 2020 versus what was reported by victims over 60 in 2019,” said the repo

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JUNE 14, 2021

A UN rights expert expressed serious concern on Thursday with the 10-year imprisonment of five human rights defenders in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), calling for their immediate release. The imprisoned individuals (Mohamed al-Mansoori, Hassan Mohammed Al-Hammad, Hadif Rashed Abdullah al-Owais, Ali Saeed Al-Kindi and Salim Hamdoon Al-Shahhi) are part of the “UAE94,” a group of 94 lawyers, human rights defenders and academics who were sentenced in 2013 for plotting to overthrow the

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JUNE 15, 2021

FocusVision Worldwide v. Information Builders Inc. ( Fed. Cir. 2021 ). The Federal Circuit has affirmed the TTAB’s decision refusing to register FocusVision’s eponymous mark FOCUSVISION after being opposed by IBI based upon its FOCUS marks. The appeal focused in part on the similarity of goods, trade channels, and sales. IBI is a software company known for its FOCUS database programming language.

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LawTechnologyToday

JUNE 14, 2021

If you want your law firm to continue growing and thriving, one of your best bets is to optimize for more client referrals. When a client refers another patron to your business, they’ll be giving you a warm lead that requires no action on your part; it’s an inexpensive opportunity to gain a new client who’s already somewhat familiar with your brand.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 18, 2021

Just hours after Officer Corey Budworth, a member of the Portland, Ore., Police Department’s specialized crowd control unit known as the Rapid Response Team, was indicted on a misdemeanor assault charge that he physically injured an independent photojournalist during a protest in August, 50 other officers in the squad decided to step down after a year of violent clashes with protesters, reports the New York Times.

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JURIST

JUNE 14, 2021

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet warned Friday of intensifying violence across Kayah State, Chin State and Kachin State in Myanmar, calling for increased regional diplomacy from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and other influential states to insist on the immediate cessation of violence and ongoing human rights violations.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 14, 2021

Share The Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Monday that people convicted of certain low-level crack-cocaine offenses are not eligible for sentencing reductions under the First Step Act, a 2018 law that made some criminal-justice reforms retroactive. Justice Clarence Thomas wrote the opinion for the court in Terry v. United States. In 2008, Tarahrick Terry was arrested in Florida for carrying just under 4 grams of crack cocaine.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JUNE 15, 2021

Last week, the FCC issued a Public Notice announcing an August 11, 2021 nationwide EAS test , with a backup date of August 25 if there are conditions that prevent the test from occurring on the initial date. The test is scheduled for 2:20 PM EDT. For broadcasters, this test will be conducted using the over-the-air “daisy-chain” system, where primary stations in various geographic areas initiate the test, and the message is passed from station to station based on monitoring assignme

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The Crime Report

JUNE 14, 2021

With reopenings underway across the United States as the COVID-19 pandemic recedes, cities are now contending with an ongoing crisis of crime and violence that shows little signs of slowing as businesses reopen and cities strive to revitalize tourism during the peak summer season, The Associated Press reports. The Gun Violence Archive (GVA), which monitors media and police reports to track gun violence, reports that more than 8,700 people have died of gun violence in the U.S.

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JURIST

JUNE 15, 2021

The US Supreme Court declined Monday to take up an appeal by a group of oil companies challenging a California state court ruling permitting two California cities to sue for damages related to climate change, meaning the case will be heard in state court. The cities of Oakland and San Francisco claimed that fossil fuel giants BP, Exxon, Chevron, Shell and ConocoPhillips created a public nuisance through their contributions to climate change, which caused flooding, shoreline erosion and saltwater

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JUNE 14, 2021

Share The Supreme Court on Monday asked the federal government to weigh in on whether the justices should once again wade into the battle over affirmative action. In an order list issued from last week’s private conference, the court asked Acting Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar to file a brief expressing the government’s views on a challenge to Harvard’s race-conscious admissions policy.

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LawSites

JUNE 14, 2021

Just a year after its founding the legal tech startup Anü has shut down, having struggled to find customers and develop the right business model. As I wrote about Anü in a post last November , it set out to solve the problem of startup founders unable to find the right lawyer, particularly founders of color or who are women. It used artificial intelligence to match startups with the lawyer best suited to represent them.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 18, 2021

U.S. prosecutors for the first time have charged a defendant, Guy Wesley Reffitt, 48, in the Jan. 6 Capitol breach with violating a federal law that makes it a crime to transport a firearm or explosive for unlawful use in a riot, reports the Washington Post. Prosecutors say Reffitt brought a rifle and semiautomatic handgun to Washington and recruited members to a right-wing Texas Three Percenters group claiming he had created a new security business to circumvent gun laws.

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JURIST

JUNE 17, 2021

A group of Norwegian climate activists on Tuesday formally requested that the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) review Norway’s plans for expanded Arctic oil and gas extraction, arguing that their “rights to life and private and family life are directly affected by climate change.” Environmental groups Greenpeace and Young Friends of the Earth, along with six Norwegians aged 20 to 27, submitted a 28-page lawsuit application to the Strasbourg-based court.

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