Above The Law

AUGUST 16, 2023

Bloomberg Law News ] * Black lawyer says he was handcuffed while a judge ordered him to produce documents or settle the case. [ ABA Journal ] * Lawsuit claims that state law illegally favors Iowa wineries. In other news, Iowa has wineries. [ DMR ] * Class action suits filed against Hawaiian utility companies over fires.

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Above The Law

JANUARY 11, 2024

Daily Beast ] * Bob Menendez hires Jones Day lawyer from McDonnell team that got the Supreme Court to functionally legalize public corruption. Next week it's Iowa. [ Reuters ] * Bankruptcy partners charging up to $2400 per hour. [ Reuters ] * Bankruptcy partners charging up to $2400 per hour. No wonder the client went bankrupt.

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LegalReader

AUGUST 30, 2022

The unfortunate reality of the inside of many nursing homes is that the people who work in these facilities may engage in various kinds of elderly abuse.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 24, 2021

A Christian group at the University of Iowa scored a major win this week before the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. The University of Iowa registers student organizations under its “Registration of Student Organizations” (RSO) policy. The policy requires compliance with federal, state, and university rules.

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Above The Law

MAY 8, 2023

American Lawyer ] * Legal industry adds more jobs this month because economic growth is definitely the sign of a looming recession. Law360 ] * Minnesota lawyer changes careers to become magician. Reuters ] * Department of Labor crackdown finds alarming amount of child labor, or as Iowa calls it.

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LegalReader

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Each bankruptcy district has local rules, procedures, and local bankruptcy forms that it uses.

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Patently O

JANUARY 4, 2024

Additionally, the Opinion emphasizes lawyers’ duties under other ethics rules regarding competence, diligence, candor to the tribunal, and avoidance of frivolous filings. A key case on point is Iowa S. 2d 756, 757 (Iowa 2010). I suspect the Winston attorneys are likely happy to be in NY rather than Iowa.

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LegalReader

JUNE 2, 2022

One of the reasons that car insurance exists is that the civil courts have allowed lawsuits against negligent drivers for compensation.

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LegalReader

JANUARY 26, 2022

If a driver is involved in an accident during the course of a ride, the passenger should notify the ridesharing service and call the local police to conduct an investigation.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 31, 2021

Judge Joel Yates has sentenced Cristhian Bahena Rivera to life in prison without parole in the abduction and killing of University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts, three years after she disappeared while out for an evening run, reports the Associated Press. The 27-year-old former farmhand, who testified that he came to the U.S.

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LegalReader

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

There are various types of compensation that the victim can collect.

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LegalReader

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The first thing you need to know about Iowa’s car insurance laws is that this state does not follow a “no-fault” system.

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LegalReader

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Hostile work environment claims use evidence of repeated episodes of inappropriate behavior to show that the victim’s ability to function as normal at work was limited due to constant harassment.

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Above The Law

APRIL 19, 2023

Axios ] * Interesting question: are juries influenced by the billboards and other lawyer advertisements they see? [ Roll Call ] * Iowa places slide into Lochner era into high gear. That's a shocker. New Jersey Law Journal ] * Jim Jordan continues his possibly criminal, definitely unconstitutional harassment of the Manhattan DA.

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LegalReader

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

If an officer has committed acts against a person that involve excessive force, the victim has the right to sue for compensation.

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Attorney at Work

JUNE 23, 2022

My home state, Iowa, has disciplined an average of 68 attorneys (just under 1% of the number of practicing attorneys in the state) each year over the past decade. I’m an Iowa-based attorney and CPA. That is, not if you don’t allow it to become one. A rough extrapolation would suggest that perhaps thousands of attorneys across the U.S.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 4, 2021

The appeals court agreed with Kizer’s lawyers, who argued “any offense” did indeed mean “any offense.” The decision could also have bearing on whether other states with broad affirmative defense laws, including Iowa, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Wyoming, allow individuals to employ them when charged with violent offenses.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 12, 2022

She believes that justices, lawyers, and fellow academics must be denounced as “lawless” and actively opposed to avoid “complicity with lawlessness.” lawyers, legal scholars, and law schools have to reckon with how to practice, teach, and understand law without falling into complicity with lawlessness. HeidiLiFeldman. Heidi Li Feldman.

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JURIST

JANUARY 3, 2021

In terms of criminal cases, the courts developed “new partnerships with law enforcement, corrections officers and counsel to ensure that defendants have virtual access to courts and their lawyers.” ” To prepare for the return of jury trials, spaces in courtrooms have been reconfigured to allow for social distancing.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Arguing for the National Pork Producers Council and the American Farm Bureau Federation, which filed a lawsuit challenging Proposition 12 in 2019, lawyer Timothy Bishop told the justices that “California wants to change farming methods everywhere.” To what extent, she said, does California get to control how Iowa houses its sows?

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LawSites

APRIL 19, 2022

My law firm website now ranks on the first page, sometimes in the top spot, for all sorts of queries about red light camera tickets and speeding camera tickets in New York City, where there are more lawyers than laypeople. Get a high-level overview of the document automation tools for lawyers, so you can see what’s right for your firm.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 21, 2022

Louis lawyer who was arrested for pointing guns at Black Lives Matters protesters in 2020, and the three white men who were charged with chasing down Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia and killing him while he was out for a jog have sparked this movement. The criminal cases of Mark McCloskey , a St.

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Patently O

JUNE 15, 2022

Gugliuzza, Temple University Beasley School of Law; Jonas Anderson, American University Washington College of Law; and Jason Rantanen, University of Iowa College of Law. Yet none of this Federal Circuit case law is “law” in the way lawyers usually think about appellate decisions that are labeled as “precedential.”.

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LawSites

MARCH 10, 2023

Having worked both on internal law firm apps as well as building tools for lawyers and clients, Joe has gotten to play with a lot of cool tech, including industry NLP tools and a variety of front end and back end technologies. Joe continues to tinker away and can currently be found in Northwest Iowa. After London came ReInvent 2013.

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Broadcast Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

We share some of those dates below and urge you to stay in close touch with your lawyers, engineers, and consultants for the dates and deadlines applicable to your station’s operations.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) released an unclassified FBI record which included allegations to the agency of Biden and his son, Hunter, being paid $5 million each by a Ukrainian energy executive when the senior Biden was vice president. In July, Sen.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 14, 2023

The dissent in the 7th Circuit similarly warned that the majority’s framework would “create[] a safe harbor for deliberate or reckless fraudsters whose lawyers can concoct a post hoc legal rationale that can pass a laugh test.”

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The Crime Report

JULY 2, 2021

Some counties in Alabama, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, and Tennessee pay $10; in Georgia, some pay $5, says The Indy. San Francisco isn’t the only place dealing with a lack of diversity in their juries due to the low pay that jury duty provides. Many other cities and counties are trying to increase jury duty pay.

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ALPS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

JOHN SIMEK: You didn’t tell [inaudible 00:01:53], you’re a lawyer though. John is the veteran technologist and I am the lawyer, and that’s why we decided to work together when we started the company some 25 years ago, more than that now, just a little bit. JOHN: I’m not a lawyer, as you can probably tell.

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MyCase

AUGUST 12, 2022

On top of that, lawyers risk losing their license if they fail to comply with laws that protect client information contained in records. . Cloud-based legal management software allows lawyers to file documents electronically and save emails and attachments directly to specific matters and records. . Retention policies.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 6, 2021

Indeed, that was the evidence used in the famous case from San Francisco involving lawyers and dog owners Marjorie Knoller and Robert Noel. States like Iowa, Kansas, Ohio, Missouri, Wisconsin, Mississippi, Arkansas, Michigan, Louisiana, and Kentucky have breed specific laws barring or limiting certain dog breeds, including pit bulls.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Harris has been using Uptrust , an application with two-way text messaging, and automated reminders for court dates for the past six months, through a pilot program in Clinton, Iowa. It has since expanded into probation offices and plans to work in dependency court as well.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 30, 2020

District Judge Robert Pratt of the Southern District of Iowa any less troubling. Legal ethicists and experts stretched ethical rules to the breaking point to support actions against Republican lawyers for filing election challenges. However, none of that makes the comments of senior U.S.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Almost a dozen states (including Idaho, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Arizona, and North Dakota) have passed legislation to bar CRT and roughly a dozen more are considering such legislation. A coalition of educators and public interest groups has sued states like Oklahoma over such laws.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

In an unsigned opinion, the court ruled that Terence Andrus had demonstrated that his lawyer provided deficient performance at sentencing for failing to investigate or introduce mitigating evidence. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit decision upholding a similar Iowa law concerning agricultural facilities. Washington.

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CourtTechBulletin

DECEMBER 16, 2021

From there is a link to their courthelp web page ( [link] ) that "can help you when you don't have a lawyer". Indiana courts use a portal E-filing model that allows the public to choose from several providers. The nice thing about their web page is that it provides a feature comparison page. There is a lot of information there.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Chuck Grassley , R-Iowa, the committee’s ranking Republican, said: “I look forward to meeting with Judge Jackson face to face on Capitol Hill in the coming days, and working with Senator Durbin to finalize the committee’s initial questionnaire and records request, as is customary in this process.

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