JURIST
JUNE 7, 2023
The Hong Kong Department of Justice applied to the High Court on Monday for an injunction to prohibit any activity in relation to the song “Glory to Hong Kong” with unlawful intent. The Hong Kong government asserts that the song contains secessionist lyrics and is an insult to the Chinese national anthem, since “Glory to Hong Kong” is often mistaken for Hong Kong’s national anthem.
The Volokh Conspiracy
JUNE 7, 2023
The good news is that "only" a minority of younger American adults favor Big Brother-style surveillance of our home life. The bad news is that we're discussing this because it's a disturbingly large share supporting such a totalitarian intrusion. Worse, the idea seems to be gaining acceptance. We either need to get a handle on what's going on here, or else potentially suffer lives monitored by unblinking eyes of the state, imposed by popular demand.
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JURIST
JUNE 3, 2023
Canadian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) submitted a court application, known as a mandamus, in federal court Friday urging Canadian Minister of Public Safety Marco Mendicino to deny former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett entry into Canada. The organizations that filed the mandamus include the Palestinian and Jewish Unity, Just Peace Advocates and the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute.
Paralegal Bootcamp
JUNE 1, 2023
This one’s for you, Paralegal Mom! Ever since I was a little girl, I remember having a mind of my own. I was a leader, an outspoken smart mouth with a vigilante-style, ‘protect the underdog’ attitude. I wanted to be perfect at everything I did. I loved school all through twelfth grade. I remember wanting to be very successful. And then I found out I was pregnant at eighteen, right after I received my college acceptance letter.
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The Volokh Conspiracy
JUNE 6, 2023
"Greed of the fossil fuel industry" is "destroying our planet," says Sen. Bernie Sanders (I–Vt.). Young people agree. Their solution? Socialism. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D–N.Y.) says socialism creates "an environment that provides for all people, not just the privileged few." "Nonsense," says Tom Palmer of the Atlas Network in my new video. Palmer, unlike Ocasio-Cortez and most of us, spent lots of time in socialist countries.
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SCOTUSBlog
JUNE 2, 2023
Share In an 8-1 opinion on Thursday, the justices provided a new definition to the limits on the right to strike under federal labor law. At issue in Glacier Northwest v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Local Union 174 was whether an employer could sue its employees’ union under state law for damage the employer incurred as a result of the union’s strike.
JURIST
JUNE 2, 2023
Iran Human Rights released data on Thursday which shows Iran executed 142 people in May, making it the highest number of Iranian executions in one month since 2015. Some of the charges used to justify executions this year include blasphemy and adultery. Iran executed Yousef Mehrad and Sadrollah Fazeli Zare after finding them guilty of blasphemy and “insulting the prophet,” along with other actions including burning the Quran and insulting Islamic sanctities.
Patently O
JUNE 5, 2023
by Dennis Crouch Washington Post has published a long article titled, “ Colleagues want a 95-year-old judge to retire. She’s suing them instead ,” by Rachel Weiner. Judge Pauline Newman, the oldest active federal judge in the country, has been embroiled in controversy as she resists her colleagues attempts to urge/force her to retire. The article ends with a noteworthy quote from Newman that rings true to her characteristic resilience and dedication: “ I want to spend my last
Above The Law
JUNE 6, 2023
This has shown us how Biglaw operates when push comes to shove with the billable hour and revenue. The post The Biglaw Files: How Power And Privilege Harm The Legal Profession appeared first on Above the Law.
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Attorney at Work
JUNE 7, 2023
Tea Hoffmann | Law firm leaders can learn valuable lessons from this very public trial of a once-prominent lawyer. The post For Law Firm Leaders: 4 Lessons From the Alex Murdaugh Trial and Conviction appeared first on Attorney at Work.
JURIST
JUNE 6, 2023
UK Minister for Security Tom Tugendhat updated Parliament on Tuesday about Chinese “overseas police service stations” on commitments made in parliamentary statements last November and reiterated by Minister for Crime, Policing and Fire Chris Philp in April. Tugendhat told Parliament that the UK has ordered China to close any remaining so-called “police stations” on UK soil, calling the stations’ very existence “unacceptable.” Tugendhat explained that C
ALPS
JUNE 7, 2023
Trust account problems remain one of the top reasons attorneys are disciplined here in the US. And while there have been and will continue to be attorneys whose trust accounting activities are egregious and occasionally even criminal, such behaviors don’t account for all the problems. Sometimes it’s as simple as this. The subject attorney just wasn’t diligent about instituting or maintaining proper financial practices in the office and things simply got out of hand.
The Volokh Conspiracy
JUNE 4, 2023
Many people make dubious claims about Adam Smith's beliefs. The usual pattern is to claim that the economist was not really a wicked conservative (true) but a modern progressive (false). Three common claims are that Smith favored progressive taxation, public education, and government regulation of monopoly. Two are entirely, one partly, false. Progressive Taxation Smith's first maxim of taxation, from Wealth of Nations , is that the "subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the suppor
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Above The Law
JUNE 2, 2023
It's almost as if their commitment to free speech was entirely one-sided. The post Weird How Quiet The ‘Campus Free Speech Crisis’ Crowd Has Been About CUNY Law School appeared first on Above the Law.
LawSites
JUNE 6, 2023
In what appears to be the first use of generative AI directly within a legal CRM product, the cloud-based CRM platform Lawmatics is today launching a feature that allows lawyers to use AI to create and edit client emails and email marketing campaigns. Called LM[AI], the feature is powered by the latest commercial version of ChatGPT, which Lawmatics has further customized and built out to include capabilities specific to its platform.
The Process Street
JUNE 6, 2023
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The Volokh Conspiracy
JUNE 4, 2023
As inflation raised prices on all manner of goods throughout 2022, eggs earned special attention. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, the average price of a dozen eggs in urban areas rose from $1.92 in January 2022 to $4.82 in January 2023. Supply and demand explain the increase, but you wouldn't know that if you listened only to progressives.
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Above The Law
JUNE 5, 2023
These emails are incredibly inappropriate. Read at your own risk. The post Leaders Of Barber Ranen Exchanged Racist, Sexist, Antisemitic Emails For Years appeared first on Above the Law.
Law 360
JUNE 6, 2023
The U.S. Supreme Court will almost certainly be asked to weigh in on a lawsuit accusing retailer The Gap Inc. of deceiving investors about its commitment to diversity, and how the justices react could determine whether public companies can use forum selection clauses to opt out of federal derivative lawsuits, experts told Law360.
JURIST
JUNE 1, 2023
The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously found Thursday in Slack Technologies v. Pirani that federal securities law requires plaintiffs to prove their shares are directly traceable to misleading information in a registration statement in order to sue. Fiyyaz Pirani, an individual investor, sued Slack Technologies, an instant messaging app, after the stock price dropped.
ABA Journal
JUNE 5, 2023
Updated: Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith appears to be fighting back after two lawyers left with more than a hundred others last month to form…
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The Volokh Conspiracy
JUNE 5, 2023
Mark and Carol Brault, who own 114 acres of forested land in Hartland, Connecticut, operate a private nature preserve that charges admission to visitors interested in seeing bears and other wildlife. In a 2020 lawsuit, the town of Hartland accused Mark Brault of violating a local ordinance against feeding bears, a charge that he denies. The latest wrinkle in that ongoing dispute involves the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP), which the Braults say has defied th
Above The Law
JUNE 2, 2023
In case you were curious, the trucks ended up being fine. The post The Court’s Decision To Fill In The Facts On Employer’s Behalf Will Further Weaken Unions And Strikes appeared first on Above the Law.
Law 360
JUNE 5, 2023
Eight investor suits tied to the November 2022 collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX will go through pretrial proceedings in Miami, the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation decided on Monday despite opposition to the move by celebrities including retired NFL quarterback Tom Brady and his ex-wife, model Gisele Bündchen.
JURIST
JUNE 6, 2023
Ukrainian law students and young lawyers are reporting for JURIST on developments in and affecting Ukraine. This dispatch is from Polina Dvornikova, a law student at Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University in Kharkiv, Ukraine. This morning the Russian Federation deliberately destroyed the Kakhovka hydroelectric plant, resulting in international condemnation of the act as a clear war crime.
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