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Paralegal Roles in Other Countries

Paralegal Bootcamp

They are responsible for: Drafting documents/agreements Corresponding with clients Meeting with clients for the signing of documents Legal Research Using eDiscovery software Representing individuals in small matters Administrative duties. One website in France calls a Law Clerk a, “Second-in-Command Lawyer.” Education/Certification.

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SCOTUS Rules FOIA Exception Applies to Environmental Opinion

Constitutional Law Reporter

Supreme Court held that the deliberative process privilege provides protection from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to in-house draft biological opinions that are both predecisional and deliberative, even if the drafts reflect the agencies’ last views about a proposal. Supreme Court’s Decision.

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SCOTUS Kicks Off February Sitting With Oral Arguments in Three Cases

Constitutional Law Reporter

In 1987, following years of negotiation and drafting, the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo and Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas secured restoration of their trust relationships with the federal government through the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo and Alabama-Coushatta Indian Tribes of Texas Restoration Act (Restoration Act). .” Ysleta del Sur Pueblo v.

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Clarence Thomas: “When Someone Uses Stare Decisis that Means They’re Out of Arguments”

JonathanTurley

After denouncing the recent leak of the draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. If a justice does not believe that the right of abortion is well-founded in the Constitution, I do not believe that this principle should compel him or her to vote to preserve that erroneous precedent. Planned Parenthood of Se.

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Halakha Challenge: Three Kentucky Women Argue Abortion Law “Imposed Sectarian Theology on Jews.”

JonathanTurley

Dobbs was based on the view that the Constitution does not contain a right to abortion, not that such a right is barred under the religious clauses. The law is not a model of legislative drafting. I do not share the view that the law, despite its poor drafting, makes “IVF … legally dangerous if not impossible.”

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Cherry-picked history and ideology-driven outcomes: Bruen’s originalist distortions

SCOTUSBlog

Bruen invokes the authority of history but presents a version of the past that is little more than an ideological fantasy, much of it invented by gun-rights advocates and their libertarian allies in the legal academy with the express purpose of bolstering litigation such as Bruen. Justice Samuel Alito recognized this fact in McDonald v.

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South Carolina Legislators Move to Criminalize Sharing Abortion Information

JonathanTurley

Of course, it is easy to introduce legislation but it is important to flag such excessive laws before they are replicated in other states. Indeed, the provision was reportedly based on model legislation drafted by the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC). ” The analogy to organized crime will not sustain such a law.

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