JURIST

OCTOBER 24, 2021

The Court on Friday concluded that email services are different from conventional telecommunication providers in Switzerland, and thus, should not be subject to the same kinds of data storage requirements. The post Proton successfully appeals government surveillance obligations appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 7, 2021

District Judge Xavier Rodriguez for the Western District of Texas ruled that the Air Force was legally at fault for the 2017 mass shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas by Devin Patrick Kelley. The court ruled that. There was a remarkable decision by a Texas federal judge this week when U.S.

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JURIST

APRIL 23, 2021

.” In January, a different panel of judges at the same court excluded the application of the principle where crimes against humanity and war crimes are concerned, and ordered the Japanese government to award about $90,000 each to the 12 plaintiffs in that suit. ” The plaintiffs are likely to appeal the ruling. .”

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JURIST

JANUARY 28, 2021

The criminal code previously criminalized women who had abortions, either performed by others or by the women themselves, with penalties of up to three years in prison and a 6,000 Baht fine. The post Thailand parliament amends criminal code to allow early term abortions appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 29, 2022

In overturning the death sentence, the Supreme Court ruled that the Sixth Amendment guarantees a defendant the right to choose the objective of his defense and to insist that his counsel refrain from admitting guilt. After McCoy , Tyler unsuccessfully sought relief in Louisiana state courts. In Tyler v. Ballance v.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

I have a legal education.” Criminal laws are supposed to be interpreted narrowly. It is called the “rule of lenity” and has been around in the English system for centuries. For example, in 1547, the court was faced with a law making it a felony of steal “Horses, Geldings or Mares.”

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The Lafarge case highlights the stakes of transnational criminal law and its interplay with private international law. Interactions between criminal jurisdiction and conflict of laws. A flexible interpretation including foreign law would lead to a (too) broad extension of French courts’ criminal jurisdiction.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 19, 2021

In 2009, the New York courts ruled that Metro workers were not legally required to assist a woman being raped at a station. In torts, there is no duty to rescue rule. That was the holding in the famous ruling in Yania v. Bigan , 397 Pa. 316, 155 A.2d Cf: Restatement, Torts, § 322. .

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Paralegal Bootcamp

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Talking about disciplinary actions and what we could legally do for disciplinary actions versus what we couldn’t do. Criminal law is a big thing. The biggest thing with compliance is what is the intent of the law. .” They don’t have any legal documentation that states it. Download Now Q.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 21, 2021

The incident has strikingly similar legal issues to the shooting of Adam Toledo in Chicago. The shooting of Ma’Khia Bryant, 16, in Columbus, Ohio has sparked protests despite the police releasing a videotape that appeared to show Bryant moving to stab another girl.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 3, 2023

The EU Parliament has thereby backed the compromise text reached by its legal affairs committee on 25 April 2023. 22 CSDDD is their mandatory nature for the purpose of private international law, which established by the ECJ for the former and is legally prescribed for the latter in Art. Common to Arts. 22 (5) CSDDD.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

The court ruled that Georgia’s prior citizen’s arrest law is only applicable if a person sees a felony committed and acts without delay. The ruling could be “outcome determinative” in the case by stripping away the core defense that these men were chasing a person suspected of a series of crimes over the last year.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 10, 2021

Her parents, Angela Rodriguez and Adan Rodriguez, sued Lasting Hope and Benton’s employer, University of Nebraska Medical Center Physicians, but the Nebraska Supreme Court affirmed the dismissal of the action due to a lack of any legal duty to warn or protect the girlfriend. Loyd was later found incompetent to stand trial.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 3, 2021

At the time, I wrote that if someone sued over the resulting mayhem, Durkan and Seattle could find themselves clinging to the very legal doctrine they denounced in police brutality cases: immunity. In 1855, the Supreme Court ruled in South v. That has now happened with a number of state and federal lawsuits.

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LegalTalkNetwork

JULY 3, 2019

All in all our convention coverage spanned 15 episode with 26 participants including Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice Charles T Canady, Florida Bar President-Elect Dori Foster-Morales, and return guests like Denis deVlaming and Kevin Johnson. Legal Talk Network (@LegalTalkNet) June 26, 2019. MyFloridaBar pic.twitter.com/T6FRVCwELH.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This assessment was confirmed by J.Pete Blair, who reviewed over 100 false confession cases in his study “A Test of the Unusual False Confession Perspective: Using Cases of Proven False Confessions” ( Criminal Law Bulletin Vol. In 1969 the Supreme Court ruled in Frazier v. 1, Number 2).

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JURIST

APRIL 30, 2024

Law students and law graduates in Pakistan are reporting for JURIST on events in that country impacting its legal system. Abu Bakar Khan is a final year law student at University Law College, University of the Punjab. He files this dispatch from Lahore.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 25, 2021

In Re: The Petition To Summon A Grand Jury the court ruled in favor of Steven Davis in forcing the empanelment of a grand jury to investigate Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach and others for allegedly engaging in various election crimes.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 26, 2024

It has been almost 50 years since the high court ruled presidents have absolute immunity from civil lawsuits in Nixon v. The court held ex-President Richard Nixon had such immunity for acts taken “within the ‘outer perimeter’ of his official responsibility.” Fitzgerald. Yet in 1974’s United States v.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Days was a member of the Yale Law faculty for more than three decades and led the Supreme Court and appellate practice at Morrison & Foerster from 1997 to 2011. Even if she had never become a judge, Ruth Bader Ginsburg would have been a giant of the legal profession. In June, the court ruled in R.G. &

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 25, 2021

Supreme Court ruled against a provision of federal law that banned computer simulations and virtual pornography under the first amendment. the Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press. This is such a case in my view.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 11, 2021

That law was struck down in United States v. The Court ruled that “the Government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable.”. The petition is obviously lawful and itself a form of protected speech. Eichman , 496 U.S. 310 (1990).

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Trump also appears to be relying on a legal advice defense (as he has with the challenge to the 2020 election and Jan. He makes direct reference to being given different accounts of the controlling law. If a president could declassify with a thought, he could literally declassify every document in the possession of the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 3, 2021

One question will be the legal status of McGee and whether he constitutes a public figure. The Supreme Court has held that public figure status applies when someone “thrust[s] himself into the vortex of [the] public issue [and] engage[s] the public’s attention in an attempt to influence its outcome.” Kirk , 273 So. 2d 774, 777 (Fla.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Now, MSNBC legal analyst and Michigan Law Professor Barbara McQuade has gone one better. However, I know of no case that would impose this affirmative duty on Tribe as a criminal legal matter. Indeed, such a use of the speech would contradict controlling Supreme Court precedent. In Brandenburg v.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 19, 2021

Moreover, they would fail under a lower standard of proof than the “beyond a reasonable doubt” standard in criminal law. Such a result would eviscerate the claim that Trump was guilty of criminal incitement in his speech. Trump was clearly guilty of criminal incitement.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 8, 2022

According to the Seattle Times , Inslee declared that “it should not be legal in the state of Washington for elected officials or candidates for office to willfully lie about these election results.” Such a criminal law would be ripe for abuse and would create a chilling effect that would be positively glacial.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 13, 2021

The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press. The Court sought to create “breathing space” for the media by articulating that standard that now applies to both public officials and public figures. Either possibility is unsettling.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 17, 2022

There is also no compelling legal basis for the claim. Indeed, such a claim would contradict controlling Supreme Court precedent. ” I guess there is no doubt. Nevertheless, Tribe is promising more if needed: “There are other crimes that have been proven. Those are plenty to start with.”. In Brandenburg v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 26, 2022

The Supreme Court, in an opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts, unanimously rejected that position and held that the ministerial exception applied. The other cases Kruger argued touched on a wide range of issues, from the Sixth Amendment’s confrontation clause and right to counsel to federal “career criminal” laws and federal benefits laws.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 15, 2022

However, the lack of factual foundation for the challenge (cited repeatedly by Judge Carter in the Trump challenge) did not make this a criminal or fraudulent effort. Holding such a legal view is not a crime and sharing that view with the White House is not a conspiracy. While they did not riot in Congress, they committed other crimes.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Here is the column: With the acquittal of former President Donald Trump in the Senate, many are calling for criminal charges for everything from incitement to racketeering to bank fraud. Criminal incitement. That was strange given the insistence by legal experts that the crime was public and obvious on Jan. In Brandenburg v.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Trump was about to sign his travel ban and had sent the draft to the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, an office ordinarily given considerable deference on the legality of policies and orders. The career staff at the OLC had found that the order was legal and within Trump’s authority. The order was constitutional.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 31, 2021

Eric Swalwell against former President Donald Trump as a serious miscalculation that could result in a legal vindication for Trump either on the trial or appellate levels. In my view, the lawsuit contravenes free speech as well as controlling case law from the Supreme Court. I recently wrote about the lawsuit by Rep.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 20, 2022

There is justifiable anger over these accounts but this hearing was billed as presenting the case for criminal charged. Of course, to raise obvious legal barriers to prosecution today is to invite an Internet flash mob accusing you for being an insurrectionist or fellow traveler. It missed that mark by a considerable measure.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 6, 2022

However, I have long maintained that there was no evidence to support a criminal charge against Trump for incitement. Yet, a year ago, various legal experts declared that Trump should be charged based on his speech and his delay in calling for protesters to leave Capitol Hill. Rudy Giuliani and U.S. .” It is all too familiar.

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