JURIST

JUNE 3, 2022

Myanmar law students are reporting for JURIST on challenges to the rule of law in their country under the military junta that deposed the civilian government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021. Here, one of our correspondents reports on a junta court’s conviction of a Magway University law student to 20 years imprisonment.

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JURIST

JULY 11, 2021

The Supreme Court of India on Thursday rejected Facebook’s plea to quash the summons issued by the Delhi Legislative Assembly’s Committee on Peace and Harmony for inquiry related to the Delhi riots in February 2020. The court said that the legislative powers of the assembly cannot be confined to only enacting laws.

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JURIST

MAY 31, 2022

The US Supreme Court Tuesday rejected three Texas legislators’ emergency application to stay depositions that they are scheduled to give in redistricting lawsuits filed by multiple plaintiffs, including the US Department of Justice. ” The legislators then sought the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit’s review.

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

General Motors LLC has urged the Georgia Supreme Court to adopt what it calls a widely accepted discovery framework that would shield its CEO from being deposed in a widower's product liability case.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Deposed Myanmar civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been charged by Myanmar police with failing to abide by COVID-19 restrictions under the country’s Natural Disaster Management Law, according to her lawyer Khin Maung Zaw on Tuesday. A crowd of protestors of all ages could be seen fleeing in terror from police prior to the beating.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

As a result of the decision, attorneys for Piazza’s parents cannot depose Brendan Young and Daniel Casey and prepare for trial. Young and Casey are still awaiting a ruling by the state Superior Court on an appeal of a 2018 ruling that suppressed certain cell phone evidence in the criminal hazing case.

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JURIST

JANUARY 8, 2024

TRIAL International informed on Thursday that Ousman Sonko, a former Gambian Minister of Interior, will be tried by the Swiss Federal Criminal Court (FCC) in Bellinzona on January 8, 2024, and the trial will last till January 30. It ousted its long-time dictator, Jammeh, who had been ruling Gambia since 1994.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The Georgia Supreme Court will review whether the CEO of General Motors can be deposed in a Georgia widower's product liability suit, in a case that could change how top corporate brass are treated in state court.

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Law 360

MARCH 17, 2023

Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday asked a California federal court to sanction Volkswagen for refusing to let the agency depose a key employee in litigation over the automaker's so-called defeat devices, which allowed thousands of "Clean Diesel" vehicles to cheat emissions tests.

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

A Georgia widower has opposed a renewed motion by General Motors LLC to shield its CEO, Mary Barra, from being deposed in his product liability and wrongful death suit, after the Georgia Supreme Court denied GM's attempt to stop her deposition.

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Law 360

JUNE 16, 2021

A Georgia appeals court recently allowed a plaintiff to depose General Motors' CEO, in a blow to the apex doctrine's protections for high-ranking executives, but measures before and during discovery can reduce corporate leaders' exposure in such cases, say attorneys at DLA Piper.

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Law 360

DECEMBER 20, 2022

As recently noted by a New York federal court, Rule 30(b)(6) allows for testimony from someone deposed as both corporate representative and in their individual capacity on topics outside of personal knowledge but within a corporation's collective knowledge — and dual deposition notices create unique prep issues, say Jennifer Filippazzo and Lauren Evans (..)

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JURIST

JUNE 28, 2023

A three-member International Criminal Court (ICC) panel authorized the ICC prosecutor’s office to continue its crimes against humanity investigation in Venezuela on Tuesday over Venezuela’s objections. million people to leave Venezuela between 2014 and 2018.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 4, 2021

This fall, Georgia courts are contending with questions about whether the CEO of General Motors can be deposed in a civil case stemming from a car wreck and considering state duty-to-warn laws in a $200 million injury case. Here, Law360 breaks down four Georgia cases attorneys should be watching.

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Law 360

JULY 6, 2021

Georgia appeals courts have upended decades of precedent on how attorneys can appeal trial rulings, freed employers and landowners from liability in high-dollar personal injury cases and refused to narrow the window for high ranking corporate executives to be deposed, in their most significant rulings of the year to date.

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Law 360

JUNE 14, 2021

In the wake of the Georgia Court of Appeals' recent ruling in General Motors v.

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LawTechnologyToday

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Laurie Berg, a court reporter in New Hampshire, reminded me that in 2014 she received certification for a new software program for introducing exhibits electronically. Court orders allowing stenographers to swear in witnesses without being in their presence effectively disallow motions to postpone. Remember early 2020?

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Myanmar law students are reporting for JURIST on challenges to the rule of law in their country under the military junta that deposed the civilian government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February. Instead, they go with suggestions from court clerks. Many corrupt court clerks make deals with lawyers to bring clients.

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The Cloud Court Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

of federal civil matters are resolved at trial[i] Litigators always depose witnesses before a trial – if there is a trial You will almost never depose a witness more than once – so you get one shot to take or defend that deposition well But why do depositions matter more? It’s not just an aphorism. Let’s take a step back.

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JURIST

MARCH 5, 2021

JURIST EXCLUSIVE – International concern grew Friday for Myanmar lawyers and law students arbitrarily detained in the wake of the February 1 military coup that deposed the civilian government and prompted mass pro-democracy street demonstrations that continue despite the killing of over 50 protestors by security forces in the last two weeks.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Myanmar law students are reporting for JURIST on challenges to the rule of law in their country under the military junta that deposed the civilian government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February. Yesterday [Thursday, 16 Dec 2021], I went to Mandalay district court (located bet. When we reached the courtroom, the hearing was already started.

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Attorney at Work

MAY 28, 2022

They may call you or your client names, or make implied or overt threats (such as going to the court, or serving discovery requests that will make your life unbearable). This creates a record that you can later use as a submission to the court, if necessary. If they persist, however, make a statement on the record.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 3, 2022

Share The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that information about the federal government’s post-9/11 torture program at CIA “black sites” is protected by the “state secrets privilege,” a doctrine that allows the government to withhold information in litigation when disclosing it would compromise national security. The Supreme Court agreed.

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Day on Torts

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Where an HCLA plaintiff’s expert testified at his deposition that he was not very familiar with Kingsport and that he had only reviewed information about Kingsport the night before the deposition, rather than before forming his medical opinions, the trial court did not err by excluding the expert based on the locality rule. In Jackson v.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The government has contended that the information is protected by the “state secrets” privilege, a doctrine that allows the government to withhold information in litigation when disclosing it would compromise national security, and by the time the lawyer representing the detainee sat down on Wednesday the court seemed inclined to agree.

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Attorney at Work

JULY 27, 2022

Most of us do this to protect people and give them a voice and their day in court. I depose and cross-examine several experts in engineering. You need to study. Studying does not end when you graduate and pass the bar. If I don’t study engineering, they can run circles around me.

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Day on Torts

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Defendant deposed Dr. Gunnerson as an adverse expert witness, then filed a motion for summary judgment, asserting that there was “no causal connection between any alleged negligence by [defendant] and any injury, including death, to [the patient].” The Court of Appeals, however, disagreed with this interpretation.

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 11, 2023

In Yin v Wu [2023] VSCA 130 , the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Victoria set aside a judgment [1] which had affirmed the enforcement a Chinese judgment by an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. [2] On 13 October 2017, Wu commenced a proceeding against Yin in the Ningbo People’s Court.

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Patently O

MAY 2, 2024

Second, the court held that substantial evidence supported the TTAB’s finding that Framboise established priority through prior use of its design mark: The Board’s determination that Framboise established its prior use of the #TODECACHO design mark was supported by substantial evidence. ” The court cited Powermatics, Inc.

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The Fashion Law

JULY 19, 2021

District Court for the Central District of California states that the parties “agreed to a settlement in principle and will finalize the outstanding matters before the pretrial conference scheduled for July 16, 2021, with the district judge.” In response to Fashion Nova’s request that the court compel Ms. Versace to testify.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Supreme Court heard oral arguments in person for the first time in more than 18 months. Abu Zubaydah is seeking to depose two CIA contractors who allegedly supervised his “enhanced interrogation” at secret CIA dark sites in Poland. Below is a brief summary of the other cases before the Court: Wooden v. Last week, the U.S.

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The Estrin Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Recently, defense counsel was deposing one of my clients, who was at home testifying on Zoom. Most people worked remotely in some capacity during COVID and some court proceedings were handled virtually and guess what? It’s amazing the results you get when you invite yourself over to someone’s house for dinner and a deposition!

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Above The Law

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Fox News Is In Court. The post Can’t Depose This Columbia Law Professor Anymore — See Also appeared first on Above the Law. Can't Work Under These Conditions: Bar applicant wants money after poor proctoring. Will AI Make VIPs?: This firm leader think so. Again: This time it’s alleged that they hate Democrats.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 13, 2023

The illegal destruction of disciplinary records can make it harder to hold deputies accountable in a court of law, or track problem officers moving from department to department, said Sam Walker, emeritus professor of criminal justice at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. That history is now unavailable because JPSO destroyed it.”.

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JURIST

JULY 18, 2023

Myanmar law students are reporting for JURIST on challenges to the rule of law in their country under the military junta that deposed the civilian government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021. The courts have ordered her imprisonment for a maximum term of 33 years in connection with these 19 cases.

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The Cloud Court Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

That obsession extends to deposition data as well as to the psychology of the players involved: the attorneys taking and defending depositions; the witnesses being deposed; as well as the court reporters. I’m fascinated by these people and their often-predictable behaviors.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 17, 2023

Below is my column in the Hill on the opposition to the Supreme Court’s opinion declaring the use of race in admissions to be unconstitutional. Under the preexisting standards for the use of race in admissions, schools spent decades assuring the courts that race was not being weighed heavily and had only marginal effects on admissions.

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