Paralegal Bootcamp

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Legal Research and Writing In my first year of studying Paralegal Studies, my school provided us with Westlaw/LexisNexis (legal research software) that we used for legal research purposes. Understanding Legal Procedures I was exposed to multiple areas of law such as Civil Litigation, Criminal Law, Business law, etc.,

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

In his dissent, Circuit Judge Amul Roger Thapar wrote the reasons ban should have been upheld because “its causation requirement – ‘because of’ mirrors scores of federal and state statutes. Indeed, hundreds of criminal laws have exactly the same causation requirement…Are they all now up for grabs?”.

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JURIST

MAY 9, 2022

Law students and young lawyers in Ukraine are filing for JURIST on developments and legal issues arising as the country defends itself against Russian invasion. Furthermore, the number of states that have ratified the Rome Statute is still quite frustrating.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Should the ICC agree to the investigation, the complaint would test the limits of the Rome Statute on its ability to cover deaths related to environmental destruction and the purposeful exacerbation of climate change. The Rome Statute lays out the “crimes against humanity” for which the ICC is its sole adjudicator.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 27, 2022

Describing three Minneapolis officers who watched their colleague Derek Chauvin murder George Floyd as a deadly case of “police bystanderism,” University of Houston Law Prof. Kaufman writes that Congress and state legislatures should enact criminal laws mandating a “duty to intervene” in their colleagues’ misuse of force.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Supreme Court’s Decision The Supreme Court reversed by a vote of 7-2, holding that because §1324(a)(1)(A)(iv) forbids only the purposeful solicitation and facilitation of specific acts known to violate federal law, the clause is not unconstitutionally overbroad. Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote on behalf of the majority.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 5, 2021

As states slowly started to legalize and decriminalize certain drugs, authorities have moved to less punitive approaches to address the social costs of addiction. Gun possession has remained a target at the forefront of the push to criminalize dangerous markets and dangerous behavior,” Levin wrote. “My

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JURIST

AUGUST 10, 2021

According to APIB legal coordinator Eloy Terena: “We believe there are acts in progress in Brazil that constitute crimes against humanity, genocide and ecocide. The post Indigenous group asks ICC to investigate Brazil president for crimes against humanity appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary.

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LLRX

OCTOBER 31, 2023

In a time of wild claims and counterclaims, the subject of the Law of Armed Conflict, (LOAC), often referred to as International Humanitarian Law (IHL) or the Law of War (LOW), is a topical subject. There are no codified statutes or well-organized case law of the types familiar to most U.S. researchers and lawyers.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The judges further stated that the ICC retained jurisdiction for alleged crimes that occurred while the Philippines was a member of the ICC and bound by the Rome Statute. The post ICC approves formal investigation into Philippines ‘war on drugs’ appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The ICC prosecutor’s office did defer the investigation, as required by the Rome Statute , but continued to work closely with Afghan authorities with a view of “sharing the burden of the investigation.” However, the government of Afghanistan at that time had asked his office to defer the investigation to them.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 24, 2023

Defending the constitutionality of the law, the government’s central contention is that the statutory terms “encourages” and “induces” should be interpreted narrowly as meaning to “facilitate” or “solicit,”concepts with defined meanings in criminal law.

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JURIST

AUGUST 28, 2021

The post ICC Appeals Chamber affirms decision continuing pre-trial detention of Sudan militia leader appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary.

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JURIST

JUNE 9, 2021

convictions and life sentence appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary. for his “leading and grave role” in the commission of these crimes. will remain in custody of the IRMCT until transferred to another country to serve his sentence. The post UN court confirms Ratko Mladi?

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

However, the most damaging moment came outside of the presence of the jury when the judge drilled down on the law. He told the prosecutors “I have been wrestling with this statute with, I’d hate to count the hours I’ve put into it, I’m still trying to figure out what it says, what’s prohibited. I have a legal education.”

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FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Gaulkin — We previously blogged about Pfizer’s copay assistance lawsuit, which sought to challenge HHS’s interpretation of the Federal health care program anti-kickback statute (AKS) and position that the company’s proposed copay assistance program would violate the AKS. By Sophia R. Pfizer’s Petition to SCOTUS.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 8, 2022

I also wanted to find out whether there was any correlation between the tremendously bad criminal justice outcomes that we have in this country and the number of cases that we resolve by guilty plea. TCR: The first part of your book focuses on the roots of the current legal system in English Common. And I think that the answer is yes.

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At the Lectern

JANUARY 3, 2021

to settle an important question of law.” But offering the court an important legal issue is not alone enough to get a case heard. The contested legality of a statute making a significant change to the state’s criminal law, that’s certainly “an important question of law.”

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JonathanTurley

MAY 24, 2022

That is defined below under New Jersey statute. 3)An actor employing protective force may estimate the necessity of using force when the force is used, without retreating, surrendering possession, withdrawing or doing any other act which he has no legal duty to do or abstaining from any lawful action. 2C:3-5, N.J.S.2C:3-9,

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 23, 2024

It evidently has not stopped claimants from seeking enforcement of punitive damage awards in other civil law legal systems. Rademacher then analysed whether punitive elements could be found in German tort law. Cedric Vanleenhove (University of Ghent) gave a paper on “Punitive Damages and Public Policy”. However, Jovanovi?

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JURIST

DECEMBER 12, 2020

And while this does not foreclose the possibility for the authorities to conduct relevant and genuine proceedings, it does mean that, as things stand, the requirements under the Statute are met for my Office to proceed. Beginning investigations would require authorization from the judges of the Pre-Trial Chamber of the ICC.

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JURIST

AUGUST 14, 2023

This dispatch is from Samar Veer, a third-year law student at National Law University, Delhi. Union Home Minister Amit Shah introduced three new bills in the Lok Sabha (lower house of Indian Parliament) Friday that are set to replace three existing statutes that largely form the core of the Indian criminal justice system.

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FDA Law Blog

AUGUST 26, 2021

However, a good faith effort by the company to comply with applicable statutes and regulations as well as federal health care program requirements, demonstrated by an effective compliance program, significantly reduces the risk of unlawful conduct and any penalties that result from such behavior.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 1, 2023

The challengers noted that the same outfit prohibited for drag performers under the law would be entirely legal for cheerleaders or other women in public events. The vagueness problems could be reduced by limiting the scope to adult entertainment settings.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 22, 2024

Adelson and Markel married in 2006 when she was a third-year law student at the University of Miami and he was a criminal law professor at FSU. This case rocked the legal academic community. First a recap to bring you back up to speed. ” She is now charged with first-degree murder and solicitation of murder.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 28, 2022

As a result, most of eastern Oklahoma is now understood to be Indian country — a development that, according to the state, has disrupted the criminal justice system there. Castro-Huerta ’s legal issues are narrower than those in McGirt. federal enclaves).

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

” The Oklahoma Supreme Court last week struck down a $465 million opioid award against Johnson & Johnson based on a legal theory that has previously been tried and failed against guns. Judge Polster pushed drug makers to settle before clearly establishing legal liability. Yet it leaves the matter far from resolved.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 21, 2021

The incident has strikingly similar legal issues to the shooting of Adam Toledo in Chicago. Garner addressed a fleeing unarmed suspects and found the state statute too broad: The use of deadly force to prevent the escape of all felony suspects, whatever the circumstances, is constitutionally unreasonable. Garner , 471 U.S. In Graham v.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Now, the activist with Direct Action Everywhere has filed a police report and is threatening legal action. The common law allowed for citizen arrests as members of the public responded to the “hue and cry” of others. This would not amount to a common law version of “roughing the protester.”

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Most recently, the “ Dark Biden ” emerged as his legal team pledged to attack witnesses and critics against him. If he recalls these events and messages, he will not only contradict prior denials but face potential criminal charges for any factual misrepresentations. Hunter the Hunted.

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MyCase

AUGUST 25, 2023

What Is Criminal Justice Technology? Criminal justice technology refers to hardware and software applications that streamline the investigation and prevention of crime and the legal representation of criminal defendants. Case Management Case management is an important area of criminal law software.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The referral shows how such ambiguous statutes undermine free speech. Sheriff Murphy seemed to acknowledge that he is pushing the legal envelope on this referral but said that he has lost his patience: “We have done our share of these, trying to get some clear understanding of the line for criminal charges vs free speech.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

It not only allows a criminal charge for anyone who intentionally refuses or fails to perform any lawfully required duty, but also allows a charge for permitting any other public employee to fail to do so. The statute itself reads like criminalized negligence. Amended by Acts 1980, No. 454, §1; Acts 2002, 1st Ex. 811, §1, eff.

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Conflict of Laws

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

criminal law as “an extreme abuse,” China applies its criminal law extraterritorially on all the bases that the United States employs. Each of these bases for jurisdiction to prescribe is consistent with customary international law , and China has the right to extend its criminal law extraterritorially like this.

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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. ” Id.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 13, 2021

A story in Houston has everything you would want in a legal controversy: a murder, a mysterious figure known only as “D”, a missing Bengal tiger named India and even Carole Baskin of Tiger King fame. The Lacey Act and other federal wildlife statutes could be charged for such conduct.

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The Crime Report

JULY 19, 2021

Capitol, elected officials and terrorism experts revived previous calls for Congress to pass a domestic terrorism statute that would empower the federal government to investigate and pursue white supremacists and other domestic terrorists with the same tools it uses to go after international terrorism. Legal Landscape of Domestic Terrorism.

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