The Crime Report
JULY 14, 2022
In response to the recent Supreme Court ruling that New York’s laws requiring “proper cause” to obtain a gun carry permit violated the U.S. Constitution, Albany lawmakers have crafted the Concealed Carry Improvement Act to restrict the number of legally permitted guns in public effectively, but now authorities are wrestling with the details of where to enforce these new rules, reports The City.
JURIST
JULY 14, 2022
Former CIA Agent Joshua Schulte was convicted on espionage charges in federal court Wednesday for providing national defense information to the website Wikileaks. Schulte was charged in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York back in 2018 with a 13 count superseding indictment which included espionage charges, child pornography charges, and a copyright infringement charge, among others.
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Patently O
JULY 14, 2022
By Jason Rantanen. There are lots of studies of Federal Circuit decisions, but very few involve the link between all cases filed at the district court cases and appeals. This prompted the question for me: who actually files appeals in patent infringement cases and how representative are they of the underlying civil actions filed in the courts? It turns out that the answer is “mostly patent asserters” and that they aren’t necessarily representative of case filings.
JURIST
JULY 14, 2022
Meta, the parent company of sites such as Facebook and Instagram, Thursday released its first human rights report. The report comes amid criticism of Meta’s handling of a variety of issues on their sites. The report identified six fundamental rights that present “salient risks” including the right to freedom of expression and opinion; right to privacy; right to life, liberty and security of person; right to equality and non discrimination; best interests of the child; and right
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JULY 14, 2022
“Supreme Court’s pro-Second Amendment ruling will create ‘a tsunami’ of gun control challenges”: Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times has this report.
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ABA Journal
JULY 14, 2022
The Indiana lawyer who drafted a model law to ban abortion tells Politico that the pregnant 10-year-old girl who came to his state for…
JURIST
JULY 14, 2022
Twitter sued billionaire and CEO of Tesla Motors Elon Musk Tuesday in an effort to force him to complete his US$44 billion acquisition of the social media company. In April Twitter’s board of directors accepted Musk’s offer to purchase the social media platform for $44 billion, at $54.20 a share. Lawyers for Twitter filed a lawsuit in the Delaware Court of Chancery on Tuesday after Musk’s lawyers wrote to Twitter and stated that Musk wished to terminate the acquisition agreem
Above The Law
JULY 14, 2022
Stupidest timeline. The post Rudy Giuliani Cites Hilariously Discredited ‘2000 Mules’ Film As Reason He Can’t Be Disbarred appeared first on Above the Law.
JURIST
JULY 14, 2022
The Supreme Court of India Thursday dismissed a writ petition seeking an independent investigation into alleged extra-judicial killings of tribal people in villages in Chhattisgarh state. The writ petition, filed in 2009, alleged that state security forces, including the Chhattisgarh Police and paramilitary forces, were responsible for the deaths of villagers during anti-Naxalite operations that took place in September 2009 and October 2009 in the area.
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HowAppealing
JULY 14, 2022
“Indiana Dr. Caitlin Bernard reported 10-year-old Ohio girl’s abortion, records show”: Tony Cook of The Indianapolis Star has this report. And online at The New York Times, columnist Michelle Goldberg has an essay titled “ A 10-Year-Old Endures the Predictable Result of an Abortion Ban.
JURIST
JULY 14, 2022
A Tokyo District Court on Wednesday found four former executives of the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) responsible for operating the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant liable for its 2011 meltdown. The court ordered the four defendants to pay damages of around 13 trillion Yen (US$ 94 billion) to TEPCO shareholders for negligence and failure to exercise due care in preventing the disaster.
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JULY 14, 2022
“Which ‘Liberal Case’ For a Conservative Supreme Court Nominee Aged Worst? Presenting the ‘liberal’s case’ for never listening to Neal Katyal again.” Adam Rust has this post at Balls and Strikes.
Above The Law
JULY 14, 2022
The growing popularity of cannabis products, combined with the lack of a universal testing protocol, has sprung up the need for testing labs to help meet quality, safety, and labeling requirements for legalized cannabis products. The post A Uniform Testing Scheme: A Critical Component To The Cannabis Industry’s Success appeared first on Above the Law.
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JULY 14, 2022
“The Right to Travel in a Post-Roe World; In a concurring opinion last month, Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh said the Constitution did not allow states to stop women from traveling to get abortions; But the issue is more complicated than that”: Adam Liptak had this new installment of his “Sidebar” column in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.
Above The Law
JULY 14, 2022
Dan Synder Is Trying To Outrun A Subpoena: He's taken to international waters. This Is Petty, Not A Litigation Strategy: But -- honest question -- who wants to go see the Knicks anymore? This Reads Like A Soap Opera: But, no, it's reality. Women And Law School: Go together like peanut butter and jelly. Google's Looking To Ditch Tinder: Maybe there's an app for that?
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JULY 14, 2022
“Abortion advocates see opportunity in ascent of religious liberty; Religion can be as strong a basis to safeguard abortion access as to ban the procedure”: Kelsey Reichmann of Courthouse News Service has this report.
Broadcast Law Blog
JULY 14, 2022
When providing briefings on FCC issues at a number of broadcast conventions in the past few months, I find that broadcasters are most often surprised by the relatively new FCC rule that requires that they verify that any buyer of programming time on their station is not an agent of a foreign government. This week, the burden that this rule (about which we wrote here ) imposed on broadcasters was eased, when a Court overturned one aspect of the obligations imposed by the FCC.
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HowAppealing
JULY 14, 2022
“Prison Labor Rights in Focus as 3rd Cir. Hears $5-a-Day Pay Case”: Robert Iafolla of Bloomberg Law has a report that begins, “A federal appeals court in Philadelphia will hear oral argument Thursday over whether to revive a class lawsuit alleging a Pennsylvania county prison’s work program amounts to forced labor in violation of state and federal law and the US Constitution.” I will add a link to the archived oral argument audio once the U.S.
The Crime Report
JULY 14, 2022
Protest following Roe v Wade decision. Photo via Guardian. Despite the June 24 ruling by the United States Supreme Court, which officially reversed Roe v. Wade, in the eyes of many Americans, abortion remains a flexible issue. According to the Brookings Institution , “between 25 percent and 35 percent of Americans think that abortion should always be legal, 10 percent to 15 percent think it should never be legal, and the remaining 50 percent to 65 percent are split between those who think that
HowAppealing
JULY 14, 2022
“National Right to Life official: 10-year-old should have had baby; The story has sparked a national conversation over the consequences of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and how far some states are willing to go to prohibit abortions.” Megan Messerly and Adam Wren of Politico have a report that begins, “The 10-year-old Ohio girl who crossed state lines to receive an abortion in Indiana should have carried her pregnancy to term and would be required t
Above The Law
JULY 14, 2022
It just keeps going. The post South Carolina Attorney Indicted For Murder Of Wife And Son On Top Of The ‘Embezzlement, Money Laundering, Hitman, Insurance Plot, Oxy’ Stuff appeared first on Above the Law.
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JULY 14, 2022
“The abortion decision — ‘concern about the public’s reaction’ and what difference Clinton’s election might have made”: Russell Wheeler has this post at the “FixGov” blog of the Brookings Institution.
Above The Law
JULY 14, 2022
Putting a greater focus on mental health in law school doesn't seem to have paid off. The post Law Students Are Struggling With Anxiety And Depression At Higher Rates Than In The Past appeared first on Above the Law.
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JULY 14, 2022
“LGBTQ Activists Are Quietly Preparing For A Nightmare: The Supreme Court Undoing Marriage Equality; ‘It’s exhausting to even think about trying to do this again in the environment that we’re in now,’ one LGBTQ campaigner said.” David Mack of BuzzFeed News has this report.
Above The Law
JULY 14, 2022
A humble suggestion. The post Dan Snyder Ducking Subpoena In A Yacht And If This Is What It Takes To Keep Him From Ever Coming Back To America, I’m All For It appeared first on Above the Law.
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