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SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

India’s Allahabad High Court Sunday issued notice to the government of Uttar Pradesh regarding the grossly misconducted magisterial inquiry into the death of a prisoner in May. The court held that the inquiry was a “dereliction of duty and gross abuse of power, affecting the rule of law.” The petitioner’s father, Sudhakar Prasad Dubey, was arrested on May 12 by the Collection Amin and the Tehsildar (Revenue Officer) and was kept in the revenue lock-up in Robertsganj, Utta

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The Estrin Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

by Sonya Sigler. Have you seen a colleague get promoted over you and wondered why? Or thought to yourself, ‘What are they doing that I’m not?’. The truth of the matter is that they know how to self-promote. I know, we’ve all been given messages that self-promotion is bad, or it feels icky and profoundly uncomfortable. That means we don’t do it, or we avoid it, or if we attempt it, we do it awkwardly.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Law360 Sunday released a study showing only a moderate increase in the number of female lawyers working in law firms, despite the efforts to improve diversity, equity and inclusion. Currently, only 38.9 percent of law firm attorneys are women, and only 27 percent of female attorneys are partners. According to Law360, these figures are “nearly identical results to last year’s report.” The report also indicated that certain practice areas remain male dominated.

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HowAppealing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

“What Chief Justice Roberts misses”: Columnist Ruth Marcus has this essay online at The Washington Post. The post “What Chief Justice Roberts misses” appeared first on How Appealing.

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Above The Law

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

As the metaverse is still in its early stages, there are several legal issues that still need to be addressed. The post The Technology And Legal Issues Behind Metaverse appeared first on Above the Law.

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HowAppealing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

“Johnson & Johnson and a New War on Consumer Protection: The company has spent billions on cases about one of its most popular products; As its executives try a brazen new legal strategy to stop the litigation, corporate America takes note.” Casey Cep has this article in the September 19, 2022 issue of The New Yorker. The post “Johnson & Johnson and a New War on Consumer Protection: The company has spent billions on cases about one of its most popular products; As its e

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Above The Law

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

What's most interesting about these two NYT Jones Day stories is just how different the upshot of each is. The post Is The NYT Jones Day Take-Down Actually A Take-Down? appeared first on Above the Law.

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HowAppealing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

“A Judge Let Employers Exclude HIV Prevention From Workers’ Insurance. That’s Not Even the Worst Part. An anti-gay attack on the Affordable Care Act could end in grievous harm to millions of Americans.” Mark Joseph Stern has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate. The post “A Judge Let Employers Exclude HIV Prevention From Workers’ Insurance.

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Above The Law

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Join us on September 21st for a CLE-eligible webinar on how you can avoid costly mistakes. The post Differentiate With Data Science: A Guide For Litigators appeared first on Above the Law.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

“The Supreme Court fight over whether religious schools can discriminate against LGBTQ people: Yeshiva University v. YU Pride Alliance is a genuinely difficult case about just how much immunity religious institutions should have from the law.” Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox. The post “The Supreme Court fight over whether religious schools can discriminate against LGBTQ people: Yeshiva University v.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

A peculiar Alabama law that refuses pregnant women who are arrested for drug offenses from posting bail and going free because they are considered a danger to their fetuses is being strictly enforced in Etowah county, writes columnist Moira Donegan in an op-ed for The Guardian. The pregnant women have to stay in state custody: either in jail, or in a residential drug rehab program.

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

A new partnership between Free Law Project , a nonprofit devoted to making legal information publicly and freely available, and vLex , the international legal research platform, will enable Free Law Project to complete its goal of collecting every precedential court decision from the federal courts and state appellate courts and making them available to the public as a free resource. vLex will provide Free Law with financial and technical support, as well as editorial and research support.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The FBI spent years surveilling Aretha Franklin, trying to gauge how involved she was with the civil rights movement, communism and the Black Power movement, NPR reports. Franklin was identified in a 1969 memo titled “Possible Racial Violence, Urban Areas, Racial Matters” for an incident the year before when Denver concertgoers rioted after she refused to perform at the Red Rocks amphitheater because she wasn’t properly paid.

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Above The Law

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The costs, risks, and overall complexity are increasing. Here’s how you can efficiently navigate these challenges. . The post How Legal Departments And Law Firms Are Bolstering Their eDiscovery Posture appeared first on Above the Law.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

A recent spate of robberies at tobacco shops in Manhattan point to the dangers that could lie ahead for stores selling marijuana, with just the last few months seeing armed thieves make off with weed products, cash, and other property worth thousands, reports The City. Although the regulated cannabis industry in the U.S. generated over $20 billion in revenue last year, it is forced by federal law to rely overwhelmingly on cash transactions, posing a serious risk to public safety.

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Law 360

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

One of two hackers behind a massive 2016 Uber data breach testified Monday in the criminal trial of the ex-security chief charged with criminal obstruction on allegations of covering it up, telling California federal jurors he and his colleague intended to use the breach to extort Uber for a six-figure payout.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The Justice Department is more aggressively targeting companies that have fraudulently billed government agencies, with less sympathy for pandemic-era concerns that penalties could drive health-care providers and other employers out of business, and a greater reliance on advanced data analysis and novel legal theories when pursuing False Claims Act (FCA) cases, reports Bloomberg News.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The Las Vegas water problem is a view of our future with climate chaos, brittle infrastructure, more disasters, resource depletion, and bills coming due.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

According to a recent analysis , at least 44 U.S. states, including those with some of the highest temperatures nationally, don’t have central air conditioning in their prisons, reports USA Today. As climate change continues to fuel hotter temperatures across the country, advocates for incarcerated people are sounding the alarm about sweltering conditions in U.S. prisons , where current infrastructure is ill-equipped for a problem on track to worsen.

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ABA Journal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Friday stayed an order that required Yeshiva University to recognize an LGBTQ student club at its undergraduate campus.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Law enforcement agencies should adopt a softer “tiered approach” to handling protests and demonstrations that employs force as a last resort, according to a report from the Department of Justice. Strategies employing “respectful engagement and active listening that meet community members where they are” are critical to protecting First Amendment rights of peaceful assembly and to ensuring public safety, the report said.

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ABA Journal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has regained his law license after a one-year suspension for physically abusing a lawyer and two other women…

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

New provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on firearm mortality shows that deaths from gun violence and suicide continued a pandemic-increase throughout 2021, The Trace reports. At least 48,832 people died from firearms-related deaths in 2021, the highest count since the national tally began. . Both homicides and suicides contributed equally to the increase in gun deaths in 2021.

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Patently O

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

by Dennis Crouch. The level of estoppel was a sticking point a decade ago in the lead-up to the America Invents Act (AIA). Patentee’s were concerned with repeat harassment by accused infringers; Accused infringers were concerned that IPRs would be ineffective and that they would then lose their right to challenge the patent in court. We now know that IPRs are very effective, but sometimes patent challengers would still like a second bite.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Security researchers claim that a long-standing law that makes it illegal to breach digital security measures in order to access copyrighted works like music, movies, and software is unconstitutional and are challenging it in court, Bloomberg Law reports. The “right-to-repair” movement, which supports enabling well-intentioned hackers to tamper with legally purchased devices and software without worrying about legal repercussions, may be significantly impacted by the case contesting

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