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LegalReader
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
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LegalReader
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
Older properties get redeveloped and transformed into attractive communities. There is no potential for property despair.
JURIST
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) Monday publicly released a letter that found Pennsylvania’s court system violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) because it prohibited or limited individuals under court supervision from taking medication to treat opioid use disorder (OUD). The DOJ opened an investigation after receiving complaints from two individuals alleging that the Jefferson County Court of Common Pleas ordered all probationers to stop using their prescribed medication for
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HowAppealing
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
“The Supreme Court may completely hollow out the Voting Rights Act by 2024”: Joan Biskupic of CNN has this report.
JURIST
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
The Department of Justice Monday partially unsealed a 21-count indictment of China-based telecommunications company Hytera Communications Corp. LTD on charges of conspiring to commit theft of trade secrets of rival Motorola Solutions Inc. The 15 trade secrets, which constitute the core subject of Monday’s federal indictment, pertain to the source code, design and implementation of operation architecture and security functionalities of the digital media radio (DMR) technology developed by
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FEBRUARY 8, 2022
“Racial Gerrymanders at the Supreme Court: Does the law command proportional representation by race?” This editorial will appear in Wednesday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.
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FEBRUARY 8, 2022
“When nominating judges gets more political, filling seats requires strategy; Presidents are increasingly avoiding filling vacancies in states held by the opposition party during their first year in office”: Rose Wagner of Courthouse News Service has this report.
JURIST
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
The US Department of State made public Monday the addition of former Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernandez to the “ Corrupt and Undemocratic Actors ” list (“the list”), which effectively makes Hernandez ineligible for visas and admission to the US. The move comes in the wake of a letter sent by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations last week asking to hold Hernandez accountable.
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FEBRUARY 8, 2022
“Beltway sniper Lee Boyd Malvo seeks new sentencing hearing in Maryland; Malvo was sentenced to 10 life terms in Maryland and Virginia for the 2002 attacks”: Paul Duggan of The Washington Post has this report. And Brian Witte of The Associated Press reports that “ Maryland court hears case seeking new sentence for DC sniper.” You can view via this link the video of today’s oral argument before the Court of Appeals of Maryland , that state’s highest court.
JURIST
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
A Netherlands court Monday set aside amnesty and decided to continue the pre-trial detention of a Dutch ex-army member suspected of war crimes, including the murder of civilians during Suriname’s internal war. The 55-year-old Suriname-born Dutchman was arrested in Amsterdam in October 2021 on the basis of an investigation that indicated he murdered several Surinamese people in 1987 in the vicinities of Brownsweg.
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FEBRUARY 8, 2022
“Man Arrested With Anti-Police Shirt Sees Suit Revived on Appeal”: Brian Flood of Bloomberg Law has this report (subscription required for full access) on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued today. The court’s opinion begins, “Michael Wood wore a shirt bearing the words ‘F**k the Police’ to the county fair.
JURIST
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
Human Rights Watch (HRW) announced Monday that Qatar had imposed travel bans on four prominent Qatari citizens without a clear legal basis. The men reported to HRW that security authorities were applying the travel bans outside of legal procedure and in apparent defiance of court orders. Qatar’s state security apparatus holds extensive powers under the 2003 Constitution, which empowers its security forces to conduct extrajudicial investigations answerable only to the Emir.
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FEBRUARY 8, 2022
“Who’s Who in the Running for Biden’s Supreme Court Pick: Three leading contenders are being considered to become the first Black woman on the Supreme Court; Each has strengths and weaknesses.” Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report.
JURIST
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
The Court of First Instance of the Hong Kong High Court dismissed the appeal Tuesday of US corporate lawyer Samuel Bickett, upholding his conviction and jail sentence for assaulting an off-duty police officer in December 2019. Bickett’s appeal centered on the lower court not giving enough weight to the defense’s video evidence (an annotated version of which was tweeted by Bickett) nor to a responding, on-duty police officer’s conflicting testimony regarding the illegal use of a
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FEBRUARY 8, 2022
“The Supreme Court’s newest attack on voting rights, explained; The Court’s median justice just made it much harder to stop attacks on the right to vote”: Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.
JURIST
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
Law students in Ukraine are reporting on the latest developments in that country as it faces a series of internal and external challenges. Here Anna Tymoshenko, a fourth-year law student at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, offers her perspective from Kyiv. The panic about the situation around Ukraine’s borders isn’t going away, but is it justified? Ironically, the loudest headlines come from abroad.
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FEBRUARY 8, 2022
“Ginni and Clarence Thomas draw questions about Supreme Court ethics; Watchdog groups call for new, enforceable ethics code for justices”: Devin Dwyer and Gabriella Abdul-Hakim of ABC News have this report.
JURIST
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
India Staff Correspondent Sambhav Sharma reports on a prohibition against Indian Muslim school girls wearing hijabs at a state-run school in Karnataka State that has prompted litigation and now violence in a country gripped by a rising tide of Hindu nationalism. He files this for JURIST from New Delhi. The High Court of Karnataka is currently hearing a petition over the ‘hijab row’ that has engulfed the state.
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FEBRUARY 8, 2022
“Why Biden’s judges are different — and what that means for the Supreme Court; Public defenders and civil rights lawyers, often kept out of the judiciary, have been front and center in Biden’s judicial picks”: Chris Geidner of Grid has this report.
Above The Law
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
If you want to rank higher in search results, you need a keyword optimized LinkedIn summary. The post How To Write A LinkedIn Summary That Lands You A Job Interview appeared first on Above the Law.
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FEBRUARY 8, 2022
“Biden will lean into his long tenure as a senator to fill Supreme Court vacancy”: Scott Detrow had this audio segment on today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition.
The Crime Report
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
The attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has come to exemplify the threat of right-wing militant extremism today. But the nation has confronted extreme levels of anti-government rhetoric and violence before. A half-century ago, they came from the Left, Sam Melville was one of the polarizing figures of that era. Largely forgotten today, he was considered the “ architect of modern political radicalism in the U.S.” Arrested and charged in the 1969 bombings of eight government and office bu
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HowAppealing
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
“What Are the ‘Right’ Qualifications for the Supreme Court? There Are None. The obsession with a certain kind of judicial experience is harming the court’s understanding of the real world.” Jeff Greenfield has this essay online at Politico Magazine.
LawSites
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
One of the most innovative general counsel ever, Jeffrey Carr describes his career as decades spent on the radical fringe of reforming legal services delivery. Yet many of his ideas for revamping legal departments, once viewed as radical, have now become mainstream. As general counsel at FMC Technologies in the early 2000s, Carr disrupted how legal departments hire and compensate outside counsel, creating models that today are considered standard operating procedure at many companies.
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FEBRUARY 8, 2022
“Why It’s So Hard to Get a Defense Lawyer Confirmed to the Supreme Court: Ketanji Brown Jackson would be the first in 30 years.” Stephanie Mencimer of Mother Jones has this report.
Above The Law
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
The Chief worries about discriminatory redistricting plans going into effect before review. So did the rest of us, buddy. The post John Roberts Suggests Some Kind Of Voting Rights ‘Preclearance’ Like The One He Personally Destroyed appeared first on Above the Law.
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