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MAY 9, 2021

The South Carolina House of Representatives passed a bill Friday that would enable convicted individuals to elect for execution by firing squad, rather than electrocution or lethal injection. The bill passed by a vote of 66-43 and requires that, if an individual waives his right to choose, execution will be administered by electrocution. A similar bill passed the South Carolina Senate in March by a 32-11 vote.

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MAY 9, 2021

The qualified immunity doctrine insulates governmental agents from liability for unconstitutional acts as long “as their conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.” The primary purpose of the doctrine.

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MAY 9, 2021

“Cruz Reynoso, California’s first Latino state Supreme Court justice, dies at 90”: Maria L. La Ganga of The Los Angeles Times has written this obituary. And Marcos Bretón of The Sacramento Bee has written an obituary headlined “ Cruz Reynoso, first Latino justice on California Supreme Court, dies at 90.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 9, 2021

In collaboration with the University of Heidelberg, the Charles University of Prague and the University of Warsaw, the University of Milan is conducting the project ‘From Diversities to Unity through Coordination (EU-DUC)’ within the framework of the 1st Call for joint educational proposal promoted by the 4EU+ European University Alliance. In this context, from 16 to 18 June 2021, the University of Milan will host the Overcoming Challenges, Addressing Conflicts, Settling Disputes Summer School o

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MAY 9, 2021

“New Alaska Supreme Court chief justice worked the trans-Alaska pipeline before starting a long legal career”: The Anchorage Daily News has this report. And Andrew Kitchenman of Alaska Public Media reports that “ Winfree selected to be first Alaska-born chief justice of state Supreme Court.

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MAY 9, 2021

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JonathanTurley

MAY 9, 2021

Happy Mother’s Day to all! Today holds a special meaning for me because last year I was with my now 93-year-old mother, Angela Piazza Turley, who was in hospice. We all thought that would be our last Mother’s Day with her. She is doing well and celebrating with my siblings in Chicago today. They make them tough in the Ohio coal country. Leslie was made waffles this morning and we are trying to spoil her, though she does not take to pampering as a general rule.

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JURIST

MAY 9, 2021

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a proposed regulation on Friday that would update the definition of “firearm” to close a regulatory loophole regarding unmarked firearms, known as “ghost guns.”. The definition of “ firearm ” has not been updated in the US Code since 1968. Unmarked firearms are increasingly found at crime scenes, with law enforcement recovering over 23,000 un-serialized firearms at potential crime scenes from 2016 to 2020.

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MAY 9, 2021

By Darren Smith, Weekend Contributor. Semi-arid lands do not often come to mind when one envisions beautiful countryside. One attribute it affords the beholder is its accentuation of geology and a sense of timelessness. Left undisturbed, change is often not of importance to nature as it seems decades later to not have evolved. Only what humanity leaves behind tends to show aging in what we consider time, mirroring more of us than the environment.

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JURIST

MAY 9, 2021

A federal grand jury on Friday indicted Derek Chauvin and three other former Minneapolis policers on federal civil rights charges for the death of George Floyd. Derek Chauvin, Tao Thao, Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lang all face three-count indictments alleging that, while acting under color of law, they willfully deprived Floyd of his constitutional right to be free from unreasonable force by a police officer.

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MAY 9, 2021

There is an interesting First Amendment case brewing in New York after an appellate ruled that a mother identified as Christie could lose custody of her daughter unless she removes a rock with a small confederate flag image on it in the driveway. The child is of mixed races and the court has deemed the display as inimical to the best interests of the child.

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HowAppealing

MAY 9, 2021

“Trump 2020 Election Lawsuits Lead to Requests to Discipline Lawyers; Courts, licensing bodies consider whether attorneys abused the legal system in challenging vote results”: Brent Kendall and Alexa Corse will have this article in Monday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

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