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DECEMBER 31, 2021

UNICEF sounded the alarm Friday over surging numbers of child casualties amid armed conflicts. “ From Afghanistan to Yemen, and Syria to northern Ethiopia, thousands of children paid a devastating price as armed conflict, inter-communal violence, and insecurity continued,” the organization said in a statement. . UNICEF reported that in conflicts around the world, grave violations of children’s rights include killing and maiming children, recruiting child soldiers, sexual violen

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Paralegal Bootcamp

DECEMBER 31, 2021

My fellow Paralegals, do you ever feel you’re at a dead-end in your job? Do you ever feel like your voice is not being heard? You could be feeling what a lot of us feel – you are being underutilized. Look at the definition of a Paralegal. “A person, qualified by education, training or work experience who is employed or retained by a lawyer, law office, corporation, governmental agency or other entity and who performs specifically delegated substantive legal work for which a lawyer is responsible

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JURIST

DECEMBER 31, 2021

US President Joe Biden has proclaimed January 2022 to be National Stalking Awareness Month and announced that a task force will be established to address digital stalking. The Stalking Prevention, Awareness, and Resource Center (SPARC) defines stalking as “a course of conduct directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to feel fear.” The White House highlighted that one in six women and one in 17 men will experience stalking in their lifetimes.

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DECEMBER 31, 2021

“Chief Justice Roberts Reflects on Conflicts, Harassment and Judicial Independence; In his year-end report, the chief justice said that the court administrators, not Congress, should address financial conflicts and workplace misconduct in the judicial system”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report. Robert Barnes of The Washington Post reports that “ Roberts says federal judiciary has some issues but doesn’t need congressional intervention.” David G.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 31, 2021

A New York jury found Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, an opioid manufacturer, liable on Thursday for public nuisance by way of inundating the state with pills that killed thousands of people. This lawsuit is one in a series of state and federal proceedings against drug companies involved in the opioid crisis. “Teva Pharmaceuticals USA and others misled the American people about the true dangers of opioids, which is why, in 2019, I made a promise that our team would hold them and the other manufacturer

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JURIST

DECEMBER 31, 2021

In the aftermath of a large-scale looting attacks, and amid deteriorating economic conditions in the region, the World Food Program (WFP) announced that it has suspended operations in El Fasher, the capital city of the Sudanese State of North Darfur. The shuttering is expected to affect some two million people in the area. All of the program’s warehouses in the city were raided over the course of three days this week, and attackers made off with upwards of 5,000 metric tons of food, as well as p

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 31, 2021

“Judicial Nominations 2021 — Year in Review”: Harsh Voruganti has this post at his blog, “The Vetting Room.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Colorado Governor Jared Polis on Thursday reduced by a century the sentence of 26-year-old truck driver Rogel Aguilera-Mederos, whose brakes failed, resulting in four deaths. Originally sentenced to 110 years for an offense with no criminal intent, public outcry against Aguilera-Mederos’ harsh treatment prompted the governor’s and the district attorney’s offices to reconsider the sentence.

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 31, 2021

“Merrick Garland withdrew the death penalty in 12 cases. Does this signal a trend?” Gabrielle Banks of The Houston Chronicle has this report.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 31, 2021

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 31, 2021

“Why the Supreme Court Needs (Short) Term Limits”: Law professor Rosalind Dixon has this guest essay online at The New York Times.

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The Fashion Law

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Among the many pre-existing trends that have been accelerated by the pandemic is an increase in the already-rising awareness of – and emphasis on – sustainability and Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (“ESG”) by consumers and brands, alike, and growing efforts by lawmakers, watchdogs, and class action plaintiffs, among others, to crackdown on the largely unregulated nature of ESG disclosures and sustainability-centric marketing.

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LegalReader

DECEMBER 31, 2021

The Department of Justice is issuing addictions epidemic grant money right as a new synthetic opioid has been identified.

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The Hollywood Lawyer

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Netflix and the producers behind the television show “Tiger King” are facing a copyright infringement lawsuit for its use of two clips of footage from the film “Ace Ventura 2” without permission. Morgan Creek Productions, the company behind “Ace Ventura 2” alleges “that the episode was seen by an audience of literally millions of viewers […].

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Patently O

DECEMBER 31, 2021

The following comes from Chief Justice John Roberts’ end-of-year Report on the Federal Judiciary for 2021. The third agenda topic I would like to highlight is an arcane but important matter of judicial administration: judicial assignment and venue for patent cases in federal trial court. Senators from both sides of the aisle have expressed concern that case assignment procedures allowing the party filing a case to select a division of a district court might, in effect, enable the plaintiff

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Mondaq

DECEMBER 31, 2021

The Child Abuse Squad commenced investigating historical sexual abuse allegations against Mr Benson in October 2021.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Last year, I introduced something new for this blog: The LawSites Resource Center. It is a library of free downloadable content that includes white papers, webinars, product guides, case studies, industry analysis and more, all provided by experts and vendors within the legal industry. So which of those resources were of most interest to readers? Here is a list of top most-downloaded resources of 2021. 1.

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DECEMBER 31, 2021

NSW Health professionals have noted abusive behaviour when giving directions to those attending COVID testing sites.

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LegalReader

DECEMBER 31, 2021

In his ruling, the federal judge suggested that the Michigan State Police officers had sued simply because they didn't like the agency's diversity policies, rather than having the right legal basis for a case.

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Meetings & Events. On 1 December 2021, the HCCH hosted HCCH a|Bridged – Edition 2021 , an online event focused on contemporary issues relating to the application of the HCCH 2005 Choice of Court Convention, including the promotion of party autonomy. More information is available here. On 6 and 7 December 2021, the HCCH Administrative Cooperation Working Group on the 2007 Child Support Convention met via videoconference.

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Day on Torts

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Where a child was removed from his parents’ custody by the Department of Children’s Services (DCS) and placed in a home that DCS’s own investigation had found to be unsafe, and the child later died while in that home, the Claims Commission had subject matter jurisdiction of the parents’ negligence claim because the child was in the care, custody, or control of the State when the negligent inspection and recommendation for placement was made.

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Mondaq

DECEMBER 31, 2021

The Nationals leader set out that Assange didn't steal any US documents, but rather he merely published them.

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LegalReader

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Former billionaire Tim Blixseth is seeking up to $900 million in damages, losses, and attorneys' fees from the Montana Department of Revenue.

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Patently O

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Recent Headlines in the IP World: Blake Brittain: Court Says Intel Can Contest Parts of Qualcomm Mobile Patents (Source: Reuters). Malcolm Owen: Apple Sued for $7.5M Over Alleged LED, Mini LED Patent Infringement (Source: Apple Insider). Blake Brittain: What to Watch for in Patent Law in 2022 (Source: Reuters). Christopher Yasiejko, Perry Cooper, and Matthew Bultman: Moderna Drops After Losing Appeal Over Drug-Delivery Patents (Source: Bloomberg).

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At the Lectern

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Veteran legal affairs reporter Bob Egelko has a piece in the San Francisco Chronicle about the California Supreme Court’s leading role in preserving white supremacy during the state’s early history. He writes that the court’s “rulings and the racial climate from which they arose are the subject of a state task force, the first of its kind in the nation, established to examine the history of slavery in California and consider reparations for African Americans, particularly

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