The Crime Report
JULY 26, 2022
Antonio Futrell, who exchanged gunfire with a security guard after leaving his phone in a Hampton, Va., restaurant and not being let in to retrieve it, hopes to convince the Supreme Court to decide that police need to get a warrant before searching a cell phone that was left behind, reports Fox 5 DC. After exchanging fire, Futrell fled the scene and his phone, which was unlocked, was given to police.
JURIST
JULY 26, 2022
Biotech giants BioNTech and Pfizer Monday filed a complaint for declaratory judgment of noninfringement in the US District Court of Massachusetts. The companies seek to quell claims by CureVac of intellectual property violations. BioNTech and Pfizer collaborated in the development and distribution of their COVID-19 vaccine. The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, trademarked as COMIRNATY ®, was the first successful mRNA drug product approved in the United States and was expedited on an emergency basis by
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EvidenceProf Blog
JULY 26, 2022
In federal court (and in about half of state courts), when a jury is initially deadlocked, the judge can give them an Allen charge instructing the jury to keep deliberating. That said, a judge cannot give jurors an Allen charge.
JURIST
JULY 26, 2022
The UK Tuesday announced new sanctions against Russian-installed officials in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions of Ukraine. UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said the sanctions are designed to hold Kremlin-appointed officials accountable for their efforts to suppress the freedoms of Ukrainians and Russians. The latest addition to the UK’s sanction regime against Russia includes four different categories of individuals: Russian-installed officials in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions, Russian regi
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HowAppealing
JULY 26, 2022
“30 days since Roe was overturned: How the country has changed; At least 13 states have ceased nearly all abortion services.” Mary Kekatos of ABC News has this report.
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JULY 26, 2022
“Retrenchment of the Federal Right to Abortion: How Dobbs Threatens National Security.” Heather Zimmerman and Justin Cole have this blog post at “Just Security.
JURIST
JULY 26, 2022
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Monday rejected an appeal from Pfizer Inc. after the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) said that Pfizer’s plan to cover patients’ copays for its heart failure medications violated US law. The medications cost an estimated $13,000 per year, with many patients who need them unable to afford the price.
HowAppealing
JULY 26, 2022
“The Supreme Court Is Making America Ungovernable; The West Virginia v. EPA ruling signals a future in which no one in power has the ability to tackle the biggest issues society faces”: Law professor Lisa Heinzerling has this essay online at The Atlantic.
JURIST
JULY 26, 2022
Pope Francis Monday issued an apology to the Indigenous community of Canada for the Catholic Church’s role in the abuse Indigenous children suffered in religious boarding schools for almost 150 years. Beginning in the 1800s, thousands of Indigenous children were systematically taken from their homes and families and placed into residential boarding schools.
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JULY 26, 2022
“Why Exceptions for the Life of the Mother Have Disappeared: The absence of these exemptions is a sign of the anti-abortion-rights movement’s distrust of women and the medical establishment.” Law professor Mary Ziegler has this essay online at The Atlantic.
Above The Law
JULY 26, 2022
Don't take marriage advice from J.D. Vance. The post J.D. Vance Is A Joke But His Backwards Ideas About Domestic Violence Aren’t Funny appeared first on Above the Law.
HowAppealing
JULY 26, 2022
“Obamacare back in court as Texans challenge coverage for STDs and HIV care; The GOP’s decade-plus war against the health law continues with lawsuit over coverage requirement for testing, vaccines and PrEP”: Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico has this report.
Above The Law
JULY 26, 2022
I'm sure KittyGate looked a lot better on paper. The post Manufacturing A Bail Reform ‘Scandal’ Works A Lot Better When Your Campaign Co-Chair Isn’t The One Doing It appeared first on Above the Law.
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HowAppealing
JULY 26, 2022
“My Latest Theory About The SCOTUS Leaker: Is it possible that even the Politico reporters who published the Dobbs draft don’t know the identity of their source?” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.
Above The Law
JULY 26, 2022
Instead of applying the Lemon Test, I just pray to Joe Pesci. First of all, I think he's a good actor. The post The <em>Dobbs </em>Fallout Shows That Court Decisions Depend More On Machiavelli Than The Founding Fathersmore appeared first on Above the Law.
HowAppealing
JULY 26, 2022
“New York High Court Judge Says She’s Now Ready to Be Vaccinated for COVID; Judge Jenny Rivera has been participating remotely for months because she has declined to be vaccinated; Her decision to change that stance — based on the availability of a new type of vaccine — may remove an impediment to her serving as interim chief judge, if she is chosen by her colleagues on the state’s highest court”: Brian Lee of the New York Law Journal has this report.
Above The Law
JULY 26, 2022
Maybe next year. The post Exterro Joins Billion-Dollar Club And Eyes Even More Growth Before Going Public appeared first on Above the Law.
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JULY 26, 2022
“Justice Tamika Montgomery-Reeves — Nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit”: Harsh Voruganti has this post at his blog, “The Vetting Room.
Above The Law
JULY 26, 2022
See, maybe the first red flag should've been enough. The post Judge Resigns And Somehow It’s NOT Over The Drunken Shooting At White Castle appeared first on Above the Law.
HowAppealing
JULY 26, 2022
“Conservative judges urge Supreme Court to revive law making it a crime to encourage undocumented immigrants to stay in the U.S.” Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has this report on an order , accompanied by concurring and dissenting opinions, denying rehearing en banc that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued yesterday.
Above The Law
JULY 26, 2022
The bar exam is here to break your spirit once again. The post The Bar Exam’s Motherhood Penalty Is A Barrier To Entry For The Legal Profession appeared first on Above the Law.
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HowAppealing
JULY 26, 2022
“Texas Lawyer Behind Abortion Ban Takes Aim at HIV Prevention; Access to Gilead life-saving drugs put at risk by lawsuit; US says if mandate struck down health costs will rise”: Erik Larson and Janet Miranda of Bloomberg News have this report.
The Crime Report
JULY 26, 2022
A new program in Vancouver, Canada aims to provide a safer alternative to the fentanyl available on the streets, where the supply is increasingly lethal and is responsible for most of the ongoing overdose epidemic, with a legal dispensary financed by Canada’s public health system, reports the New York Times. Pharmaceutical-grade fentanyl is offered through the dispensary, which sells to those who can pay and provides free drugs through the program’s operational budget to those who cannot.
HowAppealing
JULY 26, 2022
“Because of Texas abortion law, her wanted pregnancy became a medical nightmare”: Carrie Feibel had this audio segment on today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition.
The Crime Report
JULY 26, 2022
African-American men in an upstate New York city are disproportionately targeted in larceny investigations, according to a Binghamton University study, reports BingUNews. Sean G. Massey, Binghamton Associate Professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies and the lead author of “Race, Excess Suspicion, and Larceny in Upstate NY,” found that while Black men are arrested and convicted at approximately the same rate as white men, they often face harsher sentences.
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