JURIST
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Myanmar’s Ministry of Transport and Communication (MoTC) on Wednesday directed telecom companies to temporarily block access to popular social media service Facebook in the country in order to ensure “stability” and prevent misunderstanding amongst the citizens from the “spreading [of] fake news and misinformation” after the junta’s coup d’état earlier this week.
EvidenceProf Blog
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Federal Rule of Evidence 803(18) provides an exception to the rule against hearsay for A statement contained in a treatise, periodical, or pamphlet if: (A) the statement is called to the attention of an expert witness on cross-examination or relied.
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JURIST
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Uighur women detained in Chinese “re-education” camps in Xinjiang have been systematically raped, abused and tortured, according to a detailed report by the BBC Wednesday. The report told the stories of women who were held, tortured and abused in the Xinjiang “re-education” camps. One of the women who was held for nine months in Xinjiang, Tursunay Ziawudun, described the conditions of the camps and said that women were removed from their cells every night and raped by Chi
Patently O
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
In re Mohapatra ( Fed. Cir. 2021 ). The security code on your credit card seems pretty weak. Basically, it is a 3-4 digit number on opposite side of the card. Mr. Sarada Mohapatra’s innovation was to create a more dynamic security code using an internet-based account management approach. The Examiner rejected the claims as obvious, indefinite, and failing to claim patent eligible subject matter.
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JURIST
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
The Belgrade higher court on Tuesday found Bosnian Serb Milorad Jovanovic guilty of torturing prisoners while working as a police officer during the Bosnian War. He was convicted and sentenced to nine years in prison. The charges stem from an incident in 1992 where Javinovic and his superior officers forcibly removed non-Serb civilians from their homes prior to confining them in the Simo Miljuš Memorial Museum in Lušci Palank.
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JURIST
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced on Wednesday the grand jury’s decision to indict Adam Coy—former Columbus Police Officer—for the shooting and subsequent death of Andre Hill. On December 22 Coy and another officer responded to a report of a suspicious vehicle. As he approached the residence where the vehicle was located he came across Andre Hill, an unarmed Black man.
HowAppealing
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
“House of Delegates backs abolishing death penalty, signaling end of capital punishment”: Frank Green of The Richmond Times-Dispatch has this report. Gregory S. Schneider and Laura Vozzella of The Washington Post report that “ Virginia legislature votes to legalize marijuana, abolish the death penalty.” And in commentary, online at Slate, Jeremy Stahl has a jurisprudence essay titled “ With Death Penalty Abolition, Virginia Is Becoming a Test Lab for Progressive Ref
JURIST
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
The Indian Supreme Court on Monday issued a notice seeking a reply from the instant messaging service WhatsApp, owned by Facebook, Inc., in a petition against sharing of data collected on Unified Payment Interface (UPI) platforms. Similar big tech companies with payment platforms, such as Amazon Pay by Amazon, Inc. and Google Pay by Google, Inc., have also been impleaded as respondents in the proceedings.
HowAppealing
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
“AP analysis: Federal executions likely a COVID superspreader.” Michael Tarm, Michael Balsamo, and Michael K. Sisak have this all-Michael report for The Associated Press.
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JURIST
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Microsoft President Brad Smith expressed the company’s support Wednesday for the Australian House of Representatives’ proposal requiring various technology companies to share revenue with Australian news organizations. The legislation proposed last December in Parliament seeks to remunerate Australian news organizations that publish original content spread on digital platforms like Google and Facebook.
HowAppealing
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
“The Risks to the ACA of a Standing Decision in California v. Texas Are Overstated; If the Supreme Court opts to dismiss the latest challenge to the Affordable Care Act on standing grounds, this will not leave the ACA particularly vulnerable to future challenge”: Jonathan H. Adler has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.
JURIST
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Thursday dismissed a case brought by Qatar against the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for racial discrimination. The UAE filed a preliminary objection for lack of jurisdiction in response to the case brought by Qatar. Qatar had claimed “indirect discrimination” and that the measures adopted by the UAE including travel ban and expulsion order for Qatari nationals were violative of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of R
HowAppealing
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Flashback to 2003: Eighteen years ago tomorrow, Anne Gearan (then) of The Associated Press had an article headlined “ Internet Sites Eye on High Court Updates ” (and that link actually works, in case you missed the article at the time). My blog’s original coverage of that AP report from February 2003 can be accessed here. This blog had been in existence for less than a year when that article was originally published.
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LegalReader
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
If you’ve any questions to ask potential moving companies at any point, don’t be afraid to let them know – a reliable and good quality company will be more than happy to answer.
HowAppealing
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
“Harvard Law Review elects first Muslim president”: Nate Raymond of Reuters has this report. And Harvard Law Today reports that “ Harvard Law Review elects Hassaan Shahawy ’22 as its 135th president.
SCOTUSBlog
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, the discharge of student-loan debt for “undue hardship” and the statute of limitations for IDEA “child-find” violations. The Bankruptcy Code allows the discharge of student-loan debt if repayment would. The post Student-loan discharges in bankruptcy and public education for disabled kids appeared first on SCOTUSblog.
HowAppealing
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
“Students Punished for ‘Vulgar’ Social Media Posts Are Fighting Back; A lawsuit against the University of Tennessee questions when schools can discipline students because of their online speech”: Anemona Hartocollis of The New York Times has this report.
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Conflict of Laws
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Issues relating to succession and administration of estate of a deceased person raise significant issues in Nigerian private international law (or conflict of laws), whether a person dies testate or intestate. In the very recent case of Sarki v Sarki & Ors, [1] the Nigerian Court of Appeal considered the issue of what court had territorial jurisdiction in a matter of succession and administration of estate of a deceased person’s property under Nigerian conflict of laws dealing with inter-sta
HowAppealing
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
“New York Immigrant Advocacy Group’s Open Records Case Revived”: Brian Flood of Bloomberg Law has a report that begins, “An organization that provides legal assistance to immigrants in New York can move forward with its suit seeking access to non-precedential opinions of the Board of Immigration Appeals, after a divided Second Circuit held Friday that federal courts can order government agencies to make certain records available to the general public under the Freedom of
SCOTUSBlog
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court issued its first 5-to-4 decision in an argued case of the 2020-21 term — though not in a hot-button constitutional case, but in a narrow statutory dispute about jurisdiction. The question in Salinas v. U.S. Railroad Retirement Board concerned the. The post Divided court favors judicial review of agency decision on railroad worker benefits appeared first on SCOTUSblog.
HowAppealing
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
“Pa. voters will get the last word in struggle between Wolf and lawmakers. Here’s what you need to know.” Cynthia Fernandez of Spotlight PA has a report that begins, “This spring, Pennsylvania voters will be asked to weigh in on one of the most contentious battles between Gov. Tom Wolf and the GOP-controlled legislature. The state House on Friday gave final approval to a proposed constitutional amendment that would give state lawmakers the power to unilaterally end disast
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iHire
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ January jobs report was just released and iHire’s report has the latest US job numbers and analysis on industries hiring in 2021.
HowAppealing
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
“Workers in L.A.’s courts are dying of COVID-19 as in-person hearings, trials continue”: Matt Hamilton of The Los Angeles Times has this report.
The Hollywood Lawyer
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Writer and photographer Clayton Haugen sued Activision Blizzard over one of their character, Mara, in the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare videogame. Clayton claims that Mara is too closely similar to his character “Cade Janus,” which he published before Mara’s release. In his statement, he claims that Activision Blizzard “intentionally modeled the character of Mara after […].
HowAppealing
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
“Maine ban on religious tuition funding goes to Supreme Court”: David Sharp of The Associated Press has this report.
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