JURIST
JULY 9, 2022
The UN Human Rights Council (HRC) Friday adopted a resolution affirming its commitment to equal rights for women in Afghanistan, calling for representative participation in an organized dialogue on the issue at the next HRC session and directing the Taliban to establish institutions to protect the rights of women and victims of sexual and gender-based violence.
HowAppealing
JULY 9, 2022
“Beside the nation’s first Black woman Supreme Court justice is her husband, a ‘quintessential Boston Brahmin’; For centuries the ancestral lines of Ketanji Onyika Brown and Patrick Graves Jackson were impossibly far apart; Then, 30 years ago at Harvard, they crossed”: Emma Platoff of The Boston Globe has this report.
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JURIST
JULY 9, 2022
The UK Court of Appeal Friday handed down a judgment allowing victims of Brazil’s biggest environmental disaster on record to pursue their claims in a British court. The claimants number over 200,000, making the case the largest group claim in the country’s legal history. In November 2015, the Fundão tailings dam in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais collapsed , releasing about 40 million cubic meters of toxic mineral waste across a 400-mile stretch of the country.
HowAppealing
JULY 9, 2022
“A Supreme Court Term Like No Other; At the Amicus breakfast table, chewing over the start of a new reactionary era at the Supreme Court”: You can access today’s new episode of Slate’s “Amicus” podcast, featuring Dahlia Lithwick and her guests, Mark Joseph Stern and law professors Katherine Franke and Nikolas Bowie , via this link.
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LLRX
JULY 9, 2022
Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness.
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LLRX
JULY 9, 2022
Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness.
HowAppealing
JULY 9, 2022
“The Self-Fulfilling Prophecies of Clarence Thomas; For decades, Thomas has had a deeply pessimistic view of the country, rooted in his reading of the Fourteenth Amendment; After the Supreme Court’s recent opinions, his dystopia is becoming our reality”: Professor Corey Robin has this Daily Comment online at The New Yorker.
At the Lectern
JULY 9, 2022
A Ninth Circuit panel yesterday asked the California Supreme Court to answer these three questions in Huerta v. CSI Electrical Contractors, Inc. : Is time spent on an employer’s premises in a personal vehicle and waiting to scan an identification badge, have security guards peer into the vehicle, and then exit a Security Gate compensable as “hours worked” within the meaning of California Industrial Welfare Commission Wage Order No. 16?
HowAppealing
JULY 9, 2022
“Abortion unavailable in most cases in Mississippi and Louisiana as bans take effect”: Veronica Stracqualursi and Alta Spells of CNN have this report.
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At the Lectern
JULY 9, 2022
The Supreme Court has posted videos of the two arguments on the first day of its two-day, eight-case June calendar. The videos are here. Videos of the six arguments on the second day of the calendar will presumably be available soon.
HowAppealing
JULY 9, 2022
“Thousands of Idaho women cannot travel for abortions due to parole, probation”: Audrey Dutton of Idaho Capital Sun has this report.
JonathanTurley
JULY 9, 2022
I am happy to report that my law review article in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy is now out in print. The article entitled “ Harm and Hegemony: The Decline of Free Speech in the United States , ” explores the anti-free speech movement in the United States and the increasingly common claim that free speech itself is harmful.
HowAppealing
JULY 9, 2022
“For a way forward on abortion, look to the Defense of Marriage Act”: Jonathan Rauch has this essay online at The Washington Post.
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JonathanTurley
JULY 9, 2022
Below is my column in the Hill on the effort to declare an “invasion” along the Texas border to allow the state to take greater control along the border to stem the flow of illegal immigrants. This week, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed an order allowing Texas law enforcement to return illegal immigrants apprehended in the state back to the U.S. border.
HowAppealing
JULY 9, 2022
“The post-legal Supreme Court: What happens if the Court rejects the rule of law?” Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.
HowAppealing
JULY 9, 2022
“Even conservative justices have a right to privacy”: Columnist Ruth Marcus has this essay online at The Washington Post.
HowAppealing
JULY 9, 2022
“Sure, Impeach Clarence Thomas — but That’s Just for Starters; The story is much larger than a potential conflict in one Supreme Court case; All six conservative justices lied in their confirmation hearings; What will Democrats do about that?” Michael Tomasky has this essay online at The New Republic.
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Short article looking at the new CCP 2016.
HowAppealing
JULY 9, 2022
“Next Time Trump Tries to Steal an Election, He Won’t Need a Mob”: In Sunday’s edition of The New York Times, columnist Jamelle Bouie will have an op-ed that begins, “Last week, the Supreme Court announced it would hear arguments in Moore v. Harper, a challenge to North Carolina’s new congressional map.
HowAppealing
JULY 9, 2022
“Texas Republicans warn Dallas law firm that paying for abortion travel could be illegal; Members of the Legislature’s conservative Freedom Caucus say they’ll propose bills to block Texas companies from assisting employees”: Rylee Wilson of The Dallas Morning News has this report. Jacqueline Thomsen of Reuters reports that “ Texas lawmakers target law firms for aiding abortion access.” And Justin Wise of Bloomberg Law reports that “ Sidley Targeted as Re
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