JURIST

DECEMBER 31, 2022

The Bosnian Prosecutor’s Office Friday indicted 24 people in five separate indictments for various charges involving crimes against humanity and war crimes. The first indictment was filed on December 29 against six people for crimes against humanity committed in 1992 in the city of Prijedor. The accused were employed as guards in camps established in the city by crisis staff in the wake of the Bosnian war.

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DECEMBER 31, 2022

“In Year-End Report, Chief Justice Roberts Addresses Threats to Judges’ Safety; The report, an annual tradition, shed no light on the investigation into the leak of a draft opinion in May or on calls for more rigorous ethics rules for the justices”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report. Robert Barnes of The Washington Post reports that “ Chief justice ignores controversial Supreme Court term in annual report.” Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal repo

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JURIST

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita announced Friday a settlement agreement with Google LLC over violations of the Indiana Deceptive Consumer Sales Act (DCSA). The agreement orders Google to pay Indiana $2 million within 60 days, and the proceeds may be used for any purpose allowable under Indiana law. Additionally, the agreement mandates that Google have “pop-up” notifications to inform users if their location history is enabled.

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DECEMBER 31, 2022

“Abortion ruling sends law schools scrambling, constitutional law teachings now out-of-step”: Stephen Dinan and Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times have this report. The post “Abortion ruling sends law schools scrambling, constitutional law teachings now out-of-step” appeared first on How Appealing.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 31, 2022

The Oregon Supreme Court ruled Friday that all state criminal convictions which resulted from nonunanimous jury verdicts are invalid. The ruling comes after a 2020 US Supreme Court decision that held non-unanimous jury verdicts violate the US Constitution’s Sixth Amendment. The petitioner was convicted of crimes in Oregon by nonunanimous juries before the US Supreme Court issued its decision in Ramos v.

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DECEMBER 31, 2022

Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, and his controversial statements and decisions as its owner, have fueled a new wave of calls for regulating social media companies. Elected officials and policy scholars have argued for years that companies like Twitter and Facebook – now Meta – have immense power over public discussions and can use that power to elevate some views and suppress others.

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DECEMBER 31, 2022

Share 2022 was a turbulent year for the Supreme Court. In May, a draft opinion by Justice Samuel Alito was leaked to the press , revealing that a majority of the court was poised to overturn the constitutional right to an abortion. Less than two months later, a divided court made that decision official, in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

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DECEMBER 31, 2022

Articles and Columns for December 2022 Inventing the Dark Web – This paper by Thais Sardá, Simone Natale, and John Downey examines how the deep Web, i.e., Web sites that are not indexed and thus are not accessible through Web search engines, was described and represented in British newspapers. Through an extensive content analysis conducted.

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DECEMBER 31, 2022

Earlier this month, retiring Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye ceremoniously passed a gavel to her successor, Chief Justice- elect Patricia Guerrero. (Video here.) Guerrero will be sworn in on Monday, along with her successor, Judge Kelli Evans.

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DECEMBER 31, 2022

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DECEMBER 31, 2022

This paper by Thais Sardá, Simone Natale, and John Downey examines how the deep Web, i.e., Web sites that are not indexed and thus are not accessible through Web search engines, was described and represented in British newspapers. Through an extensive content analysis conducted on 833 articles about the deep Web published between 2001 and 2017 by six British newspapers, the authors demonstrate that these technologies were predominantly associated with crime, crypto markets and immoral content, w

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DECEMBER 31, 2022

NYU WANTS YOU TO GO AFFORDABLE As the need for affordable housing skyrockets throughout the country, The Schack Institute of Real Estate at New York University is now offering a new program aimed at helping real-estate professionals better understand the nuances of affordable-housing projects and markets. This new area of study, which offers a “Certificate in Affordable Housing” once completed, (which can be applied towards continuing education credits depending on one’s field)

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DECEMBER 31, 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 WUS House boots TikTok from government phoneseiss 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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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Share At the end of each year, SCOTUSblog remembers some of the people whose lives and work left an imprint on the Supreme Court. From legendary lawyers to lesser-known activists, journalists, and plaintiffs, the following individuals who died in 2022 all shaped the court and the law in their own ways. Read past years’ remembrances: 2021 , 2020. David Beckwith (Oct. 30, 1942 – Oct. 2, 2022).

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JURIST

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu Saturday called a vote by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) to refer Israeli occuptation to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) a “disgraceful resolution.” Prior to the vote, Israel Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan called the resolution “outrageous, and a moral stain on the UN” and said, “no international body can decide that the Jewish people are occupiers in their own homeland.” He continued, “any deci

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DECEMBER 31, 2022

Sen. Ben Cardin (D., Md) is ending 2022 on an ominous note after declaring that “if you espouse hate… you’re not protected under the First Amendment.” The statement is obviously untrue, but it is only the latest example of the eroding support for free speech in Congress and the country at large. It is particularly chilling for one of the nation’s most powerful politicians (sworn to “ support and defend the Constitution “) to show either a lack of knowled

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JURIST

DECEMBER 31, 2022

US President Biden Friday signed a $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill which consists of two key legal provisions for pregnant and nursing workers. First, the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act necessitates employers to provide “ reasonable workplace accommodations for workers whose ability to perform the functions of a job are limited by pregnancy, childbirth, or a related medical condition.” This may entail things like allowance for increased bathroom breaks or exemption from lifting h

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DECEMBER 31, 2022

On December 30, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit handed down a major opinion in in Adams v. School Board of St. Johns County, Florida. The court ruled 7-4 against a statutory and constitutional challenge of a transgender student to a district policy requiring students to use bathrooms corresponding to their biological sex.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Venezuela’s opposition National Assembly Friday voted 72 to 29 to dissolve the nation’s interim government, remove opposition leader Juan Guaido and constitute a commission to oversee the foreign assets of the Venezuelan government. President Nicolas Maduro controls the nation’s judiciary and armed forces while foreign assets remain in the hands of the legislature.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 31, 2022

The UN General Assembly Friday asked its highest judicial authority, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), to provide an opinion on the legality of Israeli settlements located on Palestinian territory. The General Assembly passed the resolution by a vote of 87 to 26 with 53 abstentions. The ICJ is expected to consider Israel’s occupation and settlement of Palestinian land as well as the adoption of related discriminatory legislation and measures.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 31, 2022

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Army Corps of Engineers Friday released a finalized definition of “waters of the United States” (WOTUS) in the context of the country’s Clean Water Act (CWA). The CWA was first enacted in 1972, and multiple administrations have since attempted to revise what protectable waters entail and who defines them.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Ruling 7 to 4, a Florida federal appeals court Friday reversed a lower court’s decision that a school board’s policy which prevents transgender students from using the bathroom that corresponds with the gender they identify with is unconstitutional. The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals found that the policy of the school board in St. Johns County, Florida which separates school bathrooms based on biological sex did not violate the Equal Protection Clause and Title IX, contrary to p

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