The Estrin Report
OCTOBER 22, 2021
An Interview with Chere Estrin. Exposure. It does little good to be a Top Lawyer if nobody knows about it. This can happen organically because word of good legal work will get around and will beget more legal work. Whether it happens by accident or design, Top Lawyers are known. Roger Royce of Haynes and Boone. The legal field is known to be extremely competitive.
JURIST
OCTOBER 22, 2021
JURIST EXCLUSIVE – Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban. Here, a lawyer in Kabul offers his personal observations and perspective on new Islamic taxes being levied on farmers in Afghanistan. For privacy and security reasons we are withholding our correspondent’s name and institutional affiliation.
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EvidenceProf Blog
OCTOBER 22, 2021
Similar to its federal counterpart, North Carolina Rule of Evidence 701 provides that If the witness is not testifying as an expert, his testimony in the form of opinions or inferences is limited to those opinions or inferences which are.
JURIST
OCTOBER 22, 2021
The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ordered Thursday that several tech giants, including Amazon, Facebook, and Google to turn over information on payments-related systems and products. CFPB ordered six technology platforms to turn over information. These six platforms are Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Square, and Paypal. CFPB Director Rohit Chopra stated that the bureau would also study Chinese tech giants such as WeChatPay and Alipay.
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The Crime Report
OCTOBER 22, 2021
American prisons are profoundly inhospitable for incarcerated women — but prison education programs can help women on the inside resist the inhumanity of incarceration, say Kathy Boudin and Judith Clark, two formerly incarcerated women advocating for reform. Boudin and Clark shared their experiences in prison — an environment they said most Americans are shielded from — during a webinar hosted this week by The Graduate Center at the City University of New York (CUNY).
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JURIST
OCTOBER 22, 2021
The Supreme Court of India (SC) stated Thursday that the court does not have any objection against farmers’ right to protest even concerning matters pending before courts, but those protests cannot involve blocking public roads indefinitely. The top court decided to address the issue regarding whether a party that has approached the Court can exercise the right to protest in public when the case was sub-judice.
HowAppealing
OCTOBER 22, 2021
“Texas abortion ban is an early glimpse of what post-Roe America would look like for women”: Katherine Dautrich, Isabelle Chapman, Majlie de Puy Kamp, and Casey Tolan of CNN have this report. And Ariane de Vogue of CNN reports that “ Justice Sonia Sotomayor criticizes colleagues for allowing Texas abortion ban to remain in effect.
JURIST
OCTOBER 22, 2021
JURIST EXCLUSIVE – Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban. Here, a lawyer in Kabul offers his personal observations and perspective on the recent regional meeting on Afghanistan convened in Moscow by neighboring states concerned about the situation in the country.
HowAppealing
OCTOBER 22, 2021
“Author John Grisham and Supreme Court Thrillers: You may wonder what Grisham and his book have to do with the U.S. Supreme Court, but there are connections.” Tony Mauro has this post at his “The Marble Palace Blog.
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The Crime Report
OCTOBER 22, 2021
In January 2016, California legislators passed the Gun Violence Restraining Order (GVRO) law, which provides a legal mechanism for law enforcement to temporarily remove deadly firearms and ammunition from people who are at risk of harming themselves or others. . However, a new study published in PLOS ONE from the UC Davis Violence Prevention Research Program (VPRP) has uncovered that the success of the law has been “hampered” by a lack of funding.
HowAppealing
OCTOBER 22, 2021
“There is no middle ground in the Mississippi abortion case. The court must overrule ‘Roe.'” Law professor Sherif Girgis has this essay online at The Washington Post.
Above The Law
OCTOBER 22, 2021
The Los Angeles Police Department is reform-resistant. This isn’t the same as reform-proof, but more separates “resistant” from “proof” in this case than the misleading labels promising varying degrees of water resistance placed on watches and cellphones. The LAPD has endured decades of bad press with barely an uptick in performance or community orientation.
HowAppealing
OCTOBER 22, 2021
“Eunice Lee an Active Questioner on First Day Hearing 2nd Circuit Arguments; Lee, the first former federal defender ever to serve on the influential appeals court, peppered attorneys in three appeals, foreshadowing a potentially-outsized role in addressing unsettled areas of criminal law”: Tom McParland of New York Law Journal has this report.
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Above The Law
OCTOBER 22, 2021
* Moot Court Prof thinks she was terminated after she made comments about job insecurity. Sometimes professors give employment law hypos; sometimes they become them. [ ABA Journal ] * New L.A. law bans homeless encampments in over 50 different places. Where are they supposed to go? [ Los Angeles Times ] * Protest against SB8 numbering thousands takes place in downtown Los Angeles.
HowAppealing
OCTOBER 22, 2021
“Ban Them All; Let the Courts Sort Them Out. Saving Clauses, the Texas Abortion Ban, and the Structure of Constitutional Rights.” Law professor Peter N. Salib has this essay at the Texas Law Review Online.
Above The Law
OCTOBER 22, 2021
The 2021 Raise Race : Law firm salaries went up, up, up in 2021. But Will Bonuses Be As Bountiful? Let us know what you think in our annual bonus survey. 'How To Coup' Lawyer Thinks Himself A Hero : That's an alternative fact if we've ever seen one. Office Closures In The "New Normal" : Come on, we're used to WFH now. Give lawyers a snow day.
HowAppealing
OCTOBER 22, 2021
“Barrett’s Chambers Refused to Allow Livestreaming or Any Video for McConnell Center Event; Newest justice feted with McConnell-hosted dinner, free hotel and flight and personalized Louisville Slugger bat”: Fix the Court has this report. You can access the underlying documents via this link.
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Above The Law
OCTOBER 22, 2021
Orrick is really putting its money where its mouth is when it comes to racial and social justice.
HowAppealing
OCTOBER 22, 2021
“The Supreme Court Faces a Huge Test on Libel Law”: Floyd Abrams has this guest essay online at The New York Times.
The Crime Report
OCTOBER 22, 2021
Hundreds of officers placed on The Bronx, New York district attorney’s “No Fly List,” a secret roster of officers whose cases are supposed to get an extra level of scrutiny by prosecutors due to past instances of misconduct and credibility concerns, were still able to participate in and jeopardize roughly 164 court cases with dubious statements, reports ProPublica.
SCOTUSBlog
OCTOBER 22, 2021
Share This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, whether officers who observe a driver using a cellphone have reasonable suspicion to pull the driver over for texting, whether agents’ around-the-clock video surveillance of a home for 18 months is a “search,” and whether a plaintiff may sue a police officer for questioning without giving Miranda warnings.
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ABA Journal
OCTOBER 22, 2021
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe has extended a fellowship program in which it embeds its associates at nonprofit organizations for a year while paying their law…
LegalReader
OCTOBER 22, 2021
The Methodist Hospital of Southern California recently found itself on the receiving end of a lawsuit over claims of age discrimination and wrongful termination.
Conflict of Laws
OCTOBER 22, 2021
This post is by Emilia Beuger (LL.M. Utrecht), JD Candidate at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. As noted in an earlier post on this site , the United States Supreme Court granted a petition for a writ of certiorari to the Ninth Circuit’s decision in Cassirer v. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation on September 30, 2021. Below is a more detailed discussion of the issues at play in this case.
The Crime Report
OCTOBER 22, 2021
A St. Louis-to-Chicago gun trafficking network began with a relationship that was kindled on an online sneaker marketplace, reports the Chicago Sun-Times. Jerome Boykin and Rogelio Mancera met on a Facebook specialty sneaker group and started trading guns for marijuana about a year ago. Chicago police and ATF agents arrested those men and their supplier, Robert Narup, a 71-year-old Missouri retiree who’d traveled the country to buy weapons at gun shows.
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