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JANUARY 30, 2022

A 42-year-old mother and former schoolteacher from Kansas faces terrorism charges in US federal court for having allegedly led an all-women Islamic State battalion, trained children to use suicide belts and heavy weapons, and planning to attack an American college, according to materials released by the Department of Justice on Saturday. Defendant Allison Fluke-Ekren stands accused of having carried out these and other terrorism-related activities while living in Syria and other ISIS-controlled

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EvidenceProf Blog

JANUARY 30, 2022

Federal Rule of Evidence 408(a) provides that Evidence of the following is not admissible — on behalf of any party — either to prove or disprove the validity or amount of a disputed claim or to impeach by a prior.

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JURIST

JANUARY 30, 2022

Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. Here, a law student in Kabul offers his perspective on the recent decision by the US Fulbright Program, operated in conjunction with the US Department of State, to suspend the selection of new Fulbright Scholars from Afghanistan.

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HowAppealing

JANUARY 30, 2022

“The skirmish is over a new justice. The battle is against the right wing’s imperial judiciary.” Columnist E.J. Dionne Jr. has this essay online at The Washington Post.

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JURIST

JANUARY 30, 2022

A Tennessee police officer was convicted Saturday of use of excessive force in violation of an arrestee’s civil rights on multiple occasions. Former Tracy City police chief Anthony “Tony” Bean’s sentencing will take place in June, and the former officer could face up to 10 years for each of the three charges. The Civil Rights division of the US Department of Justice (DOJ) indicted Tony Bean and his son and co-defendant TJ Bean in 2019.

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LLRX

JANUARY 30, 2022

Articles and Columns for January 2022 A bit about PURLs – Ed Summers, librarian, metadata expert, teacher, and computational expert, delivers an insighful lesson on the Persistent Uniform Resource Locator. PURLs were developed to make URLs more resilient and persistent over time. You could put a PURL into a catalog record and if the URL.

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JANUARY 30, 2022

“Distinguished person of the week: A model public servant.” Online at The Washington Post, columnist Jennifer Rubin has an essay that begins, “When Justice Stephen G. Breyer formally announced on Thursday that he would retire at the end of the current Supreme Court term, the public got a glimpse not only into the character of a public servant but also an honorable human being.

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iHire

JANUARY 30, 2022

Discover healthcare employment trends and hiring insights from 2021 in iHire’s Healthcare Hiring Pulse Report.

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JANUARY 30, 2022

“Conservative Justices Are Walking Into Their Own Trap; Today’s Supreme Court majority will struggle to defend the logic of its judicial activism if it overturns Roe v. Wade in the name of judicial restraint”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

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Mondaq

JANUARY 30, 2022

In the first in the series Rhiannon explains that a divorce consultant provides practical help and emotional support to people struggling with divorce or separation.

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JANUARY 30, 2022

“Judicial Notice (01.29.22): Breyer, Retired; A supremely stupid tweet, a generous gesture from a Biglaw firm, and other legal news from the week that was.” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.

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Patently O

JANUARY 30, 2022

Special thanks to my friends at the MBHB law firm for being the exclusive sponsor for Patently-O. Their contribution has kept Patently-O free to the public and virtually ad-free for almost two decades. I started the blog with $0 investment, just my own time, but now I pay for the secure server, bandwidth, newsletter software, etc. All that adds up pretty quickly.

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HowAppealing

JANUARY 30, 2022

“When All-White Was All Right”: Online at The New York Times, columnist Charles M. Blow has an essay that begins, “Nominating Supreme Court justices has always been about identity and politics. It’s just that for nearly the first two centuries of the court’s existence, the only people considered for inclusion were white men.

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Mondaq

JANUARY 30, 2022

Sermaye Piyasası Kurulu'nun II-31/B.1 sayılı Sermaye Piyasası Araçlarının Teminatlı İhracına İlişkin Usul ve Esaslar Hakkında Tebliğ, 26 Ocak 2022 tarih ve 31731 sayılı Resmi Gazete'de yayımlanarak yürürlüğe girdi.

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JANUARY 30, 2022

“The Supreme Court Needs Diversity in More Ways Than One; No current justice is a public-college alum, and only one was a trial judge”: Law professor Benjamin H. Barton has this essay online at The Wall Street Journal.

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Patently O

JANUARY 30, 2022

Recent Headlines in the IP World: Craig Sender: CCC’s Roy Kaufman Named to the Board of the United States Intellectual Property Alliance (Source: Business Wire). Blake Brittain: U.S. Panel to Review Patent From $2.1 Bln Intel Court Loss (Source: Reuters). Anders Månsson: The Canadian Intellectual Property Office Intends to Grant RhoVac’s Patent Application for RV001 (Onilcamotide) Cancer Vaccine (Source: Yahoo Finance).

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JANUARY 30, 2022

“The Supreme Court at the Crossroads of Hackery: How will the law work in a world where the high court is making up the rules as it goes along?” Jason Linkins has this essay online at The New Republic.

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Mondaq

JANUARY 30, 2022

One of the remedies for an oppressed minority shareholder in the Court of the BVI is the just and equitable winding up jurisdiction.

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HowAppealing

JANUARY 30, 2022

“No More Compromisers: The Supreme Court doesn’t need another Stephen Breyer, but someone who can openly confront the immorality of our criminal legal system.” Cristian Farias has this essay online at Inquest.

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Mondaq

JANUARY 30, 2022

In order to address the growing concerns of stressed assets, SEBI has introduced Special Situation Funds (SSF), a subcategory under Category I AIF, which shall invest in ‘special situation assets'.

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JANUARY 30, 2022

“The Supreme Court is leading a Christian conservative revolution: Almost as soon as Justice Barrett was confirmed, the Court handed down a revolutionary ‘religious liberty’ case; It hasn’t slowed down since.” Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.

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Mondaq

JANUARY 30, 2022

On January 14, 2022, the Supreme Court granted certiorari to determine whether a school district was within its rights in telling a coach not to continue to kneel and pray at the 50-yard line after his team's games.

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JANUARY 30, 2022

“Stephen Breyer Versus the Death Penalty: The soon-to-retire justice lost his fight to abolish the death penalty; His courage keeps alive the possibility that some future court might yet win.” Matt Ford has this essay online at The New Republic.

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Mondaq

JANUARY 30, 2022

On January 13, 2022, the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) announced that it and Québec's Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) have entered into an amended Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)

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JANUARY 30, 2022

“Will North Carolina GOP use a Jim Crow tactic to reshape high court?” Billy Corriher has this report online at Facing South.

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