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OCTOBER 30, 2023

Tom Fishburne started drawing cartoons on the backs of Harvard Business School cases. His cartoons have grown by word of mouth to reach 200,000 business readers each week and have been featured by the Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Forbes, and the New York Times. He draws many concepts from his experience in the business world: “A friend told me recently that if she listened to her lawyers on a new product launch, the packaging would be blank.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Lawyer and human rights defender Nasrin Sotoudeh was arrested in Iran on Sunday after attending the funeral of Armita Geravand, a teenager who died on Saturday after a month in intensive care due to brain injuries allegedly inflicted by Iran’s morality police. Geravand was said to have encountered the morality police when she was found not wearing a hijab at a metro station on October 1.

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OCTOBER 30, 2023

Local prosecutors hold enormous power over the outcomes of criminal cases. Their decisions – whether to file a case, what charges to bring, what dispositions to offer, and what sentences to seek – impact the lives of individuals and their communities every day. Yet, for decades, little has been known about the inner workings of prosecutor’s offices, as elected prosecutors’ historical resistance to data and transparency has shielded them from accountability both internally and externally.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Around 400 migrants and refugees staged a protest on Sunday at the Acadia port of Rhodes. Protesters attempted to prevent the departure of the ferry “Nissos Chicos” by standing on its ramp. After hours of police negotiation, the boat left without them. They demanded to be taken off the island and either transported to the mainland or to proper accommodation as there are no reception facilities on the island, the Greek coastguard told AFP.

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OCTOBER 30, 2023

Erwin Chemerinsky, the dean of the University of California at Berkeley School of Law, is calling on campus officials across the country to denounce “blatant…

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OCTOBER 30, 2023

“Pa. Jury Awards Nearly $1B in Defective Seatbelt Case; ‘This will continue and you have the power to make it stop,’ Wesley Ball, of Kaster Lynch Farrar & Ball, told the jury”: Max Mitchell of The Legal Intelligencer has this report. The post “Pa. Jury Awards Nearly $1B in Defective Seatbelt Case; ‘This will continue and you have the power to make it stop,’ Wesley Ball, of Kaster Lynch Farrar & Ball, told the jury” appeared first on How App

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OCTOBER 30, 2023

A Dhaka court on Sunday ordered the arrest of Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, secretary-general of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), and dozens of members of the BNP after a major opposition protest held on Saturday in Dhaka. The demonstration, with over 100,000 protesters, spawned clashes between protesters and police. A police officer was killed during the protest and over 100 people were injured.

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OCTOBER 30, 2023

“Providers can sue over Arizona ban on abortion for genetic anomalies — court”: Brendan Pierson of Reuters has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued today. The post “Providers can sue over Arizona ban on abortion for genetic anomalies — court” appeared first on How Appealing.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The president of the International Criminal Court (ICC) presented the court’s annual report Monday to the UN General Assembly. The address took place 25 years after the original signing of the Rome Statute and outlined one of the court’s “most active periods since its establishment.” The ICC president, Judge Piotr Hofmański, summarised the evolution of the court and how it managed to turn the “abstract concepts of the Rome Statute into a tangible reality.” How

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OCTOBER 30, 2023

“Kansas judge blocks new abortion pill reversal law and old clinic regulations statutes”: Jason Alatidd of The Topeka Capital-Journal has this report. And Rachel Mipro of Kansas Reflector has a report headlined “ ‘Disproven and unsupportable’: Kansas judge blocks junk science abortion restrictions; The ruling called the long-standing ‘Women’s Right to Know Act’ an attempt to discourage abortion seekers.” You can access today’s ruling at this link.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The High Court division of the Bangladesh Supreme Court on Monday commuted the death sentence of seven militants to life imprisonment for their involvement in an attack on a cafe in 2016. This reduction in sentence comes seven years after the defendants were sentenced to death. On July 1, 2016, the seven militants carried out an attack on the Holey Artisan Cafe in Dhaka.

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OCTOBER 30, 2023

“Springfield judge appointed to fill Missouri Supreme Court vacancy”: Kelly Dereuck of The Springfield News-Leader has this report. And Kelton Turner of The Missouri Times reports that “ Governor Parson appoints Ginger Gooch to Missouri Supreme Court.” Today, the Office of Missouri Governor Michael L. Parson issued a news release titled “ Governor Parson Appoints The Honorable Ginger Gooch as Missouri Supreme Court Judge.” The post “Springfield judge app

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Above The Law

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The vast majority of healthcare data isn’t used because it’s difficult to work with, according to Beth Andrews, chief digital health officer of life sciences and healthcare at Dell Technologies. Andrews made these comments during a session at the MedCity News INVEST Digital Health conference.

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OCTOBER 30, 2023

“US Supreme Court signals it will side with Alabama after police seized women’s cars”: Howard Koplowitz of Alabama Media Group has this report. And in commentary, online at Slate, Jay Willis has a Jurisprudence essay titled “ SCOTUS Considers How Easy It Should Be for Police to Steal People’s Property; This case could have life-changing consequences for people caught up in the legal system who haven’t actually been convicted, or even accused, of a crime.” The post “

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Above The Law

OCTOBER 30, 2023

A deer decided to take an uninvited tour of the Michigan law library. The post Oh Deer! Animal Crashes Through Window To Roam Michigan Law School appeared first on Above the Law.

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OCTOBER 30, 2023

Programming note: On Tuesday morning, I will be arguing this appeal on behalf of the plaintiffs-appellants before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit sitting in Wilmington, Delaware. Tomorrow’s oral argument session is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. eastern time. The court live-streams its oral arguments on YouTube.

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Above The Law

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Between our phones and the multitudes of video cameras, it's difficult to avoid detection. The post There’s No More Getting Away With Murder appeared first on Above the Law.

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OCTOBER 30, 2023

“Trump’s Old Legal Arguments Are Coming Back to Haunt Him”: Law professor Aaron Tang has this Jurisprudence essay online at Slate. The post “Trump’s Old Legal Arguments Are Coming Back to Haunt Him” appeared first on How Appealing.

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ABA Journal

OCTOBER 30, 2023

A law student who tracked lawyers from the disbanded law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf found little evidence that the stigma was a “scarlet letter” harming…

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OCTOBER 30, 2023

“The Dubious Conversion Therapy Case Being Pushed on the Supreme Court; The anti-LGBTQ movement hopes the high court might agree to overturn bans on the discredited practice on First Amendment grounds”: Catherine Caruso has this post online at The New Republic. The post “The Dubious Conversion Therapy Case Being Pushed on the Supreme Court; The anti-LGBTQ movement hopes the high court might agree to overturn bans on the discredited practice on First Amendment grounds” app

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Above The Law

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Value-based care and data are areas to be excited about in the employee benefits space, executives shared during a panel discussion at the MedCity News INVEST Digital Health conference.

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OCTOBER 30, 2023

“CT Supreme Court could decide if blogger can hide IDs of commenters who allegedly defamed cop”: Jordan Nathaniel Fenster of CT Insider has this report. The post “CT Supreme Court could decide if blogger can hide IDs of commenters who allegedly defamed cop” appeared first on How Appealing.

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Above The Law

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The future does not seem bright for this firm. The post The End May Be Near As Stroock Loses More Than Half Its Partners To Hogan Lovells appeared first on Above the Law.

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OCTOBER 30, 2023

“Cars Seized by Police Get Supreme Court Scrutiny in Civil Forfeiture Case; Several justices seemed wary of allowing law enforcement officials to take vehicles used to commit crimes when their owners were not at fault”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report. The post “Cars Seized by Police Get Supreme Court Scrutiny in Civil Forfeiture Case; Several justices seemed wary of allowing law enforcement officials to take vehicles used to commit crimes when their owners we

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ABA Journal

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Polsinelli asserts that a former partner didn’t make allegations of sexual harassment until after the law firm decided to fire her for “lackluster performance.

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