JURIST
DECEMBER 13, 2020
Cydia , a popular app distributor for jailbroken devices before Apple launched App Store, filed a lawsuit Thursday against Apple in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging Apple uses anti-competitive practices to assert a monopoly over software distribution on iOS. The lawsuit alleges that Apple has eliminated all competition in the app store market.
EvidenceProf Blog
DECEMBER 13, 2020
In Pena-Rodriguez v. Colorado, the Supreme Court held that where a juror makes a clear statement that indicates he or she relied on racial stereotypes or animus to convict a criminal defendant, the Sixth Amendment requires that the no-impeachment rule.
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JURIST
DECEMBER 13, 2020
Nguyen Nhat Cam and nine other defendants were found guilty Saturday by the Supreme People’s Court of Vietnam for exploiting a testing kit purchasing scam. Cam was the former chief of Hanoi’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) , while five of the other nine defendants were senior officials. The rest of the defendants were directors of healthcare companies involved in the case.
HowAppealing
DECEMBER 13, 2020
“Religious Freedom and the FBI: Three Muslim men win at the Supreme Court under RFRA.” This editorial will appear in Monday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.
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LegalReader
DECEMBER 13, 2020
Michael Fink of Bismarck, North Dakota recently filed a federal lawsuit seeking back pay, lost wages, benefits, damages for emotional support, and other relief after BNSF, a railway company, let him go last year after he blew the whistle on a few concerning things. Additionally, we would like his job back and is seeking up.
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Patently O
DECEMBER 13, 2020
At the University of Missouri , my patent law class is practice based – with students drafting claims, rejecting claims, responding to office actions, and participating in a patent law moot court competition. The class is pretty much fully packed. Still, I also give them a short final exam to ensure sure that they have learned the basics. This year’s exam is based upon an actual pending patent application for the Boss Hammer.
HowAppealing
DECEMBER 13, 2020
“Tear Down This Judicial Paywall; Federal courts charge 10 cents a page to read public records”: Law professors Sarath Sanga and David Schwartz will have this op-ed in Monday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.
SCOTUSBlog
DECEMBER 13, 2020
On Monday, the court will release additional orders from the Dec. 11 conference at 9:30 a.m. There is a possibility of opinions at 10 a.m. The post This week at the court appeared first on SCOTUSblog.
HowAppealing
DECEMBER 13, 2020
“11th Circuit Won’t Reinstate Case Brought by School Shooting Survivors”: Kayla Goggin of Courthouse News Service has a report that begins, “The 11th Circuit on Friday rejected a civil rights lawsuit filed by survivors of the 2018 Parkland school shooting, ruling that school and county officials who failed to help students during the shooting did not have a ‘custodial duty’ to protect them.” You can access Friday’s ruling of the U.S.
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Patently O
DECEMBER 13, 2020
Recent Headlines in the IP World: Mike Peterson: Mobile ECG Device firm AliveCor Sues Apple for Alleged Patent Infringement (Source: Apple Insider). Christopher Yasiejko: SmileDirectClub Patent on Business Is Invalidated by Judge (Source: Bloomberg). Atty. Aaron Wininger: Prison for Over 200 Fraudulent Chinese Patent Applications Yielding 900,000 RMB in Government Awards (Source: The National Law Review).
HowAppealing
DECEMBER 13, 2020
“Liberals Were Right to Fear the Supreme Court’s Election Intervention; The justices’ decision not to wade into a sloppy coup attempt is no victory for rule of law”: Jay Willis has this essay online at The Atlantic.
SCOTUSBlog
DECEMBER 13, 2020
The Supreme Court’s opinion Thursday in Rutledge v. Pharmaceutical Care Management Association firmly rejected an attack on state statutes that protect pharmacies from the prescription-reimbursement intermediaries that health-insurance providers use to administer their prescription-drug programs. The case involves pharmacy benefit managers like Caremark and Express Scripts, which have come to be the exclusive avenue through which most of us purchase prescriptions covered by our health insurance.
HowAppealing
DECEMBER 13, 2020
“Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations”: You can access the first episode of the “In Loco Parent(i)s” podcast, featuring Karen and Steve Vladeck, via this link.
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Conflict of Laws
DECEMBER 13, 2020
Written by Dr. Chukwuma Samuel Adesina Okoli , Post-Doctoral Researcher, T.M.C. Asser Institute and Dr. Richard Frimpong Oppong, Associate Professor, University of Bradford, School of Law. We earlier announced that the editors of Afronomicslaw.org invited Chukwuma and Richard to organise a symposium on Private International Law in Nigeria. The introduction to the symposium has now been published today in Afronomicslaw.org.
HowAppealing
DECEMBER 13, 2020
“Judges may reinstate foreign agent case against Flynn partner; The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments Friday on the government’s bid to revive a pair of guilty verdicts a federal court jury returned last year against Bijan Rafiekian”: Josh Gerstein of Politico has this report on an oral argument (link to oral argument audio via YouTube) that occurred Friday before a three-judge panel of the U.S.
SCOCAblog
DECEMBER 13, 2020
In the wake of President Trump’s capture of the federal judiciary, and the prospect of an enduring 6–3 conservative majority at the U.S. Supreme Court, liberal voices have proposed several plans to radically revise our system of government. Among these ideas are abolishing the Electoral College, expanding the nation’s high court, and calling a convention to rewrite the federal constitution.
At the Lectern
DECEMBER 13, 2020
Simon Romero and Miriam Jordan reported in the New York Times, “ The Vaccines Are Coming. A Divided and Distrustful America Awaits.” Included in the article is this: The arrival of a vaccine is also nurturing talk of a return to normalcy, or something resembling it. Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye, California’s chief justice, said she was imagining how the vaccine could change things for the nation’s largest court system, which is grappling with a huge backlog as many crucial proceedings are
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Conflict of Laws
DECEMBER 13, 2020
This entry is the second of two parts that provide an introduction to the Elgar Companion to the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH). It outlines the editors’ reflections on the 35 Chapters, drawing out some of the key themes that emerged from the Companion, including the HCCH’s contribution to access to justice and multilateralism.
LettersBlogatory
DECEMBER 13, 2020
Most states of the United States make it cheap and easy to organize limited-liability business entities such as corporations and limited liability companies. This is good for legitimate business, of course. But the states generally don’t require identification of the beneficial owners of new entities to the state, let alone to the public. This lack of transparency has led to criticism of the.
Conflict of Laws
DECEMBER 13, 2020
The following post has been written by Ennio Piovesani, PhD Candidate at the Universities of Turin and Cologne. While negotiations for an agreement on the future partnership between the EU and the UK are pending, a spectre haunts Europe: reciprocity. I. The Residual Role of the Requirement of Reciprocity. In some EU Member States, provisions of national-autonomous aliens law enshrine the requirement of reciprocity.
LegalReader
DECEMBER 13, 2020
A judge in Miami recently gave the go-ahead for a class-action labor law and sex and age discrimination lawsuit against CBS Broadcasting, Inc. If a jury rules against the company, the ruling “could have a nationwide impact on CBS’s 29 owned-and-operated television stations, known as CBS Television Stations, Inc.” What happened, though? What was.
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JURIST
DECEMBER 13, 2020
Alfred Bourgeois, who had been on death row for 15 years, was executed by the US government Friday after the US Supreme Court rejected a last-minute application for a stay. He was the second federal prisoner to be executed by federal authorities in just two days. . Both cases were surrounded by uncertainty. Bourgeois’s appeal claimed he had an IQ of 75 and was intellectually disabled.
HowAppealing
DECEMBER 13, 2020
“Trump’s Challenge Is Over; After losing at the Supreme Court, he has no legal alternatives and ought to concede”: This editorial will appear in Monday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.
JURIST
DECEMBER 13, 2020
The US Senate passed the $740 billion National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) on Friday with veto-proof majority support amidst President Trump’s threats to reject the legislation. The defense bill, through which Congress authorizes the Pentagon budget, has passed every year for 59 consecutive years. The legislation garnered widespread bipartisan support in the Senate and passed with an 84-13 margin.
HowAppealing
DECEMBER 13, 2020
“After Supreme Court dismisses Texas case, Trump says his efforts to challenge election results are ‘not over'”: Felicia Sonmez of The Washington Post has this report.
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