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APRIL 5, 2021

The Supreme Court of Virginia Thursday ruled that the city of Charlottesville can remove two Confederate statues, including one of General Robert E. Lee for protesting the removal of which a deadly white supremacist rally took place in 2017. The court overturned a Charlottesville Circuit Court decision in favor of a group of residents who sued to block the city from taking down statues of General Lee and General Thomas Jackson.

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EvidenceProf Blog

APRIL 5, 2021

Professor Brian Larson (Texas A&M University School of Law) has posted "Endogenous and Dangerous" on SSRN. Here is the abstract: As far as we know, Aristotle was the first Westerner to formalize logic, about 2,500 years ago. But he recognized.

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JURIST

APRIL 5, 2021

Alameda County Superior Court Judge Frank Roesch on Friday ordered the city of Oakland, California, and its police department to release thousands of documents on police misconduct. This order was issued pursuant to a request made by journalists two years ago, following the California Legislature’s passage of a police transparency law. Two years ago, journalists requested that the city of Oakland and its police department release documents on police misconduct.

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Patently O

APRIL 5, 2021

by Dennis Crouch. The following chart provides one look at USPTO historic patent grant rate for patent applications filed over the past 20 years. The chart groups together patent applications as of their filing-month and then simply reports the percentage patented, abandoned, and still-pending. The red-line in the chat excludes the still pending applications and thus reports the grant rate of disposed-of applications.

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JURIST

APRIL 5, 2021

The G7 Foreign Ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the US issued a statement on Friday calling for an independent and transparent investigation into alleged human rights abuses in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. There has been ongoing conflict between central government soldiers and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) in the northern Ethiopia region of Tigray.

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JURIST

APRIL 5, 2021

Pakistan’s Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) in Lahore on Saturday sentenced five persons who led Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD), an organization founded by Hafiz Saeed with financial support from Osama bin Laden, each to nine years’ imprisonment for terrorism financing. JuD is known as the political arm of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), which was responsible for the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks that left 166 dead.

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APRIL 5, 2021

Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc. (Supreme Court 2021). In a 6-2 decision authored by Justice Breyer, the Supreme Court has held that Google’s copying of the JAVA API naming convention was a fair use as a matter of law. The court did not decide the question of whether the API was copyrightable in the first place. In his dissent, Justice Thomas (joined by Justice Alito) argues that the majority opinion “disregards half the relevant statutory text and distorts its fair-use analysis.

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JURIST

APRIL 5, 2021

The US Supreme Court ruled 6-2 in favor of Google on Monday in Google v. Oracle , holding that Google’s use of Oracle’s Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) was fair use. Oracle sued Google for copyright infringement after Google used portions of Oracle’s Java API code in the development of their Android operating system. APIs allow for programs to reference pre-written snippets of code to accomplish common tasks.

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APRIL 5, 2021

“Senator Mazie Hirono Opens Up On SCOTUS; She talks about Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, Barrett, and Ginsburg; Merrick Garland makes a guest appearance”: Josh Blackman has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.

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JURIST

APRIL 5, 2021

Turkish prosecutors on Monday issued arrest warrants for 10 retired senior navy officials a day after 104 officials released a letter defending the Montreux Doctrine. The Montreux Doctrine is an agreement made in 1936 concerning critical waterways that run through Turkey, most notably the Dardanelles and Bosphorus straits. The terms of the international convention provide that Turkey may control the straits, but must permit civilian vessels to pass through the waterways in times of peace.

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APRIL 5, 2021

“Warhol a Lame Copier? The Judges Who Said So Are Sadly Mistaken. An appeals court ruled that Andy Warhol violated a photographer’s copyright by appropriating her image for a silk-screen he did in 1984. Our critic disagrees.” Blake Gopnik has this “Critic’s Notebook” essay online at The New York Times.

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LegalReader

APRIL 5, 2021

Michael Faillace & Associates, a law firm in Manhattan, is coming under fire for filing lawsuits against New York City restaurants and delis over false wage violation claims.

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APRIL 5, 2021

“Guillermo del Toro Overcomes Claim ‘The Shape of Water’ Was Plagiarized; A copyright suit alleging the Oscar winner ripped off a Pulitzer Prize winning author was revived last year by an appeals court; Now comes a dismissal and a statement how claims of plagiarism were ‘unfounded'”: Eriq Gardner has this post at the “THR, Esq.” blog of The Hollywood Reporter.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 5, 2021

Tennessee filed an emergency request with the Supreme Court on Monday, asking the justices for permission to enforce a 48-hour waiting period for abortions while it appeals a federal district court’s ruling that declared the waiting period unconstitutional. Characterizing the waiting period as “materially indistinguishable”. The post Tennessee asks court to restore waiting period for abortions appeared first on SCOTUSblog.

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APRIL 5, 2021

“The Progressive Case for Libel Reform: Judge Silberman is a conservative, but he’s right about Sullivan.” Jeremy Lewin will have this op-ed in Tuesday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

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LawTechnologyToday

APRIL 5, 2021

Building and maintaining a successful legal practice requires attracting and acquiring new clients. However, not all prospects are worth representing. One best practice is to have a well-defined intake process using thorough due diligence to vet clients. Doing so can eliminate surprises that would otherwise delay or derail a case. . As part of your due diligence, you will initially want to interview your law firm’s prospect ive clients to learn more about them and their reaso

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APRIL 5, 2021

“Attorney Richard A. Sprague — the ‘fearless, fearsome and feared’ giant of the Philadelphia legal world — has died at 95; Sprague died Saturday after a brief illness and a near seven-decade career as a relenteless prosecutor, peerless civil litigator and towering figure in the history of Philadelphia courts”: Jeremy Roebuck of The Philadelphia Inquirer has this report.

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Livesay&Myers

APRIL 5, 2021

The Virginia General Assembly has made a significant change to Virginia Code § 20-106 concerning the requirements for a no-fault divorce. Effective July 1, 2021, Virginia law will no longer require a corroborating witness for a divorce based on no-fault grounds. The new law makes it significantly easier to obtain a no-fault divorce in Virginia. In Virginia, there are two ways to obtain a divorce: fault grounds or no-fault grounds.

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APRIL 5, 2021

“Seven Clerks for Seven Justices in 2021-2022, Continuing the Five-Decade UChicago Alumni Clerkship Streak at the Supreme Court”: Becky Beaupre Gillespie of the University of Chicago School of Law has this report.

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LegalReader

APRIL 5, 2021

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has grabbed the attention of most legal sectors, just like other organizations.

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HowAppealing

APRIL 5, 2021

“Congratulations To The 2021 Bristow Fellows; Plus the law schools and lower-court judges producing the most Bristows”: David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 5, 2021

The Supreme Court on Monday announced that it would add the case of a Michigan inmate convicted of premeditated murder to its docket for next term. The justices granted Brown v. Davenport, a petition filed by the state of Michigan on the standard for whether. The post Court to take up case on “harmless error” standard in habeas proceedings appeared first on SCOTUSblog.

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APRIL 5, 2021

Access today’s ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court in an argued case: Justice Stephen G. Breyer delivered the opinion of the Court in Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc. , No. 18-956. Justice Clarence Thomas issued a dissenting opinion, in which Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr. joined. And Justice Amy Coney Barrett did not participate in the ruling. You can access the oral argument via this link.

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Patently O

APRIL 5, 2021

By Jason Rantanen. There are lots of quantitative studies of patent litigation appellate court decisions, going all the way back to P.J. Federico’s 1956 article Adjudicated Patents in the Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society. One of the big limitations of these studies, though, is that there hasn’t really been any work done to examine how replicable their observations are – even for variables as seemingly simple as whether the court affirmed or reversed on a part

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APRIL 5, 2021

“What Progressives Can Learn From California Eliminating Cash Bail: There’s an interesting connection between the legal argument that paved the way and the final ruling.” Lindsay Harrison and Dahlia Lithwick have this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

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