The Estrin Report

OCTOBER 15, 2021

An Interview With Chere Estrin. Lawyers must be able to be strong advocates for themselves, as well as their clients. It will make a tremendous difference in your career if you advocate strongly for yourself when asking for development or business opportunities, as well as in self-evaluations and promotional memos. Remember, why would anyone trust your advocacy skills if you are not excellent at advocating for yourself.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 15, 2021

A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit sided for a second time with Texas officials and suspended a lower court ruling that had blocked a Texas law banning most abortions. The order issued late Thursday night stated that the court would expedite the appeal and schedule oral arguments. Senate Bill 8 (SB 8) bans abortions as early as six weeks into the pregnancy.

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ABA Journal

OCTOBER 15, 2021

An app that connected traffic-ticket defendants with lawyers was engaged in the unauthorized practice of law, the Florida Supreme Court ruled Thursday in a 4-3…

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JURIST

OCTOBER 15, 2021

The European Commission published Wednesday the “ EU’s Arctic Strategy ” outlining the EU’s goals within the arctic. These aims include prohibiting future mining of oil, coal, and gas in Arctic regions, given the current climate crisis. The Arctic Strategy states, “The EU is committed to ensuring that oil, coal, and gas stay in the ground, including in Arctic regions.” Despite those claims, the EU has continued to export these resources from the Arctic.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Research by the nonprofit Fight Crime: Invest in Kids claims access to quality preschool prevents young people from drifting into criminal paths as they get older. While education has been a known deterrent to future crime, advocates articulated a comprehensive roadmap to show how real success can be achieved, according to a new report from the group.

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 15, 2021

The first step in nurturing virtual relationships? Don’t assume everyone is OK. Work relationships are important. Maintaining them can be challenging — especially now in our remote work world. Here are five ways to show you value the people who make your practice possible: your employees. 1. Show Empathy. It’s no surprise that remaining engaged with your firm may be a challenge as you experience a remote work environment for the first time.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 15, 2021

With a 12th person dying in jail this year, the brutal conditions that have long characterized Rikers Island are once again on display. What we’re witnessing should compel us to act. Officials must work together, beginning immediately, to reduce the number of people in the Rikers complex. While overincarceration is not the only problem, using jail far less often lies at the center of a comprehensive solution.

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Patently O

OCTOBER 15, 2021

by Dennis Crouch. This decision suggests that the Federal Circuit is acceding to the Supreme Court’s approach giving broad discretion to the district courts in attorney fees cases rather than nit-picking individual elements of the totality-of-the-circumstances test. But, we’ll see. . Energy Heating, LLC v. Heat On-the-Fly, LLC ( Fed. Cir. 2021 ).

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JURIST

OCTOBER 15, 2021

The United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) held Tuesday that Paraguay had violated the indigenous community’s rights and sense of “home” by not taking any measures to prevent and control the toxic contamination of traditional lands due to the intensive use of pesticides by nearby commercial farms. The community has decided to file the case before the UNHRC after previously being denied before the judiciary of Paraguay.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 15, 2021

In an explosive exposé last week, The Wall Street Journal reported that 131 federal judges broke the law by hearing cases where they had a financial interest. To uncover those violations, reporters reviewed the financial holdings of some 700 federal judges and compared them against tens of thousands of court cases. The data the Journal used was compiled by the Free Law Project , a non-profit that works to provide free and open public access to court data, opinions, filings and other information.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 15, 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 observations and perspective on the growing plight of refugees in Kabul who are suffering from a lack of food and shelter as the weather in the Afghan capital turns colder.

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HowAppealing

OCTOBER 15, 2021

“At Yale Law School, a party invitation ignites a firestorm”: Columnist Ruth Marcus has this op-ed in today’s edition of The Washington Post. Therein, Marcus writes, “Sorry, but if you’re triggered by the Federalist Society, you don’t belong on a law school campus.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 15, 2021

North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper on Wednesday signed a major energy bill that aims to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants by 2030. House Bill 951, Energy Solutions for North Carolina , authorizes the North Carolina Utilities Commission to take all reasonable steps to achieve a 70 percent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions from electric public utilities by 2030.

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OCTOBER 15, 2021

“Federal Judges or Their Brokers Traded Stocks of Litigants During Cases; Dozens of judges have reported share purchases and sales made while they presided in suits involving those companies, a WSJ investigation found”: Coulter Jones, Joe Palazzolo, and James V. Grimaldi of The Wall Street Journal have an article that begins, “Mary Geiger Lewis acquired Walmart Inc. stock.

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Above The Law

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Yawn : Supreme Court reform commission comes back with. not much of anything. Interesting Timing : By pure coincidence, the commission report that couldn't figure out if there might be a legitimacy problem with a life-tenured high priesthood of a Supreme Court released their findings just in time for Clarence Thomas to celebrate 30 years on the Court.

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OCTOBER 15, 2021

“Justice Dept. to Ask Supreme Court to Block Texas’ Near-Total Abortion Ban as Legal Fights Continues; The Texas law bans abortions when cardiac activity is detected, at around six weeks of pregnancy, and makes no exceptions for rape or incest”: Katie Benner of The New York Times has this report. And Ann E. Marimow and Robert Barnes of The Washington Post report that “ Justice Department will ask Supreme Court to block Texas abortion law while legal fights play out.

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Above The Law

OCTOBER 15, 2021

A digital recording is no substitute for the neutrality and legitimacy that is inferred when a court report is involved in recording the testimony of witnesses.

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OCTOBER 15, 2021

“Tsarnaev Supreme Court appeal: Do unbiased jurors exist in an age of social media?” Law professor Thaddeus Hoffmeister has this essay online at The Conversation.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 15, 2021

The Justice Department will award $7 million in grants to “improve mental health and wellness services” for police officers. The 65 grants announced Thursday under the Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness Act Program, will be used for training, and developing pilot projects in areas like suicide prevention and peer mentoring. “Each day, law enforcement officers across the country put their lives on the line for the communities they serve,” Deputy Attorney General Monaco said in announcing

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OCTOBER 15, 2021

“The Pro-Life Story of How Babies Are Made”: Law professor Sherry F. Colb has this essay online at Justia’s Verdict.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Share Wednesday’s argument in Babcock v Kijakazi displayed a bench still uncertain about how to resolve a problem about the Social Security benefits available to a small group of National Guard workers. The case involves a special rule that protects certain members of the “uniformed services” from a rule that limits Social Security benefits for people with irregular work histories over the course of their lifetime.

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OCTOBER 15, 2021

“This Justice Is Taking Over the Supreme Court, and He Won’t Be Alone”: Jill Abramson has this guest essay online at The New York Times.

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LegalReader

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Since legal funding depends on the merit of your case and not on your financial credentials, the higher are the chances of getting compensation easier it is to obtain the funds. .

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HowAppealing

OCTOBER 15, 2021

“Biden Supreme Court Panel Draft Leaves Progressives Unimpressed”: Madison Alder of Bloomberg Law has this report.

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Above The Law

OCTOBER 15, 2021

* A Texas education law leads a school administrator to request an even-handed approach to the Holocaust. Yes, Adolf killed over 10 million people. but did you know he was also a painter? [ CNN ] * SB8’s back. Back again. I'm tired of re-runs, bring on the finale. [ The Hill ] * Judge thinks death row inmate should get a new trial after discovering the judge that sentenced him to death disliked Jews.

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