JURIST
APRIL 6, 2021
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law Monday allowing him to run for an additional two terms, meaning that Putin could retain control of the Russian presidency until 2036. Putin first served as President of the Russian Federation from 2000 until 2008, then stepped down to serve as Prime Minister from 2008 until 2012, at which time he regained the presidency.
EvidenceProf Blog
APRIL 6, 2021
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
APRIL 6, 2021
Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson on Monday vetoed a state bill prohibiting medical treatment for transgender youth, calling it “a vast government overreach.” HB1570, titled the Save Adolescents from Experimentation (SAFE) Act , bans healthcare professionals from providing gender transition procedures to youth under 18 years old, even with parental consent.
NCBA Law Practice Management Blog
APRIL 6, 2021
Mixed-use work and personal email accounts can quickly become ultra-confusing. And yet, ma n y lawyers still utilize the setup, ostensibly (and, ironically) for ease-of-use/simplicity. Modern law firms need to specialize in efficiency, more than any specific practice area. To that end, your email should be mission-critical to your business. That messages in your inbox should be from your clients, from referral sources and colleagues, maybe from organizations you belong to (those should be pushed
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JURIST
APRIL 6, 2021
Tennessee filed an emergency request on Monday asking the US Supreme Court to reinstate a 48-hour mandatory waiting period for abortions pending appeal. The law was challenged by several doctors and a medical center on behalf of their patients. US District Judge Bernard Friedman held in October that the waiting period was unconstitutional, following “five years of litigation and a four-day bench trial.” He blocked enforcement of the law, stating: Defendants have failed to show that t
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JURIST
APRIL 6, 2021
The US Supreme Court granted review Monday in Brown v. Davenport , a case that will decide how harmless error review is applied in federal habeas petitions. The case arises out of a Michigan court that shackled a criminal defendant during a trial. State courts concluded that shackling him violated the Constitution, but that the error was harmless, and he was not entitled to a new trial.
HowAppealing
APRIL 6, 2021
“North Dakota Supreme Court to resume in-person oral arguments”: Jack Dura of The Bismarck Tribune has an article that begins, “North Dakota’s Supreme Court will resume in-person oral arguments in June, more than a year after moving to remote means due to the coronavirus pandemic. In-person oral arguments will be subject to both parties agreeing to appear that way, Chief Justice Jon Jensen said.
JURIST
APRIL 6, 2021
The appeal of former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak began at the Palace of Justice in Putrajaya on Monday, as Najib attempts to overturn his 2020 conviction on corruption charges related to the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) scandal. Najib’s conviction arose from charges involving money laundering, abuse of power, and criminal breach of trust from laundering hundreds of millions of dollars from the state 1MDB sovereign wealth fund into his own private bank accounts.
HowAppealing
APRIL 6, 2021
“Decision strikes key parts of Native American adoptions law”: Kevin McGill of The Associated Press has this report on today’s 325-page en banc ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. The decision begins with a five-page per curiam scorecard because the judges’ opinions that follow thereafter may be too complex to readily decipher the en banc court’s actual holdings.
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JURIST
APRIL 6, 2021
Prince Hamzah bin Hussein , Jordan’s former crown prince, was accused on Sunday of having links with foreign parties over “malicious plot” to undermine the country’s security and destabilize it. Jordan’s ruling family traces its lineage back to Islam’s Prophet Muhammad. After the death of King Al Hussein bin Talal in 1999, Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein was crowned as king, and Hamzah, his half-brother, was titled the crown prince of Jordan.
HowAppealing
APRIL 6, 2021
“I am really going to miss Justice Breyer; His opinion in Oracle v. Google was so joyful; You can tell how much he relished writing this technical decision”: Josh Blackman has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy,” along with a post titled “ Did Justice Thomas Cover for Justice Barrett’s Vote To Deny Cert To Reconsider TWA v.
JURIST
APRIL 6, 2021
The Russian state communications regulator announced Monday that it would be extending the punitive slowdown of Twitter traffic. until May 15. The Russian regulator had first announced the decision to slow down Twitter nearly four weeks ago in response to what it deemed as the social media platform’s failure to remove banned content such as child pornography, drug abuse and calls for suicide.
HowAppealing
APRIL 6, 2021
“The Conservative Movement’s Favorite Legal Theory Is Rooted in Racism”: Mark Joseph Stern has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate consisting of an interview with Calvin TerBeek about the latter’s new article.
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SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 6, 2021
Share Monday’s decision in Google v. Oracle reminds us that occasionally the Supreme Court can take a big case and actually decide it! So many of the intellectual-property cases that reach the justices reflect minor circuit conflicts of largely technical interest or end up with a decision so narrow as to contribute little to the development of the law.
HowAppealing
APRIL 6, 2021
“Google’s Supreme Court Win Sends Pro-Consumer Message; In the end, this copyright case wasn’t even close”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.
iHire
APRIL 6, 2021
Preparing for a virtual interview? This practical checklist walks you through each step, and tells you what you need to know about interviewing via video.
HowAppealing
APRIL 6, 2021
“Supreme Court Backs Google in Copyright Fight With Oracle; The 6-to-2 ruling ended a decade-long battle over whether Google had improperly used Java code in its Android operating system”: Adam Liptak has this article in today’s edition of The New York Times. In today’s edition of The Washington Post, Robert Barnes and Gerrit De Vynck have an article headlined “ Supreme Court sides with Google in multibillion-dollar copyright dispute with Oracle.” In todayR
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JURIST
APRIL 6, 2021
A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Monday dismissed a lawsuit filed by New York state residents claiming that the World Health Organization (WHO) negligently responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. In the complaint filed last April, plaintiffs alleged that the WHO failed to “properly monitor the response to the Coronavirus pandemic in China generally and within Hubei Province and the City of Wuhan.” Additionally, the complaint alleged that the WHO
HowAppealing
APRIL 6, 2021
“Alcee Hastings, pioneering civil rights activist, judge and politician, dies at 84”: Linda Robertson and Alex Daugherty of The Miami Herald have this report. And Harrison Smith of The Washington Post reports that “ Rep. Alcee Hastings, civil rights lawyer and judge elected to 15 terms in Congress, dies at 84.
MyCase
APRIL 6, 2021
For more than a year now many lawyers have worked remotely at one point or another. For many law firms, the shift to a remote workforce was an abrupt one and didn’t always go smoothly. But eventually law firms were able to put technology in place that allowed them to get work done seamlessly, regardless of where it was occurring. The shift to remote work.
HowAppealing
APRIL 6, 2021
“Tennessee takes abortion dispute to Supreme Court”: Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times has this report.
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LegalReader
APRIL 6, 2021
You cannot afford to ignore two things when designing your app: the code signing certificate and the SSL certificate.
Patently O
APRIL 6, 2021
Chief Judge Prost took over as Chief at the end of May 2014 just after Judge Rader stepped-down from the position. The position lasts for seven years and that date is approaching in May 2021. In addition, the statute prohibits a judge from being Chief Judge once they turn 70 years old. Judge Prost is also turning 70 toward the end of May 2021. 28 U.S.C. 45.
LegalReader
APRIL 6, 2021
Addiction treatment providers and those offering recovery supports say the opioid settlement funds need to go to those who need it most.
Intelligize Blog
APRIL 6, 2021
Plucking executives from the federal government is a go-to move for companies hoping to gain legitimacy or calm investors’ nerves. That probably explains the pipeline now running from the Securities and Exchange Commission to the cryptocurrency sector. As the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the United States, Coinbase Global Inc. last week received the blessing of […].
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