JURIST

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Department of Labor announced Tuesday that they had reached settlement agreements with Facebook over claims that the tech giant had misused the Department of Labor’s Permanent Labor Certification Program (PERM) in its recruitment and hiring practices. The settlement requires Facebook to pay $15 million, marking the largest total ever recovered by the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division when enforcing anti-discrimination provisions of the Immi

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OCTOBER 20, 2021

Navigating a return from prison or jail is hard even at the best of times. But during a pandemic it can be daunting. Scott, who was released from a California prison this year after serving six and a half years of a 10-year sentence, found a temporary job that required him to drive through hazardous winter conditions from his transitional housing residence in the San Bernardino Mountains.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 20, 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 chaotic security situation in the country. For privacy and security reasons we are withholding our correspondent’s name and institutional affiliation.

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ABA Journal

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Since World War II, more than 2 million service members have been discharged from U.S. military service with a status other than "honorable discharge.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Brazilian senators investigating the handling of the country’s COVID-19 outbreak filed their final report Wednesday on whether President Jair Bolsonaro is responsible for more than 300,000 COVID-19-related deaths in Brazil. The 1200-page report follows six months of investigations by an 11-member committee into the causes of Brazil’s outbreak.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The Norwegian National Communications Authority (Nkom) on Tuesday fined media service Telenor for breaching non-discrimination obligations, creating a disadvantage to access buyers. The announcement, which was first made in March 2021, fined Telenor 15 million NOK for the breach. The media communications service was found to be acting negligently when delivering access buyers’ orders on an agreed date compared to their own business deliveries.

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OCTOBER 20, 2021

“The Supreme Court’s Conservative Revolution Is Already Happening; The conservative justices’ fight over how fast — and far — to move the court to the right”: Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux and Laura Bronner of FiveThirtyEight have this report.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The Dublin Circuit Court (DCC) on Monday confirmed the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) decision to fine Twitter € 450,000 for its delay in reporting a data breach. The fine, imposed in 2020, was implemented when Twitter failed to report a General Data Protection Regulation ( GDPR) data breach in enough time. The breach related to Android users who had changed their settings to make tweets private and could have had their data exposed due to a bug.

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OCTOBER 20, 2021

“En banc 4th Circuit will review skirts-only dress code for charter school girls”: Alison Frankel of Reuters has this report on an order granting rehearing en banc that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued yesterday. You can access at this link the now-vacated ruling in this case of the original partially divided three-judge panel.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Tuesday that the Cuban government “systematically engaged in arbitrary detention, ill-treatment of detainees, and abuse-ridden criminal prosecutions in response to peaceful anti-government protests in July 2021.”. In July 2021, thousands of Cubans took to the streets in anti-government protests , motivated by dissatisfaction with the Cuban government’s handling of the economy, the Covid-19 pandemic, and the curtailment of civil liberties.

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OCTOBER 20, 2021

“The Supreme Court floats a startling expansion to police immunity from the law; A new opinion suggests that ‘qualified immunity’ could become something much closer to absolute immunity from lawsuits”: Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The Fifth Circuit granted on Tuesday the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) request to voluntarily dismiss an appeal without determining whether the case was moot. Terkel v. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stemmed from the CDC’s national eviction moratorium , which temporarily prohibited landlords from evicting tenants amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

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OCTOBER 20, 2021

“Appeals court tosses order aimed at protecting immigration detainees from COVID-19”: Maura Dolan of The Los Angeles Times has this report on a 109-page ruling that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued today.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 20, 2021

UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir O. Pederson told the press on Sunday that the co-chairs nominated by the government and the opposition have agreed to commence the constitutional reform process. The Syrian Constitutional Committee met for the first time in 2019, and it is comprised of a total of 150 members. The opposition and government each nominated 50 members, and civil society nominated the last 50 members.

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OCTOBER 20, 2021

“Equity in United States v. Texas”: Samuel Bray has begun a series of posts on this subject at “The Volokh Conspiracy.” Thus far, you can access parts one and two.

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Above The Law

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Now THAT Would Be A Miracle : Anti-vaxxer Catholics trying to spin "rejecting the Pope" into a "sincerely held religious belief" is a bold move. If Only They Could Take Something For The Pain : Arnold & Porter earn a benchslap in multistate opioid trial. Miranda Rights. Still A Thing : But Rep. Jeff Fortenberry didn't realize that when he prattled his way into numerous false statement charges.

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OCTOBER 20, 2021

“Supreme Court just doubled down on flawed qualified immunity rule. Why that matters. Police don’t know the law, and SCOTUS sticks to bizarre rule that there must be nearly identical facts to recover for constitutional violations.” Law professor Joanna Schwartz has this essay online at USA Today.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Despite proof that female officers use less force and avoid more complaints, State police departments often do not do enough to change the perception that state policing isn’t for women. In the last two decades, the percentage of women among the ranks of state police officers has hardly budged, with nationally just 7 percent of sworn state troopers being female, reports Pew Stateline.

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OCTOBER 20, 2021

“Fight over Pa. school mask mandate gets a day in court”: David Wenner of The Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania has this report.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The former student who murdered his classmates and teachers in Parkland, Florida in 2018 pleaded guilty on Wednesday to the premeditated murder of 17 people and the attempted murder of 17 others, leaving his fate in the hands of a jury. He faces life in prison or execution, reports The New York Times. The 34 guilty pleas were enumerated in a courtroom filled with the families of those who were killed and injured at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

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Above The Law

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The SEC stopped short of making any new policy recommendations, but the agency did strongly imply that it would be taking a closer look at Robinhood Markets.

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OCTOBER 20, 2021

“Solid majority believes Supreme Court rulings based more on politics than law”: John Kruzel of The Hill has this report.

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OCTOBER 20, 2021

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ABA Journal

OCTOBER 20, 2021

A South Carolina probate judge has been suspended for 18 months, partly for soliciting hurricane relief donations on Facebook and partly for his all-caps declaration…

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Above The Law

OCTOBER 20, 2021

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