The Estrin Report

OCTOBER 6, 2021

An Interview With Chere Estrin. Be empathetic. Put yourself in the client’s shoes. Have you ever been a client? Wouldn’t you want your call returned; your matter attended to? Wouldn’t you want to understand what’s happening in advance of it happening? Wouldn’t you want to feel cared for and secure? Randy Zelin. T he legal field is known to be extremely competitive.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 6, 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 Taliban’s inability to pay surrounding countries for Afghanistan’s electricity. For privacy and security reasons we are withholding our correspondent’s name and institutional affiliation.

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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

As much as you might dread the next Zoom meeting. And, the one after that. And, the next one. And, the one after that one. Video conferencing is here to stay. But, being at home, it’s easy to get blasé about how you treat those video conferences. It’s no sweat to keep the sweatpants on, to half-comb your hair, to sneak an Oreo. Of course, you’d never do that at an in-person event.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The Australian and Papua New Guinean (PNG) governments announced Wednesday that they have agreed to realize a joint arrangement to end offshore immigration and refugee processing by December. In a joint statement from Australia’s Karen Andrews and PNG’s Westly Nukundj detailing the agreement, the parties stated that their respective governments have finalized the Regional Resettlement Arrangement (RRA) between the two nations, “realizing a long shared [sic] objective of the PNG and Austral

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Whether you’re just now jumping on the digital signature wagon or you’re looking to consolidate your subscriptions, Adobe Sign may be the answer. Adobe Sign is included with all Adobe Acrobat Pro DC subscriptions, saving you money and reducing the number of products you need to get the job done. Learn more tips like this in Affinity Consulting Group ’s “ Adobe Acrobat for Legal Professionals.”.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Before the pandemic, the estimated number of people held in solitary confinement in the U.S. ranged from 50,000 to 80,000 on any given day, though many advocacy organizations believe counts are underestimated. Now, new data shows that at the height of the pandemic last year, up to 300,000 individuals were in solitary, according to analysis from Solitary Watch and The Marshall Project , non-profits focused on criminal justice reform advocacy, reports NPR.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The Supreme Court of India approved Monday a government plan to compensate families of deceased COVID-19 victims. The program provides 50,000 rupees per family death. 50,000 rupees coverts to almost $670 for the nearly 450,000 deaths—representing a substantial cost for the Indian government. However, the number of deaths will increase further. The pandemic continues to cause deaths and researchers believe that India has massively underestimated the total number of COVID-19 deaths.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 6, 2021

A “cottage industry” has emerged in the past few years to fight for wrongfully convicted individuals, ranging from Conviction Integrity Units (CIUs) operated by district attorneys’ offices, to nonprofit or university-based groups like the Innocence Project and Northwestern University’s Exoneration Project. Bu their efforts still amount to a drop in the bucket.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Sri Lankan prosecutors on Monday indicted 24 suspects along with the “mastermind” of the 2019 Easter Sunday suicide bombing in the Colombo Permanent High Court. The indictment concerns three attacks on April 21, 2019 which killed 269 people, including local and foreign nationals. The attacks were on churches and hotels, targeting the Christian community in Sri Lanka.

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OCTOBER 6, 2021

“Supreme Court Clerks, October Term 2011: Where Are They Now? And which justices have the most high-powered clerk cohorts?” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.

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ABA Journal

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Attorneys often must take affirmative steps to ensure that they can communicate effectively with clients with limited English proficiency or with those with noncognitive physical…

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OCTOBER 6, 2021

“Supreme Court Justices Make a Surprising Proposal in Torture Case; Twenty years after the Sept. 11 attacks, three justices said it was time to hear from the first detainee subjected to brutal interrogation by the C.I.A.” Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report. David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times reports that “ Can the U.S. shield a ‘state secret’ that’s not a secret?

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Patently O

OCTOBER 6, 2021

by Dennis Crouch. CosmoKey Solutions v. Duo Security ( Fed. Cir. 2021 ). Patentee wins this one–with the Federal Circuit reversing the district court and finding the claims on patent-eligibility under Alice step-two. This is another case that serves as a data-point, but I struggle to differentiate it from similar cases finding claims ineligible.

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OCTOBER 6, 2021

“Federal judge blocks Texas restrictive abortion law”: Madlin Mekelburg of The Austin American-Statesman has this report. And Zoe Tillman of BuzzFeed News reports that “ A Judge Blocked Texas’s 6-Week Abortion Ban; ‘This Court will not sanction one more day of this offensive deprivation of such an important right,’ Judge Robert Pitman wrote.” You can access this evening’s ruling of the U.S.

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OCTOBER 6, 2021

by Dennis Crouch The Federal Circuit has been tearing through mandamus petitions on the issue of inconvenient venue under Section 1404(a). The issue comes up in cases where venue is proper and the court has personal jurisdiction over the defendant, but for whatever reason the particular venue chosen by the plaintiff is inconvenient. Thus, the statute provides a district court with discretion to move venue “[f]or the convenience of parties and witnesses, in the interest of justice.” 2

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OCTOBER 6, 2021

“Supreme Court considers whether information widely known can be ‘state secret'”: Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has this report. John Kruzel of The Hill reports that “ Supreme Court weighs request for information on CIA’s post-9/11 torture program.” Earlier, on today’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” Nina Totenberg had an audio segment titled “ The Supreme Court considers whether the CIA’s black sites are state

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Share The first oral argument of the Supreme Court’s new term, Mississippi v. Tennessee , dealt with Mississippi’s claim that Memphis, Tennessee, is stealing Mississippi’s groundwater. The justices seemed skeptical of Mississippi’s claims — but they also displayed considerable concern about the potential breadth of the “equitable apportionment” doctrine and the court’s potential increasing involvement in future interstate disputes over natural resources.

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OCTOBER 6, 2021

“Troll World Tour”: Dahlia Lithwick must have been great as a guest on last week’s episode of the Strict Scrutiny podcast — hosted by law professors Melissa Murray , Kate Shaw , and Leah Litman — because she is back as the guest on this week’s episode.

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Above The Law

OCTOBER 6, 2021

It’s alright to look out for yourself and your family and to build a reasonably comfortable existence. But there’s a line that should not be crossed.

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OCTOBER 6, 2021

“Supreme Court Ethics Rules Are an Embarrassing Joke; What’s worse: that the federal judicial code of conduct is so weak, or that it doesn’t apply to Supreme Court justices at all?” Adam Cohen has this post at Balls and Strikes.

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ABA Journal

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Current and former law students unloaded about their worst experiences during job interviews in a Reddit thread chronicled by Law.com.

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OCTOBER 6, 2021

“The Supreme Court isn’t political — and reversing Roe v. Wade wouldn’t make it so”: Michael O’Neill has this essay online at The Hill.

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OCTOBER 6, 2021

Share The Supreme Court heard oral argument Tuesday in Brown v. Davenport to consider whether a Michigan prisoner, whose constitutional right to a fair trial was violated when he was visibly shackled before the jury, is entitled to habeas corpus relief. Both sides agree that there was a constitutional violation when Ervine Lee Davenport was shackled in front of the jury while facing a murder charge.

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OCTOBER 6, 2021

“Supreme Court is Back”: You can access the new episode of the “Advisory Opinions” podcast, featuring David French and Sarah Isgur, via this link.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 6, 2021

A report from the National Network for Safe Communities has found that a significantly small group of violent actors in Columbus, Ohio were behind nearly half the city’s homicides that occurred in a nine-month period in 2020, the city’s deadliest year on record, reports the Columbus Dispatch. Among the report’s most significant findings is that 17 gangs comprised of an estimated 480 total members — roughly.05 percent of the city’s population — were confirmed to be or suspected to be

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