JURIST
FEBRUARY 26, 2022
The UK expanded the criteria its visa scheme Thursday to Hong Kong residents born after 1997, under the British National (Overseas) Immigration Route (BN(O)). In response to the new restrictive Chinese security measures introduced in Hong Kong in 2021, the Immigration Route allowed nearly 3 million people from Hong Kong to apply for a five-year visa, providing a route to UK citizenship.
HowAppealing
FEBRUARY 26, 2022
“How a High School Debate Team Shaped Ketanji Brown Jackson: The Supreme Court nominee honed her oratory on Miami Palmetto’s powerhouse debate team; She was not the only alum who went on to an impressive career.” Patricia Mazzei will have this article in Sunday’s edition of The New York Times. Also in tomorrow’s edition of that newspaper, Charlie Savage will have an article headlined “ As a Public Defender, Supreme Court Nominee Helped Clients Others Avoided;
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JURIST
FEBRUARY 26, 2022
Lithuania declared a state of emergency Thursday, in response to the “large military forces massed in Russia and Belarus,” hours after the invasion of Russia against Ukraine. Lithuania President Gitanas Naus?da announced that parliament has unanimously approved the state of emergency that will last for two weeks. He stated that there is a risk to Lithuania’s primary security interests due to the Russian Federation’s actions.
HowAppealing
FEBRUARY 26, 2022
“Jackson Is the Perfect Choice for Today’s Supreme Court; A jurist with a background as a public defender and trial judge would change the tenor of the court, if not its dominant conservative ideology”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.
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JURIST
FEBRUARY 26, 2022
The Department of Justice (DOJ) Thursday filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against the Unified Judicial System (UJS) of Pennsylvania, alleging that the UJS has violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The DOJ sent a letter to the UJS earlier in the month, notifying the UJS that some of their courts had engaged in discrimination against a number of individuals who use prescribed medicines to combat Opioid Use Disorder (OUD).
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JURIST
FEBRUARY 26, 2022
The Russian Federation Friday vetoed a UN Security Council (UNSC) vote to adopt a draft resolution that would end the crisis in Ukraine. The draft was submitted by Albania and the US, and garnered eleven yes votes, with abstentions from China, India, and the UAE. The draft would have deplored the Russian Federation’s invasion of Ukraine as being in violation of Article 2 of the UN Charter, prohibiting the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or independence of any state
HowAppealing
FEBRUARY 26, 2022
“Will the Supreme Court Frustrate Efforts to Slow Climate Change?” Law professor Jody Freeman will have this guest essay in the Sunday Review section of tomorrow’s issue of The New York Times.
JURIST
FEBRUARY 26, 2022
The Supreme Court of India dismissed a petition Friday seeking the deployment of central forces, including paramilitary forces, in the upcoming local elections in West Bengal state, alleging apprehensions of large-scale violence and electoral fraud. Two leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), an opposition party in the state, filed this petition against the decision of the Calcutta High Court, which had refused to direct the deployment of central forces.
HowAppealing
FEBRUARY 26, 2022
“House passes ‘Markel’ grandparent visitation bill”: Peter Schorsch of Florida Politics has this report.
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JURIST
FEBRUARY 26, 2022
The US Department of Justice (DOJ), along with Attorneys General in Minnesota and New York, filed a suit Thursday before the US District Court for the District of Columbia against a proposed $13 billion transaction between UnitedHealth Group, which owns the largest health insurer in the country, and Change, a leading healthcare technology company providing analytics, software, and data services.
HowAppealing
FEBRUARY 26, 2022
“The difference Ketanji Brown Jackson may make on the conservative-dominated Supreme Court”: Joan Biskupic of CNN has this news analysis.
JURIST
FEBRUARY 26, 2022
In response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the US , the UK , and the EU Friday placed sanctions on Russia President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. The US Treasury announced the sanctions just one day after it targeted the Russian financial system’s core infrastructure by sanctioning Russia’s largest financial institutions, restricting its ability to raise funds, and forbidding it from accessing critical technologies.
HowAppealing
FEBRUARY 26, 2022
“Wink-and-a-nod nomination: Who really is Ketanji Brown Jackson?” Law professor Jonathan Turley has this essay online at The Hill.
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LLRX
FEBRUARY 26, 2022
Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness.
SCOTUSBlog
FEBRUARY 26, 2022
Share This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, whether approximately 200,000 reservists who are federal employees are entitled to differential pay when voluntarily mobilized and whether the merely hypothetical existence of the elements of a conspiracy is enough to convict defendants under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.
Conflict of Laws
FEBRUARY 26, 2022
Bianca Scrabak has recently published an innovative book on international jurisdiction in contract and tort under the Brussels Ia Regulation, in which she develops a comprehensive solution for cases in which Article 7(1) and 7(2) vest special jurisdiction in the courts of more than one Member State. The different solutions adopted by the CJEU to mitigate the problems resulting from a multiplicity of places of ‘contract performance’ or ‘harmful events’ are well-known.
HowAppealing
FEBRUARY 26, 2022
“Inside Biden’s decision to pick Ketanji Brown Jackson for Supreme Court”: Edward-Isaac Dovere of CNN has this report.
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JonathanTurley
FEBRUARY 26, 2022
Below is my column in the Hill on the acceptance of a major new case by the Supreme Court on the issue of free speech and anti-discrimination laws. The nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (the subject of today’s Hill column) and the Ukraine war took attention from this addition to the docket.
JURIST
FEBRUARY 26, 2022
Law students and young lawyers in Ukraine are filing for JURIST on the latest developments in that country as it defends itself against Russian invasion. Here, Ukrainian lawyer and University of Pittsburgh LLM graduate Taras Shablii reports from Kyiv. . The night was difficult for our army, but they managed to stop the enemy on all fronts. They are incredible humans!
HowAppealing
FEBRUARY 26, 2022
“Inside Biden’s pick of Ketanji Brown Jackson for the Supreme Court: While the White House sought to portray a deliberative process, few in Washington expected the president to choose anyone other than the appellate court judge.” Seung Min Kim, Sean Sullivan, and Tyler Pager of The Washington Post have this report. Marianna Sotomayor of The Washington Post has an article headlined “ Inside the Congressional Black Caucus’s plan to defend the first Black woman nominat
JURIST
FEBRUARY 26, 2022
The Idaho House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday that would provide confidentiality to suppliers and manufacturers of lethal injection drugs. House Bill 658 is intended to provide “legal protection from discovery or disclosure for certain persons and entities to carry out the death penalty.” The bill would provide confidentiality to any individual or entity that “compounds, synthesizes, tests, sells, supplies, manufactures, stores, transports, procures, dispenses, or prescri
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JURIST
FEBRUARY 26, 2022
The US House Committee on Oversight and Reform Friday expanded its investigation into former President Donald Trump’s removal, loss, and destruction of presidential records. Oversight Committee Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney sent a letter to National Archivist David S. Ferriero requesting additional information relating to Trump’s handling of those records.
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