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MARCH 28, 2021

The Research Commission on the French Archives relating to Rwanda and the Tutsi genocide (Duclert Commission) on Friday submitted its report to French President Emmanuel Macron finding that the country bears responsibility due to its inaction, but was not complicit with the regime that perpetrated the genocide. Between April and July 1994, at least 800,000 people — Tutsis and moderate Hutus — were killed, and 250,000-500,000 raped, by Hutus.

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EvidenceProf Blog

MARCH 28, 2021

In its opinion last week in Torres v. Madrid, the Supreme Court held "that the application of physical force to the body of a person with intent to restrain is a seizure even if the person does not submit and.

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JURIST

MARCH 28, 2021

The Supreme Court ruled 5-3 on Thursday that a Fourth Amendment seizure occurred when police shot a woman, Roxanne Torres, in the back as she fled because the police used physical force with intent to restrain. Roxanne Torres was driving away from police officers in 2014 when the officers shot her in the back twice. Torres kept driving, successfully fleeing the scene.

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MARCH 28, 2021

“Woulda, Coulda SCOTUS: The modern history of the Supreme Court’s trampling of equality, and the decisions that might have changed all that.” You can access via this link the new installment of Slate’s “Amicus” podcast with Dahlia Lithwick, featuring Adam Cohen as her guest.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 28, 2021

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard argument in Caniglia v. Strom over whether the “community caretaking” exception to the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement extends to the home. For a case one expert commentator deemed “small,” much was at play here, as evidenced by the simulacrum. The post “Possible cause”: Court seems poised to allow warrantless community caretaking entries into the home appeared first on SCOTUSblog.

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JURIST

MARCH 28, 2021

The UK Supreme Court on Friday permitted shop floor workers of Asda, a major supermarket retailer in the UK, to compare their roles to the roles of their colleagues in distribution centres to claim equal pay. Asda’s shop floor workers, who are predominantly women, are seeking compensation for receiving less pay than their colleagues employed in distribution depots, who are mostly men, for doing work of equal value.

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MARCH 28, 2021

“Death is the right penalty for Tsarnaev; A judge went to great lengths to ensure a fair trial for the Boston Marathon bomber”: Columnist Jeff Jacoby has this op-ed in today’s edition of The Boston Globe.

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LegalReader

MARCH 28, 2021

Hennepin County and two social workers recently came under fire in a lawsuit over the 2018 death of an infant girl, Layla Mary Ann Jackson.

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MARCH 28, 2021

“Landlord Avoids FHA Suit Over Tenant-on-Tenant Racial Harassment”: Bernie Pazanowski has this report (subscription required for full access) on an en banc ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued Thursday. As is typical for the Second Circuit, the judges remain divided over whether the proceeding was en banc or in banc.

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MARCH 28, 2021

Recent Headlines in the IP World: David Phelan: Apple iPhone 13: Patent Hints At Radically Different Innovation (Source: Forbes). Christopher Rowland: Advocates Want NIH to Use its Moderna Vaccine Patent to Push for Global Access (Source: The Washington Post). Larry W. Reaugh: American Manganese Patent Application Receives Notice of Allowance from Korean Intellectual Property Office (Source: AccessWire).

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MARCH 28, 2021

Last Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit denied rehearing en banc in Philadelphia Safehouse case: You can access the order, and the opinion dissenting therefrom, at this link. My earlier coverage of the original divided three-judge panel’s ruling can be accessed here and here.

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Fordham Law News

MARCH 28, 2021

Two of the world’s largest companies, Apple and Facebook, are in the midst of a vicious, public “war” over Apple’s new privacy feature, Apple Tracking Transparency (“ATT”), featured in iOS 14. This war is over the personal data of millions of Apple users and whether companies, like Facebook, should be allowed to track user data as effortlessly as they currently do. [1] The goal of ATT is to provide users with more autonomy over which companies can track their data, by prompting users to disab

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MARCH 28, 2021

“Judicial Notice: March 27, 2021; Notable legal news from the week that was.” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 28, 2021

In 2015, I wrote a Washington Post colum n criticizing the world leaders who marched for free speech and the free press after the massacre of editors with from the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, particularly the vehemently anti-free speech and anti-free press president of Turkey Recep Tavyip Erdogan. The editors were murdered because the magazine published a cartoon of Mohammad.

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MARCH 28, 2021

“Ford Plays Legal Hardball With Accident Victims”: Kenneth Jost has this post at his “Jost on Justice” blog.

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Corporate Governance

MARCH 28, 2021

SEC to Protect Shareholder Rights in 2021 Shareholder rights in 2021 will strengthen if recent speculation is realized. U.S. Senate Democrats aim to undo Trump-era shareholder voting rights rule. Shareholder Rights in 2021: History As discussed elsewhere on CorpGov.net (Review: Carl Gershenson). After its founding, the SEC was largely a champion of shareholder rights, requiring companies […].

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MARCH 28, 2021

“Cameras in the Supreme Court would be good”: Gabe Roth has this letter to the editor online at The Washington Post.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 28, 2021

I have long been an out-spoken critic of Dr. Bandy Lee, a former faculty member in the School of Medicine and Yale Law School, who has made bizarre and unprofessional statements about the mental fitness of not just former president Donald Trump but his supporters. A favorite expert of MSNBC, Lee never disappointed hosts in declaring Trump and his supporters are mentally ill and dangerous.

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MARCH 28, 2021

“Dianne Feinstein becomes California’s longest-serving U.S. senator”: Jennifer Haberkorn of The Los Angeles Times has this report.

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MARCH 28, 2021

“Supreme Court to decide whether Goldman Sachs shareholders can bring suit in major fraud case”: Tucker Higgins of CNBC has this report.

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MARCH 28, 2021

“It might be time for Stephen Breyer to retire from the Supreme Court; A slim Democratic margin in the Senate offers the president his best chance for a Black woman justice; First, he needs a vacancy on the high court”: Columnist Renée Graham has this op-ed in today’s edition of The Boston Globe.

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