JURIST

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Several Malian individuals have sued seven American chocolate companies for abetting and supporting illegal child labor in Côte D’Ivoire. The plaintiffs are former child slaves who were trafficked from Mali to harvest cocoa beans in Côte D’Ivoire. They escaped the plantation and returned to Mali. As laborers, the children are not paid and are constantly subjected to physical abuse by farmers or traffickers.

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EvidenceProf Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Similar to its federal counterpart, Pennsylvania Rule of Evidence 806 states that When a hearsay statement has been admitted in evidence, the declarant’s credibility may be attacked, and then supported, by any evidence that would be admissible for those purposes.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

JURIST EXCLUSIVE – JURIST’s law student correspondents in Myanmar informed us early Sunday that Myanmar’s internet services are being cut off again as of 1:30 PM EST and will remain off until approximately 9:30 PM EST (9 AM Monday in Myanmar). Late Sunday in Myanmar, tanks and other military vehicles were seen in the streets of the capital, Yangon, and other localities, while the local US Embassy instructed American citizens in the country to shelter in place.

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HowAppealing

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

“Supreme Court Clears Way for Extradition of Two Americans Accused in Ghosn Escape; Decision brings an end to a nine-month legal effort by a father and his son to avoid being sent to Japan to face criminal charges”: Mark Maremont of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

The Minnesota Court of Appeals on Friday dismissed the prosecution’s request to delay the March trial of Derek Chauvin, the former Minnesota police officer charged will killing George Floyd, after the prosecution cited safety concerns due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The appeals court also rejected the prosecution’s request to hold a joint trial for Chauvin and three other former police officers involved in the fatal arrest.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom allowed on Friday a case filed by 42,335 Nigerian claimants against Shell ‘s parent company and a Nigerian subsidiary to proceed in UK courts. The claimants first sued Shell and its Nigerian subsidiary in 2015 over allegedly leaking oil from pipelines in the Niger Delta that resulted in the destruction of farmland, the death of fish stock, and poisoned drinking water.

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LegalReader

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

The lawsuit echoes many of the same arguments which failed to win over the California Supreme Court earlier this year.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Amazon has filed a lawsuit against the Office of the New York Attorney General (OAG) for allegedly unlawfully attempting to subject it to state oversight of activities concerning its COVID-19 response and the termination of its activist employee Christian Smalls. In March, Amazon fired Smalls for repeatedly violating “social distancing requirements and an order to quarantine and stay off Amazon property” after coming into contact with a person who tested positive for the virus.

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LegalReader

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Advocates for New York City’s homeless have filed a lawsuit against the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, claiming the agency’s new coronavirus rules unfairly target people who shelter in the subway because they have nowhere else to go. According to The New York Times, the city recently decreed that nobody can stay in a subway station for.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

JURIST EXCLUSIVE – These are excerpts from the last full filing from our law student correspondents in Myanmar reporting to JURIST before Myanmar went into Internet blackout on Sunday: So many things can happen tonight. At night around 9 am, they send the prisoners who are just released [by the military on Friday ] into civilian towns to set fire or to cause chaos.

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LegalReader

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

St. Charles Health System has come under fire in a lawsuit over allegations of medical malpractice and wrongful death.

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Court-MartialTrialPractice

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Prof. Colin Miller tells us that, Similar to its federal counterpart , Pennsylvania Rule of Evidence 806 states that. When a hearsay statement has been admitted in evidence, the declarant’s credibility may be attacked, and then supported, by any evidence that would be admissible for those purposes if the declarant had testified as a witness. The court may admit evidence of the declarant’s inconsistent statement or conduct, regardless of when it occurred or whether the declarant had an opportu

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LegalReader

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Amazon claims that New York doesn't have the authority to impose its own laws upon the corporation.

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At the Lectern

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

SCOCAblog last week published its detailed 2020 year in review for the Supreme Court. They say, “we update our ongoing search for evidence of partisan behavior on the current California Supreme Court. Such behavior featured prominently in voting patterns in the court’s past, but the current period instead features high consensus rates. We still see no evidence of a [Governor] Brown [appointees] versus senior justices split; in fact, this year’s data strengthens our previous conclusion t

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

There was a palpable sense of relief in Washington as the Trump trial came to a chaotic but final end. The verdict is in so now the vilification can begin. Both Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Speaker Nancy Pelosi immediately weaponized the verdict and demonized those who voted to acquit. While the Democrats insisted that all senators should “vote their conscience” that only meant if their conscience supported their side.

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At the Lectern

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Horvitz & Levy founder Ellis Horvitz will be the featured speaker for the next edition of the Beverly Hills Bar Association “War Stories” series, on Monday, February 22, 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm. (Registration here.). As described in the Southern California Appellate News blog: Ellis, recognized as the “Dean of the California Appellate bar” by Chambers & Partners, was the first inductee into the California Lawyers Association’s Appellate Lawyer Hall of Fame.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

The US Senate on Saturday voted 57-43 to acquit former President Donald Trump on an impeachment charge stemming from the deadly Capitol insurrection in early January. All fifty Senate Democrats and seven Republican Senators voted to convict Trump for high crimes and misdemeanors due to his alleged incitement of insurrection. But the final vote was short by ten guilty votes needed for a two-thirds majority to bar Trump from holding public office again.

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