JURIST

JANUARY 9, 2021

The US Department of Justice announced Thursday that prosecutors have reached an agreement with the Boeing Company that resolved a criminal charge involving Boeing’s 737 MAX airplane. The charge had been brought following the 737 MAX crashes of Lion Air Flight 610 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 in 2018 and 2019, which resulted in more than 300 deaths, and the grounding of the national 737 MAX fleet in March 2019 over ongoing safety concerns.

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JANUARY 9, 2021

Similar to its federal counterpart, Tennessee Rule of Evidence 610 states that Evidence of the beliefs or opinions of a witness on matters of religion is not admissible for the purpose of showing that by reason of their nature the.

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JURIST

JANUARY 9, 2021

Uganda’s main opposition leader Robert Kyagulanyi, who goes by the name Bobi Wine, asked the International Criminal Court (ICC) Thursday to investigate president Yoweri Museveni, Security Minister Elly Tumwine, and eight other senior officials for sanctioning human rights abuses. The brief filed by Wine refers to incidents dating back to 2018 where military and police had deployed, the widespread use of shooting to kill, beatings, and other methods of violence.

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JANUARY 9, 2021

“Amazon Is Booting Parler Off Of Its Web Hosting Service; Amazon’s suspension of Parler’s account means that unless it can find another host, once the ban takes effect on Sunday Parler will go offline”: John Paczkowski of BuzzFeed News has this report.

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JURIST

JANUARY 9, 2021

Correctional Service Canada (CSC) has announced that it will begin vaccinating federal prisoners against the COVID-19 virus. The CSC expects to begin vaccinating older and medically compromised federal inmates on Friday, January 8, under the recommendation of the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI). In compliance with NACI recommendations, the CSC will administer the vaccine to all federal inmates when the vaccine becomes more widely available.

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JURIST

JANUARY 9, 2021

The Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) has sued the province of New Brunswick over its refusal to fund abortions in private-practice clinics. The CCLA argued in its motion that New Brunswick’s failure to fund abortion services violated prior legal precedent and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. While New Brunswick does cover the cost of abortions in hospital settings, it is currently the only province that does not fund the procedure in private practice settings.

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JANUARY 9, 2021

“Election gambit blows up on Hawley and Cruz; The potential 2024 contenders face a fierce backlash after the riot at the Capitol”: Marianne LeVine, Holly Otterbein, and Burgess Everett of Politico have this report. And in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal, Lindsay Wise has an article headlined “ Hawley Faces Fierce Backlash From Colleagues, Donors After Capitol Riot; Missouri senator’s objection to election results has drawn widespread condemnation, raising

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JURIST

JANUARY 9, 2021

Indonesia released Abu Bakar Bashir, the leader of terrorist group Jemaah Islamiah (JI) , from prison on Friday. Bashir is allegedly responsible for orchestrating a terrorist attack that killed 202 people in Bali in 2002. JI allegedly has a connection with Al-Qaeda and both groups were responsible for the 2002 bombings. JI is also responsible for a number of other terrorist attacks including a bombing at a Marriott Hotel in Jakarta that killed 12 people in 2003.

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JANUARY 9, 2021

Attorneys for the family members of MAX crashes say the Department of Justice's settlement scarcely amounts to a fraction of Boeing's annual revenue.

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Court-MartialTrialPractice

JANUARY 9, 2021

Mil. R. Evid. 610 prohibits using a witness’s religious beliefs to bolster or undermine their credibility. But what about questions regarding whether a defendant had a “come to Jesus” moment after committing the crime charged? That was the question addressed by the Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee in its recent opinion in Pillars v.

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LegalReader

JANUARY 9, 2021

JetBlue has said it's well within its rights to decide who it does and doesn't want to work with.

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JURIST

JANUARY 9, 2021

The Seoul District Court Friday ordered the Government of Japan to compensate 12 women who were forced to work in wartime brothels or “comfort stations” operated by the Japanese Empire during World War II. The court, presided over by Chief Judge Kim Jeong-Gon, termed the series of incidents as “crimes against humanity” and ruled that Japan should pay 100 million won to each of the women as compensation for their mental suffering.

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At the Lectern

JANUARY 9, 2021

Attorney Virgil Roberts writes in Black Voice News that Justice Goodwin Liu should be appointed as California Attorney General if the current AG, Xavier Becerra, is confirmed as President Joe Biden’s Secretary of Health and Human Services. Roberts endorses Liu because, Roberts says, Liu has long been “a leading voice on issues of racial justice” and can “put[ ] racial justice at the center of the public agenda.” Journalists have previously mentioned Liu not only as

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JURIST

JANUARY 9, 2021

The National Conference of Black Lawyers (NCBL), the International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL) and the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) announced Thursday that they have assembled an international Commission of Inquiry to investigate racist police violence against people of African descent in the United States. In June of 2020, the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) passed a resolution to prepare a report on “systemic racism, violations of international human rights law aga

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At the Lectern

JANUARY 9, 2021

Eliseo Medina writes today in CalMatters, urging Governor Gavin Newsom to appoint Justice Goodwin Liu as California Attorney General if the current AG, Xavier Becerra, is confirmed as President Joe Biden’s Secretary of Health and Human Services. Medina, a former officer of the SEIU and UFW unions, says “ there is no person better suited” than Justice Liu for the job that Medina says requires “ someone who can hit the ground running in protecting California’s workers.” Me

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JURIST

JANUARY 9, 2021

More than 750 legal and constitutional scholars and professors have signed on to a letter urging the immediate removal of President Donald Trump from office in the wake of the attack on the U.S. Capitol Building. The letter, hosted on the American Constitution Society’s (ACS) website, begins by calling Trump “a grave risk to our democracy.” It notes how the president has undermined confidence in the U.S. electoral process through his continued lies about the election results, h

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JANUARY 9, 2021

“Ginni Thomas’ Facebook Page Disappears After Media Reports on Her Support for Pro-Trump Rally that Turned into Attack on U.S. Capitol”: Colin Kalmbacher of Law & Crime has this post.

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JURIST

JANUARY 9, 2021

Nineteen law firms signed onto a letter to Vice President Mike Pence on Friday, urging him to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove President Donald Trump from office. The letter was composed by Crowell and Moring LLP, a large international law firm with offices in Washington D.C. The letter stated that the firms had “watched in horror as the U.S.

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JANUARY 9, 2021

“Can Twitter Legally Bar Trump? The First Amendment Says Yes. There are reasons to question the wisdom of recent actions by Twitter in barring President Trump from its site and Simon & Schuster in canceling the publication of Senator Josh Hawley’s book. But the First Amendment is on their side.” Adam Liptak will have this article in Sunday’s edition of The New York Times.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 9, 2021

One of the most unsettling aspects of the last four years is the intentional effort to rewrite history in the media to fit a narrative either by denying facts or echoing clearly false statements. The recent stories on the riot in Congress is a good example. Most of us denounced Trump’s speech (as it was being given) and, of course, the rioting itself.

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JANUARY 9, 2021

“How likely is it that Trump will face criminal prosecution after leaving office?” David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times has this report.

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JURIST

JANUARY 9, 2021

Ajit Pai, the outgoing Chairman of the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC), said in an interview with C-SPAN on Thursday said he does not “intend to move forward” with the proposed rule-making on Section 230 during his remaining time at the FCC. In November, Pai announced that he was leaving the FCC on January 20, 2021. Section 230 of the Communications and Decency Act provides immunity for social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook from being sued for the content pos

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JANUARY 9, 2021

“With Democrats poised to take over Washington, Supreme Court’s Breyer faces renewed calls to retire”: Robert Barnes of The Washington Post has this report.

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JURIST

JANUARY 9, 2021

A Pennsylvania attorney representing President Donald Trump in one of his election-related lawsuits asked the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on Thursday to allow him to withdraw from representation, saying that Trump had used his “services to perpetrate a crime” and “taking action that the lawyer considers repugnant and with which the lawyer has a fundamental disagreement.”.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 9, 2021

The Supreme Court took a big step on Friday night toward filling up its merits docket for the rest of the 2020-21 term, granting review in 14 new cases for a total of 12 hours of argument. The justices will weigh in on the First Amendment rights of students and charitable organizations, as well as sentencing reductions for inmates serving time for small amounts of crack cocaine.

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