Rocket Matter

DECEMBER 21, 2022

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JURIST

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The City of Buffalo, New York Tuesday filed a complaint against major gun manufacturers for fueling gun violence through their business practices. The case is in the Supreme Court for the State of New York in Erie County. The 194-page complaint notes and documents the rise in gun violence in Buffalo and the state of New York. The complaint identifies the gun manufacturers as “ghost gun defendants.” Ghost gun manufacturers design guns to be easily converted into working, untraceable f

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EvidenceProf Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Yesterday, the Supreme Court of Georgia upheld the grant of habeas relief to Joey Watkins. Given this terrific turn of events, I wanted to do an update on the status of all of the cases we covered on Undisclosed. Total.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The UK High Court Wednesday held that the Home Office acted unlawfully in implementing the EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS). The scheme was introduced as part of the Brexit process. It grants UK immigration status to EU citizens who moved to the UK prior to Brexit. However, the court said that the way the scheme operates is “unlawful.” The judicial review case was brought to court by the Independent Monitoring Authority for the Citizen’s Rights Agreements (IMA), an organization created to ensur

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 21, 2022

A former finance director at the NYU Metro Center has been indicted for allegedly embezzling over $3 million dollars in state education grants intended to support minority and women-owned businesses, Jake Offenhartz reports for the Gothamist. Cindy Tappe has been accused of using fraudulent invoices to direct taxpayer money to her own shell companies.

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 21, 2022

“Chief justice in Ohio map flap: Court attacks harm democracy.” Julie Carr Smyth of The Associated Press has this report. The post “Chief justice in Ohio map flap: Court attacks harm democracy.” appeared first on How Appealing.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The Transgender Welfare Board of Chandigarh, India Tuesday alerted the High Court of Punjab and Haryana that a scheme for providing shelter for transgender individuals will be implemented in the union territory shortly. The scheme is known as Garima Grah. The scheme stems from a petition filed by post-graduate student Ashish–who identifies themselves by the alias Yashika.

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 21, 2022

“Law student diversity hits new high as schools await affirmative action ruling”: Karen Sloan of Reuters has this report. The post “Law student diversity hits new high as schools await affirmative action ruling” appeared first on How Appealing.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 21, 2022

New York nonprofit organizations the Legal Aid Society (LAS) and Brooklyn Defender Services (BDS) Monday filed an order to show cause for contempt against the NYC Department of Corrections (DOC) for failing to comply with a December 2021 court order requiring it to provide access to medical care to persons incarcerated in New York City jails. The case is in the Supreme Court for the State of New York, County of the Bronx.

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 21, 2022

“Surprise! U.S. Chamber backs 3M, argues bankruptcy is fix for mass tort ills.” Alison Frankel’s “On the Case’ from Reuters has this post about an amicus brief filed Monday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. The post “Surprise! U.S. Chamber backs 3M, argues bankruptcy is fix for mass tort ills.” appeared first on How Appealing.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. Here, one of our correspondents in Kabul speaks of a wave of resignations of Afghan university professors after Taliban women were officially barred from higher education on Tuesday. For privacy and security reasons, we are withholding our correspondent’s name.

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 21, 2022

“New York’s updated gun restrictions up for another fight at high court; The conservative majority handed a big win to Second Amendment advocates last term but New York gun owners say the state has found a workaround to skirt the court’s ruling”: Kelsey Reichmann of Courthouse News Service has this report. The post “New York’s updated gun restrictions up for another fight at high court; The conservative majority handed a big win to Second Amendment advocates l

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JURIST

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) Wednesday announced a settlement agreement with the Okaloosa County School District in Florida for the school district’s treatment of students with disabilities. The 36-page agreement contains several requirements that the school district must comply with. These requirements include strengthening multi-tiered systems and support for students with disabilities, mandatory staff training and prohibiting the use of seclusion.

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 21, 2022

“Sotomayor and Kagan need to think about retiring; The US Senate is a fundamentally broken institution; Democratic judges need to account for that in their retirement decisions”: Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox. The post “Sotomayor and Kagan need to think about retiring; The US Senate is a fundamentally broken institution; Democratic judges need to account for that in their retirement decisions” appeared first on How Appealing.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The Taliban’s announcement that women in Afghanistan would be banned from attending university drew sharp criticism from around the globe Wednesday. The Foreign Ministers of Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Switzerland, the UK, and the US and the High Representative of the EU released a joint statement condemning the decision.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Over the past few decades, nations everywhere have assessed longer prison sentences. However, according to a new Council on Criminal Justice (CCJ) report by Lila Kazemian , a Sociology Professor at John Jay College, the U.S. still dishes out long sentences more than any other country. Violent crimes, especially homicides, play an outsized role in the U.S.’s high use of lengthy prison sentences, which are sentences that carry 10 years of imprisonment or more, the report found.

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Above The Law

DECEMBER 21, 2022

People are waiting to pass these NFTs off to even bigger suckers at a huge profit on the secondary market. The post With Trump’s NFT Trading Cards Grift, The Hypercommercialization Of Christmas Is Complete appeared first on Above the Law.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Eight teenage girls between 13 and 16 years old are allegedly responsible for the murder of a 59-year-old homeless man in Toronto, Jennifer Pagliaro and Victoria Gibson report for The Star. Toronto police have said the girls, who met online and live in areas across the city, may have been trying to steal alcohol from the man and that the attack resembles a “swarming.

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Above The Law

DECEMBER 21, 2022

In a letter addressed to President Joe Biden, 25 governors argued that the Covid-19 public health emergency should end in April. An estimated 18 million people could lose Medicaid coverage if that happens, according to a recent report.

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ABA Journal

DECEMBER 21, 2022

A New Jersey mom taking her daughter to see a show featuring the Rockettes as part of a Girl Scouts field trip was recently ousted…

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 21, 2022

A recent episode of the Reveal podcast from the Center for Investigative Reporting, Philadelphia Inquirer reporters Chris Palmer and Samantha Melamed broke down their reporting into the career of Homicide Detective Philip Nordo and allegations against him of fabricating evidence and coercing false statements during investigations. Palmer was previously selected as a 2022 Harry Frank Guggenheim/John Jay Reporting Fellow.

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Law 360

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Sweeping U.S. tax legislation enacted this year gave companies new compliance burdens in the form of an alternative minimum tax while failing to align what is arguably an existing minimum tax on offshore income with a broader international overhaul. Here, Law360 breaks down key tax policy developments that affected U.S. multinationals in 2022.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 21, 2022

For some employees of legal tech companies, the holidays have been far from merry, as their employers have trimmed headcounts and sent out layoff notices. The exact number of layoffs in legal tech are unknown. It is difficult to track and confirm layoffs, as companies are often secretive about them. Although, in the U.S., the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act requires employers to report layoffs, it generally applies only to employers of 100 or more employees that

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 21, 2022

A federal grand jury in Maryland on Tuesday charged two men for conspiracy to defraud investors into the Vancouver, Washington based biotechnology company CytoDyn, which was developing experimental treatments for both Covid-19 and HIV. Nader Pourhassan, CytoDyn’s president and CEO when the alleged fraud scheme occurred, and Kazem Kazempour, the co-founder, president, and CEO of Amarex Clinical Research LLC (Amarex), a private company that managed CytoDyn’s clinical trials managed regulator

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Above The Law

DECEMBER 21, 2022

I doubt we will be having the Twitter free speech debates this time next year. Not because anyone will be any better informed — I just don't think Twitter will last that much longer. The post Much Ado About Nothing: Law Schools Had An Odd Fixation On Free Speech This Year appeared first on Above the Law.

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