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NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Introducing Natalie. Natalie Nero is a family solicitor at Machins Solicitors LLP, her typical day is, like so many of us, considerably different than it was before the pandemic. Natalie is now settled into the ‘new normal’, and has kindly shared what she gets up to on an average day. An overview of a day as a family law solicitor . 06.30am – I wake and make my way downstairs for some much needed caffeine and to catch up on some news before my day begins. 07.00am – It’s time to get ready for the

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NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The US District Court for the Western District of Texas ruled that Governor Greg Abbott’s executive order banning mask mandates violates the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) on Wednesday. On July 29, 2021, Governor Abbot issued Executive Order GA-38 , preventing any “governmental entity, including a county, city, school district and public health authority” from requiring “any person to wear a face covering or to mandate that another person wear a face covering.R

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NOVEMBER 11, 2021

According to the 2021 ABA Profile of the Legal Profession , the COVID-19 pandemic prompted one-third of senior lawyers to change retirement plans — but that doesn’t mean they decided to retire. Instead, 53% of those lawyers decided to push the pause button. Disrupted income may be one reason — but as Camille Stell points out, there are other reasons lawyers avoid retirement.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments in a case with critical implications for the Highway Beautification Act. City of Austin v. Reagan Advertising considers whether the Austin city code’s distinction between on-premise signs, which may be digitized, and off-premise signs, which may not, is a facially unconstitutional content-based regulation under the First Amendment. .

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NOVEMBER 11, 2021

More than a third (36 percent) of U.S. incarcerees were held in facilities operating “at more than their rated or design capacity” in 2019, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). Although the figures, based on data from the most recent BJS census, are over two years old, they correlate with more recent anecdotal descriptions of a resource-strained correctional system burdened by overcrowding.

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ABA Journal

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

After Craig Baxley connected a plastic tube to vials of drugs to stop the heart of a condemned South Carolina inmate, he asked God to…

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NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The New Zealand government on Thursday introduced the Three Strikes Legislation Repeal Bill to repeal portions of the Sentencing and Parole Reform Act of 2010 , which together form the mandatory sentencing regime called the three strikes law. The three strikes law was enacted to deter habitual offenders by threatening them with progressively longer mandatory jail sentences and to punish repeat offenders through a three-stage process.

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Above The Law

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

This Veterans Day, I am so incredibly thankful for my husband and for our nation’s many veterans who have, without hesitation, courageously answered the call to preserve and defend our country.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The UN Security Council announced new sanctions on Tuesday against three Houthi leaders for threatening the peace, security and stability of Yemen. The sanctions subject them to a global asset freeze, a travel ban and an arms embargo. The three leaders sanctioned are Yusuf Al-Madani , Saleh Mesfer Saleh Al Shaer , and Muhammad Abd Al-Karim Al-Ghamari.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2021

“The Supreme Court Tactic That Aims to Kill Affirmative Action; A group suing Harvard and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has asked the court to hear the two cases together, hoping for a ruling that would apply across higher education”: Anemona Hartocollis of The New York Times has this report.

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ABA Journal

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

A Pittsburgh lawyer was charged with disorderly conduct Wednesday after he took off his pants to go through a metal detector at a downtown courthouse.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2021

“CVS drops Supreme Court appeal in Bay Area case that challenged prescription policies”: Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has a report that begins, “Less than a month before the Supreme Court was to hear a Bay Area suit against CVS that could have narrowed the scope of the nation’s disability laws, the drugstore chain announced an agreement Wednesday with advocacy groups and HIV patients who had challenged its policies on receiving prescription medication.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Federal probation officer. Photo courtesy CJUSJobs. Several times a year, the United States Sentencing Commission (USSC) publishes research reports on the federal criminal justice system. These reports are part of the Commission’s statutory mandate and provide vital information and analysis to attorneys, scholars and the public. Over the past 10 years alone, the Supreme Court has cited Commission reports in more than half-a-dozen cases.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2021

“Midnight at SCOTUS: In 1997, the Supreme Court publicly tried to discourage parties from filing pleas and applications in a way that made the justices make weighty decisions late at night.” Tony Mauro has this post at his “The Marble Palace Blog.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Law enforcement agencies routinely post photos of people booked into the local lockup, potentially wreaking permanent havoc on their lives before they’ve been convicted, prompting many cities and states to question why police release them and whether they should be allowed to at all, reports NBC News. The Justice Department has repeatedly refused to release mugshots, arguing to a federal appeals court that there’s no public safety interest in releasing pictures that are a “lasting image of what

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NOVEMBER 11, 2021

“Inside Mississippi’s Last Abortion Clinic — and the Biggest Fight for Abortion Rights in a Generation”: Abigail Abrams has this cover story in the new issue of Time magazine.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2021

During the homicide trial against Kyle Rittenhouse, now 18, lawyers repeatedly turn to the facts surrounding the semiautomatic rifle that he used to kill two men and wound a third during the community unrest in Kenosha, WI last summer. . The Smith & Wesson M&P 15 in question can be seen in nearly all of the videos showing Rittenhouse that night, as he walks the streets of Kenosha with the rifle clearly dangling across his chest, or in his hands. .

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NOVEMBER 11, 2021

“Gov. Wolf appeals court ruling voiding school mask mandate”: Matt Miller of The Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania has this report. You can access yesterday’s ruling of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania at this link.

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Above The Law

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The Department of the Interior is claiming that it did not authorize persons in Florida to place wagers off of the Seminole Tribe's lands but, instead, state law authorized it.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2021

“New rulings set up Louisiana Supreme Court showdown over 1,500 non-unanimous jury verdicts”: John Simerman of The Times-Picayune of New Orleans has this report.

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ABA Journal

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

An Ohio judge has been suspended for a year for ordering a court spectator to take a drug test and sentencing her to jail when…

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Above The Law

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

* Congress will be mandating cars breathalyzers in cars by 2026. Is this the new seat belt or a major 4th Amendment violation? [ Tech Crunch ] * Looking to follow the Arbury case and would like a primer on citizen's arrest? Here you go. [ CNN ] * New York is encouraging employees to blow the whistle in a big way. See something, do your best referee impersonation.something. [ National Law Review ] * Tribes and conservation groups in Montana are forcing mining companies to clean up after themselve

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NOVEMBER 11, 2021

District Judge Judith Levy has approved a settlement of $626 million deal to settle most lawsuits filed by Flint, Michigan, with children who were exposed to dangerous lead-contaminated drinking water are set to benefit in particular from the decision, reports the Washington Post. Under the terms of the agreement, 80 percent of the monetary award will go to residents who were younger than 18 at the time of their exposure.

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Above The Law

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Demands for an investigation into the hiring of Crystal 'I HATE BLACK PEOPLE' Clanton.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

A lawsuit in which workers accuse a Hindu organization of human trafficking by luring them from India to build a temple in New Jersey for as little as $1.20 a day has widened to four other states, reports the Associated Press. The workers, who the lawsuit says were from marginalized communities in India, claim they were exploited at temples in Chino Hills, California, outside Los Angeles; Bartlett, Illinois, outside Chicago; Stafford, Texas, outside Houston; and Lilburn, Georgia, outside Atlanta

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