EvidenceProf Blog
APRIL 18, 2021
On Monday, there will be closing arguments in the Derek Chauvin trial. In this post, I will break down the three charges that Chauvin faces in connection with the death of George Floyd. Second Degree Murder First, Chauvin is charged.
JURIST
APRIL 18, 2021
A woman who served a 10-year sentence in US prison for lying about her role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide to obtain American citizenship was deported to Rwanda on Friday. She was arrested upon her arrival in Rwanda and now faces several charges. . Beatrice Munyenyezi had lived in the United States since 1998. She failed to disclose during her citizenship application that she had been a member of Rwanda’s ruling MRND party, which helped carry out the killings.
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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog
APRIL 18, 2021
As is clear by now, more efficient law firms make more money than inefficient ones. The more work you can get through, the more money you make. Of course, efficiency does not build up out of thin air: you need to work for it. And, the best step to take, in terms of building law firm efficiency, is to map out everything you do. Like, literally everything.
JURIST
APRIL 18, 2021
A member of the Oath Keepers militia group and heavy metal guitarist on Friday became the first defendant to plead guilty to federal charges in connection with the US Capitol riot on January 6. Jon Ryan Schaffer, who originally faced six charges , entered into a plea deal where he agreed to fully cooperate with investigating, including providing testimony and witness interviews, in exchange for only having to plead guilty to two charges.
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HowAppealing
APRIL 18, 2021
“Bosse to stay in Oklahoma custody while McGirt ruling is appealed to Supreme Court”: Chris Casteel of The Oklahoman has an article that begins, “The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals agreed Thursday to grant a 45-day pause in overturning the murder convictions of death row inmate Shaun Michael Bosse, giving Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter time to seek U.S.
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HowAppealing
APRIL 18, 2021
“A Salvadoran Immigrant Gets His Day at the Supreme Court; Amid chaos back home, he received ‘temporary’ U.S. status — in 2001”: This editorial will appear in Monday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.
LegalReader
APRIL 18, 2021
The FCC recently announced it will begin to grant waivers to allow equipment manufacturers and automakers to install technology that can help prevent hot car deaths.
HowAppealing
APRIL 18, 2021
“Judicial Notice: April 17, 2021; Notable legal news from the week that was.” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site. Lat’s round-up this week confirms what he has been hinting at recently in his Tweets and prior postings: Two years ago, I left Above the Law (“ATL”), the legal news website I founded in 2006, to become a legal recruiter at Lateral Link.
Patently O
APRIL 18, 2021
Recent Headlines in the IP World: Kim Yun-Mi: BMS, Pfizer Win Final Suit for Eliquis Patent (Source: Korea Biomedical Review). David Hyman: Rakovina Therapeutics Inc. Receives European and Canadian Patents on Kt-2000 Series PARP-Inhibitors (Source: Cision). Susan Decker and Laurel Brubaker Calkins: Apple Wins New Trial in $506 Million Patent-Damages Award (Source: Bloomberg).
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HowAppealing
APRIL 18, 2021
“Four women who broke barriers to become the founding mothers of NPR”: In the Outlook section of today’s edition of The Washington Post, Connie Schultz has this review of Lisa Napoli’s new book, “ Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie: The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR.” And earlier this week, The New York Times posted online Zoe Greenberg’s review of the book, headlined “ The Women of NPR, When NPR Was a Start-Up.
Conflict of Laws
APRIL 18, 2021
Under the coordination of Gustavo Ferraz de Campos Monaco , the Faculty of Law of the University of São Paulo is hosting its 1st Conference on Private International Law. For all those interested in submitting papers or attending the conference, further information in English is available here.
HowAppealing
APRIL 18, 2021
“Most Americans want to end lifetime Supreme Court appointments”: Chris Kahn of Reuters has this report on the results of a recently concluded Reuters/Ipsos poll.
LegalReader
APRIL 18, 2021
The family of Kyle Plush recently agreed to settle a wrongful death lawsuit with the city of Cincinnati for $6 million.
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HowAppealing
APRIL 18, 2021
“A new, racialized assault on abortion rights is headed to the Supreme Court”: Law professor Melissa Murray has this essay online at The Washington Post.
JonathanTurley
APRIL 18, 2021
Photo: Brooklyn Center Police Department. Below is column in USA Today on charging decisions in the Wright and Babbitt shootings. The sharp contrast in the two decisions raises serious questions over the legal and political issues that rage around such cases. Here is the column: Within an hour of each other, charging decisions in two lethal police shootings were announced with strikingly different conclusions.
HowAppealing
APRIL 18, 2021
“Whitmer: Michigan Supreme Court, Legislature partly to blame for COVID-19 surge.” Paul Egan of The Detroit Free Press has this report.
Conflict of Laws
APRIL 18, 2021
With a comprehensive and informative manuscript, in International Commercial Arbitration in the European Union – Brussels I, Brexit and Beyond (Edward Elgar, 2020, 320 pp.: see here a previous announcement of the publication) Chukwudi Ojiegbe provides a wide-ranging overview of the status quo of international commercial arbitration in the European Union, also duly taking into account the effects arising, in this specific area of the law, from the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the Europea
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HowAppealing
APRIL 18, 2021
“High court takes up case on virus relief funding for tribes”: Felicia Fonseca of The Associated Press has this report.
Broadcast Law Blog
APRIL 18, 2021
Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the last week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations. According to press reports, broadcasters should pencil in August 11, 2021 on their calendars for the next national test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS).
iHire
APRIL 18, 2021
Discover whether a part-time or gig job is right for you with this helpful guide.
JonathanTurley
APRIL 18, 2021
Chicago prosecutor, James Murphy, has been placed on leave Saturday after he noted in court hearing this month that Adam Toledo , 13, had a gun in his possession. The statement was made at the bond hearing for Ruben Roman, 21, who was with Toledo on the night that he died. The action was taken despite the position of the Chicago police that Toledo was armed until a fraction of a second before the shooting — a view also echoed by local media after reviewing the videotape.
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JURIST
APRIL 18, 2021
Washington Governor Jay Inslee signed a bill on Wednesday that bans for-profit detention centers, including immigration facilities, in the state of Washington. The only Washington facility impacted by the bill is the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma. The Northwest Detention Center is one of the United States’ largest, for-profit immigration jails.
HowAppealing
APRIL 18, 2021
“Biden’s Supreme Court commission already facing resistance as it considers wide range of ‘reforms'”: John Fritze of USA Today has this report.
JURIST
APRIL 18, 2021
France’s lower house of parliament, the National Assembly, on Thursday unanimously adopted a bill to protect minors from sexual crimes and incest. The bill primarily sets the age of sexual consent at 15 and outlaws incestual relations — understood in France as sexual abuse by relatives — with a minor as rape. The provision outlawing incest as rape will also apply to a sexual relationship between a minor and their stepparents.
HowAppealing
APRIL 18, 2021
“The Democrats’ Court-Packing Plan Doesn’t Make Any Sense; A bill to expand the Supreme Court to 13 justices seems motivated by political revenge, not sensible judicial reform”: Matt Ford of The New Republic has this report.
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