JURIST
AUGUST 18, 2021
A group of Rutgers students filed a lawsuit against the New Jersey university’s vaccine mandate on Monday. The group of 18 students is represented by Children’s Health Defense (CHD), an activist group founded by Robert F. Kennedy. The organization largely campaigns against the use of certain vaccines, pesticides, and various chemicals used in foods and medicines.
EvidenceProf Blog
AUGUST 18, 2021
The qualified immunity doctrine insulates governmental agents from liability for unconstitutional acts as long “as their conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.” The primary purpose of the doctrine.
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JURIST
AUGUST 18, 2021
JURIST EXCLUSIVE – Law students in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban on Sunday. Here, a law student in Kabul offers his latest observations and perspective. For privacy and security reasons we are withholding his name and institutional affiliation. The text has been only lightly edited to respect the author’s voice.
The Crime Report
AUGUST 18, 2021
The current state of criminal justice data collection and availability across the country is in a “dismal state” and lacks overall transparency , according to a new revealing report from Measures for Justice. . In most cases across the country, certain data regarding the justice system — like demographic data of arrests and incarceration, pre-trial and bail information, as well as release data — simply isn’t collected, or isn’t available to researchers because of law or administrative protection
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JURIST
AUGUST 18, 2021
A disability rights group filed a complaint in federal district court on Tuesday against Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s executive order prohibiting government agencies from issuing a mask mandate. Disability Rights Texas filed the lawsuit on behalf of 14 Texas school children, all of whom have disabilities or medical conditions that put them at increased risk due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
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JURIST
AUGUST 18, 2021
The Court of Bosnia-Herzegovina on Monday convicted former police officer and soldier, Rade Garic, and sentenced him to 20 years in prison for war crimes committed between 1992 and 1995. Sentenced under the first instance verdict, Garic was found guilty of several murders committed in Vlaswenica and Srebrenica in 1992 and 1995, respectively. The court heard of cases whereby Bosnian Muslims, including a 11-year-old boy, were imprisoned, tortured, and murdered by Garic.
LawSites
AUGUST 18, 2021
It is fitting that Las Vegas is a major mecca of gambling, given that, next week, several hundred people will take a gamble on their safety to attend the physical portion of the first-ever hybrid ILTACON, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association. While I’d planned to be among them, I have decided to hedge my bets and attend virtually.
JURIST
AUGUST 18, 2021
A group of Arizona plaintiffs filed a lawsuit in federal court on Tuesday seeking to block implementation of two provisions of an abortion law set to go into effect in September. The suit was filed by the Center for Reproductive Rights and the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of two physicians who provide abortion services, the Arizona chapters of the National Organization for Women and the National Council of Jewish Women, and the Arizona Medical Association.
SCOTUSBlog
AUGUST 18, 2021
Share The Supreme Court has not yet announced whether it will return to normal operations when the 2021-22 term begins in October. This article is the final entry in a symposium about how the coronavirus pandemic changed the court — and which of those changes are worth keeping. Carrie Severino is the president of the Judicial Crisis Network and was a law clerk for Justice Clarence Thomas.
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JURIST
AUGUST 18, 2021
The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that the University of South Carolina (USC) has the right to require students to wear masks on campus to prevent the spread of COVID-19, and the requirement is effective immediately. In July, USC ordered a mask mandate for all students, faculty, and staff. South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson wrote to USC President Harris Pastides, stating that the General Assembly passed a proviso, or temporary law, prohibiting a universal mask mandate at
LegalReader
AUGUST 18, 2021
The winds of change are blowing and the growing demand for forensic linguists is a harbinger of fundamental alterations in the world of law.
JURIST
AUGUST 18, 2021
Rupert Colville, spokesperson for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights , expressed concern Tuesday over recent reports of human rights abuses in Afghanistan amid the Taliban’s takeover. According to Colville, the UN is receiving “chilling reports of human rights abuses, and of restrictions on the rights of individuals, especially women and girls, in some parts of the country captured over the past few weeks.” The UN’s Chief of Field Operations and Emerg
HowAppealing
AUGUST 18, 2021
“ExamSoft ‘Deeply Sorry’ for Glitches That Crashed Bar Exams”: Sam Skolnik of Bloomberg Law has this report.
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JURIST
AUGUST 18, 2021
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday urged UN human rights experts to lead independent investigations into enforced disappearances by security officers in Bangladesh. HRW’s report, “‘Where No Sun Can Enter’: A Decade of Enforced Disappearances in Bangladesh,” urged top UN officials, donors, and trade partners, to step up measures to hold senior Bangladesh security forces members accountable, to stop enforced disappearance and to prevent future abuses.
My Shingle
AUGUST 18, 2021
Via Bob Ambrogi’s Law Sites Blog, I learned of yet another Captain Obvious study on diversity at biglaw. Spoiler alert (NOT): there’s been little progress or improvement over the past seven years. Though the percentage of minority associates at large firms hovers around 26.
JURIST
AUGUST 18, 2021
JURIST EXCLUSIVE – Law students in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban on Sunday. Here, a law student in Herat in western Afghanistan offers her observations and perspective. For privacy and security reasons we are withholding her name and institutional affiliation. The text has been only lightly edited to respect the author’s voice.
HowAppealing
AUGUST 18, 2021
“#MeToo Has Changed the World — Except in Court; Judges continue to enforce a standard that makes proving claims of sexual harassment incredibly difficult”: Danielle Bernstein recently had this essay online at The Atlantic.
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JURIST
AUGUST 18, 2021
Indiana Court of Appeals sided with Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb on Tuesday allowing him to withdraw the state from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (“CARES”) Act benefits program. The CARES Act includes three voluntary federal unemployment programs that increase benefits, extend benefit duration, and award benefits to ineligible participants.
HowAppealing
AUGUST 18, 2021
“Chicago group asks Supreme Court to block Obama library construction”: Rachel Frazin and John Kruzel of The Hill have this report on an emergency stay request filed this week with the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Crime Report
AUGUST 18, 2021
Nearly half of all U.S. hospitals have disconnected their networks in the past six months due to escalating ransomware attacks, according to a new study from Philips and CyberMDX. The cybercrime crisis has become so acute in medical care that dozens of hospitals and clinics in West Virginia and Ohio are canceling surgeries and diverting ambulances following a ransomware attack that knocked out staff access to IT systems across virtually all operations, said a story from artstechnica posted Tue
HowAppealing
AUGUST 18, 2021
“Appeals court upholds Texas law to ban abortion procedure”: Kevin McGill of The Associated Press has a report that begins, “A Texas law outlawing an abortion method commonly used to end second-trimester pregnancies was upheld Wednesday by a federal appeals court in New Orleans.” And Shannon Najmabadi of The Texas Tribune reports that “ Texas can ban common abortion procedure in second trimester, appeals court rules; The ruling is yet another blow to reproductive ri
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ABA Journal
AUGUST 18, 2021
Sonja Ebron and her wife, Debra Slone, saw firsthand how difficult it can be to represent yourself in civil cases through experiences they had being…
HowAppealing
AUGUST 18, 2021
“Court rejects CWA challenge, tees up Supreme Court showdown”: Jeremy P. Jacobs and Hannah Northey of E&E News have this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued Monday.
LegalReader
AUGUST 18, 2021
The point of early retirement isn’t to sit on a beach sipping margaritas for the rest of your life. It’s to let you choose meaningful work on your own terms, without stressing about income from it. .
HowAppealing
AUGUST 18, 2021
“The judicial black box of Supreme Court recusal”: Sarah Lipton-Lubet and law professor Steven Lubet have this essay online at The Hill.
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