Attorney at Work

JULY 23, 2021

Many of us struggled with balancing our work responsibilities and personal lives even before the pandemic destroyed our regular routines and norms. With technology allowing 24/7 work-from-everywhere access, setting boundaries was a challenge. During the pandemic, however, boundaries seemed to disappear as we worked alongside our families or housemates at home, and all professional, educational and personal activities happened in the same timeframe and physical space.

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JULY 23, 2021

Austria’s Supreme Court of Justice referred four fundamental questions regarding the legality of Facebook’s collection and use of EU customers’ data to the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) on Tuesday. The questions arose in a civil case filed by Maximilian Schrems , an Austrian lawyer and privacy activist, who alleges that Facebook deprives users of the rights and protections they enjoy under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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Above The Law

JULY 23, 2021

More Opening Announcements : We could talk about the specific firms announcing their openings or just link to the tracker. Why not do the latter? Is That A Lot? : Kavanaugh garnered 4,500 tips during his confirmation and guess what the FBI did about it? I Got Questions : Does this count for adverse possession? Honest Practice Question : Why make a bunch of ridiculous arguments that won't sway the panel?

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JULY 23, 2021

Moscow’s Tagansky District Court imposed fines Thursday against Twitter Inc, Facebook Inc, and Pavel Durov’s Telegram. The Russian government stated that these fines were the result of Facebook and Twitter failing to delete illegal content. The court first decided the case against the tech giants back in April and found that the companies violated the Code of the Russian Federation on Administrative Offenses.

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JULY 23, 2021

Share Melissa Murray refused to recant her view: The newly minted conservative court is poised to effect great change in the country. Murray, a professor of law at New York University and co-host of the podcast Strict Scrutiny, co-authored an article last September predicting that the transition on the Supreme Court from Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to Justice Amy Coney Barrett would spell “seismic consequences.

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JULY 23, 2021

by Dennis Crouch. Today’s decision by the Federal Circuit includes an example of thinly sliced bologna, with the court rejecting a PTAB IPR decision because the precise obviousness argument regarding a functional limitation was not expressly stated. The court also does another go-round with the PTAB failing to consider commercial success. . Oren Tech v.

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JURIST

JULY 23, 2021

The UN Human Rights Committee on Thursday found that Mauritius’ amendments to the National Identity Card Act 1985 , which introduced a new ID card containing biometric information of the cardholder, violated the privacy rights of Mauritian citizens. The Committee held that there were no sufficient guarantees against the risk of abuse and arbitrariness following from potential access to such data on identity cards.

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JULY 23, 2021

“DeSantis asks Supreme Court to rule on cruises as CDC COVID-19 rules tossed out”: Taylor Dolven of The Miami Herald has a report that begins, “Three judges on the U.S. Appeals Court for the 11th Circuit on Friday vacated their decision issued last weekend that allowed the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to enforce its cruise COVID-19 safety rules in Florida.

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JURIST

JULY 23, 2021

The Lok Sabha approved the fifth extension requested by the Indian Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019. This grant allows the committee to submit its report during the Winter Session of the Parliament. The motion for extension was submitted by the newly appointed Chairperson of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019, PP Chaudhary, and Member of Parliament of the Lok Sabha, Bhartruhari Mahtab.

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JULY 23, 2021

“The Temptation of Judging for ‘Common Good’: Conservatives finally have a Supreme Court majority; Some on the right want judicial activism too.” David B. Rivkin Jr. and Andrew M. Grossman will have this op-ed in Saturday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

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LawTechnologyToday

JULY 23, 2021

Are there good ways to develop your legal technology expertise in a hurry? Well, Dennis and Tom’s short answer is no, but don’t let that get you down! Tune in for their tips and resources for building your knowledge base and gaining a greater understanding of the ever-expanding relationship between technology and law. This time on “Hot or Not?”, the guys examine asynchronous audio/video tools and offer their take on this tech’s practicality in the workplace.

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JULY 23, 2021

“Delta Variant Could Keep Suit Over Stay-at-Home Orders Alive; With vaccines in the arms of over half of Pennsylvania residents and the stay-at-home orders expiring long ago, the appellate panel questioned why the constitutionality of the orders were still relevant”: Emilee Larkin of Courthouse News Service has this report on an oral argument (access the audio via this link) that a three-judge panel of the U.S.

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The Crime Report

JULY 23, 2021

Richard “Ricky” Wershe Jr., a former teenaged confidential informant in the early 80s, has filed a $100 million lawsuit against the city of Detroit, two former FBI agents, two former Detroit police officers and two former federal prosecutors, alleging that FBI agents and Detroit police officers had him buy and sell drugs from dealers around Detroit in what amounted to a years-long campaign of “government grooming and indoctrination into criminality,” reports the New York Times.

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JULY 23, 2021

“Mississippi asks the Supreme Court to overrule Roe v. Wade”: Adam Liptak has this article in today’s edition of The New York Times. In today’s edition of The Washington Post, Robert Barnes reports that “ Mississippi asks Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in upcoming case.” In today’s edition of The Los Angeles Times, David G.

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The Crime Report

JULY 23, 2021

Pegasus, military-grade spyware designed by the Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group to track terrorists, was used to hack 37 smartphones of journalists, human rights activists and politicians, according to an investigation known as “The Pegasus Project” conducted by The Washington Post and 16 other news organizations led by the journalism nonprofit Forbidden Stories.

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JULY 23, 2021

“‘Copyright Troll’ Lawyer Loses Sanctions Appeal Over False Claim”: Brian Flood of Bloomberg Law has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued today.

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JULY 23, 2021

In some instances, Liberty University allegedly ignored sexual assault complaints outright; in others, administrators threatened women with "honor code" violations, fines, and community service.

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JULY 23, 2021

“Seattle-area church wins Ninth Circuit appeal on abortion case; A Seattle-area church won an appeal at the Ninth Circuit that will allow it to litigate its claims that a Washington state law that requires employers to provide insurance coverage for abortion procedures is unconstitutional”: Matthew Renda of Courthouse News Service has this report on an unpublished opinion that the U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 23, 2021

Share This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, the proper standard of liability applied to police high-speed driving incidents, the relevance of training and law enforcement policies in qualified-immunity cases, and whether the First Amendment protects the right to record police officers carrying out their official duties in public spaces.

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The Fashion Law

JULY 23, 2021

The trademark complaint that Nike filed against Customs By Ilene, Inc., dba Drip Creationz is not the only customization-centric lawsuit that it filed this week. Also on Monday, Nike named Jeffrey Waskowiak and KickRich LLC in a similar – but unrelated – suit, accusing them of trademark infringement and dilution in connection with their alleged practice of “reselling Nike and Converse products that have been materially altered in ways that the brands have never approved or authorized,” and there

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JULY 23, 2021

Richard Wershe, Jr., better known as "White Boy Rick," claims FBI agents induced him to act as an informant at age 14--and that, if it were not for the department's pressure, he never would have become involved in the drug trade.

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JULY 23, 2021

“The Supreme Court Needs to Be Cut Down to Size”: Columnist Jamelle Bouie has this essay online at The New York Times.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 23, 2021

Share Less than a month after the Supreme Court refused to disturb a federal moratorium on evictions imposed by the Centers for Disease Control because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the state of Florida on Friday asked the justices to block the COVID-related restrictions that the CDC has outlined for cruise ships to follow before returning to sea. A federal district judge had blocked the CDC from enforcing the restrictions in Florida, but on Saturday the U.S.

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LegalReader

JULY 23, 2021

If your lawyer or consultant suggests you dress a certain way, think twice before you brush off their requests. What you wear could well affect the outcome of the case.

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Above The Law

JULY 23, 2021

* Any Deleuze nerds want to read a society of control example? Check out this Op-ed on vaccination. [ Business Insider ] * World's first 3D printed human scale steel bridge dropped in Amsterdam. If something goes wrong, do you sue a person or the algorithm? [ Architect's Newspaper ] * 1st Amendment might not be as strong for the Press. Let me get slander against minor public figures out of my system now. [ ABA Journal ] * Highest Court in New Mexico and Tennessee rule gas stations can be held l

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