The Hollywood Lawyer
MARCH 15, 2022
According to the U.S. Copyright Act, which was passed in 1976, the copyright owner of a specific work will be given unique rights. These rights are not automatic, but are instead given to the copyright owner by law. The Copyright Act provides five rights to the copyright owner. These rights must be used fairly and […]. The post What Are the Five Copyright Laws?
EvidenceProf Blog
MARCH 15, 2022
Today, Judge Melissa M. Phinn granted the Joint Petition for Post Conviction DNA Testing in the Adnan Syed case. Here is the judge's order: So, let's break that down. First, the order requires the Baltimore Police to overnight the named.
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JURIST
MARCH 15, 2022
UN agency chiefs Monday said that war-torn Yemen’s hunger crisis is “ teetering on the edge of outright catastrophe” with more than 17.4 million Yemenis facing food insecurity and an additional 1.6 million expected to fall into emergency levels of hunger. The number of people experiencing “catastrophic” levels of hunger is projected to increase five times from the current 31,000 to a staggering 161,000, taking the number of those with emergency needs to 7.3 million
Above The Law
MARCH 15, 2022
Stay tuned to see which schools have been affected by these changes. The post Changes To U.S. News Law School Rankings Methodology Could Result In T14 Shake-Up appeared first on Above the Law.
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JURIST
MARCH 15, 2022
Law students and young lawyers in Ukraine are filing for JURIST on the latest developments in that country as it defends itself against Russian invasion. Here, Ukrainian lawyer and University of Pittsburgh LLM graduate Taras Shablii files this from Lviv in view of the upcoming address of Ukrainian President Zelensky to the US Congress on Wednesday. .
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JURIST
MARCH 15, 2022
The Karnataka High Court dismissed a batch of petitions Tuesday challenging the proscription of hijabs (Islamic headscarves) in the uniform for pre-university colleges in the Udupi district of Karnataka. The court held that wearing a hijab is not an essential religious practice of Islam and is not a protected religious right under the Constitution of India.
SCOTUSBlog
MARCH 15, 2022
Share On Saturday, March 19, at 1 p.m. EDT, Duke Law School and O’Melveny & Myers LLP will co-host a virtual memorial service for Walter Dellinger and his wife, Anne Dellinger. The event is open to all. Walter Dellinger, a constitutional scholar who argued 24 cases at the Supreme Court, died on Feb. 16, 2022. He was 80. Friends, colleagues, and former students wrote tributes to his life and work shortly after his death.
JURIST
MARCH 15, 2022
Australia announced Monday new sanctions against 33 Russian oligarchs and business people. Australia joins Canada , the EU , New Zealand, the UK and the US in imposing further restrictive measures against key Russian individuals. The new round of sanctions was announced by Australia Minister of Foreign Affairs Marise Payne. In a statement, Payne said the sanctions reinforced Australia’s commitment to sanction Russians of economic and strategic significance, especially Russian President Vladimir
Above The Law
MARCH 15, 2022
Police have arrested a prospective client over the killing. The post Tiananmen Square Dissident Turned Lawyer Murdered In His New York City Office appeared first on Above the Law.
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JURIST
MARCH 15, 2022
The Australian Federal Court Tuesday overturned a ruling that found that Australia’s environment ministry has a duty to protect young people from the effects of climate change when considering fossil fuel projects. That previous ruling, decided in May of 2021, resulted from a lawsuit filed by eight school students and a nun. The litigants sought an injunction to prevent the country’s Environment Minister Sussan Ley from granting an extension to a coal mine in the Australian state of New So
HowAppealing
MARCH 15, 2022
“The CFAA ‘Gates-Up-or-Down’ Metaphor Is Baffling Courts — ACI v. Conservice”: Kieran McCarthy has this guest post at the “Technology & Marketing Law Blog.
JURIST
MARCH 15, 2022
The United Kingdom’s highest court Monday denied WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s appeal of a decision allowing his extradition to the US because there were not any substantial arguments on points of law. The appeal followed a series of cases between Assange and the US government requesting his extradition from the UK. Initially, District Judge Vanessa Baraitser accepted many of the US Government’s submissions.
HowAppealing
MARCH 15, 2022
“‘Revolutionary’ linguistics tool awaits star turn in Supreme Court arbitration case”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Reuters has this post.
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JURIST
MARCH 15, 2022
The United Nations Tuesday urged the international community to take “concerted, immediate measures” to stop human rights violations and abuses in Myanmar. The report, released for the forty-ninth regular session of the UN Human Rights Council, details human rights violations by the Tatmadaw, the military of Myanmar. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said the acts of the military regime “may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity.” Myan
HowAppealing
MARCH 15, 2022
“Americans want cameras at Supreme Court, but live audio there is on life support; Advocates are asking the court to at least continue its Covid-19 policy of livestreaming audio from argument amid renewed attention at getting cameras in the courtroom”: Kelsey Reichmann of Courthouse News Service has this report.
JURIST
MARCH 15, 2022
Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. Here, a Staff Correspondent for JURIST in Kabul reports on new restrictions on university education under Taliban rule. For privacy and security reasons, we are withholding our Correspondent’s name. The text has only been lightly edited to respect the author’s voice.
HowAppealing
MARCH 15, 2022
“Ninth Circuit questions union influence in weighing vaccine mandate for prison guards; The union — and the state of California — claim a mass retirement by prison guards opposed to the Covid vaccine would undermine public safety”: Maria Dinzeo of Courthouse News Service has this report on a case argued today (access the oral argument video via YouTube) before a three-judge panel of the U.S.
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JURIST
MARCH 15, 2022
The International Criminal Court (ICC) Monday said that former militiaman Maxime Jeoffroy Eli Mokom Gawaka (Mokom), who is suspected to have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Central African Republic (CAR), has been surrendered by the Republic of Chad. . A warrant for Mokom’s arrest was issued on December 10, 2018, when the ICC’s Pre-Trial Chamber II (Chamber) determined that Mokom, a citizen of the CAR, was the National Coordinator of Operations of the Anti-Bal
HowAppealing
MARCH 15, 2022
“Federal Judiciary Acts to Automate Judges’ Financial Disclosures; Move comes amid pressure from Congress on new legislation”: James V. Grimaldi, Joe Palazzolo, and Coulter Jones of The Wall Street Journal have this report.
JURIST
MARCH 15, 2022
Australia and the Netherlands Monday filed joint legal action against Russia at the United Nations aviation agency, International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), concerning the 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17. Flight MH17 was en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur in July 2014 when it crashed in Eastern Ukraine. All 298 passengers and crew on board were killed. 196 passengers were Dutch and 38 were Australian.
HowAppealing
MARCH 15, 2022
“Sept. 11 Prosecutors Are in Plea Talks That Could Avert a Death-Penalty Trial; Pentagon prosecutors have struggled for more than a decade to hold the trial of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and his accused accomplices in the attacks”: Carol Rosenberg and Charlie Savage of The New York Times have this report.
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Above The Law
MARCH 15, 2022
What about campus culture makes it so unique that social shaming in this context poses such a unique threat? The post ‘Cultural’ Stigmatization For Thee But Not For Me appeared first on Above the Law.
HowAppealing
MARCH 15, 2022
“Judiciary Releases Annual Report and Judicial Business 2021”: The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts issued this news release today, along with a news release titled “ Judicial Conference Adopts Transparency Measures.
The Crime Report
MARCH 15, 2022
Two former inmates, Teresa Beatty and Michael Llorens, are challenging a Connecticut law that has, since 1997, allowed the state to impose a debt of $249 a day, or $90,885 annually, on inmates for each day of their incarceration, alleging it traps people like them in an oppressive debt cycle from which there is no escape, reports the Courthouse News Service.
HowAppealing
MARCH 15, 2022
“California lets private citizens enforce state labor laws. The Supreme Court might put an end to that.” Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has this report.
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