SimplyLawJobs
JUNE 9, 2021
Our partner The Student Lawyer covers the benefits, challenges and relationships law firms have with consumers and legal technology, by author Elizabeth Adeogun. ‘Legal technology’ essentially means the use of technology and software to aid, supplement or replace traditional methods for delivering legal services, or improve the way the justice system operates.
EvidenceProf Blog
JUNE 9, 2021
According to a newspaper article headlined, “Police expert lied about credentials,” by Jennifer McMenamin, published 9 March 2007, in the Baltimore Sun, Kopera claimed in court to have degrees that he had not earned in fact. Kopera testified frequently that.
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JURIST
JUNE 9, 2021
Ohio’s attorney general on Tuesday filed a lawsuit asking the court to declare Google a public utility and/or a common carrier under Ohio common law. In the complaint, Attorney General Dave Yost argues that Google’s dominance of the internet search market necessarily leads to it being categorized as a common carrier or public utility under the state’s common law.
EvidenceProf Blog
JUNE 9, 2021
Nick Sibilla has written the article, "Cop Who Wrongly Led No-Knock Raid Against 78-Year-Old Grandfather Can’t Be Sued, Court Rules," for Forbes. The article concerns the case of 78 year-old Onree Norris, who was the victim of a no-knock raid.
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JURIST
JUNE 9, 2021
The Appeals Chamber of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) on Tuesday confirmed Ratko Mladi?’s convictions and life imprisonment sentence by a Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Mladi?, commander of the Main Staff of the Bosnian Serb Army from May 12, 1992, until at least November 8, 1996, was convicted of 10 counts of genocide, crimes against humanity, and violations of the laws and customs of war by ICTY&
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JURIST
JUNE 9, 2021
France’s antitrust watchdog fined Google €220 million (USD $268 million) Monday for giving preferential treatment to its own proprietary technologies in digital advertisements. Complaints about Google advertising practices, filed in September 2019 by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., French newspaper group Le Figaro and Belgium-based Rossel La Voix, prompted the French investigation.
The Crime Report
JUNE 9, 2021
While COVID has been wreaking havoc across the U.S. corrections system, new data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) shows that prisons were “deadly” places long before the pandemic, says the Prison Policy Initiative (PPI). Data showing a 44 percent rise in mortality rates in state and federal prisons from 2001-2018, proves that the prison system needs to greatly improve medical and mental healthcare, address the relationship between correctional officers and the health of their populati
HowAppealing
JUNE 9, 2021
Partially divided Eighth Circuit panel affirms district court’s entry of a preliminary injunction prohibiting enforcement of Missouri law banning abortion at or after eight weeks gestational age or based on potential Down syndrome risk: You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit at this link.
JURIST
JUNE 9, 2021
El Salvador’s legislature on Wednesday approved President Nayib Bukele’s proposal to adopt Bitcoin as a national legal currency. The approved Bitcoin law protects cryptocurrency with unrestricted liberating power, and allows its unlimited use in any transaction. Bukele’s cryptocurrency plan aims to boost El Salvador’s economy by integrating the national and international economy through incentives and technology.
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The Fashion Law
JUNE 9, 2021
Almost a year after Khloe Kardashian and her brand Good American were named in a headline-making trade dress infringement and fraud lawsuit for allegedly copying the design of the bodysuits upon which d.bleu.dazzled has made its name, the parties have settled their legal squabble. According to the notice of settlement that counsel for dbleudazzled, LLC lodged with the California Superior Court in Los Angeles last month, the parties have come to a confidential resolution, prompting d.bleu.dazzled
Above The Law
JUNE 9, 2021
Last night, the New Yorker tweeted out an alarming legal story: Oh my! That would be problematic. Except that’s not at all what anyone was suggesting. The article, written by Harvard Law School prof Jeannie Suk Gersen — we’ll get back to why that’s significant in a second — leans into the sad state of […].
HowAppealing
JUNE 9, 2021
“Federal court halts Missouri’s ban on abortions after 8 weeks, Down syndrome diagnosis”: Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times has this report. And Joe Harris of Courthouse News Service reports that “ Eighth Circuit Refuses to Reinstate Missouri Abortion Ban; The appeals court upheld an injunction against a law banning abortions based on a fetal diagnosis of Down syndrome and after eight weeks of pregnancy.” My earlier coverage of today’s Eighth Circuit ruling
The Crime Report
JUNE 9, 2021
While the number of prisoners held under a death sentence declined for the 19th consecutive year, as of the end of 2019, prisoners carrying a death penalty sentence have been on Death Row for an average of 18.7 years — with 98 percent of those individuals being men, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) disclosed in its latest report on capital punishment data for 2019.
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CLM tools have always strived to push contract management into the digital age for almost 30 years. But the complexities of digitising a legal document are numerous. The current scenarios in business development have shown that having a fully automated CLM has become a mandate for every law firm and in-house legal department. To determine if you need a CLM system, it's essential to clearly identify the on-ground business challenges you aim to solve.
HowAppealing
JUNE 9, 2021
“ Lemon Doesn’t Matter; The fundamental question is whether the American law of religious liberty is worth preserving”: Andrew Koppelman has this post at the “Law & Liberty” blog.
The Crime Report
JUNE 9, 2021
Federal prison inmates are keeping large sums of money — in some cases more than $100,000 each — in government-run deposit accounts effectively shielded from court orders for things like child support, alimony or other debts, and not subject to the same scrutiny as accounts owned by non-incarcerated citizens, reports the Washington Post. Within the Bureau of Prisons system, there are more than 20 inmate accounts holding more than $100,000 each for a total exceeding $3 million.
HowAppealing
JUNE 9, 2021
“On Supreme Court steps, Dem senator calls right-leaning justices ‘servants’ of dark money interests; Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse called out GOP-nominated justices at rally Wednesday”: Marisa Schultz of Fox News has this report.
The Crime Report
JUNE 9, 2021
The arrest of hundreds of alleged criminals from around the globe in a massive international crackdown was made possible by an encrypted social messaging platform with custom cell phones covertly created by the FBI, according to ABC Australia and the Washington Post. . Deploying what amounted to a classic “sting” operation, law enforcement agencies in Europe, the Americas, Australia, and New Zealand allowed sophisticated criminals to believe they were using an encrypted messaging app
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HowAppealing
JUNE 9, 2021
“Tech tycoon’s beachfront mansion sparks First Amendment debate at 11th Circuit”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post. My earlier coverage of yesterday’s Eleventh Circuit ruling can be accessed here.
The Crime Report
JUNE 9, 2021
Despite positioning themselves as staunch supporters of the transgender movement, the Joe Biden administration has rejected calls to protect one of the most vulnerable groups of trans people: migrants who are stuck in U.S. immigration detention where, reports show, they have faced severe abuse, discrimination and medical neglect, reports The Guardian.
HowAppealing
JUNE 9, 2021
“These notices of appeal are entirely deficient. They appeal an order entered on a day when no order issued, from a district court that does not exist, to a court of appeals that does not exist.” So ruled a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit yesterday in dismissing two consolidated appeals for lack of jurisdiction due to identical defects in both notices of appeal.
Above The Law
JUNE 9, 2021
* The MLB is playing "hard ball" over a lawsuit concerning the location of the League's All-Star Game. [ Hill ] * The Ohio Attorney General has filed a lawsuit seeking to declare Google a public utility. [ CBS News ] * Systems at the New York City Law Department are still down days after it was targeted by a cyberattack. It was hard enough to schedule depositions with them already. [ New York Times ] * A woman who was impaled by a beach umbrella has filed a negligence lawsuit. [ Scranton Times T
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HowAppealing
JUNE 9, 2021
“DDA’s Remarks on Innocence Presumption Doesn’t Require Issuance of Habeas Relief; Earlier Contrary Opinion Is Repudiated; Panel Bows to Court of Appeal Determination”: Metropolitan News-Enterprise has this report on a noteworthy decision on panel rehearing that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued yesterday.
Above The Law
JUNE 9, 2021
This case has been going on for a while -- the child in question was born in December 2015.
HowAppealing
JUNE 9, 2021
“Florida mansion design rejection doesn’t violate First Amendment, court says; The debate brought up comparisons to such things as tattoos, elevator music and Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello home”: Jim Saunders of News Service of Florida has this report on an interesting 136-page ruling that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S.
LegalReader
JUNE 9, 2021
There are several other requirements for a valid contract, including the legality of the agreement and the freedom of the parties to negotiate or reject the other’s offer. .
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