Attorney at Work
JULY 27, 2021
Consider adding dual monitors to fine-tune your office setup. Recently I was having a lunch meeting over Zoom with various self-proclaimed (and actual) tech-savvy attorneys when the following question came up: Q: Since the start of the pandemic, what technology tool has been the most valuable for you? What has most increased your productivity or improved how you work?
JURIST
JULY 27, 2021
The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has ruled that an immigration judge’s two-sentence decision denying asylum to an Ecuadorean man was insufficient. The case was brought by Jorge Luis Valarezo-Tirado for review of an Immigration Judge’s reinstatement of his prior order of removal. The Immigration Judge initially affirmed a Department of Homeland Security asylum officer’s determination that Valarezo-Tirado did not have a reasonable fear of torture or persecution as re
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CourtTechBulletin
JULY 27, 2021
Irving Texas work “in recent years to improve its municipal court’s Failure to Appear (FTA) rate shows what is possible when cities invest in foundational data practices and use data-driven evaluations to test and fine-tune new approaches.” The article posted in Medium.com WhatWorksCity subsite explains why Irving focused on this problem. Read more ».
JURIST
JULY 27, 2021
Pope Francis said Monday during the Pre-Summit of the UN Food Systems Summit that the existence of hunger in a world that produces enough food for everyone is “a crime that violates basic human rights.” Earlier in July, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said that the COVID-19 pandemic “pushed” an additional 124 million people into extreme poverty, so that about one in three people around the world did not have access to adequate food in 2020.
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The Crime Report
JULY 27, 2021
An estimated 65 percent of the United States prison population suffers from an active substance abuse disorder, and about 80 percent of people in jail or prison report using illicit substances in their lifetimes. Yet research indicates that few incarcerated individuals receive evidence-based substance abuse disorder treatment—resulting in continued substance abuse post-incarceration.
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HowAppealing
JULY 27, 2021
“The courts are destroying America’s ability to fight pandemics; Public health crises require a dynamic government that makes quick decisions; GOP judges want to prevent that”: Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.
JURIST
JULY 27, 2021
A Defence Sub-Committee on Women in the Armed Forces report released Sunday details evidence of bullying, sexual harassment, sexual assault, and rape experienced by servicewomen in the British military. The report further found that the Ministry of Defense and the military are failing to protect female personnel and help them achieve their full potential.
HowAppealing
JULY 27, 2021
“Gov. Stitt names Court of Criminal Appeals Judge Dana Lynn Kuehn to Oklahoma Supreme Court”: Chris Casteel of The Oklahoman has this report. Yesterday, the office of Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt issued a news release titled “ Governor Kevin Stitt Appoints Judge Dana L. Kuehn to The Supreme Court of Oklahoma.
JURIST
JULY 27, 2021
[Ian Profiri is JURIST’s new Staff Correspondent for Canada, joining JURIST’s existing teams of correspondents already filing from India and Myanmar. This is his first report in his new capacity.]. Mary Simon became Canada’s first Inuk Governor General on Monday. She is also the first Indigenous person to hold the position in Canada’s 154-year history, and her appointment comes at a time when Canadians are grappling with their common identity in the wake of the recovery o
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HowAppealing
JULY 27, 2021
“Court rejects wrongful death suit while warning against out-of-state regulation of Colorado recreation”: Michael Karlik of Colorado Politics has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit issued yesterday.
JURIST
JULY 27, 2021
The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) warned in a report published Monday that documented casualties of Afghanistan civilians are poised to reach the highest number recorded in one year since 2009. The Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict 2021 Midyear Report analyzed documented civilian casualties between January 1 and June 30 of this year.
SCOTUSBlog
JULY 27, 2021
Share Telling the justices that “the courthouse door has been barred to New York’s landlords” “for more than sixteen months and counting,” a group of New York landlords asked the Supreme Court to block a state moratorium on residential evictions put in place at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. A federal district court dismissed the landlords’ challenge, and the U.S.
JURIST
JULY 27, 2021
The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced Monday that all medical facility employees will be required to be vaccinated against COVID-19, becoming the first federal agency to issue a mandate. VA Secretary Denis McDonough stated, “We’re mandating vaccines for Title 38 employees because it’s the best way to keep Veterans safe, especially as the Delta variant spreads across the country.” “Whenever a Veteran or VA employee sets foot in a VA facility, they dese
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The Crime Report
JULY 27, 2021
An undercover FBI investigation and sting operation into an attempted murder plot has revealed that Ku Klux Klan members were working inside the Florida Department of Corrections, with significant power over inmates, Black and white, reports the Associated Press. A fight between Williams, a Black inmate, and Warren Driver, a white guard, in a Florida prison resulted in the inmate being beaten to the point of needing hospitalization and the guard eliciting fellow KKK members to kill him.
JURIST
JULY 27, 2021
Tunisian President Kais Saied was accused by opposition parties of launching a “coup” with the help of the country’s military Monday after firing the prime minister and freezing parliament. The move comes after anti-government protesters took over the streets of the capital Tunis. The protesters exalting general dismay over the country’s failed attempts to grapple with economic turmoil and a demonstrably poor response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Above The Law
JULY 27, 2021
* A violation in wolf's clothing: Amicus brief claims USFWS unlawfully removed Grey Wolves from the list of endangered species. [ Upper Michigan Source ] * Is the CDC's nationwide eviction moratorium no more? The 6th Circuit thinks so. [ ABA Journal ] * Long COVID symptom havers may qualify for disability. Every bit helps! [ Insider ] * Police officer alleged to have kicked handcuffed woman in head.
JURIST
JULY 27, 2021
Tanzanian opposition leader Freeman Mbowe was charged with terrorism on Monday. Mbowe, the chairman of Chama Cha Demokrasia Na Maedeleo (Chadema), was arrested on July 21 along with 10 other party officials. In a statement shared by journalist Samira Sawlani on Monday, Chadema said Mbowe was arraigned in a magistrate court in Kitsutu and charged with terrorism.
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LawTechnologyToday
JULY 27, 2021
On the final Tuesday of every month, we will be featuring the top 10 posts of the past month. Below are the articles you read the most during July! 1. “ Hidden Twitter Tricks ” by Rose Frommelt. “If you’ve been using Twitter for a while, you probably think you have it down. You keep your tweets short and sweet, incorporate a hashtag here and there, keep it interesting and a bit mysterious if there is a link or picture attached—nailed it.
HowAppealing
JULY 27, 2021
“The Florida Supreme Court and the ghost of Virgil Hawkins”: The South Florida Sun Sentinel has published this editorial.
L4SB
JULY 27, 2021
With the recent legalization of recreational cannabis in many states, entrepreneurs may want to start thinking about what kind of cannabis business they want to form. One of the first (and most important) steps to do this is to obtain a business license. Let’s look at the state of New Mexico’s and what their Cannabis […].
The Crime Report
JULY 27, 2021
Connecticut Superior Court Judge Barbara Bellis recently denied Remington Outdoor Company’s motion to strike an amended complaint brought by families of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School claiming the top gun manufacturer recklessly marketed the AR-15-style rifle used in the 2012 shooting in Newton, Connecticut, on the grounds that the complaint did not assert facts that connected its marketing to the massacre, reports the Courthouse News Service.
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Above The Law
JULY 27, 2021
Cash Rules Everything Around Me: DOJ sells Martin Shkreli's Wu Tang album. Biglaw AND Quality Of Life? Is it even possible?? Learning Your Bar Prep Lesson : It's back to basics. But Be Sure To Let Above The Law Know: When something (inevitably) goes wrong. Taking A Jab A Biglaw: #FreeBritney.
The Crime Report
JULY 27, 2021
A 36-year-old Alabama woman is facing felony charges for filling a doctor’s prescription, shedding light on Alabama’s long history of prosecuting pregnant women under a strict reading of a statute against “chemical endangerment of a child”, which classifies substance use during pregnancy as a form of child abuse, reports Moira Donegan in an op-ed for The Guardian.
SCOTUSBlog
JULY 27, 2021
Share Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. To suggest a piece for us to consider, email us at roundup@scotusblog.com. Here’s the Tuesday morning read: Celina Sotomayor, mother of Supreme Court justice, dies at 94 (Ariane de Vogue, CNN). Can Affirmative Action Survive?
LegalReader
JULY 27, 2021
Gov. DeSantis, like many of his conservative colleagues, ended residents' access to federal unemployment benefits two months before the pandemic program was set to expire.
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