Constitutional Law Reporter
JANUARY 31, 2022
The Supreme Court’s January sitting started off with the late addition of two cases challenging vaccine mandates imposed by the Biden Administration. The first, Biden v. Missouri , involves a federal rule requiring all health care workers at facilities that participate in Medicare and Medicaid programs to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 unless they are eligible for a medical or religious exemption.
JURIST
JANUARY 31, 2022
Amnesty International Monday released a statement condemning the European Union’s cooperation with Libyan authorities to intercept refugees and migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea to Europe. According to Amnesty, “m igrants and refugees both in and outside of detention in Libya are systematically subjected to a litany of abuses by militias, armed groups and security forces with impunity.” The EU began working with the Libyan Coast Guard in 2016, and leaders signed the Malta
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HowAppealing
JANUARY 31, 2022
“Incoming Georgetown Law official placed on administrative leave for tweets about Supreme Court pick; School officials will investigate whether Ilya Shapiro’s tweets breached policy”: Lauren Lumpkin of The Washington Post has this report.
JURIST
JANUARY 31, 2022
Egypt’s Supreme State Security Criminal Court Saturday sentenced to death 10 Muslim Brotherhood members who were “convicted of forming armed terrorist groups to carry out hostile operations against police facilities and personnel.” State news agency Middle Eastern News Agency (MENA) reported on the verdict on Sunday. According to MENA, the defendants, whose identities and pleas have not been disclosed, had formed a group called the “Helwan Brigades.” The group had p
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HowAppealing
JANUARY 31, 2022
“Faculty Letter in Support of Ilya Shapiro, January 31, 2022”: The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education has posted this letter , signed by many recognizable names, online.
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HowAppealing
JANUARY 31, 2022
“Colorado judicial discipline commission subpoenas Supreme Court over lack of access to evidence in scandal investigation”: David Migoya of The Gazette of Colorado Springs has this report.
JURIST
JANUARY 31, 2022
US Senators Lindsey Graham and Richard Blumenthal on Monday reintroduced the Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies, or EARN IT Act. The Act, heavily opposed in its initial 2020 run, is aimed at stripping big tech companies such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube’s of legal protection against online child sexual abuse material.
HowAppealing
JANUARY 31, 2022
“From big cases to a new vacancy, Supreme Court faces a high-stakes 2022; The high court is gearing up for a politically explosive year with a series of blockbuster cases that have the power to reshape American life”: Sahil Kapur of NBC News has this report.
JURIST
JANUARY 31, 2022
The World Health Organization (WHO) urged the international community Sunday to rally against inequalities that characterize neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). The WHO also called for the availability of healthcare services for the poorest and most marginalized communities, who are most vulnerable to these diseases. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in his message that the COVID-19 pandemic has worsened the condition of these communities by thrusting millions of people “
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HowAppealing
JANUARY 31, 2022
“With Breyer’s Exit, a Farewell to Marshmallow Guns and Tomato Children; Justice Stephen G. Breyer, who said last week that he planned to retire, enlivened Supreme Court arguments with questions that could confuse and amuse”: Adam Liptak will have this new installment of his “Sidebar” column in Tuesday’s edition of The New York Times.
JURIST
JANUARY 31, 2022
An accountability court based in Lahore acquitted Mir Shakilur Rehman, the editor-in-chief of the Jang Media Group, of corruption charges on Monday. Jang Media Group is Pakistan’s largest independent news conglomerate. The company owns popular news stations, such as Geo News , and numerous newspapers, including Jang and The News. Rehman was arrested in 2020 by Pakistan’s National Accountability Bureau (NAB) for illegally purchasing a plot of land in 1984.
HowAppealing
JANUARY 31, 2022
“On Decency and Double Standards at Georgetown: Do apologies mean anything anymore? Consider the case of Ilya Shapiro.” Bari Weiss has this post at her “Common Sense” Substack site.
JURIST
JANUARY 31, 2022
Two of the three men convicted in the 2020 murder of Ahmaud Arbery reached plea deals on Sunday, but District Judge Lisa Wood of the US District Court for the Southern District of Georgia rejected the plea deals on Monday. . Father and son duo Gregor and Travis McMichael, along with their neighbor William Bryan, were convicted by a jury in a Georgia state court in November 2021 of chasing down and killing Arbery, an unarmed Black man.
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HowAppealing
JANUARY 31, 2022
“Mensch On The Bench”: You can access today’s new episode of the “Strict Scrutiny” podcast, in which law professors Risa Goluboff and Tejas Narechania join the podcast’s hosts, law professors Kate Shaw , Melissa Murray , and Leah Litman , via this link.
The Fashion Law
JANUARY 31, 2022
As the cosmetics industry bore the brunt of a pair of significant greenwashing lawsuits in the United States at the end of 2021, the fashion industry that is now the target of regulatory oversight action in the United Kingdom to start 2022. As the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) in the U.S. begins 2022 with a clear goal to investigate and commence enforcement actions against companies that it perceives may be engaging in greenwashing , the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (“CMA”
HowAppealing
JANUARY 31, 2022
“Critics say Ginni Thomas’s activism is a Supreme Court conflict. Under court rules, only her husband can decide if that’s true.” Michael Kranish of The Washington Post has this report.
ABA Journal
JANUARY 31, 2022
A lawyer, fashion blogger and Extra correspondent who won the Miss USA pageant in 2019 has died by suicide after apparently jumping from an apartment…
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LawSites
JANUARY 31, 2022
It says something about a product when, even before it officially hits the market, it wins a major legal technology award. That is the case with a product being unveiled today, Infodash. It is the platform on which the law firm Ogletree Deakins built its ODConnect 2.0 intranet, which last week was named Transformative Project of the Year in the International Legal Technology Association’s 2021 Distinguished Peer Awards.
Attorney at Work
JANUARY 31, 2022
Law firms are enjoying strong and steady market-based tailwinds as 2022 unfolds. These will drive another year of growth for the law firms who can deliver — and target the best spots. A recent study based on more than 240 interviews with top legal decision-makers reveals these tailwinds include: Record levels of workloads for the second year in a row.
HowAppealing
JANUARY 31, 2022
“Balancing and Deference: A Reflection on Justice Breyer.” Michael C. Dorf has this blog post at “Dorf on Law.
Above The Law
JANUARY 31, 2022
The time to develop healthy work-life balance habits is now. The post Law School Dean Has Some Advice For Stressed-Out Students: ‘It’s Not Going To Get Any Easier’ appeared first on Above the Law.
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HowAppealing
JANUARY 31, 2022
“Justice Breyer’s Legacy In Numbers”: Adam Feldman has this post at his “Empirical SCOTUS” blog.
ABA Journal
JANUARY 31, 2022
Tom Martin graduated from Yale University with a bachelor's degree in philosophy in 1993 and started working for an "old-school" Harvard Law-educated attorney who ran…
Above The Law
JANUARY 31, 2022
People are getting this backward. The post Neil Young/Joe Rogan Discourse Proof That Fascists Are Killing ‘Free Speech’ appeared first on Above the Law.
ABA Journal
JANUARY 31, 2022
A lawyer in Hamden, Connecticut, has been disbarred by a judge who said she made “empty and malicious claims” that another judge favored Jewish litigants…
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