The Crime Report
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
J udge Jennifer Dorow faces off against Darrell Brooks. Still from Court TV. Nearly a year ago, Darrell Brooks drove his red Ford Escape SUV into the Waukesha, Wisconsin holiday parade, killing six people and injuring 61 others. The horrific tragedy was punctuated by a bizarre, recently concluded, four-week trial. The trial, which began October 3, was presided over by Waukesha County Circuit Judge Jennifer Dorow.
JURIST
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
A UK court Thursday ordered Swiss multi-national commodity trading and mining firm Glencore to pay a £280 million ($400 million) fine after a UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) investigation revealed the company paid over $29 million in bribes to gain preferential access to oil in Africa. Glencore pleaded guilty to seven counts of bribery in the same court on June 23.
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Attorney at Work
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
ContractPodAI's CTO discusses how low code is changing the way the legal industry carries out work. The post Why Legal Teams Are Joining the Low-Code Revolution appeared first on Attorney at Work.
JURIST
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
US Inspector General Michael Horowitz Thursday recommended that the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) establish guidelines on the use of inmate statements in administrative misconduct investigations of BOP employees. In an inquiry by the Office of the Inspector General, the BOP Office of Internal Affairs (OIA) stated it does not rely on inmate testimony when adjudicating misconduct findings that do not rise to the level of criminal prosecution unless there is corroborating evidence like forensic e
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HowAppealing
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
“James Ho’s Yale Law Boycott Only Matters If Students Allow It; The Yale administration’s doomed attempts to appease James Ho are part of the proud law school tradition of sucking up to established power”: Steve Kennedy has this post at Balls and Strikes. The post “James Ho’s Yale Law Boycott Only Matters If Students Allow It; The Yale administration’s doomed attempts to appease James Ho are part of the proud law school tradition of sucking up to establi
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HowAppealing
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
“Originalism on Trial at the Supreme Court”: Online at Slate, law professor Aaron Tang has a jurisprudence essay that begins, “When opposing lawyers make similarly unsympathetic arguments at the Supreme Court, who should win? In an important case that will be argued on Tuesday, Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Company , the answer will turn on a surprising question: whether the conservative justices are evenhanded — or instead hypocritical—adherents to their preferred
JURIST
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
CVS Health Co. (CVS) and Walgreens Co. (Walgreens), a subsidiary of its parent company Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. , Wednesday, announced that each company reached a preliminary settlement deal totaling approximately $10 billion in order to end thousands of lawsuits related to ongoing opioid-related litigation. As part of its settlement, beginning in 2023, CVS will pay a total of approximately $5 billion, allocating “ $4.9 billion to states and political subdivisions and approximately
HowAppealing
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
“A Federal Judge Calls Clarence Thomas’ Bluff on Gun Rights and Originalism”: Mark Joseph Stern has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate. The post “A Federal Judge Calls Clarence Thomas’ Bluff on Gun Rights and Originalism” appeared first on How Appealing.
JURIST
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
Come November 8, Vermont residents will have the opportunity to amend their state constitution and abolish slavery and indentured servitude for good. To be clear, Vermont does not currently allow either in any form, but there is antiquated language in the state constitution that allows for certain exceptions. In the Founding Era, numerous other states used Vermont’s constitution as a model when drafting their own constitution, including the slavery exceptions.
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HowAppealing
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
“When should Supreme Court members bench themselves? New cases reignite the recusal debate.” Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has this report. The post “When should Supreme Court members bench themselves? New cases reignite the recusal debate.” appeared first on How Appealing.
JURIST
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
New York Attorney General Letitia James Thursday reached a $523 million settlement with opioid manufacturer Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries. The settlement is the largest reached with an individual state; state and local governments also reached a nationwide settlement with Teva earlier this year for $4.35 billion. In total, New York will receive $523 million from Teva–$210 million from the state and local settlement as well as $313 million from an individual agreement with New York.
HowAppealing
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
“A controversial election theory at the Supreme Court is tied to a disputed document”: Hansi Lo Wang of NPR has this report. The post “A controversial election theory at the Supreme Court is tied to a disputed document” appeared first on How Appealing.
JURIST
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
The Paris Criminal Court Wednesday sentenced former Liberian rebel commander Kunti Kamara to life in prison. The sentence followed a four-week trial with no material evidence presented. The prosecution relied on numerous witnesses and victims to testify to Kamara’s participation in or supervision of the abuses. Kamara stood accused of multiple crimes against humanity including rape, torture and killings.
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The Crime Report
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
Howard County, Maryland’s Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion Program (LEAD), recently marked its one-year anniversary with a 91 percent success rate, reports Kristin Danley-Greiner for Patch. The program, which offers individuals who participate in low-level crime related to mental health and substance use challenges the opportunity to be diverted to human services instead of entering the criminal justice system, now has nine fully operational sites throughout Maryland.
JURIST
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
Australia’s Labor government Thursday called on the nation’s multi-billion dollar mining industry to actively support the government’s commitments to Indigenous people. The government, led by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, is planning a referendum on an amendment to the Australian Constitution to provide for the permanent representation of Indigenous people in Parliament.
Above The Law
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
This lawsuit centers on the leadership of the Arnhold Institute for Global Health, which is part of the Icahn School of Medicine, and the hiring decisions made by the school’s dean, Dr. Dennis Charney, as well as alleged discrimination from other leaders.
LegalReader
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
Almost $8 million of these penalties arose due to “government-contracting-related offenses,” while approximately $3 million has been paid out in employment-related offenses.
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Above The Law
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
A noble attempt, but probably lost on this crowd. The post Judges Must Stop Writing For ‘Cheerleading You Get From Twitter,’ Judge Tells Crowd Of Twitter Cheerleaders appeared first on Above the Law.
Livesay&Myers
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
We are proud to announce that Livesay & Myers, P.C. appears in the 2023 Edition… Continue reading Livesay & Myers, P.C. Listed in 2023 Edition of U.S. News – Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms” The post Livesay & Myers, P.C. Listed in 2023 Edition of U.S. News – Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms” appeared first on Livesay & Myers, PC.
Above The Law
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
Part of why I wanted to share some of my anti-resume is to give some of you who need it, a little hope. The post One In-House Counsel’s Anti-Resume appeared first on Above the Law.
The Crime Report
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
A new study examining data from automatic identification systems (AIS), tracking beacons that enable fishing vessels to be located on global shipping maps, has found that up to 6 percent of global fishing activity is hidden because the vessels disable them, a practice that can be used to hide illegal fishing, reports Dan Collyns for The Guardian. The study also discovered geographical hotspots for ships disabling their trackers, including west Africa, the coast of Argentina and the north-west Pa
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Above The Law
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
Know what's worse than a lawyer whose bad with numbers? A bookkeeper that's unethical with them. The post From Fudging The Numbers To Just Deserts appeared first on Above the Law.
The Crime Report
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
Federal, local and state authorities recently carried out arrests, searches and seizures in California, Oklahoma, Wyoming, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Nevada, North Carolina, and Virginia in a bust of a network of thieves, dealers and processors involved in catalytic converter thefts worth hundreds of millions of dollars, reports Joe Barrett for the Wall Street Journal.
Above The Law
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
East coast law school career centers — update your mailing lists! The post If You Can Bill It There, You Can Bill It Anywhere: A New Firm Enters The New York Market appeared first on Above the Law.
The Crime Report
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
Nikolas Cruz, the 24-year-old who executed 17 people and injured 17 in the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, has been sentenced to 34 consecutive life terms in prison, one for each of the people he killed and injured, reports Patricia Mazzei for the New York Times. A life sentence, unlike a death sentence, means that Cruz will not return to court for any legal appeals.
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