JURIST
APRIL 12, 2021
A federal appeals court on Friday rejected a petition by Guantanamo detainee Nashwan al-Tamir to dismiss the charges against him and disqualify the judge presiding over his case over conflicts of interest. Al-Tamir was apprehended in 2006 in Turkey, taken to a CIA black site and tortured for six months, and then held at Guantanamo for seven years without charges.
EvidenceProf Blog
APRIL 12, 2021
Similar to its federal counterpart, Mississippi Rule of Evidence 804(b)(6) provides an exception to the rule against hearsay A statement offered against a party that wrongfully caused – or acquiesced in wrongfully causing – the declarant’s unavailability as a witness,
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JURIST
APRIL 12, 2021
The EU announced Monday that it had sanctioned Iranian militia commanders, police chiefs, and three prisons due to their violent response to November 2019 demonstrations. A series of nationwide protests in Iran over high fuel prices led to calls for the overthrow of the government. During these protests, Iranian forces allegedly used “widespread and disproportionate” force, which led to more than 1,500 deaths in less than two weeks.
Patently O
APRIL 12, 2021
Editor’s Note: Avery Welker is a 1L at Mizzou and likely a future patent attorney. He is starting a new series linking law school canonical cases with intellectual property counterparts. You can email ideas for future posts to avery@patentlyo.com. – Dennis Crouch. By Avery Welker. Grilling weather is coming up soon! You may be in the market for a new grill to set up in your backyard.
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JURIST
APRIL 12, 2021
The French National Assembly on Saturday voted to ban domestic flight routes that can be traversed by train within two-and-a-half hours. The measure is part of Bill 3875, titled “on the fight against climate change and strengthening resilience in the face of its effects.” While the bill is part of a larger effort to reduce aviation emissions, estimates suggest that relatively few flight routes will be affected by the ban.
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JURIST
APRIL 12, 2021
The US Supreme Court on Friday granted a petition to put restrictions on in-home bible study and prayer meetings on hold. The plaintiffs sought an injunction last December against a California restriction on the allowable size for indoor gatherings. The restrictions were instituted last year to slow the spread of COVID-19. After a judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of California found in favor of the government, the plaintiffs appealed to the US Court of Appeals for the Ni
HowAppealing
APRIL 12, 2021
“The Supreme Court Broke Its Own Rules to Radically Redefine Religious Liberty”: Mark Joseph Stern has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate consisting of an interview with law professors Jim Oleske and Steve Vladeck.
JURIST
APRIL 12, 2021
Kenya’s high court issued a 30-day stay order Thursday suspending a move by the government to close the Dadaab and Kakuma refugee camps housing hundreds of thousands of refugees from war-torn neighboring countries such as Somalia. The case arose after Kenya’s Interior Minster Fred Matiang’i announced the government’s desire to close the Dadaab and Kakuma camps.
HowAppealing
APRIL 12, 2021
“The Christian right is racking up huge victories in the Supreme Court, thanks to Amy Coney Barrett; The Supreme Court is serious about exempting religious conservatives from the law — even when their rulings could kill people”: Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.
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Patently O
APRIL 12, 2021
by Dennis Crouch. The chart below shows a measure of patent grant rate for a group of 30,000 recently completed patent prosecution cases. I reported earlier on the grant-rate differential based upon entity size classification: Large>Small>Micro. For this chart, I also added-in a second variable of whether the patent application filings were submitted by a registered US patent attorney or agent.
HowAppealing
APRIL 12, 2021
“‘Shadow Dockets’ Are Normal. The Way SCOTUS Is Using Them Is the Problem. The Supreme Court is not a trial court.” Law professor Steve Vladeck has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.
LegalReader
APRIL 12, 2021
The essay contest is open to high school students as well as students enrolled in two-year and four-year colleges and universities and graduate school programs throughout the United States.
HowAppealing
APRIL 12, 2021
“Panel of federal judges rules Gov. Tony Evers can keep conservative group MacIver out of events”: Patrick Marley of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has this report on a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued Friday.
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LegalReader
APRIL 12, 2021
As society continues to grapple with the issue of drunk driving, our law firm wants to hear from the upcoming generation of leaders to find out what innovative ideas they have for reducing the toll drunk driving takes on the American public.
HowAppealing
APRIL 12, 2021
“What the Liberal Justices Can Still Do on a 6-3 Court: They’re adapting textualism; They should at least make use of it.” Jacob Finkel has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.
JURIST
APRIL 12, 2021
China’s State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) fined Alibaba 18 billion yuan, or approximately 4 percent of the company’s 2019 revenues Friday, after a months-long investigation. This fine, the largest in the history of Chinese antitrust law, follows the unexpected interruption of Ant Group’s IPO in November. Ant Group is an affiliate company of Alibaba.
HowAppealing
APRIL 12, 2021
“Tiffany Cunningham — Nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals in the Federal Circuit”: Harsh Voruganti has this post at his blog, “The Vetting Room.
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ABA Journal
APRIL 12, 2021
ABA President Patricia Lee Refo will join other leaders from the ABA in volunteering for ABA Free Legal Answers, a virtual legal advice clinic that…
HowAppealing
APRIL 12, 2021
“The Roberts Court, First Amendment Fanaticism, and the Myth of Originalism”: Eric Segall has this blog post at “Dorf on Law.
LawTechnologyToday
APRIL 12, 2021
Just one month ago, the annual ABA TECHSHOW kicked off yet again, but this year things looked very different. This year, for the first time, ABA TECHSHOW went 100% all Virtual. This month we asked our panel what they thought of the new experience of an all virtual ABA TECHSHOW. Our Panelists. Dennis Kennedy ( DK ), Allison Shields ( AS ) and Julie Bays (JB).
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 12, 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 Monday morning read: Court-packing isn’t the right fix for our courts. Ending life tenure is. (Editorial board, The Washington Post). A Free Exercise of Religion Supreme Court (Editorial board, The Wall Street Journal).
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Patently O
APRIL 12, 2021
Is the addition of a network computer implemented social network, with a novel and unconventional rating system, to a method of organizing human activity per se unpatentable as directed to an abstract idea? This is the question presented in NetSoc v. Match. — Dennis Crouch (@patentlyo) April 12, 2021. Read the Petition.
The Hollywood Lawyer
APRIL 12, 2021
DJ Artem “Arty” Stoliarov sued DJ Marshmello over copyright infringement after Marshmello released “Happier,” which Arty said was a copy of their remix version of the song, “I Lived,” by One Republic. Arty, which is a DJ from Russia, alleged that “Happier” is “note for note” plagiarism of his remix of “I Lived” by One […].
Livesay&Myers
APRIL 12, 2021
Has your relationship recently ended or are you divorced with children? Are you dating and concerned about the introduction of your new loved one to your kids? Perhaps your estranged spouse or ex-spouse objects to the introduction and uses your newfound relationship to drag you back into a contentious court proceeding. Will a court prevent the introduction from occurring or minimize contact?
LegalReader
APRIL 12, 2021
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