Sat.Nov 19, 2022

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Biden administration appeals student loan forgiveness plan stop order to US Supreme Court

JURIST

The Biden administration Friday filed an application with the US Supreme Court to vacate an injunction preventing the federal student loan forgiveness plan from going into effect. The application is an appeal of the November 15 order by the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit to temporarily suspend the federal student loan forgiveness plan while it is litigated on its merits in lower courts.

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“Yale Law School Needs to Stand Up to This Bullying Judge: Why is the most prominent legal academy in the country bending to the will of Judge James Ho, an anti-cancel culture crusader threatening to boycott its students?”

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“Yale Law School Needs to Stand Up to This Bullying Judge: Why is the most prominent legal academy in the country bending to the will of Judge James Ho, an anti-cancel culture crusader threatening to boycott its students?” Law professor Steven Lubet has this essay online at The Daily Beast. The post “Yale Law School Needs to Stand Up to This Bullying Judge: Why is the most prominent legal academy in the country bending to the will of Judge James Ho, an anti-cancel culture crusa

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, November 19, 2022

LLRX

Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness.

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“Justice Alito denies disclosing 2014 Hobby Lobby opinion in advance; Supreme Court justice has said leak of Dobbs abortion decision made conservative majority ‘targets for assasination'”

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“Justice Alito denies disclosing 2014 Hobby Lobby opinion in advance; Supreme Court justice has said leak of Dobbs abortion decision made conservative majority ‘targets for assasination'”: Robert Barnes and Ann E. Marimow of The Washington Post have this report. Lawrence Hurley of NBC News reports that “ Justice Alito denies involvement in alleged 2014 Supreme Court leak; Conservative Justice Alito issues statement in response to comments made by former anti-abortion camp

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Recipe for a Failed CLM Implementation

Selecting and implementing CLM technology can be daunting, leading to underutilization or abandonment. Factors like provider differentiation, inadequate planning, and lack of user training contribute to these failures. Recognizing these pitfalls is crucial for successful adoption, ensuring organizations harness the full potential of CLM for streamlined contract management.

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The morning read for Saturday, Nov. 19 (special edition)

SCOTUSBlog

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 Saturday morning read: Former Anti-Abortion Leader Alleges Another Supreme Court Breach (Jodi Kantor & Jo Becker, The New York Times).

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Judge Cites Orwell’s ‘1984’ in Order Blocking Florida’s Stop WOKE Act

LegalReader

The controversial law, recently rebranded as the Individual Freedom Act, prevents educators from discussing subjects such as race and privilege in classrooms and workplace training sessions.

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“The Federalist Society controls the federal judiciary, so why can’t they stop whining? All they do is win, win, win, no matter what. So why are America’s most powerful lawyers so unhappy?”

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“The Federalist Society controls the federal judiciary, so why can’t they stop whining? All they do is win, win, win, no matter what. So why are America’s most powerful lawyers so unhappy?” Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox. The post “The Federalist Society controls the federal judiciary, so why can’t they stop whining?

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Biden Administration Urges Courts to Dismiss Lawsuit Against Mohammed bin Salman

LegalReader

The Department of State maintains that foreign heads of state, such as Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, cannot be sued in American civil courts.

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Dual-Purpose Communications and Privilege

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by Dennis Crouch. The NY IP Law Association (NYIPLA) recently filed an amicus brief in the pending anonymous Supreme Court case captioned In re Grand Jury , 21-1397 (2022). The case focuses on the scope of attorney client privilege , especially with regard to dual-purpose communications. Petitioner is a law firm specializing in international tax and had provided tax law advice to an expatriation client and also prepared individual tax returns for the client.

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Contract Lifecycle Management: A Business Enabler Exploring On-Ground Challenges

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.

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Justice Arguelles to be remembered at December oral argument session

At the Lectern

The Supreme Court will begin its December calendar with a memorial for former Justice John Arguelles, who died in April. Arguelles, who served on the court for two years starting in 1987, was 94. The court has now posted the calendar. (There had been some tech problems with the court’s website.) The calendar includes just the four cases we mentioned yesterday.

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“Lost…in the Emotion of the Night”: Attorney Who Firebombed Police Vehicle Given 15 Month Sentence

JonathanTurley

We previously discussed the case of two New York attorneys (Colinford Mattis and Urooj Rahman) who joined in violent protests in New York, including firebombing a police vehicle. The Biden Justice Department later gave the two lawyers an astonishingly generous plea deal that avoided long prison sentences. Now Rahman has been sentenced to 15 months after asking for no jail time for throwing the Molotov cocktail.

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“The Backlash To Losing Roe v. Wade Is Just Getting Started; The Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision upending abortion rights helped Democrats stave off a ‘red wave’; It will continue to play a pivotal role in future elections”

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“The Backlash To Losing Roe v. Wade Is Just Getting Started; The Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision upending abortion rights helped Democrats stave off a ‘red wave’; It will continue to play a pivotal role in future elections”: Paul Blumenthal of HuffPost has this report. The post “The Backlash To Losing Roe v. Wade Is Just Getting Started; The Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision upending abortion rights helped Democrats stave off a ‘red wave’; It wil

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Fulton County Judge Rules with the Warnock Campaign and Orders New Early Voting Date

JonathanTurley

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Thomas A. Cox Jr. has ruled in favor of a filing by the Democratic Party and U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock’s campaign to allow early voting to begin on Saturday in Georgia’s Senate runoff election. I previously criticized this filing as an invitation for the court to act as a super legislature in the face of clear statutory language.

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California Civil Discovery Act Undergoes Significant Overhaul

Short article looking at the new CCP 2016.