Attorney at Work
MARCH 3, 2022
I’ve been thinking about what it means to lead a company through crises and how each crisis affects law firm leaders. A few years ago, I believed I had handled just about every type of crisis conceivable. How wrong I was. In recent years, we have dealt with a global pandemic, a divided political nation and civil unrest. We all learned how to pivot and maneuver through a pandemic.
JURIST
MARCH 3, 2022
The United Nations Environment Assembly Wednesday approved a resolution to establish the first-ever global agreement on plastic pollution, along with a series of draft resolutions concerning biodiversity, health, the green economy, and circularity. Building off of prior resolutions aimed at tackling the “long-term elimination of plastic pollution,” the four-page resolution expresses the will of representatives from 175 member countries to institute a legally-binding instrument to re
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EvidenceProf Blog
MARCH 3, 2022
Federal Rule of Evidence 704(b) provides that In a criminal case, an expert witness must not state an opinion about whether the defendant did or did not have a mental state or condition that constitutes an element of the crime.
JURIST
MARCH 3, 2022
The United Nations Human Rights Council announced Wednesday the appointment of the former Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Fatou Bensouda, to lead the investigation into abuses in Ethiopia. The President of the Human Rights Council, Ambassador Federico Villegas, announced the appointment of three international experts to serve as the International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia.
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SCOTUSBlog
MARCH 3, 2022
Share The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that information about the federal government’s post-9/11 torture program at CIA “black sites” is protected by the “state secrets privilege,” a doctrine that allows the government to withhold information in litigation when disclosing it would compromise national security. The fractured decision in United States v.
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HowAppealing
MARCH 3, 2022
“A Judiciary Without Public Defenders Is Broken: It will take a lot more than Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court confirmation to reverse decades of harm inflicted by a prosecutor-heavy federal bench.” Josie Duffy Rice has this post at Balls and Strikes.
JURIST
MARCH 3, 2022
New Zealand police Wednesday stormed parliament grounds in riot gear reclaiming the space where anti-vaccine mandate protesters had camped for 23 days. Hundreds of police began moving across parliament grounds early Wednesday morning, breaking up the protester’s camp, dressed in riot gear and equipped with pepper spray. The police towed vehicles obstructing roads as they pushed forward.
HowAppealing
MARCH 3, 2022
“Welcome to the Supreme Court’s Phantom Docket: The Roberts court is taking up cases with phantasmal litigants and speculative complaints; But how it resolves them could have a massive impact on American life.” Matt Ford has this essay online at The New Republic.
JURIST
MARCH 3, 2022
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) Tuesday announced that it would hold hearings on March 7 and 8 to determine whether to order “provisional measures” brought in a lawsuit by Ukraine against Russia. On February 26, Ukraine instituted proceedings against Russia before the ICJ. Ukraine alleged that Russia falsely claimed that acts of genocide occurred in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions of Ukraine.
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HowAppealing
MARCH 3, 2022
“C.I.A. Black Sites Are State Secrets, the Supreme Court Rules; A Guantánamo detainee had sought information from two former government contractors to aid in a Polish criminal inquiry into a facility there”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report. Robert Barnes of The Washington Post reports that “ Supreme Court says state-secrets doctrine protects disclosure of ‘black site’ locations in torture allegation case.” David G.
JURIST
MARCH 3, 2022
Law students and young lawyers in Ukraine are filing for JURIST on the latest developments in that country as it defends itself against Russian invasion. Here, Kyiv-based lawyer Oleh Kornat reports. . Ukraine goes on defending its territory against Russian troops. Russians attack our cities with rockets. Some of our cities are in the situation of humanitarian catastrophe: there is neither water, gas nor electricity supply.
HowAppealing
MARCH 3, 2022
Access today’s rulings of the U.S. Supreme Court in argued cases: Justice Stephen G. Breyer delivered the opinion of the Court in large measure in United States v. Zubaydah , No. 20-827. Justice Clarence Thomas issued an opinion, in which Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr. joined, concurring in part and concurring in the judgment. Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh issued an opinion, in which Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined, concurring in part.
JURIST
MARCH 3, 2022
Law students and young lawyers in Ukraine are filing for JURIST on the latest developments in that country as it defends itself against Russian invasion. Here, Justin Esiobu, a law student at V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, sends these video reports from Kharkiv on the seventh day of the war. In the last several days, Kharkiv has suffered a significant number of civilian casualties and major destruction from Russian bombs, shells and missile strikes.
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HowAppealing
MARCH 3, 2022
“Virginia Supreme Court to hear teacher’s case over not using student’s preferred pronoun”: Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times has this report.
LegalReader
MARCH 3, 2022
Lori Lightfoot allegedly launched into a tirade after learning that the Chicago Park District had authorized the display of a Christopher Columbus statue during an Italian-American parade.
HowAppealing
MARCH 3, 2022
“US Supreme Court allows Kentucky Attorney General to defend state abortion law in court”: Deborah Yetter of The Louisville Courier Journal has this report.
The Crime Report
MARCH 3, 2022
Predicated on myths of “lawless and violent prisoners,” prison law is behind many of the failures of the criminal justice system, argue Justin Driver and Emma Kaufman in “The Incoherence of Prison Law.”. Writing in the Harvard Law Review , Driver, Robert R. Slaughter Professor of Law at Yale Law School., and Kaufman, assistant professor at New York University School of Law, ,argue that prison law — the legal rules that structure the day-to-day realities of incarceration — relies on tropes to na
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HowAppealing
MARCH 3, 2022
“California’s diverse judiciary is getting even more diverse under Gov. Gavin Newsom”: Bob Egelko of The San Francisco Chronicle has this report.
Above The Law
MARCH 3, 2022
Before we hand her the wheel to the judiciary, what score did she get on her driver's license exam? The American public deserves to know. The post President Biden’s Supreme Court Pick Is So Good People Are Lapsing Back Into Birtherism appeared first on Above the Law.
HowAppealing
MARCH 3, 2022
“Supreme Court Climate Skeptics Will Help Decide the Fate of the Planet”: Law professor Karen C. Sokol has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.
Above The Law
MARCH 3, 2022
A lawyer is trained to solve problems, but finding all answers to all problems is not always the most efficient and beneficial use of a lawyer’s time. The post Sometimes, What You Choose Not To Do Is As Important As What You Do Choose To Do appeared first on Above the Law.
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HowAppealing
MARCH 3, 2022
“The Moral Authority of Original Meaning”: Law professor J. Joel Alicea has posted this article at SSRN.
Above The Law
MARCH 3, 2022
With gender equality at home, having it all can come a lot sooner. The post In A Post-Pandemic Workplace, Can Women Lawyers Have It All? appeared first on Above the Law.
HowAppealing
MARCH 3, 2022
“Sen. Ben Ray Luján returns to Senate, just one month after major stroke”: Mike DeBonis of The Washington Post has this report.
Above The Law
MARCH 3, 2022
What Can You Learn From An LSAT Score? Nothing that being editor at Harvard Law Review, graduating cum laude from the aforementioned Harvard Law, clerking for a Supreme Court justice, Biglaw career, work on the Sentencing Commission, and an impressive 8.9 years of prior judicial experience can't tell us. Seriously, the dog whistles are LOUD. Being Pro-Putin Isn't Good For Your Legal Career: Which is actually the smallest problem with being pro-Putin right now.
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