Paralegal Bootcamp

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Paralegals often initiate or respond to dozens of emails, instant messages, and other electronic communications daily. This pace doesn’t provide much time to devote to any one of these messages. But failing to sufficiently focus on these missives can result in embarrassing errors, bungled communications, or in more drastic situations, malpractice. Fortunately, there are methods, like the paralegal checklist below, and proper email etiquette , that will help reduce your exposure to these risks.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The Government of India Tuesday notified the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (Amendment) Rules, 2021. These rules increase the upper limit for abortion from 20 weeks to 24 weeks for certain categories of women. The government has notified these rules under Section 6 of the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971 (MTP Act). The Parliament had amended. the MTP Act in March 2021 and it took effect in September 2021.

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CourtTechBulletin

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Continuing with our practical advice October. Courts create a lot of document files. Some of those files get uploaded, saved, and organized in the court's case management or electronic document management systems. And some courts use tools like SharePoint. But even these tools can benefit from a consistent useful file naming standard. I looked online and found two excellent pages on the subject.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The UN Human Rights Office, represented by spokesperson Marta Hurtado, deemed on Tuesday that Libyan security forces had used “ unnecessary and disproportionate ” force to detain African migrants when those that had attempted to escape were fatally shot. The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) requested an inquiry into the violence perpetrated by government officials, noting that there had been a “perceptible increase in heavy-handed security operations tar

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Above The Law

OCTOBER 14, 2021

No, RBG Wasn't Infallible: Which everyone who has been paying attention already knew. Wild Story Gets Even Wilder: That's. really saying something. Lawyers And Technology: Not really a winning combination. Milbank's Opening Back Up: With higher expectations for newer associates.

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ABA Journal

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The estate of Henrietta Lacks has filed a lawsuit alleging that a biotechnology company is profiting from the unauthorized use of living tissue taken from…

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OCTOBER 14, 2021

JURIST EXCLUSIVE – Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban. Here, a lawyer in Kabul offers his observations and perspective on the threat posed to Afghanistan’s legal system and legal community by the prospect of Taliban legal appointments. For privacy and security reasons we are withholding our correspondent’s name and institutional affiliation.

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ABA Journal

OCTOBER 14, 2021

A Michigan township’s ordinance requiring property owners to replace trees that they remove from their property or pay into a tree fund was an unconstitutional…

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JURIST

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Judge Royce Lamberth from the United States District Court for the District of Columbia held on Wednesday Wanda Patten, warden of the District of Columbia Jail, and Quincy Booth, director of the DC Department of Corrections, in civil contempt of court for failing to produce medical documents for Christopher Worrell, a member of far-right Proud Boys.

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OCTOBER 14, 2021

“Texas abortion ban remains in effect after appeals court rules against Justice Department”: Ann E. Marimow of The Washington Post has this report. You can access this evening’s per curiam order of a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit at this link.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The Rights and Security International (RSI), a human rights advocacy group, published on Wednesday the second of two reports calling for the immediate repatriation of women and children held in the al Hol and Roj detention camps in northeast Syria. According to the RSI report, an estimated 12,000 children – most of them under 12 – and women from countries outside of Iraq and Syria, are being held in these camps and experiencing torture on the basis of a presumed connection to ISIS.

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OCTOBER 14, 2021

“In deciding Tsarnaev’s fate, the Supreme Court could condemn the 8th Amendment too; No matter how repugnant the actor, constitutional protections against cruel and unusual punishment shouldn’t be compromised; This case shows there aren’t enough guardrails to protect it”: Columnist Kimberly Atkins Stohr has this essay online at The Boston Globe.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The Minnesota Supreme Court on Wednesday held that federal law preempts a state Workers’ Compensation (WC) law requiring employers to reimburse injured employees for medical marijuana. Two respondents filed lawsuits seeking to have their former employers reimburse them for prescribed medical marijuana, which was prescribed to treat their work-related injuries.

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OCTOBER 14, 2021

“Commission on Changing Supreme Court Skeptical About Adding Justices; Preliminary documents released on eve of public meeting assess merits of term limits for justices, limiting number of justices any president can name”: Ken Thomas of The Wall Street Journal has this report.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 14, 2021

JURIST EXCLUSIVE – Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban. Here, a lawyer in Kabul offers his observations and perspective on recent developments in the country’s central bank operations under the Taliban. For privacy and security reasons we are withholding our correspondent’s name and institutional affiliation.

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OCTOBER 14, 2021

“The Sleeper SCOTUS Case That Threatens the Separation of Church and State; Carson v. Makin could set a new precedent for how taxpayer dollars are used to fund religious education”: Law professor Kimberly Wehle has this essay online at The Atlantic.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Over 100 countries adopted the Kunming Declaration on Wednesday at the first part of the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity. The declaration aims to reverse the present loss of biodiversity around the world and to implement a path recovery by 2030. The declaration highlighted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development , emphasising that the ongoing biodiversity loss jeopardises the accomplishment of the Sustainable Development Goals.

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OCTOBER 14, 2021

“Katie Couric’s self-defeating effort to ‘protect’ Ruth Bader Ginsburg; And the many self-defeating efforts that came along with it”: Aaron Blake has this essay online at The Washington Post.

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OCTOBER 14, 2021

JURIST EXCLUSIVE – Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban. Here, a female law graduate in northeast Afghanistan reports on local conditions for women under the Taliban. For privacy and security reasons we are withholding our correspondent’s name and institutional affiliation.

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HowAppealing

OCTOBER 14, 2021

“Texas urges appeals court to keep abortion ban in place as legal challenges play out”: Ariane de Vogue of CNN has this report. You can access Texas’s reply at this link.

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The Fashion Law

OCTOBER 14, 2021

During the height of the pandemic, H&M had almost $5 billion worth of merchandise on hand, and it was not alone. With stores temporarily shuttered due to government mandates and a striking slump in sales as consumers shifted their shopping priorities in the midst of a global health pandemic, brands accumulated mounting piles of garments and accessories with nowhere to go – and in many cases, the options were largely unattractive.

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OCTOBER 14, 2021

“The legal mind behind America’s most extreme abortion law; Former Texas solicitor general Jonathan F Mitchell’s ‘dangerous’ legal strategy lets legislators pass laws that thwart the judiciary”: Mary Tuma of The Guardian (UK) has this report.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 14, 2021

A new report, authored by the Sentencing Project has found that Wisconsin imprisons Black residents at a higher rate than any other state in the country, reports the Wausau Pilot & Review. One of every 36 Black Wisconsin adults is in prison, the report found. Black people comprise 42 percent of the Wisconsin prison population, but just 6 percent of the state’s population.

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OCTOBER 14, 2021

“A Justice for All Seasons: Is Clarence Thomas the greatest originalist justice in the Court’s history?” John O. McGinnis and Mike Rappaport have this post at the “Law & Liberty” blog.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Every year, roughly 1,000 American civilians are killed by police, and while the conversation surrounding racial bias on behalf of the police rages on, some believe the data used to prove “systemic racism” at the hands of police doesn’t share the full story, writes Barry Latzer , a professor emeritus at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, as posted by City Journal. .

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