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APRIL 29, 2021

A commission of human rights experts asked the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague on Tuesday to investigate the pattern of systemic police violence against Black people in the US. This comes shortly after the commission released a 188-page report detailing the crimes against humanity committed by police and prosecutors in the US. Commissioners investigated 43 cases of police murder, including the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Tamir Rice, as well as Jacob Blake, who was

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APRIL 29, 2021

What is Ediscovery? Some terms, concepts, products, and services make sense to us instantly. This happens before we ever even truly use or experience them. These are things that we don’t need to know the “how” to know the “why.”. For example: Ridesharing, Edible Arrangements, solar panels, and fabric softener. Then there are the concepts we could…eventually understand, but we know they have a dizzying and mind-numbing amount of technicalities, variables, and nuance.

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JURIST

APRIL 29, 2021

The Supreme Court of Appeal in Malaw ruled Wednesday that the imposition of the death penalty is unconstitutional and contrary to the right to life guaranteed by the Constitution of Malawi. It further ordered the re-sentencing of all convicts facing execution. The ruling comes following an appeal by Charles Khoviwa, who, despite having no prior convictions, was sentenced to death following his conviction for murder in 2003.

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APRIL 29, 2021

The IJIS Institute has scheduled two virtual Zoom seminars for Tuesday, June 15, 2021. They write: "From incident to final resolution and beyond, every action our courts take relies on accurate, complete, and timely data to best-inform decisions about people, cases, process, and policy. Join your colleagues from practice and industry at our technology summit on Tuesday, June 15th to dive into our courts' multifaceted data discussion - what we have and what we need - and the impact a

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APRIL 29, 2021

The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law published a 26-page report and six-page annotated proposal Wednesday addressing why > 18 USC § 242 makes it difficult to prosecute police, federal agents, and probation and correctional officers who engage in civil rights violations. The foreword to the report states that the Brennan Centre conducted this study in response to recent social movements emerging from officer Derek Chauvin’s excessive use of force, which result

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JURIST

APRIL 29, 2021

Greek Member of the European Parliament for the neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn Ioannis Lagos was arrested in Brussels on Tuesday after a 658-24 vote of the European Parliament to lift his immunity with 10 abstentions. This came following a request for the waiver of his immunity by the Prosecutor at the Supreme Court of Greece with regard to possible criminal charges.

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APRIL 29, 2021

Hermès has fared relatively well in the midst of a pandemic-ravaged market. Analysts celebrated the Paris-based brand when FY20 results were posted early this year , as the Birkin-bag maker’s revenues amounted to 6.39 billion euros ($7.7 billion) – down by just 6 percent, which is quite a bit less than rivals LVMH and Kering, which saw their 2020 sales fall by 16 percent and 18 percent, respectively.

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JURIST

APRIL 29, 2021

Sri Lanka’s cabinet on Tuesday approved the proposal to ban all kinds of face veils, including burqas, in public places due to threats to “national security.” The approval comes a month after the UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution “to promote reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka.” Based on a UN report demanding accountability of parties involved in violence and human rights abuse in Sri Lanka, the resolution also raised concerns ove

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Attorney at Work

APRIL 29, 2021

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JURIST

APRIL 29, 2021

A report from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Tuesday found that the practice of suspending driver’s licenses for failing to pay fines or appear at court proceedings is ultimately counterproductive to collecting money owed. The organization is recommending that state and local governments stop imposing such restrictions. The majority of US states suspend driver’s licenses if an individual fails to pay a fine or refuses to appear at a court hearing.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 29, 2021

A major new study of more than 250 miscarriages of justice that have occurred in England and Wales over the last 50 years suggests that unreliable witness testimony has caused the most harm to the pursuit of justice than any other circumstances examined, reports Phys.org. The research also suggests that regulations governing the powers of police have been effective in reducing wrongful convictions caused by unreliable confessions and has led to a new publicly available database of over 350 convi

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JURIST

APRIL 29, 2021

Protests over President Iván Duque Márquez’s proposed tax reforms erupted in Colombia Wednesday. Thousands of protesters lined the streets of Bogotá, Medellin, and Cali answering the call from the county’s largest unions in protest against the controversial tax reform. The proposed reformation by the Colombian government would introduce a suite of taxes on individuals and businesses, as well as reducing some tax exemptions.

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LawSites

APRIL 29, 2021

Eight students in the LawX legal design lab at BYU Law have developed an online resource, called Goodbye Record , that is designed to address flaws in the process for expunging criminal records in Utah and potentially other states as well. I’ve written a number of times about LawX, a lab program launched in 2017 in which law students use design thinking to analyze and address critical issues in access to justice.

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JURIST

APRIL 29, 2021

A US federal grand jury indicted the three Georgia men Wednesday charged with “federal hate crimes and attempted kidnapping” in connection with the killing of Ahmaud Arbery. Arbery is the unarmed 25-year-old Black man whose name became a rallying cry during the 2020 protests against police brutality. On February 23, 2020, three white residents of Glynn Country, Georgia—Travis McMichael and his father Gregory, as well as William Bryan—pursued and fatally shot Arbery while he was joggi

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HowAppealing

APRIL 29, 2021

“Sheldon Whitehouse Is No Friend of the Courts; The senator declares war on amicus briefs and attacks the right to express views he disfavors”: David B. Rivkin Jr. and Andrew M. Grossman will have this op-ed in Friday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

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JURIST

APRIL 29, 2021

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Bonta and Guam v. United States. In Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Bonta , the plaintiffs, two conservative nonprofits, are “challenging the constitutionality of California’s requirement that charities and nonprofits operating in the state provide the state attorney general’s office with the names and addresses of their largest donors.” The state insists that the rule helps

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APRIL 29, 2021

“Initial thoughts on the constitutional right to concealed carry in NY Rifle and Pistol Association v. Corlett, and a possible trip to Hawaii”: William Baude has this post at the “Summary, Judgment” blog.

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APRIL 29, 2021

North Carolina Superior Court Judge Jeff Foster rejected bids on Wednesday to publicly release bodycam footage in the shooting of Andrew Brown Jr. The ruling is accompanied, however, by an order for the sheriff to allow Brown’s immediate family members and lawyers to view the footage independently. Under North Carolina law , while anyone may request for bodycam footage to be released, only a judge may approve that release to the public.

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APRIL 29, 2021

“US appeals court listens to Tennessee abortion ban arguments”: Kimberlee Kruesi of The Associated Press has this report. And Kevin Koeninger of Courthouse News Service reports that “ Tennessee Fights to Reimpose Ban on Selective Abortions; The Volunteer State wants an appeals panel to reinstate two abortion restrictions, including a ban on the procedure when a woman is seeking it because of the gender or race of the child.” You can access via this link the audio of today

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The Crime Report

APRIL 29, 2021

An Illinois task force of hundreds of experts, researchers and incarcerated women published sweeping recommendations Wednesday about how to better serve women behind bars and also reduce the female prison population, reports the Chicago Tribune. Convened by the Women’s Justice Institute, the task force issued 250 recommendations, intended to be a blueprint for any elected official, policymaker or agency that serves criminally involved women, and ranging from eliminating prison charges for basic

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APRIL 29, 2021

“Samuel Alito’s Culture-War Warning; The Justices punt on California’s sanctions against Texas”: This editorial will appear in Friday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

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APRIL 29, 2021

Billionaire venture capitalist Tim Draper , known for early investments in companies such as Twitter, Skype and DocuSign, has invested $1 million in seed capital in Jur , a blockchain-based dispute resolution platform founded in Switzerland. Draper described Jur’s dispute resolution platform as “the future of decentralized justice” and its recently issued cryptocurrency, the Jur token , as “the token of justice in the new blockchain era.” In an article yesterday in

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APRIL 29, 2021

“Justices Question Whether Student’s Snapchat Rant Caused a Substantial Disruption”: David L. Hudson, Jr. has this post at NYU’s First Amendment Watch.

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APRIL 29, 2021

by Dennis Crouch. In their forthcoming article, Professors Dmitry Karshtedt, Mark A. Lemley & Sean B. Seymore argue that the Federal Circuit has improperly and unduly limited the ability of chemical and biotech innovators to obtain genus claims — i.e., claims that cover “not just one specific chemical but a group of related chemicals.” The Death of the Genus Claim , 35 Harv.

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APRIL 29, 2021

Access today’s ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court in an argued case: Justice Neil M. Gorsuch delivered the opinion of the Court in Niz-Chavez v. Garland , No. 19-863. And Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh issued a dissenting opinion, in which Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. and Justice Samuel A. Alito joined. You can access the oral argument via this link.

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