JURIST

JANUARY 6, 2022

A restricted committee of France’s National Commission for Information and Liberty (CNIL) held Google and Facebook Ireland, the headquarters for Facebook’s activities in Europe, liable in separate judgments Thursday for violating the French Data Protection Act (DPA) since the processes by which users can reject cookies on these sites is significantly more complex than that for accepting cookies.

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CourtTechBulletin

JANUARY 6, 2022

With news that jury trials are being delayed once again due to the Covid-19 pandemic, it is useful to resurrect some early court technology used by the Erie County Common Pleas Court, General Division in Sandusky, Ohio from the '70s and later. The following is a report that my NCSC colleagues, Peggy A. Walsh and Kevin P. Kilpatrick, Staff Associate published as part of the Court Technology Reports, 1990 publication available in PDF in our Library eCollection here.

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JURIST

JANUARY 6, 2022

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday renewed a lawsuit against twenty-one medical equipment and pharmaceutical companies over allegations that their contracts with Iraq’s health ministry aided in funding terrorism that ultimately led to the death of American soldiers during the Iraq War. AstraZeneca, GE Healthcare USA Holding, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Hoffmann-La Roche, and other companies are accused by plaintiffs, family members of victims of the

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EvidenceProf Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

Federal Rule of Evidence 1002, the Best Evidence Rule, provides that An original writing, recording, or photograph is required in order to prove its content unless these rules or a federal statute provides otherwise. That said, Federal Rule of Evidence.

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JURIST

JANUARY 6, 2022

Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Wednesday that thousands of ethnic Tigrayans have been deported from Saudi Arabia and abused by Ethiopian authorities upon their return. Tigray, a northern region of Ethiopia, has been a center of conflict for years. According to the New York Times , the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) “dominated” Ethiopian politics for almost 30 years.

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JURIST

JANUARY 6, 2022

The Cybersecurity Administration of China (CAC) Wednesday published a draft of amendments to the Administrative Regulations on the Management of Mobile Internet Application Information Services issued in 2016. The draft contains 27 articles and places emphasis on data security, user privacy, and national security. The rules govern app providers and distribution platforms, requiring them to abide by China’s Constitution, laws, and administrative regulations.

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ABA Journal

JANUARY 6, 2022

The ABA Commission on Immigration, through a new partnership with refugee resettlement agency HIAS, is hoping to help more people from Afghanistan who were evacuated…

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JURIST

JANUARY 6, 2022

In a majority verdict Wednesday, a jury of the Bristol Crown Court in the UK found Sage Willoughby, Jake Skuse, Milo Ponsford, and Rhian Grahamm, dubbed the “Colston Four,” not guilty of criminal damage under the Criminal Damage Act 1971 for their involvement in pulling down an 1895 statue of slave trader Edward Colston in 2020. . Over 3,000 people had gathered at Bristol’s city center for a Black Lives Matter march on June 7, 2020, a few weeks after the murder of George Floyd

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 6, 2022

When 26-year-old Breonna Taylor, a Black medical worker, was shot and killed by Louisville police officers in March 2020 during a botched raid on her apartment, the country was collectively “traumatized” — particularly marginalized communities. While her death is an absolute tragedy, a law professor at the University of Kentucky writes that her death “transcends the narrative of bad-apple cops” and highlights the broken system backing search warrants, according to a forthcoming Boston Universit

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JURIST

JANUARY 6, 2022

The police departments of Mumbai and New Delhi have arrested four individuals in relation to the ‘Bulli Bai’ app, which targeted Muslim women by uploading their pictures for online auction without their consent. ‘Bulli Bai’ is a GitHub-based app that pretended to auction Muslim women. The app posted doctored images of hundreds of Muslim women, along with personal information stolen from their social media accounts, as though they were being auctioned off to the app’s users.

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Above The Law

JANUARY 6, 2022

We keep the pressure on for equity, diversity, and inclusion, but does DEI include coming to terms with the ageism that plagues the profession? The post Should Age Be An Unlisted Number For Lawyers? appeared first on Above the Law.

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JURIST

JANUARY 6, 2022

The German competition regulator Bundeskartellamt Wednesday published a decision determining that Google fulfills the criteria for companies having paramount significance for competition across markets. The Bundeskartellamt can now proceed against Google under the recently introduced Section 19a GWB , which seeks to limit the anticompetitive effects of large digital companies in the digital economy.

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Above The Law

JANUARY 6, 2022

What could possibly go wrong? The post UPDATE: Alan Dershowitz To Represent Mike Lindell In Religious Freedom LOLsuit Against Jan 6 Committee appeared first on Above the Law.

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HowAppealing

JANUARY 6, 2022

“A Supreme Court Ruling Against Vaccine Mandates Could Be Disastrous for Public Health”: Law professor Wendy Parmet has this guest essay online at The New York Times.

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ABA Journal

JANUARY 6, 2022

Conservatives look at 2022 in the U.S. Supreme Court with great anticipation, while liberals feel dread for what is likely to come.

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HowAppealing

JANUARY 6, 2022

“California’s war on breakfast wages on, and Iowa farmers need justices to act; The Supreme Court should review a challenge to the state’s law dictating how bacon and eggs are produced elsewhere”: U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) has this essay online at The Des Moines Register.

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LawSites

JANUARY 6, 2022

As a litigator in Los Angeles, Nicole Clark saw that state court data could be a secret weapon for winning, but she also saw how difficult it was for her and other lawyers to access that data. That inspired Clark to found Trellis in 2018, to collect and provide access to that data so that other litigators would not have to operate blind. . Recently, Trellis raised $14.1 million in a Series A funding round that Clark plans to use to expand the company’s coverage into additional states

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HowAppealing

JANUARY 6, 2022

“Supreme Stakes on Vaccine Mandates: The Court’s ruling will echo far beyond the current pandemic.” This editorial will appear in Friday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

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Above The Law

JANUARY 6, 2022

Also his janky social media platform makes him a journalist now. The post Mike Lindell Defies Jan. 6 Committee Subpoena FOR JESUS appeared first on Above the Law.

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HowAppealing

JANUARY 6, 2022

“The Vaccine Mandate Case May Mark the End of the ‘Work-Around’ Era; It gives the Supreme Court an opportunity to revive the separation of powers”: 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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Above The Law

JANUARY 6, 2022

Turns out democracy dies in people repeatedly saying existential threats are no big deal. The post A State Of The Union, Of Sorts appeared first on Above the Law.

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HowAppealing

JANUARY 6, 2022

“DUP’s Donaldson hails victory for ‘freedom of expression’ after European Court declares Ashers ‘gay cake’ case inadmissible; Gareth Lee’s legal team to consider fresh domestic case”: Ralph Hewitt of The Belfast Telegraph has this report. Kaya Burgess of The Times of London reports that “ ‘Gay cake’ activist loses legal fight against Ashers bakery.” Haroon Siddique of The Guardian (UK) has a report headlined “ ‘G

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Above The Law

JANUARY 6, 2022

Asking for and accepting feedback can be transformational for your career. . The post Picking Up The Practice Of Asking For And Accepting Feedback appeared first on Above the Law.

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HowAppealing

JANUARY 6, 2022

“Conservative Judges Are Exploiting the Pandemic to Rewrite the First Amendment; Courts considering vaccine mandate challenges are quickly transforming religious liberty into Christian supremacy”: Lisa Needham has this post at Balls and Strikes.

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ABA Journal

JANUARY 6, 2022

A California federal court said Wednesday it would suspend in-person jury trials following similar announcements by other state and federal courts amid the surge in…

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