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JUNE 28, 2022

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JUNE 28, 2022

Texas District Court Judge Christine Weems Tuesday issued a temporary restraining order , which blocks the enforcement of Texas’ pre- Roe abortion ban. A temporary injunction hearing is scheduled for July 12, 2022. Weems received a petition asking for a temporary restraining order and temporary injunction to block the enforcement of Texas’ abortion ban.

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JUNE 28, 2022

Judge Scott U. Schlegel, 24th Judicial District Court for the Parish of Jefferson, Louisiana Featured Speaker | Using Low/No-Code Tech to Improve Workflows at eCourts 2022 Conference, December 5-7. As the saying goes, “insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” He didn’t coin that phrase, but Judge Scott Schlegel of Louisiana is coming to set us straight.

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JURIST

JUNE 28, 2022

New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham Monday signed an executive order designed to protect reproductive health care services in the state. The order protects those who provide abortion services from out-of-state civil or criminal liability. Lujan Grisham signed the order in response to the US Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization , which overturned Roe v.

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JUNE 28, 2022

Share This article is part of a symposium on the court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Sherif Girgis is an associate professor of law at Notre Dame Law School. How does Dobbs ’s historical analysis fare against the dissent? What does that analysis mean for other unwritten rights? And to what will it bind lower courts? Dobbs reiterates the long-established principle that unwritten rights, to be enforced by courts, must be deeply rooted in our history.

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Above The Law

JUNE 28, 2022

The elimination of constitutional stare decisis would represent an explicit endorsement of the idea that the Constitution is nothing more than what five justices say it is.” - Former Associate Justice Lewis Powell. The post Where Were You When Stare Decisis Died? appeared first on Above the Law.

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JURIST

JUNE 28, 2022

Ukraine’s richest man Monday filed a lawsuit with the European Court of Human Rights against Russia for “grievous violations of his property rights during Russia’s unprovoked aggression against Ukraine.” Rinat Akhmetov, a Ukrainian businessman who owns much of the country’s manufacturing infrastructure, claims he has lost billions of dollars in business since Russia’s invasion began.

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JUNE 28, 2022

“State Judges Are in Spotlight After Supreme Court Overrules Roe v. Wade; Texas judge puts century-old abortion ban on hold for now, following similar court orders in Louisiana and Utah”: Laura Kusisto, Jennifer Calfas, and Deanna Paul of The Wall Street Journal have this report.

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JURIST

JUNE 28, 2022

The US Supreme Court denied certiorari Monday to pharmaceutical giant Bayer and agrochemical subsidiary Monsanto for the second time this year. Bayer has been seeking certiorari for one of many cases surrounding Roundup, a weed killer produced by Monsanto with alleged cancer-causing properties. The case in question, Pilliods v. Monsanto , revolves around a California couple who claim Roundup’s key ingredient, glyphosate, caused both of their non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma diagnoses.

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JUNE 28, 2022

“Physicians face confusion and fear in post-Roe world; Some worry gray areas in new abortion bans force a choice between breaking their oath and breaking the law”: Ariana Eunjung Cha of The Washington Post has this report.

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JURIST

JUNE 28, 2022

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) Monday announced that three individuals pleaded guilty to a series of actions related to the US Capitol breach on January 6, 2021. The individuals include Florida man Mitchell Todd Gardner II, Troy Sargent of Massachusetts, and Nathaniel DeGrave of Nevada. . Gardner pleaded guilty to “ felony charges of civil disorder, obstruction of an official proceeding, and assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers with a dangerous weapon,” according to a DOJ

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JUNE 28, 2022

“When Is an Interlocutory Order a Judgment? Rule 54(a) defines a judgment to include ‘any order from which an appeal lies.’ So appealable interlocutory orders are ‘judgments.’ And when there’s no separate document, litigants can have 180 days to appeal.” Bryan Lammon has this post at his “final decisions” blog.

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JURIST

JUNE 28, 2022

A federal judge in California Monday granted Tesla’s motion for a new trial in a former employee’s racial discrimination lawsuit. Plantiff Owen Diaz turned down an award of $15 million which was originally $137 million. In 2017 Diaz filed a lawsuit against Tesla for racial harassment and discrimination in the workplace. Diaz experienced constant harassment on a daily basis by his supervisors and coworkers and was subjected to racial slurs and racist graffiti.

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JUNE 28, 2022

“Tony Evers, Josh Kaul file lawsuit challenging Wisconsin’s 1849 law banning abortions, calling it unenforceable”: Molly Beck of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has this report. Alexander Shur of The Wisconsin State Journal reports that “ Wisconsin AG Josh Kaul files lawsuit challenging near-complete abortion ban passed in 1849.” And Joe Kelly of Courthouse News Service reports that “ Wisconsin attorney general asks court to invalidate 1849 abortion ban; Whethe

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JURIST

JUNE 28, 2022

More than 306,000 civilian were killed between March 2011 and March 2021, according to new estimates released Tuesday by the United Nations Human Rights Office (UNHRO). According to the latest findings, civilians represent an overwhelming majority of the estimated 350,209 total deaths identified since the start of the civil conflict. . In a statement , UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet condemned the violence and emphasized the severity of the situation, saying: The conflict

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JUNE 28, 2022

“Justice Thomas and Loving v. Virginia ; He already addressed the ruling at length in his Obergefell dissent”: Josh Blackman has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.

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JUNE 28, 2022

Spain’s Cabinet Monday approved a draft bill on LGBTQ+ rights which aims to increase the rights of trans and gender noncomforming minors. Unlike the bill’s 2021 version, the current text extends these rights to non-citizens living in Spain. If the bill is approved by Spain’s parliament, 16-year-old Spaniards will have the right to legally change their gender identities and names without parental, governmental or medical infringement after stating their desired changes twice in

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JUNE 28, 2022

“The Urge to Overreach Outlives Roe v. Wade; Critics of the Supreme Court take to the streets in rage, while abortion opponents push draconian restrictions”: Columnist Gerard Baker has this op-ed in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal. And at “PrawfsBlawg,” Rick Garnett has a post titled “ Thoughts on Hopeful Retreat from Darkness.

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Intelligize Blog

JUNE 28, 2022

The Securities and Exchange Commission this year proposed new rules regarding corporate disclosures of environmental performance to great fanfare. A less-heralded ESG-related proposal also seems to be in the works, as the agency is working on “rule amendments to enhance registrant disclosures regarding human capital management.” The latest project follows the SEC announcing in 2020 […].

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JUNE 28, 2022

“CBS News poll: Americans react to overturning of Roe v. Wade — most disapprove, call it step backward.” Jennifer De Pinto, Kabir Khanna, Fred Backus, and Anthony Salvanto of CBS News have this report.

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ABA Journal

JUNE 28, 2022

Ten years ago, most lawyers hand-filed paper documents with courts; however, that changed over time as online document storage became increasingly common and lawyers began…

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JUNE 28, 2022

“Tennessee 6-week abortion ban can now take effect following court order”: Melissa Brown of The Tennessean has this report on an order that the en banc U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued today.

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Attorney at Work

JUNE 28, 2022

When lawyers start talking about stress and depression, they are usually talking about the effect their law practice has on their sense of well-being, self-value and self-esteem. In a recent ALM Mental Health and Substance Abuse Survey , 31.2% of lawyers surveyed felt they were depressed — that is four times the depression rate of the general population.

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JUNE 28, 2022

“Who Is Brett Kavanaugh Kidding? In his concurring opinion in Dobbs , Kavanaugh tries to walk the thinnest of lines: taking away civil rights, but not in a way that makes his Chevy Chase neighbors hate him.” Lisa Needham has this post at Balls and Strikes.

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Above The Law

JUNE 28, 2022

They may speak out. eventually. The post Why Aren’t Biglaw Firms Publicly Denouncing The <em>Dobbs</em> Decision? appeared first on Above the Law.

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