JURIST
JANUARY 17, 2021
The Poland Ministry of Justice on Thursday announced the introduction of the “freedom of speech protection” bill to stop social media platforms from deleting content posted by Polish users or blocking the users if they do not break any Polish laws. The Minister of Justice, Zbigniew Ziobro said: Today, social networking sites themselves decide about deleting entries and even blocking user accounts.
EvidenceProf Blog
JANUARY 17, 2021
Federal Rule of Evidence 803(2) provides an exception to the rule against hearsay for A statement relating to a startling event or condition, made while the declarant was under the stress of excitement that it caused. So, should this excited.
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JURIST
JANUARY 17, 2021
Hong Kong’s Civil Service Bureau released a notice on Friday, demanding that all civil servants sign a document pledging their loyalty to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China (HKSAR). The notice is the latest development in Hong Kong’s ongoing crackdown on opposition, since the promulgation of its national security law on June 30, 2020.
HowAppealing
JANUARY 17, 2021
“A $1 Verdict Could Actually Be Meaningful. A new Supreme Court case has everything: Taylor Swift, the First Amendment and implications for policing.” Law professor Stephen L. Carter has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.
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JURIST
JANUARY 17, 2021
The National Rifle Association (NRA) announced Friday in a press release that it filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy and will reincorporate in Texas. The association claims that the move is a part of strategic maneuvering for its betterment. This kind of maneuvering is legally permitted when an organization files Chapter 11 bankruptcy. According to the press release, the NRA blames “what it believes is a corrupt political and regulatory environment in New York.” It mentions that the move to
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JURIST
JANUARY 17, 2021
The Supreme Court of Canada on Thursday declined to hear the Catholic Church’s appeal against a suit for damages brought by victims of sexual abuse at the Mount Cashel Orphanage. The decision brings finality to the 21-year-long litigation by former students who had suffered sexual abuse by five Brothers from the Christian Brothers Institute Inc, Ireland while they were boys living at the St John’s orphanage.
HowAppealing
JANUARY 17, 2021
“How Government Should Regulate Social Media Lies: The First Amendment leaves enough room to deter and punish dangerous falsehoods.” Law professor Cass R. Sunstein has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.
JURIST
JANUARY 17, 2021
Amazon.com, Inc. was hit with a nationwide class action lawsuit Thursday in the District Court for the Southern District of New York alleging collusion and illegal price-fixing of e-books with some publishers. The plaintiffs are represented by law firm Hagens Berman that brought a similar case against Apple Inc. in 2011 and is a frequent whistleblower on e-book price-fixing.
HowAppealing
JANUARY 17, 2021
“Q&A with Chief Justice Brian Boatright: Ushering the Supreme Court to post-pandemic practices.” Michael Karlik of Colorado Politics has this interview online at The Gazette of Colorado Springs.
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JURIST
JANUARY 17, 2021
Russian authorities on Sunday arrested opposition leader Aleksei Navalny on his arrival at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport. Navalny was traveling from Berlin where he spent the past five months recovering from a fatal nerve-agent attack that he believes was carried out by Kremlin agents to quash his resistance movement. Amnesty International issued a statement calling for Navalny’s immediate release and directed authorities to launch an investigation into his poisoning that occurred on August 20,
HowAppealing
JANUARY 17, 2021
“What does Josh Hawley think he’s doing?” Dan Zak of The Washington Post has this report.
SCOTUSBlog
JANUARY 17, 2021
On Monday, the court will be closed for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. On Tuesday, the court will release orders from the Jan. 15 conference at 9:30 a.m. At 10 a.m., the justices will hear oral argument in FCC v. Prometheus Radio Project and BP P.L.C. v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore. On Friday, the justices will hold their Jan. 22 conference. The post This week at the court appeared first on SCOTUSblog.
JURIST
JANUARY 17, 2021
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued an opinion Thursday in its first case heard in the Irish language. The case concerned the scope of the national court’s discretion to grant relief when national law breached EU law. The case involved an EU directive that required veterinary medicinal products to be packaged “in the language or languages of the country in which they are placed on the market.” Ireland interpreted this into national law to mean that they may
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My Paralegal Place
JANUARY 17, 2021
Life is full of distractions, ranging from social media, chitchat with friends, catching up with family among others. These distractions deter us from achieving our day-to-day goals and, in most cases, we end up being busy the whole day but hardly productive. Here are some productivity apps for business that […]. The post 8 Outstanding Productivity Apps to Power Boost Your Day appeared first on.
LegalReader
JANUARY 17, 2021
Dr. Joseph Michael Franzese, an Ohio OB-GYN was recently suspended and fined over allegations of sexual misconduct and drug abuse.
Legal Research is Easy
JANUARY 17, 2021
I didn't realize it by I'm a mover and a shaker. Well, a shaker anyway. Turns out an article I wrote a while back (actually, I wrote it 4 years ago - but I had scheduled it to come out July 2020) has been causing quite the stir. Well, not the article, per se. Actually, it was the picture that accompanied the article (and the first couple paragraphs that talked about the underboob bathing suit ).
Court-MartialTrialPractice
JANUARY 17, 2021
Federal Rule of Evidence 803(2) provides an exception to the rule against hearsay for. A statement relating to a startling event or condition, made while the declarant was under the stress of excitement that it caused. So, should this excited utterance exception apply to a 911 call about a stolen gun. That was the question addressed by the First Circuit in its recen opinion in United States v.
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JURIST
JANUARY 17, 2021
Alabama’s policy requiring that transgender people show proof of sex reassignment surgery in order to change the sex designation on their driver’s license was found to be unconstitutional, courts ruled Friday. Under the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency’s (ALEA) Policy Order 63, transgender individuals could only get a license that accurately reflected their gender after they had sex reassignment surgery, “regardless of whether the surgery is necessary, desired, safe, or wit
Patently O
JANUARY 17, 2021
Recent Headlines in the IP World: Ian Lopez: Drug Patent Database Revamp Falls Short of Tackling High Costs (Source: Bloomberg Law). Atty. Nancy Pei: 2020 Highlights in Canadian Life Sciences IP and Regulatory Law (Source: JD Supra). Bob Yedid: Motus GI Expands Intellectual Property Portfolio with U.S. Patent for the Pure-Vu® System’s Universal Method to Mount on the End of Most Commercial Colonoscopes (Source: Yahoo Finance).
JURIST
JANUARY 17, 2021
All federal prisons in the US have been put on lockdown ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration on January 21. The lockdown, announced at midnight on Saturday, was in response to “current events,” according to a statement by the Bureau of Prisons (BOP). The decision was a precautionary one and not in response to any specific events, the Bureau clarified.
HowAppealing
JANUARY 17, 2021
“Senate GOP Set to Argue Out-of-Office Trump Can’t be Convicted in Impeachment; New report suggests most scholars are on the other side; trial could start this week”: Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal has this report.
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JURIST
JANUARY 17, 2021
The Supreme Court of South Korea on Thursday upheld a 20-year prison sentence for former President Park Guen-hye who was convicted on charges of abuse of power, bribery and coercion in 2018. The rejection of Park’s appeal exhausts all legal remedies, leaving open only the option of a special presidential pardon by incumbent President Moon Jae-in.
JonathanTurley
JANUARY 17, 2021
If American politics shows anything, it is that enmity, not necessity is the mother of invention. Many continue to feel rage over the Capitol riot on Jan. 6. I condemned the speech of President Donald Trump when it was still being given and opposed the challenge to the electoral votes. However, it is the future of the Constitution , not Donald Trump, that most concerns me as the Senate is about to try to remove a president who has already left office.
JonathanTurley
JANUARY 17, 2021
Below is my column in USA Today on the upcoming Senate trial of President Donald Trump. The Hill recently my second column on why the best defense of Trump could be no defense — to skip the Senate trial and force a threshold vote on the constitutionality of the trial of an ex-president. Here is my column: With the second impeachment of President Donald Trump, the Congress is set for one of the most bizarre moments in constitutional history: the removal of someone who has already left offic
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