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DECEMBER 10, 2020

The UK House of Lords voted to amend the Trade Bill on Monday to include performance of human rights risk assessments in proposed trade agreements, as well as revocation of trade agreements with countries that are found by the High Court of England and Wales to have committed genocide. The bill was first introduced in the House of Commons earlier this year, with the aim of implementing international trade agreements post-Brexit as well as establishing the Trade Remedies Authority to deal with th

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EvidenceProf Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Similar to its federal counterpart, Idaho Rule of Evidence 804(b)(3) provides an exception to the rule against hearsay for A statement that: (A) a reasonable person in the declarant's position would have made only if the person believed it to.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The US Supreme Court ruled 8-0 Thursday in Tanzin v. Tanvir Thursday that federal officials can be personally sued for violating a person’s First Amendment right to religious freedom under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). The case concerned two Muslim respondents whom federal agents placed on the no-fly list after the men refused to act as informants against their Muslim community.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Bryan Garner argues over telephone for Noah Duguid (Art Lien). On Tuesday, for the second time this year, the Supreme Court heard oral argument on the federal law that bans robocalls to cellphones. The question this time, in Facebook v. Duguid , is whether the Telephone Consumer Protection Act’s ban on robocalling or robotexting cellphones using an “automatic telephone dialing system” includes using a device that can store and automatically dial telephone numbers without using a “random or seque

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JURIST

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The US Supreme Court heard its final oral arguments of the year on Wednesday in the consolidated case of Collins v. Mnuchin. The issues being assessed in this case are whether the structure of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) violates the separation of power doctrine, and whether “the courts must set aside a final agency action that FHFA took when it was unconstitutionally structured and strike down the statutory provisions that make FHFA independent.” This case comes from a

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JURIST

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The US Treasury Department Office of Foreign Assets Control announced sanctions Wednesday on former Kyrgyz Customs Service deputy Raimbek Matraimov for his role in a $700 million money-laundering scheme. The Treasury also announced sanctions on two other individuals and three companies. According to the department, Matraimov was involved in a company’s evasion of custom fees through bribery of customs officials.

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Patently O

DECEMBER 10, 2020

by Dennis Crouch. In re Apple ( Apple v. Uniloc ), Misc. Docket No. 20-135 (Fed. Cir. 2020). In November 2020, the Federal Circuit granted Apple’s mandamus petition and ordered the case of Uniloc v. Apple to be transferred from W.D.Tex. (Albright, J) to Apple’s other home-court of N.D. Cal. In the Federal Circuit’s opinion, the district court had clearly abused its discretion in finding that N.D.

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ABA Journal

DECEMBER 10, 2020

A 71-year-old Florida inmate was released Tuesday after serving 31 years of a 90-year prison sentence for trafficking marijuana.

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LawTechnologyToday

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Faulty medical devices not only endanger the lives of the users, they may also mean the collapse of a company. There have been cases of bankruptcy for large organizations after the recall of their products. If incidents like these can cause the fall of multinational companies, imagine what may happen for smaller manufacturers. Statistics have shown that organizations record an average 10% decline in their share prices after a recall.

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LegalTalkNetwork

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Vaccines for COVID-19 are headed to the market at lightning speed. The quicker the better for those eager to return to some sort of normal. That’s not to say there isn’t anxiety as the vaccine becomes available. And employers are wrestling with whether they should mandate vaccines for workers. On Legal Talk Today , host Laurence Colletti speaks with labor and employment lawyer Christine Bestor Townsend to break down which employers are likely to require vaccines, who can say no, what accommodati

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Thursday that three Muslim men who say that they were put on the “no fly” list after they refused to become FBI informants can sue the FBI agents who put them there for money damages. The decision was a significant one not only for the plaintiffs but also for cases involving violations of religious rights more broadly.

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LawTechnologyToday

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Worldwide, businesses, industries, and governments are attempting to reopen and recover from the early disruptions of the pandemic. Legal and compliance work is beginning to ramp back up and teams are looking to understand how to conduct investigations effectively with all the changes since the pandemic first began. Even so, operations will remain far from normal for a long time to come, leaving teams searching for efficient and defensible ways to conduct discovery work remotely.

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NCBA

DECEMBER 10, 2020

By the Communications Committee Paralegal Spotlight is the Division’s monthly publication designed to share Division members’ stories with colleagues, inspire present and future paralegal professionals, and strengthen awareness of the profession and association. Each month we select one amazing paralegal from among our membership and ask them to share a little about their personal and […].

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ABA Journal

DECEMBER 10, 2020

A Delaware lawyer didn’t have standing to challenge a state requirement for political balance and major-party judges on the state’s top courts, the U.S.

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At the Lectern

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Six days after being sworn in as a Supreme Court justice, Justice Martin Jenkins participated in his first conference yesterday. And it was a double one. Besides rejecting a Golden State Warriors petition for review, other conference actions of note included: In the first straight grant since October 21 , the court agreed to hear People v. Ware. The case might be renamed later, because the court denied two defendants’ petitions for review, granting only the petition filed by defendant H

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LPB Network

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Today the Supreme Court issued a unanimous (8-0) decision in Carney v. Adams, covered earlier here. Justice Breyer’s opinion begins: This case concerns a Delaware constitutional provision that requires that appointments to Delaware’s major courts reflect a partisan balance. Delaware’s.

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Just published in Recueil Dalloz : a “cri d’alarme” by Professors Lagarde, Gaudemet-Tallon, Kessedjian, Jault-Seseke and Pataut concerning the fate of the useful International Commission on Civil Status. Here is a translation of their call to action: The International Commission on Civil Status in Danger [1]. POINT de Vue Recueil Dalloz issue N° 42 of 3 December 2020, p. 2355 by Paul Lagarde, Professor emeritus Paris I University, Hélène Gaudemet-Tallon, Professor emeritus Paris II University,

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Court-MartialTrialPractice

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Prof. Colin Miller begins, Similar to its federal counterpart , Idaho Rule of Evidence 804(b)(3) provides an exception to the rule against hearsay for. A statement that: Continue reading.

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Conflict of Laws

DECEMBER 10, 2020

In preparation of the Conference on the HCCH 2019 Judgments Convention on 13/14 September 2021, planned to be taking place on campus of the University of Bonn, Germany, we are offering here a Repository of contributions to the HCCH 2019 Judgments Convention. Please email us if you miss something in it, we will update immediately…. We all benefited from your contributions at the Video Pre-Conference Roundtable on 29 October 2020.

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Court-MartialTrialPractice

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The Supreme Court has reversed CAAF in Briggs and Colins, which effectively also overrules Mangahas. Click to access 19-108_8njq.pdf.

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ABA Journal

DECEMBER 10, 2020

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DECEMBER 10, 2020

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DECEMBER 10, 2020

It was January of 2020 in Birmingham, Alabama. Jeremy woke to a noise in the middle of the night and went outside to investigate. He could see three men coming out of the woods behind his house. One of the men had something in his arms. Jeremy told them to stop, an altercation ensued, the man dropped what he was carrying and all three ran off. Jeremy walked to the edge of the woods to see what the man had left behind.

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At the Lectern

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Veteran political journalist Dan Walters of CalMatters suggests that Governor Gavin Newsom could tap Supreme Court Justice Goodwin Liu as the state’s next Attorney General if current AG Xavier Becerra is confirmed as President-elect Joe Biden’s Secretary of Health and Human Services. Walters says, “Newsom made much of his appointment of a Black gay man, Martin Jenkins, to the state Supreme Court and is likely to appoint a Latino to the Senate.

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The Process Street

DECEMBER 10, 2020

This is a guest post by Jin Choi. Jin Choi is a writer who runs the MoneyNam blog. His favorite hobbies include learning about the newest trends in online marketing and lifting heavy iron at the gym. The customer lifecycle consists of the stages that a customer goes through from the moment they become aware of your company to the moment they purchase your product.

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