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JANUARY 29, 2022

The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania Friday declared unconstitutional Pennsylvania’s “no-excuse mail-in voting law,” which permits voters to cast their ballots by mail without providing an excuse for their absence. Doug McLinko filed suit against Pennsylvania’s Acting Secretary Veronica Degraffenreid, seeking an order declaring that Article XIII-D of the Pennsylvania Election Code violates the Pennsylvania Constitution.

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JANUARY 29, 2022

“Limiting Yourself to 7% of the Potential Candidates. is usually unlikely to yield the best candidate”: Eugene Volokh has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.

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JANUARY 29, 2022

The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) Friday announced draft provisions and regulations for content providers who alter facial and voice data, the country’s latest effort to combat deepfakes , or videos and other visual technologies that have been altered in order to disseminate false accusations and spread misinformation. The guidelines, which are intended to regulate technology that uses algorithms to generate and modify text, audio, images, and videos, are geared toward so-called

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JANUARY 29, 2022

“The Supreme Court’s new death penalty order should make your skin crawl; The Court’s new death penalty order is almost too cruel to be believed”: Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.

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JANUARY 29, 2022

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Friday took action against three companies accused of forced labor practices. US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) issued a Withhold Release Order and two forced labor Findings. The Withhold Release Order was issued against Malaysia-based YTY Group, based on information that YTY Group uses forced labor in its manufacturing operations.

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JURIST

JANUARY 29, 2022

Official discrimination against people affected by leprosy remains codified by way of more than 100 laws worldwide, and this status quo must end, urged a senior UN official on Friday. “It is time for all States concerned to make a choice: whether to keep such discriminatory laws against persons affected by leprosy in violation of international human rights standards, or to eliminate such discrimination in law without delay,” said Alice Cruz, the UN Special Rapporteur on the elimination of

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JANUARY 29, 2022

“In North Carolina, a Pitched Battle Over Gerrymanders and Justices; A fight over who is fit to hear a redistricting case highlights what experts say is the growing influence of ideology and money over state supreme courts nationwide”: Michael Wines will have this article in Sunday’s edition of The New York Times.

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JURIST

JANUARY 29, 2022

The White House and the Justice Department announced Friday that 99 law schools across 35 states and Puerto Rico answered the attorney general’s call for action to help communities during the housing and eviction crisis. In August 2021, Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a letter to the legal community calling for help. He noted that as federal and local eviction moratoriums were set to expire, over six million households were behind on rent.

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JANUARY 29, 2022

“I Clerked for Justice Breyer. There’s One Thing I Hope Remains on the Court Long After He’s Gone.” Law professor Risa L. Goluboff has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.

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JANUARY 29, 2022

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov criticized his Western counterparts Friday for what he described as their selective interpretation of international treaties, and poured scorn on a former US Ambassador over his understanding of the 2015 Minsk Agreements. Since December, upwards of 100,000 Russian troops have massed along the Ukrainian border. Diplomatic negotiations between Moscow, Kyiv and their Western counterparts have proven largely ineffective , sparking widespread concerns of a milit

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JANUARY 29, 2022

“California’s Leondra Kruger emerges as contender for U.S. Supreme Court”: Hannah Wiley has this article in today’s edition of The Los Angeles Times.

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JANUARY 29, 2022

The chart below shows a histogram of the total number of references per patent. (Utility patents issued in 2021) with the mode, median, and average noted.

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“Beyond a First, Black Woman Justice May Shake Up High Court”: Jennifer Hijazi of Bloomberg Law has this report.

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JANUARY 29, 2022

In United States v. Ferreira. ARMY MISC 20220034 (A. Ct. Crim. App. Jan. 28, 2022) The government has filed for and received a stay of proceedings in this case based on the military judge’s decision in United States v. Dial, ” that he will instruct the jury that they must have a unanimous vote for guilty to any of the charges. The government has petitioned for a Writ of Prohibition as they have done in Dial.

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“Supreme Court pick holds import for Black women in the law”: Jamie Stengle and Jonathan Drew of The Associated Press have this report.

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JANUARY 29, 2022

Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness.

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JANUARY 29, 2022

“The 3 Supreme Court justices to watch after Breyer retires”: Joan Biskupic of CNN has this news analysis.

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JANUARY 29, 2022

Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the last week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations. The FCC adopted two items of interest to broadcasters that were on the agenda for its January 27 Open Meeting. Broadcasters will have to consider social media activity and a campaign website when determining if a write-in candidate has made a “substantial showing” that they are a “legally quali

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American Legal Net

JANUARY 29, 2022

New Court Rule Sets Available : N/A. Courts Removed. New York Supreme Court, 1 st JD, New York County, Hon. Eileen A. Rakower ( NYNYER ). New York Supreme Court, 1 st JD, New York County, Hon. George J. Silver ( NYNYGJ ). USDC, California, Eastern District, Mag. Gregory G. Hollows ( CAGGH ). The post January 18, 2022 Court Rules Update appeared first on American LegalNet.

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JANUARY 29, 2022

This post has been authored by Mridul Sinha, who is associated to Dharmashastra National Law University, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh. Mridul Sinha. The legal philosophers ponder over the most debated distinction between Is and Ought. Two Is and Ought issues are at present very prominent in the legal realm that are (a) whether the legal rules belong to the Is category or to the Ought category, and (b) whether it is possible to distinguish between ‘the law as it is’ and ‘the law as it ought to be’.

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JANUARY 29, 2022

We previously discussed the treatment of Professor Jason Kilborn, who was put on indefinite administrative leave after using a censured version of the n-word in an exam question at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). He is now suing the school over his treatment, including the required participation in sensitivity training and denial of a standard pay increase for faculty.

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JANUARY 29, 2022

“Georgetown University Law School’s Black Students Association demands incoming professor’s job offer be rescinded after he tweeted that Biden’s promise to pick a black female to replace Justice Breyer is racist”: James Gordon of The Daily Mail (UK) has this report. And National Review has published an editorial titled “ Don’t Fire Ilya Shapiro.

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JURIST

JANUARY 29, 2022

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Friday ruled that California’s net neutrality law, SB 822 , can remain in place, holding the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) 2017 decision to reverse federal internet protections cannot bar state action. SB 822 is aimed at protecting the free and open internet by restoring the net neutrality protections afforded by the Open Internet Order , an Obama-era order that was repealed by the FCC under former then-president Donald Trump in 2017.

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JANUARY 29, 2022

“Cloud of Supreme Court Confirmation Bitterness Hangs Over Coming Fight; The battles of the recent past will no doubt extend into the coming fight over President Biden’s choice to replace Justice Stephen G. Breyer”: Carl Hulse has this new installment of his “On Washington” column online at The New York Times.

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JANUARY 29, 2022

The student government at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has overwhelmingly passed a resolution demanding that former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions be barred from campus. Sessions is schedule to speak on February 1, 2022. The “Safe Campus” resolution passed 21-5-1 and declared that the visit is “inappropriate and insensitive” and a “‘slap in the face’ to the university’s commitment to DEI,” particularly during Black History Month.

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