Attorney at Work

AUGUST 9, 2021

The first edition of Joe Pulizzi’s book “Content Inc.” was good. The second edition , released earlier this year, is even better! I used the first edition to write my content marketing strategy. It got my mental wheels turning about the “what” aspects of my content marketing efforts, specifically what I wanted to create. The second edition — which is full of updated and new information — has inspired me to revise my plan, taking into account what is sustainable for me as a creator an

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AUGUST 9, 2021

Plaid Inc agreed to settle a class action lawsuit for $58 million on Thursday after six months of negotiation and mediation between the parties’ representatives. The parties submitted their proposed settlement to the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Oakland Division. The court must approve the settlement for it to take effect.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 9, 2021

Nearly two thirds of gun owners who live with children don’t store all firearms locked up and unloaded, according to a study of California adults published in JAMA Network Open. The study — part of the University of California, Davis’s Violence Prevention Research Program (VPRP) — examined data from the 2018 California Safety and Wellbeing Survey. In contrast to their findings on the prevalence of unsecured guns around children, researchers found that nearly two thirds of gun owners without chil

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AUGUST 9, 2021

The dissolution of Nepal’s House of Representatives (‘HoR’) last December and a subsequent constitutional crisis sparked great legal debate in the mountain kingdom that came to a head last month with an historic Supreme Court judgment holding the dissolution unconstitutional. Nepalese law students Smriti Phuyal and Smriti Pantha from NLU Delhi and Kathmandu University School of Law file this exclusive report for JURIST from Kathmandu.

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AUGUST 9, 2021

With last month’s announcement of the appointment of Angela Mclaren as the new City of London police commissioner , the three chiefs of police in the UK’s capital city are now all women. It’s the first time in UK history this has happened, and it represents solid endorsement for women in the highest ranks of British policing. She joins Lucy D’Orsi, who was appointed in December 2020 as the Chief Constable of the British Transport Police at their headquarters in London, and Dame Cressida Di

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 9, 2021

The recent suicides of four police officers on duty during the Capitol insurrection, coupled with the recruiting and retention crisis in American law enforcement, warrants urgent action to promote officer wellness, reports Marc Levin in an op-ed for The Hill. There were 174 officer suicides in 2020, making officers more likely to die from suicide than in the line of duty — even as shootings of officers increase.

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JURIST

AUGUST 9, 2021

[Ian Profiri is JURIST’s Staff Correspondent for Canada. He files this dispatch from Calgary.]. The controversial Grassy Mountain Coal Project has been effectively shelved following a decision from Canada’s Minister of the Environment and Climate Change, Jonathan Wilkinson. In a statement released Friday, Wilkinson determined that proposed open-pit coal mines in the Crowsnest Pass region of Alberta would likely “cause significant adverse environmental effects” as defined by subsections 5(1

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LawSites

AUGUST 9, 2021

Aiming to create a community that brings together developers, investors and buyers of legal technology products in order to expand opportunities for all three groups, the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) will launch the ILTA Innovation Hub Aug. 22 during its annual ILTACON in Las Vegas. “ILTA sits at the center of the legal services ecosystem,” says a brochure describing the Hub.

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JURIST

AUGUST 9, 2021

In a statement released on Saturday , the UN in Zimbabwe criticized the practice of child marriage in the country. This follows the untimely death of an expecting adolescent girl who died during childbirth. The statement has detailed the protracted challenge of sexual violation of girls in Zimbabwe where early marriages are common. It decried worrying statistics whereby one out of three girls in Zimbabwe marry before attaining 18 years of age and highlighted the attendant negative impacts on the

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AUGUST 9, 2021

“New Split on Fugitive-Disentitlement Appeals; The Second Circuit split with the Sixth and Eleventh Circuits in holding that fugitive-disentitlement orders are immediately appealable via the collateral-order doctrine”: Bryan Lammon has this post at his “final decisions” blog about a decision that a partially divided three-judge panel of the U.S.

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AUGUST 9, 2021

by Dennis Crouch. Rain Computing has filed an interesting petition to the Supreme Court focusing on indefiniteness and means-plus-function claims. Rain Computing, Inc. v. Samsung Electronics America, Inc. , No. 21-170 (Supreme Court 2021). Rain’s asserted claims require a “ user identification module configured to control access of … software application packages.

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AUGUST 9, 2021

“Bayer Loses Third Appeal of Roundup Herbicide Cancer Verdict”: Joel Rosenblatt and Jef Feeley of Bloomberg News have this report on a ruling that a partially divided three-judge panel of California’s First District Court of Appeal issued today. The majority opinion affirms an award of punitive damages totaling nearly $70 million.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 9, 2021

A recent report by the Prosecutorial Performance Indicators project has found that while overall more Black defendants than white were placed in diversion programs in three of four major cities, more white defendants than Black defendants had their felony cases placed in diversion programs in all of the cities, reports Law360. With the data from this report, which compared the race and ethnicity of people placed in diversion programs in four prosecutors’ offices in Chicago, Jacksonville, M

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AUGUST 9, 2021

“An Ohio judge ordered a man to get a Covid-19 vaccine as a condition of his probation”: Kay Jones and Amanda Watts of CNN have a report that begins, “An Ohio man says he will not get vaccinated despite a judge ordering him to get a Covid-19 vaccine shot as a condition of his probation.

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Broadcast Law Blog

AUGUST 9, 2021

On Friday, the FCC released another of its regular EEO audit notices ( notice and list of affected stations available here ), asking approximately 200 radio and TV stations, and the station employment units with which they are associated (i.e., commonly owned stations serving the same area), to respond to the audit notices by September 20, 2021.

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AUGUST 9, 2021

“Biden rushes to pick judges, but one major opening remains”: Pamela King of Greenwire has a report that begins, “More than six months into his term, President Biden has outstripped his predecessors on nominating judges, but one key vacancy on a powerful appeals court remains.

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The Fashion Law

AUGUST 9, 2021

Last summer, revelations that garment workers in Leicester, a city in central England, who were making trendy wares destined for Boohoo – whose marquee brand introduces 100 new styles to its e-commerce site on a daily basis – were being paid as little as £3.50 ($4.39) per hour to do so made headlines around the world, shedding light on the ugly underbelly of one of the market’s hottest mass-market fashion companies.

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AUGUST 9, 2021

“Are Liberals to Blame for Our Crisis of Faith in Government? Progressives as well as conservatives have promoted suspicion of the establishment, but lack of trust is not the same as apathy.” Louis Menand has this “Books” essay in the August 16, 2021 issue of The New Yorker.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 9, 2021

In pursuit of suspected drug traffickers last year, authorities in Harford County took the investigative step of getting a judge’s permission to listen in on the target’s phone conversations and were also able to secure a wiretap for his Facebook page, enabling them to listen in on audio calls placed through the app and monitor activity on the social networking site, reports the Baltimore Sun.

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AUGUST 9, 2021

“Founding-Era Common Law’s Relevance to Original Meaning”: Michael C. Dorf has this post at his blog, “Dorf on Law.

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LegalReader

AUGUST 9, 2021

The lawsuits allege that Gov. DeSantis has violated the state constitution by denying disabled students the right to a safe education.

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AUGUST 9, 2021

“Kansas Supreme Court to return to in-person oral arguments in September”: The Supreme Court of Kansas issued this news release today.

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Above The Law

AUGUST 9, 2021

To anticipate how the Court will rule in upcoming blockbuster cases on gun rights, abortion and more, the October 2020 Term provides some clues to follow – if you know where to look.

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AUGUST 9, 2021

“NYC’s vaccine mandate will test the authority of a 1905 Supreme Court case”: Alexis Keenan of Yahoo Finance has this report.

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SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 9, 2021

Share Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. To suggest a piece for us to consider, email us at roundup@scotusblog.com. Here’s the Monday morning read: Antiabortion activists at Supreme Court cite an unlikely authority for overturning Roe v. Wade: Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Robert Barnes, The Washington Post).

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