JURIST

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The National Redistricting Action Fund (NRAF) and 12 Ohio voters Monday challenged Ohio’s 2021 congressional redistricting map as violating Article XIX of the Ohio Constitution, which provides strict anti-gerrymandering requirements. The congressional map was signed into law by Governor DeWine on Saturday. Article XIX of the Ohio Constitution creates a comprehensive three-step bipartisan process for passing a redistricting plan, which then remains in effect for 10 years.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Recently, the Baltimore City State’s Attorney and Prince George’s County State’s Attorney took a giant leap forward to strengthen trust in the legal system and trust in police. They released their offices’ “Do Not Call” lists , which contain information about police officers whom prosecutors will no longer call to testify because they believe the officers are not credible witnesses.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Shareholders filed a class action lawsuit against Meta (formerly Facebook) in the US District Court for the Northern District of California on Monday. The lawsuit is based on recent claims by Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, who revealed that Facebook continued to implement techniques to increase engagement with young people after internal research revealed that those techniques were causing body issues, anxiety, and depression.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Photo by DanGutierrez via Flickr. The homicide increase has received widespread attention. The decline in other serious crimes has not. The FBI’s recent release of the nation’s crime data showed a 27 percent rise in the murder rate in 2020 over 2019 and an 8 percent drop in robberies and property crimes. But the National Crime Victimization Survey , prepared by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, which is based on interviews with persons age 12 and older from a representative sample of US househol

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

UN human rights expert Fernand de Varennes Monday said that electoral laws in some parts of the US, including Texas , may undermine democracy by depriving millions of citizens who belong to minority groups of the equal right to vote. Varennes stated this during a news conference on his final day of a two-week visit to the US. Varennes is an independent expert who reports to the Human Rights Council and the General Assembly.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The US Supreme Court Monday unanimously sided with Tennessee in a groundwater dispute with Mississippi. The dispute arose out of a Mississippi suit which alleged that the city of Memphis, Tennessee had wrongfully taken water from the Middle Claiborne Aquifer. The aquifer, which spans eight states in the region, is an underground water source which allows for extraction of water.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2021

“Supreme Court Rules Against Mississippi in Water-Rights Case; State had argued that the city of Memphis, Tenn., was pumping too much from an underground aquifer that extended under its territory”: Jess Bravin of The Wall Street Journal has this report. And John Fritze of USA Today reports that “ Supreme Court backs Tennessee in water rights dispute with Mississippi.” Yesterday, Chief Justice John G.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) Tuesday held that EU law grants national judges a right to seek guidance from the CJEU, after a Hungarian judge was disciplined for seeking guidance on EU law. The disciplined judge was referring an issue related to criminal proceedings brought in Hungary’s Central District Court. In those proceedings, a Swedish defendant, who did not speak Hungarian, was interviewed with the assistance of an interpreter.

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Above The Law

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Ask yourself: Am I studying to keep up with an imaginary ideal student who I think is in a cave studying without distraction 24/7?

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NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Question: I feel like I did all I could over the last few years to keep my cell number out of clients’ hands. But I think I opened the floodgates when I recently began allowing clients to text me. The convenience factor and desire to modernize my customer service won out, or at least that’s what I told myself. Now that I’ve opened the door to another channel of communication, what ethics pitfalls might come from texting clients?

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NOVEMBER 23, 2021

While the bill doesn’t provide a path to citizenship that many advocates had hoped for, it does include some important provisions.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Washington D.C. has reached a grim milestone of 200 homicides this year, marking the first time that the “symbolic threshold of deadly violence” has been crossed in the nation’s capital since 2003, according to The Washington Post. This news comes as the spike in violent crime, which surged 30 percent in 2020, has begun to level off. In 2020, there were 7.8 homicides per 100,000 people, an increase from six homicides per 100,000 people in 2019, according to FBI crime statistics.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Jurors found organizers of the violent 2017 “Unite the Right” rally liable under Virginia law Tuesday for a civil conspiracy to commit violence and intimidation.

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

A former employee for the Sony arm responsible for the PlayStation gaming console hit the company with gender discrimination claims, claiming in a lawsuit that Sony tolerates and cultivates a work environment in which women are paid less and denied promotions more often than their male counterparts.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The Justice Department will pay about $130 million to 40 survivors and families of victims of the 2018 massacre at a high school in Parkland, Fla., over the FBI’s failure to properly investigate two tips in the months before the shooting that suggested the gunman might open fire at a school, reports the New York Times. The FBI acknowledged two days after the Feb. 14, 2018, shooting that it had received the tips about Nikolas Cruz, then 19-years-old, but had not investigated them in accordance wi

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Pharmacy giants CVS Health, Walgreens and Walmart were found liable Tuesday for contributing to an opioid abuse epidemic in two Ohio counties, the first time a jury has weighed in on a controversial legal theory at the heart of similar suits nationwide.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Ernest Thomas, Charles Greenlee, Samuel Shepherd and Walter Irvin, known as the Groveland Four, four Black men accused of ambushing and raping a 17-year-old white woman when her husband’s car broke down on a Florida country road in 1949, have been exonerated. Circuit Judge Heidi Davis cleared them of the charge following a motion by State Attorney Bill Gladson in what he said was “a complete breakdown of the criminal justice system,” reports USA Today.

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

A jury's landmark finding that major pharmacy chains fueled the opioid crisis in Ohio was a badly needed win for governments in nationwide opioid litigation, but experts cautioned that a gauntlet of appeals awaits — something that plaintiffs attorneys themselves immediately acknowledged.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

On Monday, criminal charges that were brought against a former St. Louis County police officer, Julia Crews, who shot a Black woman were dropped after the survivor, Ashley Fountain Hall, requested a “restorative justice mediation” that focuses on repairing the harm caused by offenders, according to CNN. In 2019, Crews mistakenly drew her firearm instead of using her Taser to restrain Hall, shooting her in the torso, leading to critical injuries.

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Elizabeth Holmes expressed regret during her day-long examination in her criminal fraud trial Tuesday over mistakes she made while serving as Theranos' CEO, including adding Pfizer and Schering-Plough logos to Theranos validation reports before sending them to Walgreens' executives, but she defended her actions as well-intended.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The adoption of no fault divorce laws in New York and other states, as well as things like divorce mediation and settlement agreements have made the process to end a marriage more efficient than ever.

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Above The Law

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Associates Got Big Bonuses: At Cleary and Boies Schiller. But Not As Big A Payday As Roberta Kaplan Got Her Clients: $25 million's gotta hurt. More Controversy At Yale FedSoc: Are they obtuse or trolling us all? Both, probably. iPads For Everyone: At Skadden. There Will Be Dissertations Written About This Closing Argument: And its shameful language.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Darrell E. Brooks, the man who police say was driving the SUV that plowed into a recent holiday parade, killing five and injuring at least 48 people, had been out on $1,000 cash bail after intentionally running over a woman he knew earlier in November, 2021, reports the New York Times. Prosecutors in Milwaukee County said they had erred in recommending the inappropriately low bail amount and the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office said that an investigation was underway into how that dec

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NOVEMBER 23, 2021

In today’s digital age, business leaders should be evaluating and digitally transforming their business processes to efficiently manage and streamline their business. Digital transformation should be an organization-wide strategy, with a focus on equipping internal teams with the tools and workflows within a controlled all-in-one environment to deliver quality service to clients.

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Above The Law

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Don’t let the glitz and glam of an Instagram picture, a feel-good LinkedIn post for 'viral' likes, or another person’s 'perfect' holiday table setting dictate your own season.

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