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OCTOBER 13, 2021

Austrian environmental group AllRise announced that it filed an official complaint with the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday accusing Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro of “crimes against humanity” for his role in the destruction of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest. The group also launched its “ The Planet Vs Bolsanaro ” campaign across social media following the filing of the ICC complaint.

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OCTOBER 13, 2021

As much as we like to believe that if we do everything well, our clients will always love us, it’s just not true. Here are 10 steps to soothe an angry client. You know the scenario. It’s the end of the day. The phone rings and you pick it up, knowing you really shouldn’t. You should just let it go to voicemail, pack up your laptop, and go home. “What the bleep is this?

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JURIST

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The Court of Appeal of the State of California has upheld a decision striking down a Monterey County order banning “land use in support of” fracking practices in oil and gas development. The appeals court stated that “ Measure Z ”, which introduced the impugned land-use policies, was preempted by state law. Section 3106 of the California Public Resources Code “explicitly provides” that the state has jurisdiction over the implementation of oil and gas wells and other operations; the court upheld

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OCTOBER 13, 2021

“ Diane told me how to file a complaint against Scott Forrester and ask the State Bar for my money back. ” D.B. Diane and Jay have been wonderful to work with, they are really the best. I found them after paying Scott Forrester and then found out he was disbarred. Diane told me how to file a complaint and ask the State Bar for my money back. She then helped me file a bankruptcy and stop my creditor from garnishing my wages.

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OCTOBER 13, 2021

The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child stated on Monday they were unable to rule on a complaint made by young activists to address the causal link between member states’ inaction on climate change and violations of children’s rights. The complaint was first filed in 2019 by 15 activists aged 8-17 years old and argued that states including Turkey, Brazil and Germany knowingly failed to reduce carbon emissions, putting children at risk.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Wednesday that it has opened a statewide investigation into the conditions in the five secure juvenile correctional facilities operated by the Texas Juvenile Justice Department. . The announcement explained that the inquiry will focus on whether Texas provides juveniles in these youth detention facilities reasonable protection from sexual and physical abuse by staff and other juveniles, and whether they carry out excessive use of chemical restraints

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HowAppealing

OCTOBER 13, 2021

“Katie Couric covered up RBG’s dislike for taking the knee: Anchor says she edited 2016 interview to ‘protect’ the justice after she said people who kneel are showing ‘contempt for a government that made a decent life possible.'” Daniel Bates of The Daily Mail (UK) has this report. And Hannah Frishberg of The New York Post has an article headlined “ Katie Couric: I withheld RBG’s harsh anthem-kneeling comments to ‘protect’ her.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 13, 2021

On Wednesday the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in US v. Tsarnaev , a case involving Dzhokhar Tsarnaev , who, accompanied by his brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was convicted of planting pressure-cooker bombs at the Boston Marathon in 2013 and sentenced to death. The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit overturned Tsarnaev’s death penalty sentence, due to the district court’s failure to ask each prospective juror during voir dire whether they may have been biased by watching p

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OCTOBER 13, 2021

“A Brief History of Stephen Breyer Enabling Corporate Power: Over the course of his career, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has played a key role in the rise of monopoly and oligopoly across the economy.” Sandeep Vaheesan has this post at Balls and Strikes.

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Above The Law

OCTOBER 13, 2021

He's wasting his money by spending it on lawyers, because he did a great many of the things he's accused of quite openly on TV.

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OCTOBER 13, 2021

“First Questioner: Justice Clarence Thomas has asked the first question of 10 of 11 lawyers at the lectern so far.” Tony Mauro has this post at his “The Marble Palace Blog.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 13, 2021

In August 2017, The Loft celebrated its opening as a youth community center in St. Johns, Ariz. Photo by Amy S. Martin / 70 Million. St. Johns, Arizona, calls itself “the town of friendly neighbors.” With a population of around 3,500 people and a surrounding landscape of ponderosa pine forests and rolling hills peppered with cattle, the quaint town is as bucolic and all-American as it gets.

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HowAppealing

OCTOBER 13, 2021

“Pennsylvania’s Appellate Courts Have Their Own Shadow Dockets”: Yesterday, this month’s installment of my “Upon Further Review” column appeared in The Legal Intelligencer, Pennsylvania’s daily newspaper for lawyers.

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The Process Street

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The customer lifecycle begins with awareness and matures to advocacy, from the first interaction with your brand , to an evangelized super-user who raves about and recommends your product to friends, family and associates. This Process Street article focuses on the customer lifecycle management – how to understand the different stages of the customer’s lifecycle, and guide them from initial awareness to long-term advocacy, with the help of tech.

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OCTOBER 13, 2021

“Congress’s Anti-Removal Power”: Law professors Aaron L. Nielson and Christopher J. Walker have posted this article at SSRN. The article arises out of their work together on a U.S. Supreme Court -appointed amicus brief in Collins v. Yellen.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 13, 2021

While more than 460 American law enforcement officers have died from COVID-19 infections tied to their work since the start of the pandemic, the most common cause of duty-related deaths in 2020 and 2021, persuading officers to take a vaccine continues to be a struggle, reports the New York Times. As more departments in recent weeks have considered requiring members to be vaccinated, officers and their unions have loudly pushed back, in some cases threatening resignations or flooding systems with

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OCTOBER 13, 2021

“Court fight over Texas abortion restriction tests limits of state laws”: Harper Neidig of The Hill has this report.

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OCTOBER 13, 2021

Paradigm — the parent company to practice management platforms PracticePanther , Bill4Time and MerusCase and payments platform Headnote — is being acquired by Francisco Partners , a major investment firm that specializes in investments in technology businesses. A Reuters report valued the deal at $400 million, citing “people familiar with the matter.” Francisco Partners is also the largest shareholder in LegalZoom , which it helped take public earlier this year.

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Above The Law

OCTOBER 13, 2021

* A lawyer was suspended for forging a judge’s signature. There’s a good pun about lacking judgment somewhere in that. [ Bloomberg Law ] * Judge who jailed kids under a bogus law still under fire. If cancel culture is real, she should be the Cancelee of the Month. [ WKRN ] * SCOTUS Justice thinks about if cops can be sued vis a vis cigarette-smoking centaurs.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Hundreds of thousands of incarcerated people have been subjected to solitary confinement during the pandemic under the guise of medical isolation, reports the Huffington Post. While some people need to be isolated from others amid an infectious disease outbreak, the conditions of medical isolation are nearly identical to punitive isolation. By April 2020, at least 300,000 prisoners were living under full or partial lockdown, confined to their cells for nearly the entire day.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 13, 2021

By Naseeha Machingal, LegalEase Solutions. A recent LegalTech News article quoted several in-house counsel who expressed deep dissatisfaction with the sales approach taken by some legal tech vendors. They even went as far as calling it “aggressive” and “demeaning.”. This year has been the biggest year for legal tech funding, with $4.16 billion raised across 178 deals as of August 11.

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The Fashion Law

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Amazon is in hot water – again – over how it is (allegedly) using third-party seller data in connection with its growing private label business. In a lengthy new report, Reuters claims that “thousands of pages of internal Amazon documents” show that despite previous rebuffs of accusations of using third-party seller data to boost the breadth and sales of its private label products, the e-commerce titan is engaged in “a systematic campaign of creating knockoffs and manipulating search results to

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Supreme Court justices are considering requiring plaintiffs who sue police to show that their criminal cases ended in ways that indicate their innocence, reports Bloomberg News. The appeal stems from the case of Larry Thompson. He was arrested at home in Brooklyn in 2014, by NYPD officers investigating possible child abuse. He was jailed for two days and charged with obstructing governmental administration and resisting arrest.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 13, 2021

A Pennsylvania debt collection company accused of trying to bribe Illinois officials for contracts will not face prosecution if it meets certain conditions over two years, federal officials announced Tuesday while also saying the company's ex-CEO pled guilty in a separate deal.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 13, 2021

A defendant’s sentence should be postponed (at the request of, or with the consent of, the defendant) and the judge receive periodic, informal reports about the defendant’s ongoing conduct and, therefore, abling him to determine whether the person is walking the straight and narrow and whether the sentence should be deferred or adjusted, writes former state and federal prosecutor Joel Cohen in an op-ed for The Hill.

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