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MARCH 15, 2021

JURIST EXCLUSIVE – A law student reporting for JURIST in Myanmar offered these reflections Monday about the direction of her country as the military junta cut off mobile data access and civilian casualties from police and military violence continued to mount. Some sources said more than 15 more people were killed after a particularly bloody Sunday that saw over 5o deaths, most of them in Yangon, Myanmar’s largest city.

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MARCH 15, 2021

Most errors at criminal trials are subject to a harmless error analysis. In other words, the appellate court looks at the gravity of the error and the overall weight of the evidence to decide whether the error was harmless (meaning.

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JURIST

MARCH 15, 2021

The Central Criminal Court of England and Wales convicted Sahayb Abu on Friday for attempting to carry out a terrorist attack after he created pro-Islamic state music videos and purchased weaponry online. The police first began investigating Abu last March when his “extremist mindset” drew their attention. Throughout the next few months, Abu “purchased a number of items that gave investigators cause for further concern—a lock knife, a ballistic vest, two balaclavas, fingerless

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Diane Drain

MARCH 15, 2021

Protection of Stimulus Payments from a Bankruptcy Trustee. The following is from the NCLC Consumer Law Implications of the American Recovery Plan Act. Public Law No. 116-260 , Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021, div. FF, tit. 10, § 1001(a) adds a new Bankruptcy Code § 541(b)(11) to the list of exclusions from property of the bankruptcy estate. It provides that “recovery rebates made under section 6428 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986” are not property of the estate.

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JURIST

MARCH 15, 2021

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) said Friday that Jessica Johanna Oseguera Gonzalez pleaded guilty to violating the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act by conducting financial dealings with companies identified as Specially Designated Narcotics Traffickers. Oseguera Gonzalez is the daughter of Nemesio Ruben Oseguera Cervantes, who is also known as “El Mencho,” a prolific cartel leader of Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion.

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JURIST

MARCH 15, 2021

The Pakistani Taliban on Friday accused International Women’s Day organizers of blasphemy and obscenity, threatening them with vigilante action in response to the proliferation of doctored images and video clips suggesting that participants in the demonstrations had insulted Islam. International Women’s Day is annually celebrated on March 8.

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MARCH 15, 2021

“Eliminate the Bar Exam for Lawyers; The disadvantaged pay the price for an elitist legal system”: Clifford Winston will have this op-ed in Tuesday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

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JURIST

MARCH 15, 2021

Officials in Sri Lanka announced plans this weekend to ban burqas in public and close more than 1,000 Islamic schools. These policies are the latest in a string of decisions targeting the country’s Muslim minority. Citing national security concerns, Sri Lanka’s public security minister Sarath Weerasekera signed papers for cabinet approval of the ban on Friday.

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MARCH 15, 2021

We don’t need no stinkin’ badges! Lynn Desjardins of Radio Canada International reports that “ New emblems for Supreme Court carry many symbols.” And Ian Burns of The Lawyer’s Daily reports that “ Supreme Court unveils new heraldic emblems.” The Supreme Court of Canada has posted online the video of today’s “ Unveiling of the Heraldic Emblems of the SCC.

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JURIST

MARCH 15, 2021

Hong Kong’s Court of First Instance on Saturday dismissed prosecutors’ bail appeals in respect to three defendants charged with conspiracy to commit subversion, in what is the largest case to have been brought under the region’s national security law to date. Of the 47 opposition figures charged on February 28, eight have now been released on bail.

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MARCH 15, 2021

“Not all the misconduct allegations in a Colorado Judicial Department memo are as serious as implied; Interviews offer a clearer explanation behind the misdeeds that were allegedly covered up”: David Migoya of The Denver Post has this report.

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MARCH 15, 2021

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MARCH 15, 2021

“Murphy picks civil rights attorney, former Ruth Bader Ginsburg clerk to join N.J. Supreme Court”: Brent Johnson of NJ Advance Media has this report. Dustin Racioppi of The Record of Hackensack, New Jersey reports that “ North Jersey native tapped by Gov. Phil Murphy to state Supreme Court.” And Elise Young of Bloomberg News reports that “ Governor Nominates Former Ginsburg Clerk to New Jersey Supreme Court.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 15, 2021

“So I just want to say I’m actually a bear, and I’m not a lawyer,” pronounced Andrew Weissmann, counsel for petitioner Paulina, in a bear filter on Zoom (or, perhaps, pronounced a bear in an Andrew Weissmann filter). That’s how oral argument started Thursday night. The post In <em>Paulina v. Leontes</em>, Breyer presides over a trial inspired by the Bard appeared first on SCOTUSblog.

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MARCH 15, 2021

“Kozinski inspired by ex-law clerk, once imprisoned, to pen 5th Circuit amicus brief”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post. On Saturday, I had this post about the amicus brief.

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JURIST

MARCH 15, 2021

Federal officials arrested two men on Monday for assaulting police officer Brian Sicknick during the riots at the Capitol on January 6. Sicknick later died from the injuries. According to the criminal complaint , Julian Elie Khater, 32, of Pennsylvania, and George Pierre Tanios, 39, of West Virginia, were caught on video “working together to assault law enforcement officers with an unknown chemical substance by spraying officers directly in the face and eyes.” The complaint also alle

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MARCH 15, 2021

“Acting SG tells SCOTUS that new administration now supports broad application of crack retroactivity provision of FIRST STEP Act in Terry “: Douglas A. Berman has this post at his “Sentencing Law and Policy” blog. You can view the Acting Solicitor General ‘s letter at this link.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 15, 2021

This week, Amy Howe chats with a high-octane group of fiction writers who have all dabbled in Supreme Court suspense storytelling. Brad Meltzer is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Tenth Justice. Anthony Franze is a member of Arnold & Porter’s appellate. The post Writing Supreme Court thrillers appeared first on SCOTUSblog.

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MARCH 15, 2021

“Appeals court hears UO professor’s pay inequality case”: C. Francis O’Leary of The Daily Emerald, the student newspaper of the University of Oregon, had this article back in May 2020. And Gina Scalpone of Eugene Weekly had an article headlined “ Appealing on Zoom: UO gender discrimination case argued in Ninth Circuit.” Today, a partially divided three-judge panel of the U.S.

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A People's Choice

MARCH 15, 2021

Reality TV star Kristin Cavallari and ex-NFL quarterback Jay Cutler were considered #CoupleGoals by fans of their hit show Very Cavallari. The attractive pair had everything going for them: three beautiful kids, a nice house, budding careers in entertainment, and a loving marriage—or at least the appearance of one. News of their decision to [.]. To read the complete article, please click on the link Inside Kristin Cavallari and Jay Cutler’s Divorce This post appeared first on A People's Cho

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MARCH 15, 2021

Siding with the majority view on an existing circuit split, Eleventh Circuit holds that a represented party’s pro se motion for a new trial, later stricken as improper, sufficed to extend the time to file a notice of appeal under Fed. R. App. P. 4(a)(4): The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued this revised decision Friday. The same three-judge panel reached the same result in its original decision , which issued in early February 2021.

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MARCH 15, 2021

International shipping is out-of-whack due to the pandemic, but self-reliance may be one of the best skills we learned in 2020, so let's use it!

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MARCH 15, 2021

“The sweeping implications of the Supreme Court’s new union-busting case: Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid isn’t just an attack on unions, it could bar health inspectors from inspecting restaurants.” Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.

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JURIST

MARCH 15, 2021

The England and Wales Court of Appeal dismissed a judicial review lawsuit Sunday brought by the End Violence Against Women Coalition (EVAWC) over the Crown Prosecution Service’s (CPS) rape prosecutions policy. The EVAWC brought the case against the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) in response to “a shocking and unprecedented collapse in the volume and percentage of rape allegations resulting in a prosecution between 2016 and 2020.” The EVAWC noted that out of 55,000 allega

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MARCH 15, 2021

Former USDOJ Capital Case Section attorney’s defamation suit against The New York Times was properly dismissed under New York’s fair report privilege, Second Circuit holds: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued this decision today. The suit concerned an article by Katie Benner that appeared in the April 1, 2018 issue of The New York Times headlined “ At the Justice Dept.’s Death Penalty Unit, Accusations of Favoritism, Gender Bias and Unwanted Groping.

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