Diane Drain
APRIL 20, 2021
Arizona Bill wants Judgment Creditor to get paid before homeowners when house is refinanced (something Arizona law has not allowed since mid 1950s). Concerns about Arizona HB 2617, especially with the amendments: will allow old and new judgments to attached to homesteads. What the bill and amendments do: There are three parts to the bill & amendments.
JURIST
APRIL 20, 2021
The French government bears significant responsibility for enabling the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, according to a Monday report from the Rwandan government. The report was commissioned by the Rwandan government in 2017 and compiled by Robert Muse of the Washington, DC, law firm of Levy Firestone Muse. While the report acknowledges French humanitarian intervention after the genocide began, it argues the French government “helped build and fortify” Rwandan institutions for years in a bid f
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EvidenceProf Blog
APRIL 20, 2021
Federal Rule of Evidence 405(b) states that When a person’s character or character trait is an essential element of a charge, claim, or defense, the character or trait may also be proved by relevant specific instances of the person’s conduct.
MyCase
APRIL 20, 2021
Lawyers have an ethical obligation to preserve client confidentiality. For that reason, the need to protect client confidences has always been a top priority for lawyers. This means that when lawyers and their staff work remotely – a practice that has become commonplace due to the pandemic – it’s all the more imperative for lawyers to ensure that confidential client data is protected when communicating electronically.
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HowAppealing
APRIL 20, 2021
“Amy Coney Barrett Should Just Judge Without Bias Before Writing a Book on Judging Without Bias; It’s remarkably early in her term to receive this big of a book deal”: Dahlia Lithwick has this jurisprudence essay online at Slate.
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HowAppealing
APRIL 20, 2021
“J’Accuse! Allegations Make News Even When They’re Unproven; Courts have long protected journalists’ freedom to report on lawsuits, regardless of what’s in those lawsuits.” Law professor Stephen L. Carter has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 20, 2021
Share This Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in Minerva Surgical Inc. v. Hologic Inc. about whether to abolish the doctrine of patent assignor estoppel. This doctrine, which has fallen under criticism, prohibits an inventor from challenging the validity of the patent on the inventor’s own invention. Background. Why would the inventor challenge the validity of the patent on his own invention?
HowAppealing
APRIL 20, 2021
“Talc plaintiffs urge Supreme Court to let $2.1 bln verdict against J&J stand”: Brendan Pierson of Reuters has this report (subscription required for full access) on plaintiffs’ Brief in Opposition filed yesterday in the U.S. Supreme Court.
LegalReader
APRIL 20, 2021
As entertaining as these shows are, though, they tend to spread a lot of misinformation about the nature of crime scene investigations and how the criminal justice system in the country works.
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HowAppealing
APRIL 20, 2021
“Why the Supreme Court may need court-packing to keep its integrity: The court expansion debate may test the legitimacy of the Supreme Court itself.” MSNBC Opinion columnist Chris Geidner has this essay.
The Hollywood Lawyer
APRIL 20, 2021
Broadway was hit surprisingly by the pandemic. Insurance companies decided not to pay out if the reasons were tied to the pandemic. One prominent example was the producers behind Tine and Harry Potter; both paid their premiums to cover this risk of cancellation of performances. The producers submitted their insurance claim when shut orders came last March. […].
HowAppealing
APRIL 20, 2021
“‘Retroactive’ Liability after Barr v. AAPC: Judge Stephanos Bibas ‘does not see how’ he can follow the plurality opinion.” Will Baude has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy” about a notable federal district court decision issued yesterday.
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 20, 2021
Share With over $500 million of COVID-19 relief funding at stake, the Supreme Court began its week by grappling with whether the CARES Act’s definition of “Indian tribe” — a definition included in over 150 other federal laws — encompasses Alaska Native corporations. During nearly two hours of oral argument in Yellen v. Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation , the justices expressed doubts about the textual arguments advanced by both sides even as they seemed wary of the consequences of
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HowAppealing
APRIL 20, 2021
“Justice Amy Coney Barrett sells Indiana home, listed for $899G; The justice’s husband Jesse Barrett said the South Bend home is ‘kind of a part of us'”: Janine Puhak of Fox News has this report.
SCOTUSBlog
APRIL 20, 2021
Share Wednesday’s argument in City of San Antonio v. Hotels.com brings the justices a basic nuts-and-bolts question of civil procedure: how courts should decide the “costs” that the prevailing party on appeal can recover from the losing party. Generally speaking, under the “American” rule that prevails in the United States, the prevailing party in litigation must pay its own attorney’s fees.
HowAppealing
APRIL 20, 2021
“Sixth Circuit Grants Habeas Petition for Lower Court’s Objectively Unreasonable Application of the Confrontation Clause; A liberal result (granting a criminal defendant’s habeas petition) from a quite conservative judge (John Bush)”: Jonathan H. Adler has this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy” about a ruling that the U.S.
ABA Journal
APRIL 20, 2021
Judges who write colorful opinions that are lively and engaging are undermining the integrity of the judicial role and the legitimacy of opinions, a law…
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HowAppealing
APRIL 20, 2021
“Jury finds Madras man guilty of unlawful use of a gun in 2017 road rage encounter on U.S. 26”: Maxine Bernstein of The Oregonian had this article back in March 2019. Yesterday, a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued this decision overturning the conviction, holding that federal prosecutors had improperly “assimilated into federal criminal law Oregon’s unlawful use of a weapon statute” to apply to a a road rage incide
LegalReader
APRIL 20, 2021
We live in the era of online reviews and most contractors will have their profile on one or more of these sites. You can make your voice heard and make sure you warn others about the unreliability of the contractor.
HowAppealing
APRIL 20, 2021
“State Supreme Court Diversity — April 2021 Update; Across the country, state supreme courts fail to reflect the diversity of the communities they serve and the diversity of the legal profession”: Janna Adelstein and Alicia Bannon of the Brennan Center for Justice have this report.
LegalReader
APRIL 20, 2021
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HowAppealing
APRIL 20, 2021
“An ‘insane’ covid lockdown two miles from the Capitol, with no end in sight; For a year, 1,500 people held at D.C. jail have been confined to cells 23 hours a day in what experts call a grave human rights abuse”: Peter Jamison of The Washington Post has this report.
ABA Journal
APRIL 20, 2021
For 2020 graduates of ABA-accredited law schools, 77.4% had long-term, full-time jobs that required or preferred bar passage, compared to 80.
HowAppealing
APRIL 20, 2021
“Former Judge Michael Luttig Talks First Amendment, Impeachment and Coca-Cola; Michael Luttig chats with us about redesigning a first amendment icon”: Tony Mauro of The National Law Journal has this report.
iHire
APRIL 20, 2021
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