JURIST

JANUARY 15, 2022

A Wisconsin county judge Thursday granted an injunction against the use of absentee ballot drop boxes in statewide elections. The Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) issued guidance to county clerks about the use of drop boxes in March and again in August of 2020 , in light of the growing COVID-19 pandemic. The guidance permitted, but did not require, county clerks to establish drop boxes for the collection of absentee ballots.

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JANUARY 15, 2022

“The Supreme Court can’t get its story straight on vaccines; The Court is barely even pretending to be engaged in legal reasoning”: Ian Millhiser has this essay online at Vox.

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JURIST

JANUARY 15, 2022

The US District Court for the Southern District of New York Friday banned disgraced pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli for life from the pharmaceutical industry for using illegal tactics to keep other Daraprim (pyrimethamine) drug manufacturers out of the market. Daraprim is used to treat toxoplasmosis, which threatens the lives of people with weakened immune systems, including individuals with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).

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JANUARY 15, 2022

“Some states move to protect abortion rights in face of challenge at Supreme Court; New Jersey codified the right to an abortion into state law this week”: Meredith Deliso of ABC News has this report.

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JURIST

JANUARY 15, 2022

California Governor Gavin Newsom denied parole to Sirhan Sirhan Thursday, the now 77-year-old man convicted of assassinating Senator Robert F. Kennedy in Los Angeles in 1968. Sirhan shot Senator Kennedy and five bystanders in June 1968. While the bystanders survived their injuries, Senator Kennedy did not. A jury found Sirhan guilty of first-degree murder and five counts of assault with a deadly weapon with the intent to kill.

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JURIST

JANUARY 15, 2022

California Governor Gavin Newsom Thursday denied parole to Sirhan Sirhan, the now 77-year-old man convicted of assassinating Senator Robert F. Kennedy in Los Angeles in 1968. On June 5, 1968, Sirhan shot Senator Kennedy and five bystanders. While the bystanders survived their injuries, Senator Kennedy did not. A jury found Sirhan guilty of first-degree murder and five counts of assault with a deadly weapon with the intent to kill.

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JANUARY 15, 2022

“Hospitals Confront the Fallout From Supreme Court Ruling on Vaccine Mandate; They could face more staff shortages, and workers and facilities could feel caught between opposing state and federal policies”: Audra D.S. Burch and Reed Abelson will have this article in Sunday’s edition of The New York Times.

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JANUARY 15, 2022

We have snow on the ground here in Missouri. That makes me think of Gary Reinert’s new patent entitled “method and apparatus for rapid stopping of a motor vehicle particularly on snow or ice.” U.S. Pat. No. 11,091,154. The image below from the patent tells the story. Conventional brakes are awful. Antilock Brakes are much better, but the Reinert Snow Brakes take the cake.

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JANUARY 15, 2022

“Gorsuch v. the Administrative State Is Really Heating Up; Three Supreme Court conservatives have signaled that they want to go beyond barring vaccine mandates to erecting sweeping constitutional barriers against federal regulatory activity”: Law professor Noah Feldman has this essay online at Bloomberg Opinion.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 15, 2022

Share At the argument on Wednesday in Boechler v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue , most justices seemed prepared to allow consideration of “equitable tolling” in tax collection due process cases – so long as a decision is written narrowly and does not spill over to support equitable tolling for other tax deadlines. The case arose after Boechler, P.C., a law firm, sent a petition one day late to request review in the U.S.

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JANUARY 15, 2022

“Some Brief Thoughts on Gorsuch’s Opinion in NFIB v. OSHA”: Anita Krishnakumar has this post at the “Election Law Blog.

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LegalReader

JANUARY 15, 2022

Hospitals turn to rideshare, Uber buys groups, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Travis Kalanick. LegalRideshare breaks it down.

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Day on Torts

JANUARY 15, 2022

The Tennessee Supreme Court reviews very few cases in a given year. In the year ending June 30, 2020 (the last period for which information is publicly available) the High Court was asked to accept review in 569 cases. (These are the cases where the Court has the discretion whether to hear the case or allow the lower court ruling to stand. There are other types of cases that the Court is required to hear.

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LexForti

JANUARY 15, 2022

In this article, the author has described the qualification and appointment norms for an Arbitrator. Hence, answering Who can be an arbitrator! INTRODUCTION. Arbitration is the most preferred form of alternative dispute resolution. In a court proceeding, the judges play a significant role in delivering justice, the same is in an arbitration proceeding.

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JANUARY 15, 2022

In 2012, then-FBI Director Robert Mueller said, "There are two types of companies, those that have been hacked and those that will be hacked.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 15, 2022

With the pandemic, most people are shopping online and there are growing accounts of “ doom shopping ” dangers for many who are becoming heavily indebted through retail therapy. Wendy Lynn Wein’s retail therapy, however, involved shopping for someone to kill her ex-husband. She found a convenient site called “RentAHitman.com” without realizing that it was a fake operation.

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JANUARY 15, 2022

“Flexing its judicial muscle as the Supreme Court has not done in generations, the Court’s new conservative majority of six Justices on Thursday blocked the Biden Administration policy that sought to impose nationwide protection of more than 84 million workers from the deadly Covid-19 virus.” So begins Lyle Denniston’s blog post titled “ Court sweeps away broadest anti-virus policy.

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JANUARY 15, 2022

Professor Barry Mehler at Ferris State University in Michigan clearly does not want to return to in-person classes. Appearing in a video with a space helmet, Mehler went full Howard Beale in a video in which he called his students “vectors of disease” and tells them to “stay the f**k away from me.” While many have declared Mehler completely insane, his video may be as clever as a covid-phobic fox.

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JANUARY 15, 2022

“Here’s how Biden can fix the Supreme Court’s terrible mistake in the vax or mask case”: Law professor Aaron Tang has this essay online at The Los Angeles Times.

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JURIST

JANUARY 15, 2022

The Ohio Supreme Court struck down the state’s new congressional map Friday, saying it violated a state constitutional amendment barring partisan gerrymandering. The 4-3 decision began by calling gerrymandering “the antithetical perversion of representative democracy.” It noted that Ohio voters passed two amendments to constrain the legislature’s ability to draw partisan legislative maps, in particular the adoption of Article XIX which governs the drawing of congression

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JURIST

JANUARY 15, 2022

The Ohio Supreme Court Friday struck down the state’s new congressional map , saying it violated a state constitutional amendment barring partisan gerrymandering. The 4-3 decision began by calling gerrymandering “the antithetical perversion of representative democracy.” It noted that Ohio voters passed two amendments to constrain the legislature’s ability to draw partisan legislative maps, in particular the adoption of Article XIX which governs the drawing of congressiona

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