The Crime Report

JANUARY 5, 2023

New York City Council’s Minority Leader, Joe Borelli (R-Staten Island), introduced a bill on Wednesday that would designate Times Square a “crime-free” zone. The proposed legislation was filed in response to a local law introduced in August by City Council Democrats that, after it was enacted, designated Times Square a “sensitive area” under state law and restricted concealed firearms in the tourist hot spot. .

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JURIST

JANUARY 2, 2023

Ohio Governor Mark DeWine Monday signed Senate Bill 202 , which prohibits authorities from denying or limiting participation in parenting activities on the sole basis of disability. The law applies to custody and visitation rights, adopting, foster care and guardianships. While the right to these activities is not guaranteed for individuals with disabilities, disability alone cannot preclude someone from participating in caregiving.

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Above The Law

JANUARY 24, 2023

Make no mistake, our experience was nothing like the bar exams of the past. The post We’re Still Mad, Actually: An Open Letter To The Legal Profession From A COVID-19 Bar Examinee appeared first on Above the Law.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 19, 2023

Share The Supreme Court has not been able to determine who leaked a draft of Justice Samuel Alito’s opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization , the court said on Thursday. The unprecedented leak last May revealed that the court was privately poised to overturn the court’s landmark decisions establishing a constitutional right to an abortion.

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ABA Journal

JANUARY 12, 2023

Artificial intelligence programs are making inroads in the legal field, showing proficiency in two sections of a practice bar exam and getting used for the…

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 25, 2023

Earlier this month, President Biden signed into law the bipartisan Martha Wright-Reed Just and Reasonable Communications Act, restoring the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) authority to regulate all prison and jail calls. The national fight to stop prison telecom corporations from charging incarcerated people and their loved ones predatory rates started more than 20 years ago with the late Martha Wright-Reed and ended earlier this month with her grandson Ulandis Forte, a formerly

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JURIST

JANUARY 10, 2023

The Ugandan Constitutional Court Tuesday declared a section of the Computer Misuse Act , No. 2 of 2011 void with enforcement banned. Section 25 of the act prohibited any person from “willfully and repeatedly [using] electronic communication to disturb or attempt to disturb the peace, quiet or right of privacy of any person with no purpose of legitimate communication.” The petitioners claimed section 25 was overly vague and limited free speech.

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Above The Law

JANUARY 13, 2023

Nothing like an admirer with a badge and a gun. The post Tenth Circuit Reminds Cops It’s Unconstitutional To Pull People Over To Flirt With Them appeared first on Above the Law.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 6, 2023

Share Striketober. Starbucks walkouts. Work stoppages at iconic companies like John Deere, The New York Times, and Kellogg’s. The number of labor disputes resulting in strikes and the attention paid to those strikes has increased over the past few years. That is why the Supreme Court’s decision to review a basic feature of how the law may or may not interfere in work stoppages is noteworthy.

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ABA Journal

JANUARY 3, 2023

Erwin Chemerinsky, the dean of the University of California at Berkeley School of Law, said he will cooperate in an investigation spurred by a ban…

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Patently O

JANUARY 24, 2023

by Dennis Crouch In 2022, the Federal Circuit held that an invention is only eligible for a US patent if a human conceived of the invention. Thus, no patents for invention wholly conceived by artificial intelligence. Thaler v. Vidal , 43 F.4th 1207 (Fed. Cir. 2022). Thaler’s petition for writ of certiorari to the US Supreme Court would have been due last week, but Thaler was able to obtain an extension with the petition now being due March 19, 2023.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

Police officers face an increased risk of exposure to traumatic events that could cause mental health challenges. But a lack of resources and resistance from officers are among the barriers to sufficient support, according to a study by Canadian professors Rose Ricciardelli of McMaster University and Matthew S. Johnston of Carleton College. . Additionally, the study found staffing shortages and workload issues as additional barriers for officers, both of which have troubled many police departmen

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JURIST

JANUARY 30, 2023

In an exclusive interview with JURIST Friday, VOA Chief National Correspondent and JURIST Journalist in Residence Steve Herman , banned from Twitter in mid-December, said it is important that people not self-censor amid the turmoil surrounding Elon Musk’s newly-acquired social media platform. Herman remains suspended from Twitter for posts pertaining to Musk, but recognized that Twitter is among the most influential social media platforms available.

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Above The Law

JANUARY 18, 2023

The callous disregard and lack of respect for women lawyers and lawyer moms needs to stop. The post Why Toxic Culture Is To Blame For Women Leaving Law Firms appeared first on Above the Law.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 13, 2023

Share Wednesday’s argument in Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v. Centro de Periodismo Investigativo set a new standard for scattershot: The discussion meandered through a wide variety of threshold questions but never actually reached the question on which the justices granted review. At bottom, the case is a public-records dispute.

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ABA Journal

JANUARY 24, 2023

The most stressful occupation in the United States is being a lawyer, according to an analysis by the Washington Post of data from the U.S.

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Patently O

JANUARY 27, 2023

It is hard for me to believe that the US Supreme Court is hearing the case of Jack Daniels vs Bad Spaniels. For those who don’t know, Jack Daniels is a form of Whiskey. VIP Products makes and sells a squeaking dog toy known as “bad spaniels.” The setup here is a humorous parody, but JD is not laughing. Jack Daniels sent a cease-and-desist letter to VIP who then filed a declaratory judgment action in Arizona.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 23, 2023

A recent report released by the MacArthur Foundation’s Safety and Justice Challenge reveals a significant overrepresentation of Native American people in the U.S. prison system, which worsens in states with larger native populations. According to the report, Native American people are incarcerated 38 percent over the national average and are overrepresented in the prison populations of 19 states compared to other races and ethnicities.

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JURIST

JANUARY 24, 2023

A Brooklyn, New York federal judge Monday rejected Douglass Mackey’s arguments to dismiss an indictment brought by federal prosecutors from the Eastern District of New York (EDNY). Mackey is accused of participating in an online conspiracy to spread deceptive information during the 2016 Presidential election to injure some Twitter users’ right to vote.

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Above The Law

JANUARY 19, 2023

Wait, is our legal system not egalitarian or something? The post Stanford Law Student Proves That Fair Play Doesn’t Really Apply To The Police appeared first on Above the Law.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 20, 2023

Share Gail Curley, the Supreme Court’s marshal, said on Friday that she spoke with the justices as part of her investigation into the Dobbs leak but that the justices – unlike court employees – were not asked to swear under penalty of perjury that they were not responsible for the leak. In a brief, prepared statement released by the court, Curley indicated that she “followed up on all credible leads, none of which implicated the Justices or their spouses.

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ABA Journal

JANUARY 5, 2023

The actors who were teenagers when they portrayed Romeo and Juliet in the 1968 film Romeo and Juliet are relying on a California law to…

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Broadcast Law Blog

JANUARY 27, 2023

The Copyright Royalty Board yesterday published in the Federal Register the proposed rates for the public performance of musical compositions by noncommercial broadcasters for the period 2023 through 2027. The rates reflect settlements between ASCAP, BMI, SESAC and GMR with various organizations representing noncommercial broadcasters. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting agreed to one set of rates paid to cover NPR and PBS affiliates.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 11, 2023

A U.S. District Judge has ordered the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry to make “substantial” changes to its staffing and facility operations after determining that conditions in Arizona’s prisons represent an “unconstitutional substantial risk of serious harm” to people in the state’s custody. . The order is a result of Jensen v.

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JURIST

JANUARY 18, 2023

The US Supreme Court Tuesday declined to hear an appeal by a professional photographer who sued a hospitality tech company for removing copyright metadata from his photos in violation of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA). The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit affirmed the district court’s dismissal of the case on summary judgment.

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