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JANUARY 28, 2022

Hundreds of current and former UN officials, human rights and legal experts, international NGOs, and academic institutions have signed an open letter to the UN Human Rights Council calling for an international investigation into the 1988 massacre of thousands of political prisoners in Iran. In 1988, following a fatwa issued by Iran’s then-Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, around 30,000 political prisoners were extra-judicially executed or forcibly disappeared.

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JANUARY 21, 2022

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Above The Law

JANUARY 3, 2022

The courts can regulate themselves. as proven by all these scandals! The post Chief Justice Wants You To Know He Has The Utmost Contempt For You appeared first on Above the Law.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 12, 2022

Newly released data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) analyzed by Prison Policy Initiative (PPI) researchers show how prison, jail, probation, and parole populations changed in 2020 as a result of the pandemic. The three main reports analyzed show that significant change is possible under pressure — but most of the change has been inadequate, uneven, and unsustained, according to a PPI briefing paper published Tuesday.

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JANUARY 16, 2022

Hermès has filed a lawsuit against the individual behind the collection of 100 MetaBirkins non-fungible tokens (“NFTs”) that include images depicting furry renderings of its famous Birkin bag. In the complaint that it filed in a New York federal court on Friday, Hermès claims that MetaBirkins creator Mason Rothschild is “a digital speculator who is seeking to get rich quick by appropriating the brand MetaBirkins for use in creating, marketing, selling, and facilitating the exchange of digital as

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JURIST

JANUARY 22, 2022

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Thursday issued a notice of proposed rulemaking to increase network security monitoring for high and medium-impact bulk power systems to protect against cyberattacks. Existing Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) reliability standards focus on the security perimeter of computer networks, and there is concern that those standards do not address vulnerabilities to internal networks.

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Paralegal Brief Submitted Articles

JANUARY 13, 2022

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Above The Law

JANUARY 10, 2022

Shocking news! We'll believe it when we see it. The post New Bar Exam Will Test Future Law Grads On Skills Actually Related To Being A Lawyer appeared first on Above the Law.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 18, 2022

While most Americans believe arrested people go to court soon after their arrest, Constitutional guarantees of a “fair and speedy trial” are infrequently honored in our under-resourced criminal justice system, according to a study produced by the Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center at the Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law. Over 30 states lack laws that establish a firm deadline for initial appearances, requiring only that such appearances occur “within a reasonable time,” with

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JANUARY 19, 2022

Despite many managers understanding the importance of employee onboarding, Sapling has found that 88% of companies don’t onboard well. This is a troubling revelation when you take into account that offering an excellent onboarding experience enhances employee retention by as much as 82%. Want to ensure you have high employee retention while also maintaining job satisfaction?

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 27, 2022

Share This article is part of a series of tributes on the career of Justice Stephen Breyer. Judge Vince Chhabria is a federal district judge in the Northern District of California. He clerked for Breyer during the 2001-02 term. I clerked for Justice Breyer 20 years ago, in the term following Bush v. Gore. Before arriving, I expected to see a lot of division and mistrust.

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JURIST

JANUARY 26, 2022

The San Jose City Council Tuesday passed a first-of-its-kind ordinance mandating residents who own a gun to carry liability insurance and pay an annual fee aimed at reducing gun violence. The new ordinance, which is set to take effect in August if approved by the City Council at its second reading on February 8th, requires that all San Jose residents who own a gun obtain a homeowner’s, renters or gun liability insurance policy that covers explicitly losses or damages resulting from neglige

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 4, 2022

What We Learned in 2021. In December 2021, Dave Ries, a frequent co-presenter with the authors, wrote an excellent summary of the cybersecurity portion of the ABA’s 2021 Legal Technology Survey Report. Perhaps the most striking statistic is that 25% of the survey’s respondents reported that their law firm had been breached at some time. Clearly, law firms are an attractive target for cybercriminals — with a plethora of data about so many people and businesses, law firms are a one-stop-shop for h

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Above The Law

JANUARY 24, 2022

But don't hold your breath waiting for actual consequences. The post Judge Refuses COVID Vaccine, Gets Banned From Courthouse… Shows Up Anyway, Without A Mask appeared first on Above the Law.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 26, 2022

A new report reveals Florida’s 31 different court fees, costs and surcharges imposed on youth involved in the state’s juvenile justice system and their families are not only ineffective, costly to administer, and difficult to collect, but also trap thousands in inescapable debt and poverty, reports the the Fines and Fees Justice Center. Fees also increase the likelihood that youth will face extended or repeated involvement in the juvenile and criminal justice systems, with young people who

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ABA Journal

JANUARY 6, 2022

The ABA Commission on Immigration, through a new partnership with refugee resettlement agency HIAS, is hoping to help more people from Afghanistan who were evacuated…

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 12, 2022

Share The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Tuesday in two challenges to lengthy immigration detention of noncitizens who claim they are entitled to a bond hearing before an immigration judge. In both cases, the noncitizens are subject to deportation orders but are seeking “withholding of removal,” a form of humanitarian protection that would bar the government from removing them to a country where they would face persecution or torture.

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JURIST

JANUARY 6, 2022

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday renewed a lawsuit against twenty-one medical equipment and pharmaceutical companies over allegations that their contracts with Iraq’s health ministry aided in funding terrorism that ultimately led to the death of American soldiers during the Iraq War. AstraZeneca, GE Healthcare USA Holding, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Hoffmann-La Roche, and other companies are accused by plaintiffs, family members of victims of the

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JANUARY 25, 2022

by Dennis Crouch. Masimo Corp. v. True Wearables, Inc. ( Fed. Cir. 2022 ) (nonprecedential). This trade-secrecy decision includes a few interesting holdings: Published and Widely Distributed, but Still a Trade Secret : The fact that information was found in a prior publication “that has been cited over 1,200 times. does not necessarily compel a finding that the information cannot maintain its status as a trade secret for a party in an entirely different field.” Serious Questions : A

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Above The Law

JANUARY 11, 2022

According to the complaint, after Kardashian urged her 251 million Instagram followers to get involved in the cryptocurrency play, the price of the token shot up more than 1,370%. Then, it crashed. The post Kim Kardashian, Floyd Mayweather, And Paul Pierce Sued For Ties To Crypto Scam appeared first on Above the Law.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 14, 2022

photo by Charles Edward Miller via Flickr. Everyone has seen the headlines. According to FBI data, U.S. homicides rates increased by 30 percent in 2020, the largest increase ever recorded since national record-keeping began in 1960, and jumped another 7 percent in 2021, with more than 10 major cities setting new records for annual homicides that year.

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LLRX

JANUARY 9, 2022

Marshall Voizard is a law firm reference supervisor. He shares significant insights into the profession in the time of COVID. Voizard states that the past 18 months have accelerated positive changes, illustrating to all that the library is no longer primarily a physical place, but rather an entire ecosystem of electronic legal information resources.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 10, 2022

Share The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Tuesday in two related immigration cases , Johnson v. Arteaga-Martinez and Garland v. Aleman Gonzalez. In both cases, noncitizens who are under deportation orders are challenging their prolonged detention – sometimes many months or even years — without the safeguard of a bond hearing before an immigration judge.

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JURIST

JANUARY 13, 2022

The Austrian Data Protection Authority (DPA) Thursday ruled that an Austrian website provider’s continuous use of Google Analytics and the resultant transfer of personal data to Google violated the European Union’s (EU) privacy law, the General Data Protection Rules (GDPR). The ruling responded to a series of representations filed by the Austrian privacy advocacy group noyb before the DPA on the basis of the European Court of Justice’s (CJEU) Schrems II decision.

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JANUARY 11, 2022

by Dennis Crouch. Prior to 1891, appeals in patent cases went directly to the Supreme Court, and the Court decided lots of patent cases. In 1891, Congress created the regional circuit courts of appeals as a buffer between the trial courts and the Supreme Court and the number of high-court patent cases began to fall. The court decided a number of big patent cases during the period of 1891-1952, although many of them have been rejected or are no longer followed.

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