SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 13, 2022

Share With COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations reaching a new record high as a result of the Omicron variant, the Supreme Court on Thursday put the Biden administration’s vaccine-or-test mandate for large employers on hold, while litigation over its legality continues in the lower courts. Over a dissent from the court’s three liberal justices, the court ruled that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration exceeded its power in issuing the mandate.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 11, 2022

A new ProPublica analysis of millions of red-light camera traffic citations found that households in majority Black and Hispanic ZIP codes received tickets at around twice the rate of those in white areas between 2015 and 2019. The analysis suggests there are gaping racial disparities in who is getting ticketed from red-light cameras — and the consequences are punishing the neighborhoods of color, the paper said.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 11, 2022

Persuading judges to wean themselves from the “habit of mass incarceration” is a critical step in transforming the American justice system, says former federal judge Nancy Gertner. Much of the focus on justice reform has been on changing the behavior of prosecutors and police, with judges often assumed to be above the fray, according to Gertner, former senior judge at the U.S.

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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 13, 2022

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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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JURIST

JANUARY 11, 2022

The Italian government has approved a decree that extends the scope of the country’s green pass system and requires anyone over the age of 50 living in Italy to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Italy’s green pass system , which has been in place since October 15, currently requires all workers to present a green pass to access their workplace by showing that they have been vaccinated, tested negative, or recovered from COVID-19.

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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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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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JURIST

JANUARY 10, 2022

Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. Here, a Staff Correspondent for JURIST in Kabul discusses the impact of the Afghan financial and economic crisis on the nation’s health centers and the inability of ordinary citizens to meet basic needs. For privacy and security reasons, we are withholding our Correspondent’s name.

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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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Above The Law

JANUARY 13, 2022

The judges were found to have done their due diligence. The post Federal Judges That Hired The ‘I HATE BLACK PEOPLE’ Law School Student Cleared Of Misconduct appeared first on Above the Law.

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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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JURIST

JANUARY 11, 2022

Australia’s Federal Circuit and Family Court Monday ruled that Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic’s visa was improperly cancelled by Australian border services, and that he must be allowed to enter Australia immediately. The reversal came about after Djokovic’s initial ban from entering Australia to compete in the Australian Open due to a failure to prove he satisfied requirements for a medical exemption to the COVID-19 vaccine.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 12, 2022

Share On Thursday, Jan. 13, we will be live blogging as the court releases opinions in one or more argued cases from the current term. Click here for a list of FAQs about opinion announcements. ? ?. The post Announcement of opinions for Thursday, Jan. 13 appeared first on SCOTUSblog.

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Above The Law

JANUARY 11, 2022

Sonia Sotomayor made her own misstatement. but just decided to live with it. The post Neil Gorsuch Cited Fake Flu Stats And Then Scrubbed The Transcript Like A Coward appeared first on Above the Law.

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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 13, 2022

Artificial intelligence tools have become prevalent in legal practice, particularly in eDiscovery. That doesn’t mean, however, that law firms and litigation support teams have been quick to embrace them. Despite their benefits, many legal organizations have been hesitant to implement AI tools. AI Hesitation. In the ABA 2020 Legal Tech Survey , 23% of law firms reported not being interested in AI, while 34% said they didn’t know enough about AI to speak to their firms’ interest.

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JURIST

JANUARY 12, 2022

US Judge James Boasberg of the District Court of Colombia Tuesday denied a motion of dismissal by tech conglomerate Meta Platforms (previously Facebook) against the Federal Trade Commission’s lawsuit suing the company for illegally maintaining its personal social network (PSN) monopoly through anticompetitive conduct. The FTC had filed an amended complaint after Judge Boasberg dismissed its complaint in June 2021 for failure to plausibly allege Meta’s monopoly power in the PSN market

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Patently O

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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Above The Law

JANUARY 12, 2022

Read on for critical guidance in a record-breaking M&A market. The post How To Ensure Open Source Risks Won’t Scuttle Your Deal appeared first on Above the Law.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 10, 2022

The harm inflicted by American gun violence potentially extends well beyond those who are the immediate victims of a shooting, says a California study. The study by the University of California-Davis Firearm Violence Research Center estimated that as many as two out of every three Californians have been exposed indirectly to gun violence in the course of their normal daily activities.

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JURIST

JANUARY 10, 2022

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Sunday announced economic sanctions on Mali, due to an “unacceptable” delay in holding elections. The delay is in response to the 2020 military coup, which delayed the February elections in Mali, one of four the country has experienced in 18 months. Interim authorities in Mali proposed to hold the elections four years after the date agreed with ECOWAS.

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JANUARY 13, 2022

by Dennis Crouch. The chart below shows the number of Supreme Court patent decisions broken-up by decade. The ramp-up in the late 1800s is tied to the “second industrial revolution” in the US. The drop in cases after 1890 is largely procedural. Congress created the regional circuit courts of appeals as a buffer between the trial courts & Supreme Court.

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Above The Law

JANUARY 14, 2022

It's not every day a county prosecutor threatens to sue the AG! The post TX AG Ken Paxton Faces Lawsuit Over Jan. 6 Records He Can’t Share For REASONS appeared first on Above the Law.

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