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NOVEMBER 20, 2021

France will introduce a new anti-bullying app to stop school bullying and increase parental control, in an announcement made by President Emmanual Macron Thursday. The legislation was proposed by MPs and supported by Macron on Twitter. He announced that the change in the law would include parental controls on all technology used by children, including smartphones and tablets.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Italy’s Anti-trust and Competition Authority (AGCM) fined Amazon and Apple over $225 million ( € 200 million) Tuesday for anti-competitive business practices, in violation of European Union competition law. The investigation launched last month discovered that the tech giants were using restrictive contractual agreements signed in 2018, which only allowed certain resellers to sell Apple and Beats products on Amazon in Italy.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

John Wetzel. Photo courtesy Pennsylvania Department of Corrections. To read about John Wetzel, the former Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (PADOC), one might think he is the August Vollmer of prison management. Vollmer, who established the first degree-granting program in police science at the University of California in the early years of the 20 th century, was called the “father of modern American policing.”.

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EvidenceProf Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

On September 28, 2017, Nikki Addimando fatally shot her boyfriend Christopher Grover. There is significant evidence that Chris was physically and sexually abusing Nikki and that she feared for her life when she fatally shot him: In 2017, Addimando was.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2021

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NOVEMBER 22, 2021

How progressive General Counsel are leveraging Lean Six Sigma principles to support the business and improve governance

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Share Confirming expectations, the Supreme Court on Monday unanimously denied Mississippi’s claim that Tennessee is stealing its groundwater. If Mississippi wants to pursue its groundwater battle with Tennessee, it will have to file a new complaint with the court asking for an equitable apportionment of the Middle Claiborne Aquifer, which lies beneath Mississippi, Tennessee, and other states.

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The Fashion Law

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

House of Gucci has made its way to theaters after months of marketing and seemingly endless media reports, including ones that have suggested that at least some Gucci family members are none too happy about the “ugly” casting choices and have explored potential avenues for litigation over fictionalized elements of the plot – there certainly are some of those.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

A bipartisan group of U.S. senators Thursday introduced a joint resolution to block a White House agreement to sell weapons to Saudi Arabia. The group includes Rand Paul (R-KY), Mike Lee (R-UT), and Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and the resolution aims to stop the sale of 280 medium-range air-to-air missiles, 596 missile launchers, and other weapons, equipment, and training related to the missile systems.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Recently, the Baltimore City State’s Attorney and Prince George’s County State’s Attorney took a giant leap forward to strengthen trust in the legal system and trust in police. They released their offices’ “Do Not Call” lists , which contain information about police officers whom prosecutors will no longer call to testify because they believe the officers are not credible witnesses.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Share On Monday, November 22, we will be live blogging as the court releases orders from the November 19 conference and 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 orders and opinions for Monday, November 22 appeared first on SCOTUSblog.

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Attorney at Work

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Do you read books? Of course you do. Maybe you like to escape into James Patterson’s latest thriller or load a beach read into your smartphone for those precious few minutes of downtime. Many lawyers anticipate extended time for leisure reading during travel or while on vacation. Getting Smarter With Nonfiction Leisure Reading. Perhaps you read books to improve your lawyering skills.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

South Africa’s Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) Tuesday made a monumental move in the attainment of justice for apartheid-era victims. In a revised indictment for the COSTAS FOUR case, the DPP included apartheid as a crime against humanity for the first time. The United Nations General Assembly declared apartheid a crime against humanity in 1966.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

A jury has convicted three men of murder in the death of Ahmaud Arbery, rejecting claims that they acted in self-defense, reports The Chicago Tribune. The case attracted national attention after claims that the men, all white, were motivated by racism when they accosted Arbery while he was jogging down a suburban street in Brunswick, GA. Defense attorneys said the men had reason to believe he was a burglar who had been operating in the neighborhood and shot him after he tried to wrench their gun

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LegalReader

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Water intake can make or break your fitness success in more ways than one. Insufficient consumption of H2O will result in lethargy and exhaustion, and it will also make it more difficult to break down nutrients in your food.

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Above The Law

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Ask yourself: Am I studying to keep up with an imaginary ideal student who I think is in a cave studying without distraction 24/7?

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

The United Nations Thursday adopted a historical text defining the common values and principles needed to ensure the healthy development of artificial intelligence. The agreement was adopted at the 41st session of the UNESCO General Conference, showing renewed cooperation on the ethics of artificial intelligence. The agreement called the Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence says tha t: It approaches AI ethics as a systematic normative reflection, based on a holistic and evolvi

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Starting in December, Los Angeles will send unarmed outreach workers and trained crisis responders instead of police officers to nonviolent homelessness-related emergency calls, according to Courthouse News. . Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti called it a “bold experiment” when he announced the new policy Tuesday. The new initiative will be focused on the communities of Hollywood and Venice, according to KTLA-5 , where teams of outreach workers and mental health clinicians are already

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Attorney at Work

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Question: I feel like I did all I could over the last few years to keep my cell number out of clients’ hands. But I think I opened the floodgates when I recently began allowing clients to text me. The convenience factor and desire to modernize my customer service won out, or at least that’s what I told myself. Now that I’ve opened the door to another channel of communication, what ethics pitfalls might come from texting clients?

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Above The Law

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

While the bill doesn’t provide a path to citizenship that many advocates had hoped for, it does include some important provisions.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

A panel of the International Criminal Court Thursday reduced by two years the nine-year sentence of Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi, convicted of a war crime for destroying religious and historic buildings in Timbuktu in 2012. Allegedly a member of Ansar Eddine, a UNSC-sanctioned militant outfit associated with al Qaeda, Al Mahdi was the head of the “Hisbah” (a body set up to uphold public morals and prevent vice) and associated with the Islamic Court in Timbuktu.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Photo by DanGutierrez via Flickr. The homicide increase has received widespread attention. The decline in other serious crimes has not. The FBI’s recent release of the nation’s crime data showed a 27 percent rise in the murder rate in 2020 over 2019 and an 8 percent drop in robberies and property crimes. But the National Crime Victimization Survey , prepared by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, which is based on interviews with persons age 12 and older from a representative sample of US househol

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ABA Journal

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

A Florida lawyer has been suspended for 91 days for texting advice to a witness during a phone deposition and then failing to come clean…

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The Fashion Law

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

The metaverse is appearing more frequently in companies’ branding efforts, with companies like Nike launching an experience of its own within the Roblox metaverse, Balenciaga offering up products to wear in the Fortnite metaverse, and Tokens.com’s Metaverse Group subsidiary paid $2.4 million – in crypto – in what is being called one of “the largest ever land acquisitions in the metaverse.” But what does the emergence of the metaverse and the increase in virtual reality platform

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Colombian President Iván Duque Márquez Thursday confirmed that the U.S. formally requested that Colombia extradite accused Clan del Golfo leader and drug trafficker Dairo Antonio Usuga David, known as “Otoniel.” Duque added that extraditing the drug clan’s leader will pose a significant blow to the cartel’s structure. Duque stated that the request is currently progressing through Colombia’s administrative process.

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