LegalReader

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Warnock and his allies claim that a state law prohibiting elections immediately after public holidays could disenfranchise thousands of voters.

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Law 360

MARCH 7, 2023

A law firm that helped class representatives win a landmark $425 million data breach deal from Equifax Inc. has asked the Georgia federal judge who oversaw the multidistrict litigation to allow its challenge of co-lead counsel's $77.5 million fee allocation to proceed in a Tennessee court.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The case is the newest piece of litigation over tribal sovereignty following the Supreme Court’s McGirt decision, which held that the US Congress had never dissolved the reservations of the so-called “Five-Civilized Tribes,” including the Creek Nation, despite the incorporation of Oklahoma as a state in 1907.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 26, 2022

Anthony Perkins in a still photo from Orson Well’s 1962 film version of “The Trial” In Franz Kafka’s sinister 1925 novel, The Trial, the hero finds himself the defendant in a court case where he is unaware of what law he has broken. In 17 states, judges with no law degree are permitted to adjudicate eviction cases.”.

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LegalReader

JULY 23, 2021

Georgia Court of Appeals reverses previous trial court decision and sets stage for new trial.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 23, 2022

1983 ; they are not forced into federal habeas litigation that is procedurally doomed. The Heck bar is a big deal to death-sentenced prisoners who challenge execution methods, because those challenges almost always ripen after the first round of federal habeas litigation finishes. But Texas had to change a regulation, not a statute.).

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Broadcast Law Blog

MARCH 21, 2017

The Georgia Supreme Court this week issued a decision holding that the streaming of pre-1972 sound recordings by iHeart Media does not violate the state’s criminal statutes against the “transfer” of recorded sounds without the permission of the owner of the master recording.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 27, 2022

If a state prisoner must use habeas litigation, then federal courts will almost never reach the merits of the claim. Georgia wants the court to prohibit the Section 1983 litigation, but the state seemed to have a formidable skeptic: Justice Brett Kavanaugh. First, some background on the case.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

MARCH 4, 2024

I actually was getting my college degree because I wanted to go on to law school. He had a friend who was the office manager at a local law firm, in Sarasota, Florida. He thought it would be good to do that in between going to law school. I ended up loving being a paralegal so much that I dropped the law school plan.

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LegalReader

APRIL 27, 2022

Economic damages are the costs of any medical treatment, lost wages, and injury rehabilitation.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

I’m going back to the days when I was a litigation paralegal. I remember spending weeks up in north Georgia in a warehouse with traffic lights so that the semis didn’t run you over if you were crossing INSIDE the warehouse. They let me take charge in a way that was at a much higher level than your typical civil litigation case.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

During oral argument , some of the justices expressed discomfort with the potential breadth of the equitable apportionment doctrine if they applied it to groundwater, envisioning a proverbial flood of interstate original-jurisdiction litigation about aquifers. As the court confirmed last year in Florida v.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 15, 2021

A Black man in Georgia was lying on his couch when police officers serving a narcotics search warrant burst through his front door without warning and with guns drawn before shooting him twice in the chest in an incident that has drawn comparison to the killing of Breonna Taylor but little of the attention, reports the Associated Press.

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CourtTechBulletin

DECEMBER 16, 2021

We were curious as to the status of online court help to the self-represented litigants as a good 2021 year-end wrapup article for the CTB? Guides on resources and legal information and a pointer to Montana Law Help legal services ( [link] ) are also available. We share what we found below.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Written by Georgia Antonopoulou (Birmingham Law School) & Xandra Kramer (Erasmus University/Utrecht University ; research funded by an NWO Vici grant, www.euciviljustice.eu ). In May 2022, the House of Representatives in Cyprus passed Law 69(I)/2022 on the Establishment and Operation of the Commercial Court and Admiralty Court.

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The Estrin Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Norman Harris – Champions for Justice Law. That being said, what does it take to stand out and become a “Top Lawyer” in your specific field of law? Norman is the owner of Champions for Justice Law, LLC, based in Tampa. What is the “backstory” that brought you to this particular career path in Law?

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2022

McCall , a tire manufacturer resists Georgia courts’ exercise of jurisdiction on the basis of the state’s registration statute for foreign corporations. Cooper’s activities in Georgia had no connection to McCall’s claims against Cooper, meaning that Georgia courts lacked “specific jurisdiction” over Cooper. Next up is Kelly v.

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The Fashion Law

MAY 18, 2021

Despite such a “lack of contacts with New York, [Chanel] is forcing [the defendants] to defend a case 750 miles away, in an unfamiliar Court, and in a jurisdiction with which [they] have no connection,” S+D claims, and asserts that the court should dismiss the case on this basis, or at least, transfer the case to a court in Georgia. .

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JURIST

AUGUST 22, 2023

A federal court in Georgia blocked a state ban on Sunday that banned gender-affirming care for transgender youth, finding the law is likely unconstitutional. In doing this, Geraghty held the law amounted to a sex-based classification because it “discriminat[ed] against.

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LegalReader

JUNE 25, 2021

In a statement, Attorney General Merrick Garland suggested that Georgia's new Election Integrity Act specifically and intentionally targets Black voters.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 20, 2023

Georgia ) but of the widespread effects of climate change on the life and health of the applicants as well as virtually all other members of the population, including future generations. It is doubtful that the rights and freedoms of future generations could be protected through climate litigation in Strasbourg.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Under a “forgiveness” clause, Patel submitted an application to trigger a process called “adjustment of status,” which allows immigrants physically present in the US to change their status to that of lawful permanent residents without having to leave the US.

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Stroud is General Counsel at Unified Patents – an organization often adverse to litigation-funded entities. [1] 1] He is also an adjunct professor at American University Washington College of Law. litigation finance boom of the past 20 years—as has been widely reported, private equity now undergirds huge swaths of U.S.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 17, 2023

There are state courts and federal courts, state statutes and federal statutes, state common law and federal common law. The law on this subject is complicated. The state courts in Georgia have become less likely to enforce in recent years. They apply federal common law.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Yet it left the door open for states to implement or reform their own laws – and some chose to preserve capital punishment. The Furman litigation was the culmination of a campaign conducted by a group of lawyers under the auspices of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. The Furman Framework. Austin Sarat.

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LegalTalkNetwork

AUGUST 15, 2023

Using AI strategically at your law firm can be a time, error, and resource saver. Draft Motions and Briefs A study by Bloomberg Law found that 84% of litigators rank drafting motions and briefs as their most time-consuming task. Look for tools made for litigators that keep data within your instance.

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LegalTalkNetwork

JUNE 24, 2021

Legal technology expert Natalie Kelly shares how she’s used her experience serving State Bar of Georgia members to modernize the legal operations at the storied Southern Poverty Law Center. To keep up with timely insights on the law, legal innovation, and law practice, visit Legal Talk Network.

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 10, 2022

On 1 January 2022, the HCCH 1965 Service Convention entered into force for Georgia. From 14 to 18 February 2022, the second meeting of the Working Group on Matters Related to Jurisdiction in Transnational Civil or Commercial Litigation was held via videoconference. More information on these developments is available here.

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The Fashion Law

DECEMBER 3, 2021

As support for its claim that “3 trees [are] planted for every tree used,” Georgia-Pacific demonstrated that it “accurately tracks the number of trees consumed throughout its manufacturing process and that it can ensure that three trees are regrown for each tree used.”

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 27, 2022

Saul Cornell is the Paul and Diane Guenther chair in American history at Fordham University and adjunct professor of law at Fordham Law School. It is particularly noteworthy that Justice Stephen Breyer called out his colleagues for engaging in the most rank form of law-office history in his dissent.

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JonathanTurley

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The Justice Department has maintained this broader definition in prior litigation declared in 2021 that Pence was shielded by the “speech or debate” clause in a civil lawsuit. Graham after Graham invoked the clause to decline to testify on the Georgia allegations of election interference.

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The Fashion Law

DECEMBER 2, 2021

L’Officiel USA is on the receiving end of a striking new lawsuit filed by the City of New York’s Law Department and the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection. The first law of its kind in the U.S., The first law of its kind in the U.S., To those who break the law: New York City will hold you accountable.”.

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Chugh LLP

APRIL 8, 2022

Corporate leadership will need to ensure that its internal policies and procedures are compliant with state and federal law to avoid serious financial risk and legal troubles. These states include Alabama, Alaska, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Washington. Termination of contract. .

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LegalReader

MARCH 30, 2021

Civil rights activists say the lawsuit will disproportionately harm people of color.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 8, 2021

Preczewski , a dispute over religious speech on the grounds of a Georgia college, but the court’s ruling could have implications well beyond academia. Background. The students enjoy support from a wide range of “friends of the court” briefs. Here, however, the two groups are aligned on the same side. The college’s arguments.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Congress created a process known as “adjustment of status” so that immigrants physically present in the United States could change their status to that of a lawful permanent resident (i.e., He stated that he mistakenly marked “yes” in response to a Georgia driver’s license application question “Are you a U.S. citizenship.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 22, 2022

It particularly disfavors Eighth Amendment litigation attacking familiar lethal injection protocols as “cruel and unusual” punishment. In the past 20 years, the court has announced substantive constitutional law, pleading requirements, and timeliness rules that make it harder to win such arguments.

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