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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JonathanTurley

JULY 5, 2021

From the prosecution of Bill Cosby to a federal lawsuit against Georgia, courts are dealing with cases where government lawyers repeat the same implausible claims with the same unconvincing results. DA Steele is unapologetic and insists he was trying to show that “no one is above the law — including those who are rich, famous and powerful.”

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JURIST

JANUARY 31, 2024

This decision is a win for our citizens and sends a message that the rule of law governs in Arkansas.” In late 2023, t he Georgia Republican Legislature Leadership released its controversial new redistricting maps in the midst of ongoing section two litigation.

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JURIST

MARCH 9, 2022

Following the 2020 general election, Powell brought election challenges in Arizona, Michigan, Georgia, and Wisconsin. The challenges brought in Georgia and Michigan were blocked. These sections deal with meritorious claims, minimizing litigation burdens, candor towards the court, and misconduct.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

MAY 18, 2023

Are you a paralegal Who’s wondering if you should go to law school? Should I take my paralegal career to the next level and go to law school? Now I’m not the right person to answer that question because the only time that I contemplated going to law school was when I was in a job that I didn’t like.

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JURIST

MARCH 8, 2021

Preczewski in favor of a former Georgia college student in a campus free speech case. In 2016, Chike Uzuegbunam, an Evangelical Christian, attempted to express and share his faith on the Georgia Gwinnett College Campus by standing near the campus library and passing out literature. The US Supreme Court ruled 8-1 Monday in Uzuegbunam v.

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LegalReader

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Knowing the law can help you proceed with confidence in the aftermath of your car wreck.

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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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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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Above The Law

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Law360 ] * Litigation finance? Bloomberg Law News ] * Why is Trump’s judiciary continuing its assault on Voting Rights Act after John Roberts already set an outer bound on the law? Vox ] * John Eastman asks for a speedier trial in Georgia in a clumsy bid to give Trump a sneak peek at the evidence.

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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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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 27, 2023

Below is an expanded version of my Hill column on the Georgia call at the center of the recent indictment and the attack in the Washington Post by columnist Philip Bump, someone I have repeatedly criticized in the past for false and misleading stories. But that is not the case in Georgia. The Trump team wanted a new statewide recount.

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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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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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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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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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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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JonathanTurley

MARCH 9, 2021

If Georgia Gwinnett College wanted to foster greater unity in its use of “free speech zones,” it succeeded in prompting a near unanimous Supreme Court in ruling against it in favor of free speech this week. Georgia Gwinnett College seemed to grasp for any claim to keep the students from speaking.

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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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JURIST

APRIL 19, 2022

The new stipulation says that an Illinois ethics rule banning sex discrimination also apply when a lawyer discriminates against a transgender individual on the basis of sex in violation of a law or ordinance which uses the word sex encompassing gender identity or expression. To support her case, Ring cited the U.S.

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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

MARCH 6, 2023

Share The Supreme Court on Monday morning added a maritime law case to its docket for the 2023-24 term and invited the federal government to submit briefs expressing its views in two more cases. Based on that provision, the district court dismissed Raiders’ counterclaims that were based on Pennsylvania law. But the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 16, 2021

The Washington Post caused a stir last week after admitting that it published a false account of statements made by President Donald Trump in a call with a Georgia election investigator. The recording was found in a trash folder of the Georgia investigator and would not have been located absent the push from the WSJ.

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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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LegalReader

JULY 23, 2021

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

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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 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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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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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 28, 2021

His former law partner Michael Sussmann at Perkins Coie was recently indicted by Durham. Elias has been sanctioned in past litigation. He ironically created a law firm specializing in campaign ethics. He ironically created a law firm specializing in campaign ethics. He has given $53,680 to the Elias Law Group.

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JURIST

JULY 16, 2021

CEIR’s founder and executive director, David Becker (pictured left), spoke for about 45 minutes about current state efforts to delegitimize recent and future elections across the US, particularly in Arizona, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina and Texas. “We have more audits than ever before.

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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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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 5, 2021

Law has become a recreation and legal analysts have become part of the legal entertainment. Within minutes of the leaking of a call between Trump and Georgia election officials, the same experts were declaring yet another clear crime. Georgia is a one party consent state). He was not alone.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The Supreme Court on Friday rebuffed Texas’ request to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in four states – Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin – that provided key electoral votes to President-elect Joe Biden. In a brief order issued just before 6:30 p.m.,

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 30, 2022

Over the past week, the pre-litigation battle between Donald Trump and the Department of Justice intensified over the unlawful possession of 184 documents bearing classification markings, including 25 marked top secret that were retrieved from Mar-a-Lago back in January 2022 by the National Archives and Records Administration. Photo via CNN.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 27, 2022

Since becoming the Litigator-in-Chief, he added another 500 lawsuits, bringing his total to more than 4,000 civil lawsuits since 1973. The former president has been a consummate escape artist when it comes to his alleged violations of the law. The Houdini of White-Collar Crime. Trump has never been charged for any criminal offense.

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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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