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Student Fights in Maryland County Schools Prompt Questionable Surveillance by Homeland Security

The Crime Report

Civil right and legal advocates said that they had not heard previously of homeland security offices surveilling students following school fights and warned that teenagers would likely have little idea of how their information is later used.

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Georgia Students Shut Down Congressman in Latest “Deplatforming”

JonathanTurley

This follows incidents discussed this week involving student protests at Tulane and Maryland. Collins attempted to discuss the recent death of Laken Riley, who was allegedly murdered by an illegal immigrant while jogging at the University of Georgia. ” Others attacked him for his support of Israel.

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Reflections on ReInvent Law Silicon Valley @ 10 Years – Part 2

LawSites

Chas Rampenthal, Chief Legal Officer, Dinari Chas is a founder and the chief legal officer of Dinari, a smart contract start-up. Chas is an outspoken advocate of transformation in the legal industry, inspiring increased access to legal services through technology and new business models.

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Relist-palooza: Religious exercise, the False Claims Act, takings clause, RICO, bank secrecy, and more

SCOTUSBlog

Younger involves a very basic issue of how to preserve a legal issue for appeal — here, whether a prison official appealing a jury verdict against him can raise a purely legal defense not asserted at trial. Natural Resources Defense Council to the Board of Immigration Appeals’ interpretation of that phrase.

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The Census Case: Did The Court Reject Micromanagement But Embrace Microaggression?

JonathanTurley

The Memorandum stated that “it is the policy of the United States to exclude from the apportionment base aliens who are not in a lawful immigration status under the Immigration and Nationality Act, as amended, to the maximum extent feasible and consistent with the discretion delegated to the executive branch.” 44,679 (July 23, 2020).

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Relist Watch

SCOTUSBlog

Under the Immigration and Nationality Act , immigrants can be denied green cards if, “in the opinion of” the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, the person is “likely at any time to become a public charge.” Maryland , 20-101. Department of Homeland Security v. New York , 20-449 , and Wolf v. 15 conference).

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August 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Washington Supreme Court Said Climate Activist Was Entitled to Present Necessity Defense Based on Evidence that Legal Alternatives Were Not “Truly Reasonable”. Ninth Circuit Affirmed Rejection of NEPA Challenges to Immigration Policies. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 148. FEATURED CASE. Biden , No.

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