SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Perhaps some of the justices will even enjoy a return to their law-school days, as they consider whether state or federal law should govern the enforceability of maritime choice-of-law clauses. If the court enforces the choice-of-law clause in the insurance contract, Raiders’ claim will be dismissed under New York law.

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At the Lectern

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Malcolm Maclachlan reports in today’s Daily Journal about impending state legislation to change the name of the UC Hastings law school because of recent focus on the institution’s founder, Serranus Hastings. In 1878, he donated $100,000 of his considerable wealth to found Hastings College of Law. 276-280, 348-350.).

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Patently O

APRIL 20, 2021

By David Hricik, Mercer Law School. The abstract of the opinion states: The ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct permit virtual practice, which is technologically enabled law practice beyond the traditional brick-and-mortar law firm.1 If you follow their guidance, you, in a sense, start off in safe harbor.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

United States felt like a legislation class in law school, with various canons of statutory construction being bandied about. Dubin concerns the reach of the federal aggravated identity theft statute and whether a person must steal another’s identity to commit the crime. But Fisher did not stop there.

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Above The Law

APRIL 19, 2023

Who reads all of the statute anyway? The post Clarence Thomas: The Convenient Textualist appeared first on Above the Law.

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LawSites

MARCH 11, 2024

Reasonable minds can quibble over that number – some say it is exaggerated – but no one doubts or disputes that the legal system falls dramatically short of serving those who need it, not just for those with low incomes, but also for the middle class and small businesses. The other is the continuing lack of public access to the law.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Yet, if a veteran fails to apply for those benefits within a year of discharge, they stand to lose thousands of dollars because the law currently does not permit equitable tolling – the doctrine that allows individuals, in some circumstances, to pursue a claim after a statutory deadline has expired. In Irwin v.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Indian law students are reporting for JURIST on law-related developments in and affecting India. This dispatch is from Nakul Rai Khurana, a law student at Jindal Global Law School. Several incumbents discussed and deliberated upon developments and practices of law and order.

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JURIST

APRIL 15, 2024

Gijs de Bra is a JURIST Assistant Editor and SCOTUS special correspondent, and a 2L at Cornell Law School. The party briefs mostly focused on the word “rewarded” in the statute. Justice Kagan asked if the required mental state in the statute helps to alleviate that concern. But that opened the door to further questions.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 14, 2023

Ardavan Arzendeh of the National University of Singapore present his paper on ‘Jurisdiction and Arbitration Clauses in the Same Contract’, evaluating the treatment of jurisdiction and arbitration clauses in the same contract through the law of England and Wales. Additionally, there is no indication of what law is appliable to this ground.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

who committed a criminal offense when they were minors may be subject to differing age-based restrictions on their access to firearms depending on the nature and severity of their juvenile offense; their age at the time of the offense; their state’s laws regarding firearm eligibility, and expungement of juvenile records. Adults in the U.S.

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JURIST

MARCH 25, 2022

The report, co-authored by Fortify Rights and the Schell Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School, is focused primarily on the six months following Myanmar’s 2021 military coup. The report charges military officials with violating Article 7 of the Rome Statute.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Share The Supreme Court on Monday appeared skeptical of a pair of laws in Texas and Florida that would regulate how large social media companies control content posted on their sites. Both laws were passed in the wake of the Jan. Two trade groups representing social media platforms went to federal court to challenge the laws.

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Conflict of Laws

JULY 19, 2021

A conference for a forthcoming Elgar Research Handbook on Extraterritoriality and International Law. Utrecht University (Utrecht Centre for Accountability and Liability Law). Indiana University Maurer School of Law. Rudy Professor of Law, Indiana University Maurer School of Law. The conference.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 23, 2023

The problem for Arellano was that a federal statute, 38 U.S.C. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit found that equitable tolling was not available to Arellano, but was split on whether the Section 5110(b)(1) was a statute of limitations, which presumes the availability of equitable tolling. The court also looked to United States v.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

It is written by Mark Chandler , former chief legal officer at Cisco Systems from 2001- 2021 and now a lecturer in law at Stanford Law School and a fellow at the Stanford’s Deborah L. Jess Lu is a third year law student at Stanford Law School and a Civil Justice Fellow at Stanford’s Deborah L.

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LawTechnologyToday

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Sarah Lawsky studies tax law, computational law, and the intersection of the two. She has also created a website that generates multiple-choice practice problems and selected tax code and regulation sections books for free for tax classes. At Northwestern, she teaches a range of tax classes.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Legal Research and Writing In my first year of studying Paralegal Studies, my school provided us with Westlaw/LexisNexis (legal research software) that we used for legal research purposes. The courses in legal research and writing equipped me with the ability to efficiently locate and analyze relevant statutes, regulations, and case law.

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Patently O

AUGUST 17, 2022

After law school, Brent worked both for Vorys Sater and then the USDOJ before being recruited as Senior Counsel by Sen Boxer where he spent lots of time on the America Invents Act. His work has principally focused in litigation and policy related to intellectual property, civil rights, employment and commercial law. Deputy Dir.

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Law Prose

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

As for the conscious mind, that part focuses mostly on the substantive points you need to make: the applicability of a statute, the caselaw on point, the policy rationales that bear on your conclusion, and (this is really important) the facts that invoke these legal considerations. That’s what law school teaches you.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 14, 2022

Do state laws permitting individuals to carry concealed weapons undermine federal legislation banning weapons in the vicinity of schools? Resolving the contradiction will require an amendment, according to a paper in the Texas Tech Law Review. candidate at the Texas Tech University School of Law and author of the paper.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 8, 2024

Lawyers, bar associations, and law societies have an important but not fully recognized role to play in achieving the net zero goal in the Paris Agreement. Climate Change as an Increasingly Common Feature of Law Practice Climate change is no longer an issue of concern only to environmental and energy lawyers. John Kerry, then U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 20, 2021

In a speech at Harvard Law School in 2015, Justice Elena Kagan told the audience that “we’re all textualists now” – that is, that any effort to interpret a statute begins (and often ends) with the language of the statute. Kannon Shanmugam argues for BP and other fossil fuel companies (Art Lien).

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 5, 2021

That’s a lesson worth applying to current strategies addressing the epidemic of gun violence, writes Benjamin Levin , an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Colorado Law School. Levin acknowledges there are key differences in enforcing laws related to guns and drugs.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 29, 2022

The use of the censored references led to a complaint in a letter from the Black Law Students Association and later a petition which called for Kilborn to be stripped of his committee assignments and other reforms. COUNT II Violation of University of Illinois Statutes. COUNT III Violation of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments.

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At the Lectern

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

At the Supreme Court’s conference yesterday, there were no straight grants , but there were actions of note, including: Law school renaming. Faigman , an appeal in a lawsuit against the State and a law school’s officials challenging the constitutionality of legislation that changed the law school’s name.

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LawTechnologyToday

AUGUST 3, 2022

Dyane O’Leary is the Associate Professor of Legal Writing; Director Legal Innovation & Technology Concentration at Suffolk University Law School. They are just as fundamental for the modern law student as drafting a case brief or preparing an office memorandum. Research today means so much more than primary law.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 16, 2022

Prosecutors had argued that the claim was spurious on the grounds that the teenager’s decision to bring an AR-15 to the protest made him an “initial aggressor” under Wisconsin law. jurisprudence, according to a forthcoming Legal Studies Research Paper published under the auspices of George Washington University Law School.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2022

One is the justices’ law clerks, who are once again relegated to the alcoves on the right side of the courtroom. Groups from New York Law School (not to be confused with New York University Law School, I am reminded whenever I interview a professor from the former) and the New York City Law Department are sworn in.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2021

As Wooden’s counsel, Allon Kedem, remarked, the argument felt like a law school exam, with the justices presenting various hypotheticals to tease out what the different-occasions clause means. In the same vein, Justice Sonia Sotomayor suggested the statute might be “so vague” that it is “incapable of rational application.”

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At the Lectern

JANUARY 25, 2024

Maybe the Courts of Appeal are doing a great job of clarifying the law because the Supreme Court yesterday had its fourth conference in a row without a straight grant. The petition , filed by Stanford Law School’s Three Strikes Project, stated the issue was, “What is the standard to be applied by the Board of Parole Hearings.

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Conflict of Laws

JUNE 28, 2023

This post is by Maggie Gardner, a professor of law at Cornell Law School. Supreme Court yesterday upheld the constitutionality of Pennsylvania’s corporate registration statute, even though it requires out-of-state corporations registering to do business within the state to consent to all-purpose (general) personal jurisdiction.

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Patently O

DECEMBER 19, 2022

By David Hricik, Mercer Law School. When Congress is considering a bill that changes an existing statute, the bill does not show new language by underlining and deletions to existing text by strike throughs. Background to this interesting case.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

It will also add to the court’s precedent on the interaction between the law of equity and the technicalities of federal statutes. Partly because of the circuit split and partly because of the statute’s lack of clarity, this could be a close case. Department of Veterans Affairs. How can the presumption be rebutted?

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 21, 2022

Despite the intense focus on police misconduct, “there is surprisingly little understanding” of the impact of personnel management policies on law enforcement behavior, argues a Northwestern University law professor. This is exacerbated considering that standards to join law enforcement vary dramatically across the United States.

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 2, 2024

It explicitly prohibited using mediation as a means of justice for such crimes, a notable departure from previous Spanish laws. The paper offers an in-depth analysis of the most recent literature and case-law on this instrument. Un’introduzione in chiave comparata ( Mechanisms of consensual justice in Brazilian procedural law.

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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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