The Crime Report

JANUARY 21, 2022

Schanzenbach , the Seigle Family Professor of Law at Northwestern University’s Pritzger School of Law, says the high job security and union protections afforded police make it difficult for law enforcement managers to impose policies that could reduce police misconduct. from Yale Law School and his Ph.D.

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Unsurprisingly, the cruise then spawned an inquiry and a class action against Carnival plc (Carnival) as charterer and operator of the Ruby Princess, and Princess Cruise Lines Ltd, the Bermuda-registered subsidiary and vessel owner. Statute has left little of the common law untouched.

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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. So exactly why would that question ever matter?

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 23, 2018

Climate change nuisance litigation is entering a new and dynamic phase. a consolidated case in which Oakland and San Francisco claim that five fossil fuel companies’ production and promotion of fossil fuels constitutes a public nuisance under federal and California common law. By Michael Burger. BP P.L.C. , BP P.L.C. ,

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 8, 2024

Because the effects of climate change fall most heavily on the poor, people of color, people living in vulnerable and low-lying areas, and the elderly, lawyers representing them increasingly and with greater success resort to human rights and civil rights law. John Kerry, then U.S.

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Conflict of Laws

JULY 19, 2021

Cedric Ryngaert , Professor of Public International Law, Utrecht University School of Law. International Jurisdictional Law. Michael Wood , Barrister, Twenty Essex Chambers & UN International Law Commission. Omri Sender , Advisor and Litigator in Public International Law. Environmental Law.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 14, 2023

The presentation suggested a more defensible course of action in such a situation: Courts should approve both the clauses and give a choice to the parties to pursue the matter either through litigation or arbitration. Ana Coimba Trigo of the NOVA School of law presented her paper on ‘Deference or Distrust?

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Paralegal Mentor

MAY 15, 2014

Cooley Law School. We discuss the Innocence Project and the Post Conviction DNA Testing Statutes that opened the door for exoneration of the innocent around the country. Professor Mitchell’s litigation experience includes practicing before the U.S. She serves as the project’s co-director.

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At the Lectern

MARCH 11, 2022

It noted that the issue has been extensively litigated in the federal courts and in other states, and said its holding was consistent with “[t]he overwhelming majority of federal district court cases. ” The opinion also mentioned the University of Pennsylvania Law School’s Covid Coverage Litigation Tracker website.

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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. But the Texas statute, and the rationales set forth in English and Duke , are outliers.” The majority opinion in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v.

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Patently O

AUGUST 4, 2021

They include such issues as whether (and how) Dr. Thaler obtained authorization from DABUS to file the patent application, and whether the patent statutes include a requirement that inventors be human. involves looking at the challenges posed by AI technology to South African patent law and what the potential solutions may be.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Researchers at the Quattrone Center, based at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, created what they said was a unique dataset of 4,644 opinions in which allegations of misconduct were raised in the more than 1.5 million judicial opinions published between 2000 and 2016 by federal and state courts in Pennsylvania.

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Patently O

JULY 2, 2023

Moreover, the regional circuit cases that do exist usually involve fact patterns wildly dissimilar from patent litigation, making that precedent unhelpful in the patent context. The paucity of relevant binding precedent has led both district judges and Federal Circuit judges to essentially guess about what “what the law is.”

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Patently O

MARCH 24, 2022

Editors note – I invited Professor Nina Mendelson (University of Michigan Law School) to author a guest post after reading her 2020 Admin. Law Review article titled “ The Permissibility of Acting Officials: May the President Work Around Senate Confirmation? 1) The litigation background. — Dennis Crouch.

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Patently O

JULY 6, 2023

By Sarah Burstein, Professor of Law at Suffolk University Law School LKQ Corp. But the statute says nothing about legal “doctrines.” Some might argue that we could just let litigants chop up design patent claims into “elements” in litigation and let them fight it out utility-patent style. GM Global Tech. ,

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LawTechnologyToday

MARCH 3, 2023

Much like a good litigator, it was able to take either position on an issue and put together coherent arguments for that position. It was also completely unable to answer any legal questions that related to a particular statute or citation and was generally unable to grasp the substance of the underlying issue.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 20, 2021

The charges are connected to the prior controversy and raise serious free speech and retaliatory concerns at the law school. . Sharma was targeted at UNC Law School because he would not agree that a recent exchange between law students involved a racial insult. General Construction Co. , 269 U.S.

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 24, 2023

This post is by Carlos Manuel Vázquez , a professor of law at Georgetown Law School. It is cross-posted at Transnational Litigation Blog. But statutes of limitations often begin to run when the original owner discovers the location of the stolen property.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 8, 2023

The Securities and Exchange Commission regulations on climate disclosure, first proposed in March 2022 and likely to be issued in final form in October 2023, [1] have drawn considerable controversy and face an uncertain fate in the inevitable litigation. [2] 4] The new corporate climate disclosure bills may well continue that tradition.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

The Autonomy acquisition turned into a fiasco for HP due to alleged accounting improprieties by Autonomy, resulting in both litigation and a write-down of nearly $8.8 Meanwhile, many pro se litigants faced hurdles due to their lack of high-speed internet service or computers or because of disabilities or limited English proficiency.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 17, 2023

Long before the opinion was released, universities were already sensing that the use of race in admissions was coming to an end after decades of intense litigation. He told students : “I’ll give you an example from our law school, but if ever I’m deposed, I’m going to deny I said this to you.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

The Autonomy acquisition turned into a fiasco for HP due to alleged accounting improprieties by Autonomy, resulting in both litigation and a write-down of nearly $8.8 Meanwhile, many pro se litigants faced hurdles due to their lack of high-speed internet service or computers or because of disabilities or limited English proficiency.

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MyCase

JANUARY 24, 2024

For insights on AI’s ethical and technical implications in law, consider LawPay’s recent CLE webinar on the subject , hosted by lawyer and ethics expert Claude Ducloux. This not only accelerates the litigation preparation process but also significantly cuts down on manpower and resources.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 25, 2021

This week, Jessica Levinson, a clinical professor of law at Loyola Marymount Law School in Los Angeles, wrote a column for MSNBC entitled “Covid Vaccine Religious Exemptions Should Not Exist.” That, however, is precisely what these litigants are seeking to raise.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2022

In 1973, Beckwith was a recent graduate of law school and was working as a political reporter for TIME magazine. Dellinger was a longtime faculty member at Duke Law School, and he founded the appellate practice at O’Melveny & Myers. And in 1981, she wrote one of the first law-review articles on domestic violence.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Cohen – who first met the Lovings when he was just 29 – filed a lawsuit on their behalf, challenging the Virginia law and similar state statutes as violating the 14th Amendment. Virginia , the court did find the statute unconstitutional. He and his co-counsel, Philip Hirschkop, took the case to the Supreme Court. 29, 1941 – Nov.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 12, 2022

Users have wielded that functionality for all sorts of ends: to report on Russia’s war in real-time; to coordinate an Arab Spring; to rally for an American coup d’état; to share pictures of food, memes, and endless screams ; and to share conflict of laws scholarship. The law applicable to online dignity.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 9, 2023

Newsom cited the kidnapping statute but apparently failed to read it or the underlying cases. While civil litigation is ongoing, the supposedly clear criminal charges have not been brought by Democratic prosecutors clearly motivated to do so. The reason is that these claims are made for cable news, not courts of law.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 19, 2022

She later was accepted at Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University, a favorite target for ATL ( and Rubino ) and other sites for its conservative leanings. Those earlier sources relied upon by sites like Mediaite could find themselves the subject of discovery if this now goes to litigation.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 9, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. s consumer protection statute. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Koati. and non-U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 26, 2022

After Harvard, Kruger went to Yale Law School, where she was the editor in chief of the Yale Law Journal – the first Black woman to hold that job. During law school, Kruger spent one summer as an intern for the U.S. as “only jealousy.”. A stint in the Obama administration, including arguments at the Supreme Court.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Featured prominently on the law school’s website , the article pushes a similar proposal made in the Washington Post in 2015 by Theodore Johnson, a senior fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice. Ironically, the proposals would upend decades of civil rights litigation to defend the “one man, one vote” principle.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Moreover, Hunter has tried a wide array of approaches to these allegations of influence peddling, from a plea for sympathy to threats of litigation. Thus far, he has received every break from federal prosecutors, from expired statutes of limitations to reported tip-offs on investigators’ interviews. That may now change.

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 15, 2024

Now Bragg is bringing a case that has taken years to develop and millions of dollars in litigation costs for all parties. That is all over a crime from before the 2016 election that is a misdemeanor under state law that had already expired under the statute of limitations. However, two prosecutors, Carey R.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 12, 2023

There are a variety of challenges expected from the Trump team, including arguing that the government misused the civil statute of the Presidential Records Act to launch a criminal prosecution. Under the statute, this responsibility is left solely to the president.” The Trump team is likely to litigate that and other questions.

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