SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 29, 2022

Share This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, a capital defendant’s request for habeas relief on the ground that his lawyer conceded guilt over his objection, as in 2018’s McCoy v. After McCoy , Tyler unsuccessfully sought relief in Louisiana state courts. In Tyler v.

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LawSites

JULY 12, 2022

If you are looking for a scorecard naming those who are leading the charge on innovation in law, you can do no better than the Fastcase 50 , the annual listing by the legal intelligence company Fastcase that honors 50 of the law’s “smartest, most courageous, innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders.”.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

In Louisiana, police arrested a man, Arthur Bates Jr., Such staged accidents are also the work of professional gangs who work with unscrupulous lawyers, including staged moving accidents to force unsuspecting drivers into read-end collisions. 47, who they allege staged such an accident. 348, §1, eff. May 20, 2018.

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LegalReader

JANUARY 27, 2022

Louisiana drivers have a duty to report any accident to the state that involves injury, or property damage that exceeds $500.

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LegalReader

AUGUST 22, 2022

In Louisiana, any individual who suffers an injury will have to ensure they follow the strictly regulated time limit on filing their claim.

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LegalReader

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Based on the severity of your injury, you need to weigh up the pros and cons of going through a lawsuit with the potential payout of a settlement. .

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LawSites

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Attorneys practicing divorce and family law have certain basic needs. It also integrates with Dropbox, for lawyers who prefer to store their documents there.) In the years since, that product was subsumed into DivorceHelp123, which itself started as a Colorado-specific product but evolved into a product for lawyers in any state.

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LawSites

JULY 12, 2021

If you are wondering where the innovators are in law, look no farther than the Fastcase 50, the annual award doled out by the legal intelligence company Fastcase that honors 50 of the law’s “smartest, most courageous, innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders.”. Ben Crump, Founder , Ben Crump Law, PLLC. Chin, Justice (ret.),

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Court-MartialTrialPractice

MAY 9, 2023

Military lawyers know that since the Supreme Court decided Ramos v. Louisiana , the U. That is the current law in the military, but it is being challenged. military is the only federal jurisdiction that does not require unanimous findings of guilt. Article 29. Three-fourths of the members must vote for a finding of guilty.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Simmons was declared innocent and released in July after prosecutors agreed that key evidence in his case was not turned over to his defense lawyers. Simmons has maintained his innocence, saying he was in Louisiana at the time of the 1974 slaying of Carolyn Sue Rogers inside an Edmond liquor store.

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LawSites

JANUARY 25, 2023

to serve as a lawyer’s virtual legal assistant, able to help with researching legal issues, drafting emails and letters, summarizing documents, brainstorming blog ideas, and even just conversational chatting. In the example you see above of using Copilot for legal research, the lawyer asks for the leading U.S. Legal research.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

A woman is suing three Louisiana universities including Louisiana State University, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Louisiana Tech University and the Lafayette police department for failing to report sexual assault allegations against a student who jumped between the schools, Andrew Capps reports for USA Today. .

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Attorney at Work

OCTOBER 28, 2022

On the latest episode of the Digital Edge , Shawn Holahan, Practice Management Counsel for the Louisiana State Bar, joined podcast hosts Jim Calloway and Sharon Nelson to discuss the nuts and bolts of keeping your firm afloat when all hell is breaking loose. And most lawyers just can’t pull off the dance moves. The Horror!

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 24, 2022

hours per workday, and lawyers in Oregon would need to put in 26.6 These are all poor people that do not have the resources to hire a lawyer,” Oregon Department of Public Security’s executive director Steve Singer told OPB. “We ” New Mexico and Oregon. per workday, the reports detailed, as noted by Law360.

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The Crime Report

MAY 18, 2021

That not only amounts to a reversal of a precedent set earlier by the Court, but is an “alarming” step back in protecting juveniles, say Arthur Ago and Rochelle Swartz of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. In Miller v. Four years later, in Montgomery v. Photo courtesy Mississippi Department of Corrections.

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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. When I imagine a foreign lawyer trying to explain this system to a foreign client, my heart fills with pity. The law on this subject is complicated. They apply federal common law.

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CourtTechBulletin

DECEMBER 16, 2021

There are also links to legal forms, civil legal aid programs, and mediation services, and efiling: [link] The Louisiana courts are served by the Louisiana Bar Foundation LouisianaLawHelp.org website that in turn addresses many topics. There is a lot of information there.

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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. The ruling was narrow in scope. Austin Sarat.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Unlike when the court is open, he could not observe and draw the lawyers arguing cases in real time. And he’s got a box of markers and Black’s Law Dictionary there.”. Lien sketched Louisiana Solicitor General Elizabeth Murrill, who faced off against Bélanger in Edwards v. Louisiana Solicitor General Elizabeth Murrill, Edwards v.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 14, 2023

They had no lawyers and were threatened with being released to a lynch mob if they didn’t confess. Twenty-seven states still have the death penalty after rewriting their laws to comply with the court’s ruling. Posthumous pardons have lists of innocent and wrongly convicted people put to death. Humane executions do not exist.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 6, 2021

If litigated, the state’s nuanced dog liability laws would come into effect. Indeed, that was the evidence used in the famous case from San Francisco involving lawyers and dog owners Marjorie Knoller and Robert Noel. Pennsylvania has a quirky set of laws. She was watching the dogs for her roommate. Rosenberry v.

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Day on Torts

MAY 31, 2022

Before filing suit, plaintiff consulted with a friend who was an attorney in Louisiana. When that friend could not find a Tennessee lawyer to take her case before the statute of limitations ran out, he sent her a sample pre-suit notice form. Plaintiff thereafter filed this HCLA suit. This opinion was released 3.5

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 30, 2023

United States , involving a separation of powers challenge to the appointment of private lawyers to prosecute a contempt of court. The Chevron doctrine calls on courts to defer to federal agencies’ interpretations of ambiguous laws. But all was not sweetness and light. The court denied review to five-time relist Donziger v. 17 and Mar.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Atlanta Legal Aid Society will use a $267,374 grant to enhance its intake and client interview systems to allow staff and volunteers to conduct centralized intake, screening and legal advice for family law applicants. Here is the complete list of 2021 TIG grants: Alaska .

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LawSites

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The invite-only program, capped at 250 participants, was billed as the “highly-curated event for innovators who are transforming the world of law.” Attendees included early-stage startups, veteran CEOs, major investors, law firm chairs, corporate general counsel, and others. While most were from the U.S.,

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JonathanTurley

APRIL 18, 2022

When I was clerking in Louisiana after graduating law school, there was story of a rather notorious local judge asking counsel in a criminal case if he was ready to present the case of the defendant. That law has been treated as dormant given the 1973 decision in Roe v. Gleicher was appointed by Gov.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Atlanta Legal Aid Society will use a $267,374 grant to enhance its intake and client interview systems to allow staff and volunteers to conduct centralized intake, screening and legal advice for family law applicants. Here is the complete list of 2021 TIG grants: Alaska .

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 8, 2022

Earlier this term, the court took the unusual step of ordering full briefing and hearing argument in an emergency request seeking to block Texas’ anti-abortion law. The audio for the two lawyers appearing remotely is over a telephone line and a bit scratchy. Your honor, I think that … those are shifting sands,” Murrill says.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 6, 2024

Here’s the Monday morning read: Black voters won a big victory in Louisiana.

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Broadcast Law Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2021

However, as always, stay in touch with your station’s lawyers and other regulatory advisors for the dates applicable to your operations. As the holiday season comes to an end and 2022 comes into focus, broadcasters have several dates and deadlines to keep up with in January and early February.

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LawTechnologyToday

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Amanda Brown is the Executive Director of the Lagniappe Law Lab. Young lawyer turned legal tech geek. Lagniappe Law Lab has been remote-first from the start, so the work-from-home lifestyle was nothing out of the ordinary. My current focus is building out public-facing digital infrastructure for civil justice in Louisiana.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 31, 2024

In an apparent effort to create perpetual full employment for federal sentencing lawyers , the Supreme Court long ago adopted a “categorical approach” to determine whether a predicate offense qualifies as a crime of violence under Section 924(c)(3)(A) (as well as under the Armed Career Criminal Act, codified at Section 924(e)).

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ALPS

APRIL 28, 2021

Many states permit lawyers to include in their engagement agreements arbitration provisions which would require potential clients to arbitrate future malpractice claims. It is an issue with which many states are now grappling, so it would behoove lawyers to check the law in their own states if they are considering including such a clause.

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Above The Law

JUNE 27, 2023

American Lawyer ] * Legal departments preparing for a sharp uptick in litigation. The Guardian ] * Louisiana lawyer bought 8,888 Jell-O shots. While that sounds like a normal Monday in Louisiana, in this case it was a charity event for the College World Series. WDSU ] * Convict punches lawyer after conviction. [

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LegalTalkNetwork

MARCH 8, 2019

Thanks to our recent audio coverage and a related Above The Law article (hat-tip Bob Ambrogi ), I learned that the first ABA TECHSHOW took place in 1986, the same year our culture met Oprah Winfrey, had “ the need for speed ”, and was graced with the birth of Lady Gaga. Sara Agate, MPH (@sara_agate) March 2, 2019. . But so what?

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 7, 2022

In addition, for the first time since the court’s return to in-person arguments, two of the six lawyers participated by phone. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, that a law passed by Congress 50 years ago giving OSHA general powers gives the agency “free rein” to issue a policy of this magnitude. It’s “hard to argue,” he told U.S.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

Lawyers objected but the judge let the testimony in. It can be next to impossible to see how law enforcement — in league with paid, self-styled “experts” — spreads new, often unproven methods. People like Faria, defense lawyers and sometimes even the judges are blindsided. Faria was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.

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