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California’s Chief Justice Faults Legislature and Lawyer Lobbying for Blocking Movement on Regulatory Reforms

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During a question-and-answer session following her speech, I asked her about the stalled efforts to bring about reform in California and what the Supreme Court could do to move the issue forward, particularly in light of the leading roles taken by the supreme courts of Arizona and Utah to bring about reforms in those states.

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The 10 Legal Tech Trends that Defined 2021

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Do lawyers return to the office or not? I asked her if Utah and Arizona were the first dominoes that would set off a chain reaction of other states following suit. Others were blocked out of courts by archaic rules that prevented individuals without lawyers from filing documents electronically. Do courts fully reopen or not?

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‘Planning for Losing’: A Lesson on Justice Reform from Afghanistan

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A National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers report , for example, found that the average sentence for fraud defendants who went to trial in 2015 was three times higher than the sentence for those who pleaded guilty; for defendants charged with burglary and embezzlement, the sentence at trial was almost eight times higher.

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Trump’s Liability Or Opportunity? Two Capitol Police Officers Sue Trump Over Capitol Riot

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attorney Patrick Malone, who previously filed ethics complaints against lawyers representing the Trump campaign or the Republican party. Trump lawyers many view this lawsuit as a greater opportunity than a liability for their client. COUNT FOUR (Violation of a Public Safety Statute: D.C. Code § 22-1322 – Incitement to Riot).

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The 10 Legal Tech Trends that Defined 2021

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Do lawyers return to the office or not? I asked her if Utah and Arizona were the first dominoes that would set off a chain reaction of other states following suit. Others were blocked out of courts by archaic rules that prevented individuals without lawyers from filing documents electronically. Do courts fully reopen or not?

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We read all the amicus briefs in Dobbs so you don’t have to

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Three Republican senators – Josh Hawley of Missouri, Mike Lee of Utah, and Ted Cruz of Texas – write that a precedent can be unworkable due to “a history of confusion in the lower courts, an unstable pattern of Supreme Court decisions, and a persistent lack of judicially manageable standards.” 1 in support of that law.

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August 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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The court also noted that states and localities “expressly maintain control over the local distribution of natural gas under related federal statutes” such as the Natural Gas Act. holding that the scope of appellate review of remand orders extended beyond review of removal based on the federal-officer removal statute.

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