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What to Do About Power of Attorney Abuse in California

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Power of attorney is, as the name implies, powerful. This makes it ripe for abuse if the wrong person acquires that power, and it also means the position has to be subject to a lot of scrutiny even when it's in good hands. Perhaps you have gotten power of attorney and simply want to be [.].

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Prison’s Wounded Healers

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How about we try something else? How about we try the thing that’s never tried?”. If we don’t deal with the mental health aspect of it, what good is [having a] job?” Shawanna Vaughn fights prisons with equal amounts of forgiveness and fury. She even extends forgiveness to the man who killed her brother.

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The School That Calls the Police on Students Every Other Day

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Many have experienced horrifying trauma, including sexual abuse, the death of parents and incarceration of family members, according to interviews with families and school employees. This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom.

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‘We Must Dispel the Myth That We Always Get It Right’

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This week, Patricia Cummings, a national leader in the innocence movement and the former supervisor of the Conviction Integrity and Special Investigations Unit at the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office, takes the helm of the National Registry of Exonerations. She becomes the Registry’s first executive director at an opportune moment.

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Policing Pregnancy: Wisconsin’s ‘Fetal Protection’ Law Forces Women Into Treatment or Jail

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Its legal proceedings take place out of public view, under seal, with a low standard of evidence and often a court-appointed attorney for the fetus — but none for the person gestating it. Tamara Loertscher arrived at the Mayo Clinic Health System in Eau Claire, Wisconsin on Aug. 1, 2014 despondent. Severe hypothyroidism fueled her anguish.

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November 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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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. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts. If you know of any cases we have missed, please email us at columbiaclimate@gmail.com. FEATURED CASE. Chernaik v. Brown , No.

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Twitter sues Texas AG alleging retaliation for Trump ban

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The 19-page complaint , filed in California federal court, alleges that over the past three years, “AG Paxton has expressed interest in using the powers of his office” to address a supposed bias in Twitter’s editorial decisions. ” The other companies were Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple. .”

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