EvidenceProf Blog
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
This will be the biggest week for the Adnan Syed case in a long time. On Wednesday, Adnan will have his Juvenile Restoration Act hearing, and Baltimore City State's Attorney Ivan Bates has promised that this week will also feature.
JURIST
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
Amnesty International on Thursday welcomed the acquittal of prominent refugee rights lawyer and former chair of the organization’s Trkiye branch, Taner Kl , following an eight-year judicial process but expressed concern over continued repression of human rights activists. In its statement, the human rights organization said that Kl’s case exemplifies the Turkish authorities’ attempts to criminalize human rights advocacy through politically motivated prosecutions.
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JURIST
FEBRUARY 22, 2025
The Taliban announced on Thursday that Afghanistan would no longer recognize the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC) , asserting that Afghanistan’s 2003 accession to the Rome Statute is declared to be legally void after ICC prosecutor Karim Khan sought arrest warrants for Taliban Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada and the Chief Justice of Afghanistan Abdul Hakim Haqqani last month.
SCOTUSBlog
FEBRUARY 25, 2025
Share The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that Richard Glossip, who is on death row in Oklahoma for his role in the 1997 murder of motel owner Barry Van Treese, should get a new trial. In a decision by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the majority agreed that prosecutors violated their obligation to correct false testimony, and that the jury might not have sentenced him to death if the testimony had been corrected.
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Above The Law
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
The federal judiciary — which employs more than 30,000 people, including several thousand judicial law clerks — is the most dangerous white-collar workplace in America. The toxic combination of pervasive harassment ; lack of outside, impartial oversight ; and dearth of impartial, effective mechanisms to report create an outrageous lack of accountability.
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EvidenceProf Blog
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
Yesterday, Baltimore City State's Attorney Ivan Bates moved to withdraw the Motion to Vacate in the Adnan Syed case. There are two parts of the motion to withdraw: (1) the question of whether there was a Brady violation; and (2).
SCOTUSBlog
FEBRUARY 25, 2025
Share The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that a group of Virginia drivers challenging a state motor vehicle law was not entitled to reimbursement of their attorneys fees even though a federal district court issued an order in their favor that temporarily prohibited the state from enforcing the law and the states legislature repealed the law. By a vote of 7-2, the court held that the drivers are not prevailing parties for purposes of a federal law that allows the winners in some civil rights case
ClimateChange-ClimateLaw
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
In Japan, climate litigation ( / Kiko soshou ) has been used to challenge the legality of the construction and operation of the coal-fired power plants and promote coal phase-out. The first climate case in Japan was filed in Sendai in 2017 ( Sendai Citizens v. Sendai Power Station ). Subsequently, two administrative cases were filed, one in Kobe in 2018 ( Citizens Committee on the Kobe Coal-Fired Power Plant v.
Above The Law
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
This week, UnitedHealth Group faced two new investigations from federal lawmakers. The first was a senators probe into its Medicare Advantage billing practices, and the second was a Congressman’s investigation into a decline in care quality at Optum-owned clinics in New York. The post UnitedHealth Hit with 2 New Federal Probes in 1 Week appeared first on MedCity News.
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JURIST
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
Australia’s eSafety Commission imposed on Monday an almost $1 million (equivalent to US$640,000) fine on the encrypted messaging platform Telegram for its failure to timely respond to the concerned regulatory inquiries regarding its efforts to combat child abuse and extremist content. In March 2024, the commission mandated Telegram and other tech firms, including Meta and Google, to disclose measures undertaken by the firms to prevent the spread of harmful materials.
EvidenceProf Blog
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
Mississippi Rule of Evidence 702 provides that A witness who is qualified as an expert by knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education may testify in the form of an opinion or otherwise if: (a) the experts scientific, technical, or other.
SCOTUSBlog
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
Share The Supreme Court on Wednesday was sympathetic to an Ohio woman who alleges that she was the victim of reverse discrimination. Marlean Ames contends that she lost out on a promotion that she wanted, and then was demoted, simply because she is straight. With Ames and her employer in what Justice Neil Gorsuch described as radical agreement that federal employment laws impose the same requirements on all plaintiffs, a solid majority (if not all) of the justices appeared ready to overturn a ru
LawSites
FEBRUARY 25, 2025
You may have heard the news earlier this month that attorneys at plaintiffs law firm Morgan & Morgan the 42nd largest U.S. law firm by headcount were facing sanctions over their submission of court filings containing fake legal cases generated by artificial intelligence. Now, the Wyoming federal judge presiding over the case, U.S.
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Above The Law
FEBRUARY 25, 2025
Prospective law students, current law students, and law school alumni are eagerly awaiting the release of the 2025 U.S. News Law School Rankings, which usually occurs sometime in March. Will U.S. News dare to change its rankings methodology yet again? We suppose well have to wait and see but what if we told you that we had an admissions-based preview of those rankings?
JURIST
FEBRUARY 25, 2025
The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled Tuesday that Google’s decision to deny developer Enel’s JuicePass app access to Android Auto’s platform was an abuse of market power. Initially launched in 2018 by Italian parent company Enel, JuicePass enables drivers to find and reserve electric vehicle charging stations worldwide.
EvidenceProf Blog
FEBRUARY 25, 2025
Yesterday, the Ninth Circuit upheld the fraud convictions for Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes. For those unfamiliar with Holmes and Theranos, the opening to the Ninth Circuit's opinion lays out the facts pretty well: [O]ne tiny drop changes everything. That was.
SCOTUSBlog
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
Share On Tuesday, Feb. 25, we will be live blogging as the court releases opinions in one or more argued cases from the current term. Click here for a list of FAQs about opinion announcements. The post Announcement of opinions for Tuesday, Feb. 25 appeared first on SCOTUSblog.
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HowAppealing
FEBRUARY 22, 2025
“Supreme Court Rejects Holocaust Survivors Suit Against Hungary; The justices unanimously ruled that the plaintiffs had not established a connection to the United States required by the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report. And Maureen Groppe of USA Today has an article headlined “ Unemployment benefits: Supreme Court says these workers can sue over delays; State labor departments are supposed to issue most of the of first payment
Above The Law
FEBRUARY 25, 2025
Last week, I presented Part I of my written interview with Lindzee Barrera, a former Division I college golfer turned entrepreneur. That column presented her answer to the first of my three questions and focused on the current state of play for Lindzee and her company, Birdie Girl , on the trademark litigation front. What follows are Lindzees answers to my remaining two questions.
JURIST
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
Conservative criminal reform advocacy group Right on Crime urged lawmakers to reform the criminal mental state requirement in federal criminal codes in a report published on Thursday. The report also criticized the proliferation of laws that require no specific mental state as contributing to over-criminalization in the country. Right on Crime contends that “there has been an explosion of criminal laws passed by Congress and promulgated by federal executive agencies” where mens rea r
Law 360
FEBRUARY 25, 2025
The Delaware Supreme Court's recent Maffei v. Palkon ruling regarding TripAdvisor's proposed reincorporation to Nevada potentially signals a turning point in the trend of expanding the protections from Kahn v. M&F Worldwide to other types of transactions, says Andrew J. Haile at Elon University.
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SCOTUSBlog
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
Share The Supreme Court on Monday was divided over whether a Texas man on death row has a legal right to sue, known as standing, to bring federal civil rights claims challenging the constitutionality of the Texas laws governing DNA testing. Ruben Gutierrez is trying to obtain DNA testing of evidence that he says would clear him, but it was unclear whether a majority of the justices agreed that his challenge should be allowed to move forward.
HowAppealing
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
“Death penalty DNA debacle sparks broader questions over compliance with court orders ; Several Supreme Court justices worried that a low-profile death penalty appeal could upend fundamental judicial principles”: Kelsey Reichmann of Courthouse News Service has this report. And Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson of Bloomberg Law reports that “ US Supreme Court Weighs DNA Evidence for Death Row Defendant; Case over whether lack of DNA testing can be challenged; Justices decided simila
Above The Law
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
Alex Spiro (Photo by Marlena Sloss/Bloomberg via Getty Images) How much do you think it costs to hire one of the busiest, most “relentless” Biglaw partners in the game? If you guessed $2,000 an hour, you’d be wrong. You need to go even higher if you want to get representation from a lawyer whose clients include the likes of Tesla CEO Elon Musk and famed actor Alec Baldwin.
JURIST
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned the murder conviction of Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip, ordering a new trial after it was found the state withheld evidence related to its main witness. In a 6-3 ruling, the Supreme Court found the prosecutors had a constitutional obligation to correct false testimony given during trial after it came to light the prosecution in Glossip’s case “knowingly elicited false testimony … and failed to correct it,” according t
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