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SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

Professor Helena Way, a migration law academic from the University of Exeter, orchestrated the letter, and over 100 legal academics signed it. The post UK legal academics call for the government to stop ‘attacking’ migration lawyers appeared first on JURIST - News. The open letter expressed solidarity with Ms.

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Diane Drain

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Diane is honored by Legal Services Corp – Pro Bono Service Award for establishing the Self Help Center at the Arizona Bankruptcy Court. The LSC is an independent nonprofit established by Congress in 1974 to provide financial support for civil legal aid to low-income Americans. Drain, who founded the Law Office of D.L. Drain, P.A.

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JANUARY 13, 2024

In 2020, the US District Court for the District of Oregon Medford Division ruled in favor of the plaintiffs, stating that the current language of the municipal code violated the 8th Amendment. The post US Supreme Court to hear arguments on legality of banning encampments on public land appeared first on JURIST - News.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Human rights organizations sounded the alarm on Tuesday over the deteriorating health of Chinese legal scholar and human rights lawyer Xu Zhiyong, who has been on a hunger strike for nearly a month to protest his ongoing ill-treatment in detention.

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APRIL 11, 2024

While the last few years have brought an abundance of new and innovative legal tech products to market, the fact of the matter is that not every new product will succeed. Let’s revisit five of the most momentous legal tech fails of the last 10 years. Let’s revisit five of the most momentous legal tech fails of the last 10 years.

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OCTOBER 8, 2021

Previously, the country’s legal regime allowed the death penalty for those convicted of murder, treason, mutiny, or aggravated robbery. In 2020, there were 39 death sentences. The post Sierra Leone abolishes death penalty appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

The judgment means that Los Angeles County will not be legally required to house homeless people in Skid Row. A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit unanimously decided Thursday that the decision of Judge David Carter, who oversaw the case in April 2020 , failed to follow legal requirements.

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JANUARY 20, 2021

Saudi Arabia executed 25 people in 2020, the “lowest figure on record” since the two groups began monitoring the country’s rate of executions in 2013. The number included at least one person underage.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

According to 123 Interior Ministry statements and pro-government media reports, security forces killed at least 755 alleged terrorists in 143 shootouts between January 2015 and December 2020. The post HRW report details widespread suspicious killings of dissidents in Egypt appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The NLRB Office of Public Affairs confirmed that it recuperated $56,801,407 between October 2020 and September 2021. The NLRB noted the “dramatic increase” of over $17 million dollars and over 5,000 additional reinstatement offers from the 2020 fiscal year.

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JANUARY 6, 2022

After TPLF attacked a federal military base in November 2020, Ahmed launched military action against the region. Forty percent of those returning between November 2020 and June 2021 were Tigrayan. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed purged the TPLF-led government in 2018 and pushed the group back to Tigray.

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AUGUST 5, 2022

Green Auditorium at South Texas College of Law, Center for Advanced Legal Studies will hold its 70th Commencement Ceremony for graduates of its paralegal programs. This will be the first commencement ceremony held in person since the global COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020. On August 20, 2022, at 10:00 AM Central in the Joe M.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

California prosecutors on Friday charged Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) — one of the largest investor-owned utilities in the US — with involuntary manslaughter, finding a connection between the utility’s equipment and the deaths of four people in the 2020 Zogg Fire.

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AUGUST 1, 2021

The European Patent Office also rejected the application on the grounds that that AI systems do not have a legal personality and cannot have legal title over their output. In April of 2020, the US Patent and Trademark Office denied the application for similar reasons.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2024

” He announced that a white paper on the proposed legal reform could be expected soon. ” Starmer specifically pointed to Brexit–Britain’s exit from the EU in 2020, as an “open borders experiment” that contributed to the surge in immigration.

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JUNE 29, 2024

The Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) and the World Uyghur Congress (WUC) have secured a historic victory, which marks the first successful case globally to disrupt supply chains complicit in the ongoing genocide of Uyghur and other Turkic peoples in East Turkestan/Xinjiang, China.

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DECEMBER 2, 2022

The American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota (ACLU-MN) Wednesday reached a settlement with the city of Minneapolis over police mistreatment of civilians during 2020 protests spurred by the murder of George Floyd. The settlement includes a $600,000 payment, $50,000 to each injured protester, and numerous reforms.

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AUGUST 14, 2024

On Saturday, August 24, 2024, at 10:00 AM Central, Center for Advanced Legal Studies (CALS) will hold its 74th Commencement Ceremony for graduates of its paralegal programs. She began her paralegal career in 1989 after graduating from Center for Advanced Legal Studies. Rainwater is dedicated to giving back to the legal profession.

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JULY 18, 2021

Additionally, the Lugano also ensures recognition of judgments across the member states, which in turn significantly reduces legal costs for individuals and small business seeking legal redress outside their home countries. As the UK officially left the EU in January 2020, its membership in the Lugano ended in December of last year.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2021

While the activists were initially acquitted in January 2020 , the Swiss appeal court reversed that decision. Earlier in 2020, Roger Federer made a statement showing his support for the hashtag #RogerWakeUpNow. The case was seen as an important precedent for climate protestors.

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JULY 15, 2024

The Ministry is braced to pursue legal action against the site. Defendants were either denied legal representation or given a court-appointed lawyer whom they could not meet privately. The execution of 13 prisoners on December 24 marked the first mass execution carried out by Iraq’s Ministry of Justice since 2020.

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DECEMBER 16, 2021

The organizations argued that, under France’s new duty of vigilance law, Total’s oil projects in Uganda and Tanzania “failed to comply with the company’s legal obligations to prevent human rights violations and environmental harm.” In October 2020, the Versailles Court of Appeal affirmed.

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JULY 18, 2021

million in compensation to the Ras Al Khaimah Investment Authority ( RAKIA) by the trial court in May 2020. The Court of Appeal has already held that the 2020 decision in favour of RAKIA will not be altered irrespective of the judgment in Azima’s counterclaim. Azima had been ordered to pay $4.1

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MAY 24, 2024

The Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO), the European Legal Support Centre (ELSC), the Rights Forum, and the Palestinian civil society Al-Hag launched the complaint in November 2023 but only made it public recently.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2024

In the report, the CPJ concludes its five-year research and details significant challenges faced by media professionals in Ethiopia, including arbitrary arrests, physical attacks, and restrictive legal measures. According to the report, dozens of journalists were detained, often without formal charges or access to legal cou nsel.

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JULY 27, 2021

.” Earlier in July, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said that the COVID-19 pandemic “pushed” an additional 124 million people into extreme poverty, so that about one in three people around the world did not have access to adequate food in 2020. As many as 811 million people faced hunger in 2020.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In an interview Tuesday, Ovbiagele said the idea for the company originated from Jeffrey Gettleman , a former partner at Kirkland & Ellis who is now Bench IQ’s cofounder and vice president of legal services. ” He distinguished Bench IQ from legal analytics companies such as Lex Machina or Pre/Dicta. federal courts.

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JANUARY 22, 2021

The Constitutional Court of Moldova on Thursday struck down a law passed in December that sought to provide the Russian language with legal protections alongside the Moldovan state language. The 2020 law , No. 234 was ruled unconstitutional and is now legally void. Because of this, No.

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

The post MAGA Architect Of 2020 Election Denial Invited By American Bar Association To Give Election Law CLE appeared first on Above the Law. What was the ABA thinking?

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JANUARY 14, 2024

The three Iranian men, who are believed to belong to the Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahvaz, were arrested in February 2020 in connection with a deadly attack on a military parade in the Iranian city Ahvaz in September 2018. There are a total of nine jurors and three legal judges.

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OCTOBER 29, 2023

For nearly two decades, one person reigned supreme over the world of legal technology. As a dear friend, trusted mentor, and inspirational role model to so many in the world of legal tech, Monica stood alone. For many years at the annual Legal Tech conference in New York, Monica hosted a bloggers’ breakfast.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 1, 2021

In December 2020, New York passed the COVID-19 Emergency Eviction and Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2020 to prevent evictions during the COVID-19 pandemic. The post US federal appeals court rejects suit challenging COVID-19 eviction moratorium appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The minor increase in violent crime in 2020 nonetheless contributes to a larger downward trend over the past 30 years. In 2020, the Bureau reported 1958.2 ” The post FBI report shows increase in violent crimes appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary. offenses per 100,000. per 100,000.

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OCTOBER 17, 2023

When the legal research companies vLex and Fastcase announced their merger in April , they promised the deal would fuel new opportunities for the development of generative AI for legal research. “The combined library is the crown jewel of LLMs and the ultimate training data set for legal AI.” Analyze Documents.

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JULY 25, 2021

The country’s legal regime prescribes the death penalty for the offences of murder, treason, mutiny and aggravated robbery. Nonetheless, the death penalty has since been in force, with 99 people on death row as of June 2020. The Parliament of Sierra Leone passed a bill Friday abolishing the death penalty.

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JANUARY 4, 2022

The defendant, who returned to Sweden from Syria in December 2020, maintains her innocence. Although international law provides various protections for soldiers under the age of 18, those under 15 are afforded more comprehensive legal cover, as explained by the International Committee of the Red Cross.

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JULY 27, 2021

Valarezo-Tirado entered the US illegally in 2017 and was ordered deportation in early 2020. The post Federal appeals court rules two-sentence immigration decision insufficient appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary. The court remanded the case to the judge to reconsider Valarezo-Tirados’s petition.

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