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Cannabis, property tax opinions filing tomorrow

At the Lectern

2) Does state law preempt a local ordinance when both prohibit the same conduct and the state law has a mens rea component that the local ordinance does not? The court granted review in March 2021; it’s one of the oldest cases on the court’s docket. More about the case here.

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Defendant wrongly denied chance at murder resentencing

At the Lectern

Other parts of the jury’s verdict in this particular case also “do not reflect all of the factual findings necessary to support a murder conviction under current law.” 4th 665 limiting expert testimony (see here ) was not a change in the law preventing applying the special circumstance finding to the case.

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Pakistan dispatch: persecution of religious minorities continues under current blasphemy law

JURIST

Law students and law graduates in Pakistan are reporting for JURIST on events in that country impacting its legal system. University of London law graduate Mariyam Taher Qayyum files this dispatch from Islamabad. . 84 people were charged for blasphemy in 2021, according to the Center for Social Justice (CSJ).

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Meeting of the Minds: The Price of Recklessness: Disgorgement of Pro?ts in a Post-Romag World

The IP Law Blog

3, January/February 2021, by the American Bar Association. At the Supreme Court, Romag argued that requiring willfulness for a profits award “flouts the plain text of section 35(a) and undermines the broader policies of the Lanham Act,” and is a “serious misinterpretation of federal law” that should not be allowed to stand.

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Larger March calendar includes high-stakes COVID insurance case

At the Lectern

The court granted review in March 2021; it’s one of the oldest cases on the court’s docket. 2) Does state law preempt a local ordinance when both prohibit the same conduct and the state law has a mens rea component that the local ordinance does not? (2) More about the case here.

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New Orleans Police Seek Arrest of Dispatcher Under Novel Criminal Charge

JonathanTurley

“The report was taken on August 23, 2021.”. She was charged under Louisiana law with malfeasance in office. What is interesting about the law is how broad the language is. The mens rea element is merely eliminating involuntary failures like illness or force in the failure to perform.

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Detailed Analysis of POCSO Act, 2012

LexForti

Teesha Deb (National Law University, Orissa). The author is associated to the National Law University, Orissa. Before establishment of this statute, there was the absence of any special law which could be entirely designated for the offenses perpetrated against minors. INTRODUCTION. These are all examples of such situations.

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