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Human rights organization petitions ICC to investigate alleged genocide in Nagorno-Karabakh

JURIST

The Center for Truth and Justice (CFTJ), a human rights organization based in Armenia, published a report Thursday purporting that acts of genocide have been committed in the Nagorno-Karabakh region since 2021. The report says that instances of torture, arbitrary detentions and extrajudicial killings were also documented.

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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. The decision in the sixth case — People v.

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Defendant wrongly denied chance at murder resentencing

At the Lectern

Gonzalez (2021) 65 Cal.App.5th Lewis (2021) 11 Cal.5th 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.” because the aider and abettor has not sufficiently concerned himself with that murder.”

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

JURIST

Every clause in the blasphemy law was modified or changed when Zia was leader, and the intent or mens rea requirement was completely removed. 84 people were charged for blasphemy in 2021, according to the Center for Social Justice (CSJ).

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Panel Holds that Ohio Aggravated Burglary Statute Does Not Count as Predicate Violent Felony under ACCA. 

SquirePattonBoggs

1817, 1825 (2021). 2022), the Sixth Circuit read Borden as requiring a purposeful or knowing mens rea for offenses deemed violent felony predicate offenses. As the Sixth Circuit explained, Patterson “did not consider, as Borden now requires, whether the offense’s force element has a mens rea greater than recklessness.”

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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? More about the case here.

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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. While the argument that “principles of equity” includes a willfulness requirement would not “directly contradict the statute’s other, express mens rea provisions or render them wholly superfluous[,]. Published in Landslide , Vol. Reproduced with permission.