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).
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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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.
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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The Estrin Report
MARCH 2, 2025
Diagnosing and Disarming Bullies in the Legal Workplace By Mark Gorkin, MSW, LICSW, The Stress Doc In a recent exchange with my dear friend and colleague, Chere Estrin, CEO of Estrin Legal Staffing, she expressed palpable concern about the number of job candidates she and colleagues have encountered who painfully share about bullying in the workplace.Further, these candidates don’t identify these incidents as bullying.Many of them think it’s the way law firms are, the insane billabl
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JURIST
MARCH 1, 2025
Amnesty International released a report on Friday shedding light on the disproportionate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the education of Indigenous youth across multiple continents. Drawing on more than 80 interviews and surveys conducted between 2021 and 2023, the organizations findings highlighted systemic inequities, a glaring lack of consultation with Indigenous communities, and a need for urgent, long-term remedies.
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
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.
Attorney at Work
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
Marc Lauritsen | We may not welcome artificial minds into our law societies, but they will grace our workplaces. The post Societies of Legal Minds: A Lens on AI appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.
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EvidenceProf Blog
MARCH 1, 2025
Yesterday, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey commuted the death sentence of Rocky Myers to a sentence of life without parole. This is the first time that Governor Ivey, a staunch supporter of capital punishment, has commuted a death sentence. The last.
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.
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
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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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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.
HowAppealing
MARCH 2, 2025
“Judicial Notice (03.02.25): The $3,000-An-Hour Club; DOJ drama and departures, lawyers getting sanctioned left and right, eye-popping profits at Paul Weiss, and Cravaths latest lateral.” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site.
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.
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
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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.
ABA Journal
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
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HowAppealing
MARCH 2, 2025
“When the Lawyers are Lawless: Were now a country where you dont know if youre being arrested or kidnapped (and thats the point).” You can access the new episode of Slate’s “Amicus” podcast via this link.
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?
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