HowAppealing

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

“Amy Coney Barrett urged to step away from gay rights case because of faith affiliation; The US supreme court justice’s history with the People of Praise raises questions about her impartiality in upcoming case”: Stephanie Kirchgaessner of The Guardian (UK) has this report.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled on Monday that the Louisiana State Bar Association (LSBA) violated the US Constitution’s First Amendment when it tweeted several posts that were not “germane” to the legal profession.

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DECEMBER 5, 2022

The US Supreme Court Monday denied an application for review of a federal case involving the largest patent damages award in US history. Cisco appealed the decision to the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which threw out the award and remanded the case to a new judge in Virginia. attempted to reinstate a $2.75

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JURIST

JANUARY 19, 2022

A judge for the US Bankruptcy Court for the District of Puerto Rico Tuesday gave final approval to a plan for Puerto Rico to exit bankruptcy after nearly five years. In a statement , the Financial Oversight and Management Board said, “Today begins a new chapter in Puerto Rico’s history.

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MARCH 31, 2025

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday for a Wisconsin Catholic charity requesting a religious exemption from an unemployment insurance tax. She prompted the petitioners to look to the legislative history of the federal provision. ” The court will make a final ruling on the case during the 2024-2025 term.

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JURIST

JANUARY 30, 2025

Plaintiff Felix Kolotinsky brought the class action lawsuit with a demand for a jury trial in the US District Court for the Northern District of California San Francisco Division on behalf of a group of California residents who claim the company’s data collection practices violate California law. and 502 of the California Penal Code.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

He has spoken out about the allegations of fraud and called for others to share information regarding the President’s actions. ” Argentina has a history of political division, with strong support for both far-right and far-left movements. Attorney Jonatan Baldiviezo is a plaintiff in the action against President Milei.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Australian Federal MPs voted Wednesday in favour of a motion supporting the return of Wikileaks’ founder Jullian Assange to Australia, ahead of a US extradition hearing next week in London’s High Court of Justice. ” Wilkie raised concern about the impact of Assange’s extradition on media freedom.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

APRIL 14, 2025

Were recognizing professional burnout and then actively doing something about it. I know that might not make too much sense if youre new to this but Im talking about the basic, drill sergeant, organized, never missing a task or beat, creating checklists on checklists, routine that paralegals have assumed since the beginning of time.

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JURIST

MAY 25, 2024

A bipartisan group of US senators signed a letter on Thursday encouraging Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to increase and accelerate defense spending in accordance with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Canada announced in April that its military spending is expected to rise just 1.7

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

There’s a lot thats shocking about the Department of Justice’s latest hire — former Oregon judge, Vance Day. Day has a *history* of questionable behavior that got him the longest suspension (at the time) in the history of the Oregon bar. But his tenure in Oregon is riddled with controversy. ” Sigh.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Louisiana’s political landscape faces a critical deadline as a US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Friday set a January 15 deadline for the state legislature to draw up a new congressional map. In a written statement, Edwards said , “This is about simple math, basic fairness, and the rule of law.”

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JURIST

MARCH 1, 2024

A federal judge in Arizona upheld two state laws on Thursday that require voters to provide documentation to prove their US citizenship before registering to vote. US District Judge Susan Bolton’s decision upheld HB 2492 and 2243. After a 10-day bench trial, Bolton issued a 109-page opinion upholding the laws.

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JURIST

AUGUST 20, 2021

Chief Judge Miranda Du of the District of Nevada on Wednesday struck down 8 USC § 1326 (a) &(b) , which criminalizes the re-entry of migrants who have previously been deported from the US, as a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fifth Amendment.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

New York joined the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and a bipartisan coalition of 26 states on Tuesday in filing a federal suit against precious metals company Safeguard Metals LLC and its owner and manager, Jeffrey Santulan, for allegedly deceiving investors across New York and the US.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

ProPublica released a report on Friday revealing details about US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ attendance at the Koch network annual winter donor summit in California in 2018. ” However, t he code is not mandatory for US Supreme Court justices. ” This is not the first controversy surrounding Thomas.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The lawsuit initially arose when Bonta accused Google of violating that several California Business and Professions Code (BPC) provisions regarding the company’s statements about their use and collection of users’ location data. The agreement was the largest US privacy settlement in history.

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JURIST

JUNE 1, 2023

A majority for the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled Wednesday that Virginia Tech’s bias reporting policies do not violate free speech principles protected by the First Amendment, upholding a lower court’s decision to deny a preliminary injunction.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The US Supreme Court Monday declined to consider whether people born in American Samoa are entitled to birthright citizenship under the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Currently, people born in American Samoa can apply for US citizenship but do not receive it automatically at birth.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 14, 2025

Justices Neil Gorsuch and Ketanji Brown Jackson asked several questions about that point, seeming to take it seriously. McGill, predictably enough, read the history differently, but the justices pressed him so little that it is difficult to tell how much they accepted what he had to say.

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JURIST

APRIL 2, 2023

A federal judge for the US District Court of Minnesota Friday struck down a Minnesota law requiring individuals to be at least 21 to obtain a permit to carry a handgun in public. ” Last year, the US Supreme Court in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Amy is joined by Marin Levy, a professor at Duke Law School, to talk about what it’s like to join the court. Levy runs a popular Twitter account where she chronicles the history of the federal judiciary. Send us a question about the court at scotustalk@scotusblog.com or leave us a voicemail at (202) 596-2906.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

A US federal appeals court on Wednesday held the Internet Archive’s (IA) Free Digital Library infringes upon publishers’ copyright protections. Judge Beth Robinson of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit wrote the unanimous decision and highlighted the fundamental balancing act of copyright law.

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JURIST

JANUARY 20, 2022

Eshoo Tuesday introduced the Banning Surveillance Advertising Act to prohibit the use of personal data by advertising networks and facilitators for targeted advertising, except for broad location targeting to a known place, such as a municipality. The surveillance advertising business model is broken.

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MARCH 25, 2022

The US Supreme Court Thursday ruled in a unanimous opinion that a member of an elected body does not have a viable First Amendment claim arising from verbal censure. This included speaking out about policies, hiring private investigators to look into another trustee and filing lawsuits against the college and individual members.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The group and men’s lawyer told the Justices that the text of the Second Amendment “enshrines a right to bear arms” and the history and tradition of the United States confirm that the text protects an individual right to carry a gun for self-defense. to even now.” to even now.”

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JURIST

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Marisa Wright is a US National Correspondent for JURIST, and a 2L at Harvard Law School. . The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Monday morning in two cases challenging the validity of race-conscious affirmative action programs in college admission. Justice Samuel Alito asked about the term “underrepresented minority.”

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JURIST

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Additionally, the agreement mandates that Google have “pop-up” notifications to inform users if their location history is enabled. Lastly, Google must provide instructions to users about location-related settings and has to report its compliance with the agreement.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The agreement marks the largest US privacy settlement in history. Attorneys general in 40 states Monday announced a $391.5 million, multi-state settlement with Google over the company’s location tracking practices.

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Our customers tell us difficult legal research can often take more than 10 hours per case,” said Mike Dahn, head of Product Management, Westlaw, Thomson Reuters. Graphical View of History. It’s time consuming because they are often looking for something very precise, but traditional searching rarely allows for such precision.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Here, Pitt Law 2L David DeNotaris reports on campaign financing and the race between Mehmet Oz and John Fetterman for one of the two Pennsylvania seats in the closely-divided US Senate. . He suffered a stroke on May 15, 2022, which has raised questions about his fitness for office. Fetterman won his first election by one vote.

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MAY 25, 2024

110 law and undergraduate students from over 70 universities across the US, including myself, converged on Phoenix, Arizona Friday for the first day of the first-ever student-run US Model Constitutional Convention , hosted by the Center for Constitutional Design at the Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

OCTOBER 7, 2021

On the defense side, you are summarizing medical records to assemble a medical history that may show that whatever condition the plaintiff claims was caused by your incident was actually pre-existing, at least in part. Learn About Medications. What about the navicular bone? Check the Findings. Make Friends with Google.

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JURIST

JUNE 7, 2024

The Llano County Library in Texas removed 17 books in 2021 after the library received complaints about the books being too sexual to be in the children’s section. The books on this list focused on the LGBTQ+ community, puberty, and the history of racism in the United States.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Governor Hochul emphasized the state’s responsibility in facing its entire history, including the painful chapter of slavery: [I]n New York, we like to think we’re on the right side of this. New York’s initiative follows in the footsteps of other US reparations efforts. You know, slavery was a product of the South.

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JANUARY 15, 2024

The Cambodian government charged the activists with plotting against the state for discussing the history of wealth distribution and land rights in Cambodia. Interior Ministry spokesperson General Khieu Sopheak said that the language the CCFC used “was similar to the brutal Khmer Rouge regime” and was, therefore, dangerous to the state.

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MAY 23, 2023

” The lawsuit invokes both the Fair Housing Act , which prohibits housing discrimination, and the Fourteenth Amendment of the US Constitution, which protects certain liberty rights and guarantees equal protection under the law. . “And casts a cloud of suspicion over anyone of Chinese descent who seeks to buy property in Florida.”

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