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Justice Mahmud Jamal becomes first person of color to sit on Canada Supreme Court

JURIST

The board’s recommendations are non-binding; the list was then reviewed by interested parties including the Chief Justice, provincial and territorial Attorneys-General, Cabinet Ministers, and opposition justice critics. It speaks to his long career as a litigator before his appointment to the Ontario Court of Appeal in 2019.

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Chevron's End Is Just The Start For Energized Agency Foes

Law 360

By knocking down a powerful precedent that has towered over administrative law for 40 years, the U.S. Supreme Court's right wing Friday gave a crowning achievement to anti-agency attorneys.

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US Supreme Court hears arguments on relief available under disability protection laws

JURIST

IDEA requires complainants to “exhaust” the administrative process before beginning litigation. The district court found that Perez had not exhausted all administrative efforts when he settled before a hearing on his claims. Dvoretzky responded that Perez should have negotiated a better outcome for his IDEA settlement.

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New York sues New Jersey over compact governing Port of New York and New Jersey

SCOTUSBlog

New York maintains that the terms of the compact provide that only Congress can repeal it and that, insofar as the compact represents a federal statute, its breach violates federal law. In earlier litigation, the Waterfront Commission sued the New Jersey governor to prevent him from enforcing the law. However, the U.S.

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When do legal observers at protests get First Amendment protection?

SCOTUSBlog

This week, we highlight petitions that ask the court to consider, among other things, whether words displayed on hats worn at a protest by legal observers – attorneys who document the treatment of demonstrators’ civil rights – can entitle them to sue police who suppressed the rally. Louis, Missouri. In Molina v. Ratzloff v.

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Women of Legal Tech: Julie Saltman

LawTechnologyToday

Julie founded Standd after over a decade practicing law, mostly as a trial attorney at the U.S. At DOJ, Julie served in the Tax Division, Civil Division, and Federal Programs Branch, where she handled cases raising complex regulatory and administrative law questions in federal trial and appellate courts across the US.

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‘Giustizia consensuale’: A New Law Journal on Consensual Justice in Its Many Nuances and Forms

Conflict of Laws

Promoting and strengthening this dispute resolution mechanism is important not only to reduce the judicial backlog, but also to empower the parties to self-tailor the solution of their conflict with the assistance of their attorneys. In this piece the author considers three points of interaction between agreement and procedure. (1)

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