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Gain Experience with Paralegal Pro Bono Work

Paralegal Bootcamp

I’m going back to the days when I was a litigation paralegal. The case was over, and the partner in charge of that case was also in charge of the firm’s entire litigation department. If you’re reading this and you were a litigation paralegal in the 90s before eDiscovery became mainstream, you know what I’m talking about.

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SCOTUS Upholds Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act in Alabama Redistricting Case

Constitutional Law Reporter

Supreme Court held that challengers showed a reasonable likelihood of success on their claim that an Alabama Congressional redistricting plan likely violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. Alabama’s congressional map has remained remarkably similar since that litigation. That new map was signed into law as HB1.

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Justices decline to reinstate GOP-backed congressional voting maps in North Carolina, Pennsylvania

SCOTUSBlog

Alito described the independent-state-legislature theory as “an exceptionally important and recurring question of constitutional law,” and he suggested that the justices “will have to resolve this question sooner or later, and the sooner we do so, the better.” He was referring to Merrill v. The Pennsylvania case.

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SCOTUS Kicks Off February Sitting With Oral Arguments in Three Cases

Constitutional Law Reporter

In 1987, following years of negotiation and drafting, the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo and Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas secured restoration of their trust relationships with the federal government through the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo and Alabama-Coushatta Indian Tribes of Texas Restoration Act (Restoration Act). New York , No. 20- 449 (U.S.

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Project Veritas Wins Victory Against New York Times In Defamation Action

JonathanTurley

Sullivan, sued for defamation and won under Alabama law. Sullivan’s lawsuit was one of a number of civil actions brought under state laws that targeted Northern media covering the violence against freedom marchers. There is a tendency in litigation to throw everything at an opposing party and let the court sort it out.

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“I Do Solemnly Swear”: Biden Calls tor Extending the Eviction Moratorium Despite Being Unconstitutional

JonathanTurley

However, he then said it was worth extending the moratorium because it would take time for a court to intervene and, in the interim, they could rush out money to renters despite the lack of constitutional authority to do so. The 5-4 decision in Alabama Association of Realtors v.

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Trumpunity: Sunstein Calls For Broader Use Of Defamation Lawsuit To Curtail “Fake News”

JonathanTurley

Sullivan, sued for defamation and won under Alabama law. Sullivan’s lawsuit was one of a number of civil actions brought under state laws that targeted Northern media covering the violence against freedom marchers. seven times. The Montgomery Public Safety commissioner, L. He was awarded $500,000 — a huge judgment for the time.

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