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Family members of civil rights leader Malcolm X sue US authorities for involvement in assassination

JURIST

The daughter of civil rights leader Malcolm X filed a civil action Friday against the US, the city of New York, and the estates of various former federal agents for their alleged role in concealing, condoning, and facilitating X’s assassination in 1965. The family of Malcolm X is represented by noted civil rights attorney Ben Crump.

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Lawyers Shouldn’t Be Afraid To Concede Weaker Points At Oral Arguments

Above The Law

However, at oral argument, I explicitly told the judge that I thought that two of the causes of action really warranted dismissal and a more thorough look from the court and that I understood if the court did not want to dismiss the other causes of action.

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Cause of Action? Personal Injury 101

LegalReader

Each state has their own laws about how long from the date of the accident you have to file your personal injury suit.

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Westlaw Precision: Next-Generation Legal Research With a Human Touch

Attorney at Work

While Westlaw Edge introduced artificial intelligence technology to Westlaw, this new version harnesses the human touch, deploying hundreds of newly hired Westlaw attorney editors over the past two years to manually review and tag a staggering amount of data. Precision Research. KeyCite Cited With. KeyCite Overruled in Part.

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Missouri man appeals death sentence after attorneys failed to press jury foreman’s bias

SCOTUSBlog

The night after the jurys verdict, Shockleys attorney learned that the jury foreman had written a fictionalized autobiography in which he, as the main character, murdered the drunk driver who had killed his wife to get revenge after the driver only received probation. Shockley was convicted and sentenced to death.

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Texas man on death row presses claim of attorney abandonment

SCOTUSBlog

This week, we highlight petitions that ask the court to consider, among other things, whether AEDPA bars a man on death row in Texas from arguing that his attorney abandoned him because doing so would require an unlawful “second or successive” petition for habeas corpus. to represent him. According to Gamboa, Ritenour failed him. In Gamboa v.

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Estate of Tyre Nichols files federal lawsuit against City of Memphis and its police department

JURIST

” The complaint sets forth 25 causes of action, which include Failure to Train, Failure to Supervise, Fourth Amendment violations, Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress and Fraudulent Misrepresentation.