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Federal court temporarily blocks Iowa ban on mask mandates in public schools

JURIST

US federal judge Robert Pratt temporarily blocked the state of Iowa on Monday from enforcing a state law that prohibits public schools from requiring masks. Earlier this month, the ACLU of Iowa and several parents filed suit in federal court to challenge Iowa’s public school mask ban.

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Plagiarism Police come for Winston & Strawn

Patently O

I believe that Winston & Strawn will eventually prevail based upon a fair use defense, but it is still an embarrassing situation for the firm and attorneys involved. The role of attribution is also receiving increasing focus as attorneys begin to rely more heavily on AI outputs for their legal documents.

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Texting in the car, surveillance of a home, and Section 1983 for Miranda

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Iowa and other states prohibit texting while driving but allow cellphone usage for other purposes, such as navigation. Iowa , police officers pulled Struve over after observing Struve using a cellphone – for an unidentifiable reason – for 10 seconds while driving. In Steven Struve’s case, Struve v.

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Two death penalty cases and free speech at animal facilities

SCOTUSBlog

In June 2020, the Supreme Court issued a summary reversal – meaning it decided the case without merits briefing or oral argument – in Andrus v. In an unsigned opinion, the court ruled that Terence Andrus had demonstrated that his lawyer provided deficient performance at sentencing for failing to investigate or introduce mitigating evidence.

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Guest Post: Third-Party Litigation Funding: Disclosure to Courts, Congress, and the Executive

Patently O

That’s because current disclosure of litigation funding relies on a patchwork of state law, court rules, self-reporting, FOIA requests, leaks to journalists, and funding pitches. What we do know comes mostly from self-reporting, industry reports, and journalists. 10] See Suneal Bedi & William C.

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They Called 911 for Help. Police and Prosecutors Used a New Junk Science to Decide They Were Liars.

The Crime Report

But that hasn’t stopped some from promoting his methods and even deploying 911 call analysis in court to win convictions. In 2016, Missouri prosecutor Leah Askey wrote Harpster an effusive email, bluntly detailing how she skirted legal rules to exploit his methods against unwitting defendants. “Of But Gibbons told someone.

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Abortion, Prison and the Death Penalty

The Crime Report

Even as Americans anticipate a Supreme Court ruling striking down Roe v. Three days later, the county’s District Attorney dropped the charges and released her from jail, after a statewide (and nationwide) outcry. We can expect things to get worse if the Court rules as t he leak this week suggested it will.