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Washington Supreme Court holds impoundment of homeless person’s vehicle violates Eighth Amendment

JURIST

The Washington Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously held that a homeless person’s vehicle automatically qualifies as a homestead without the need for a declaration and that the impoundment of that vehicle and associated costs constitute excessive fines—a violation of the Eighth Amendment to the US Constitution.

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Former Justice Breyer Speaks At Harvard Panel On Legal Interpretation

Above The Law

(Photo by Bill O’Leary/The Washington Post via Getty Images) One of the quickest lessons you pick up in law school is that the path to knowing the law doesn’t end at finding a line in the Constitution or a statute and reading it aloud to anyone who would hear it. Newsom, a HLS alumni and circuit judge for the U.S.

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North Carolina man sentenced for threatening House Speaker Pelosi after US Capitol riot

JURIST

The trial followed an FBI investigation and prosecution by the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Colombia. FBI investigators determined that Meredith traveled to Washington, DC on January 6 with plans to attend rallies following the riots at the US Capitol. The man, Cleveland Grover Meredith, Jr.,

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Clearbrief CEO Jacqueline Schafer: Transforming Written Legal Arguments With AI

Attorney at Work

Jackie Schafer: I started out as a litigator at Paul Weiss, but spent most of my career in public service as an assistant attorney general, where I was regularly briefing and arguing cases before the state appellate courts in Alaska and Washington state. Listen to his conversation with Jackie Schafer here.

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Controversial Federal Rioting Law Used to Charge Jan. 6 Defendant

The Crime Report

6 Capitol breach with violating a federal law that makes it a crime to transport a firearm or explosive for unlawful use in a riot, reports the Washington Post. Reffitt attorney William L. prosecutors for the first time have charged a defendant, Guy Wesley Reffitt, 48, in the Jan. Since Jan.

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Now View More Case Law As You Draft Legal Documents in Clearbrief, through Partnership with Fastcase

LawSites

Its patented AI examines legal documents and automatically finds and displays any citations to the factual source documents cited — such as exhibits, depositions or transcripts — as well as case law, statutes and regulations. ” Clearbrief also has partnerships in place for access to legal resources with the Free Law Project and Justia.

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California’s Chief Justice Faults Legislature and Lawyer Lobbying for Blocking Movement on Regulatory Reforms

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The other is that the state legislature is empowered to set the dues each year that attorneys must pay to maintain their admission to the bar, and, in so doing, to attach riders and conditions to what the bar can and cannot do. “But the legislature has just now, at least written in statute, the inability to proceed with that. .

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