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How to Become a Certified Paralegal

Blackstone Career Institute

Paralegals, also called legal assistants, help lawyers do their jobs by preparing for trials, hearings, and proceedings. All types of law offices, including prosecutors, defense attorneys, marital, occupational, and moreemploy paralegals to conduct critical aspects of their work. Paralegals are an integral part of the justice system.

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Australia High Court Delivers Major Blow to Free Speech In Defamation Ruling

JonathanTurley

The Supreme Court ruled that tort law could not be used to overcome First Amendment protections for free speech or the free press. The court noted a number of decisions limiting CDA immunity including a decision by Judge Easterbrook of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, who wrote in Chicago Lawyers’ Comm.

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Deadspin Defamation: Parents of Holden Armenta Move Toward Libel Action Over Blackface Allegation

JonathanTurley

The letter was sent by the new lawyer for Holden and his parents Shannon and Raul Armenta. There are 33 states with retraction statutes. What constitutes racist imagery is a matter of public debate and Phillips can argue that this is obviously just his opinion. It also turns out that he is Native American. In Wilkow v.

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Polish Constitutional Court about to review the constitutionality of the jurisdictional immunity of a foreign State?

Conflict of Laws

Written by Zuzanna Nowicka , lawyer at the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights and lecturer at Department of Logic and Legal Argumentation at University of Warsaw In the aftermath of the judgment of the ICJ of 2012 in the case of the Jurisdictional Immunities of the State (Germany v.

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Justices Hear Oral Arguments in Four Cases

Constitutional Law Reporter

During oral arguments held on January 7, two of the lawyers were forced to participate by phone due to testing positive for COVID-19. The post Justices Hear Oral Arguments in Four Cases appeared first on Constitutional Law Reporter. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, a diabetic, also elected to participate remotely.

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In Re Peanut: New York Family Moves to Sue State Over the Killing of Beloved Squirrel

JonathanTurley

Now the family is lawyering up. Peanut even appeared in my torts class this term, posthumously, of course. Even though Peanut was a pet, he was still considered a wild animal in New York, both by statute and common law. 30 and seized both Peanut and a raccoon pet named Fred. They proceeded to euthanize both animals.

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Trump’s Liability Or Opportunity? Two Capitol Police Officers Sue Trump Over Capitol Riot

JonathanTurley

attorney Patrick Malone, who previously filed ethics complaints against lawyers representing the Trump campaign or the Republican party. Trump lawyers many view this lawsuit as a greater opportunity than a liability for their client. COUNT FOUR (Violation of a Public Safety Statute: D.C. Code § 22-1322 – Incitement to Riot).