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How to Become a Certified Paralegal

Blackstone Career Institute

Discuss constitutional law elements and effective legal research methods. Identify and explain legal procedures and terms related to civil actions, criminal procedure, wills, trusts, trustees, real property, and partnerships/corporations. Identify effective job-search techniques for legal assistants/paralegals.

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US Supreme Court Sides with Facebook in TCPA Case

Constitutional Law Reporter

Facebook countered that the TCPA does not apply because the technology it used to text Duguid did not use a “random or sequential number generator.”. The statute separately prohibits calls using “an artificial or prerecorded voice” to various types of phone lines, including home phones and cell phones, unless an exception applies.

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SCOTUS to Revisit Non-Delegation Doctrine

Constitutional Law Reporter

.” Instead, it delegated to the FCC the responsibility to periodically “establish” the concept of “universal service” by “taking into account advances in telecommunications and information technologies and services. Issues Before the Supreme Court The FCC appealed.

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Supreme Court Clarifies When Public Officials Can Be held Liable for Social Media Activity

Constitutional Law Reporter

In reaching its decision, the Court emphasized that Section 1983 provides a cause of action against “[e]very person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or us- age, of any State ” deprives someone of a federal constitutional or statutory right.

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Federal Court Rules In Favor Of Journalist Contesting Georgia’s Anti-BDS Law

JonathanTurley

50-5-85’s inclusion of “other actions that are intended to limit commercial relations with Israel” makes the statute impermissibly vague. Judge Cohen also found the language to be unconstitutionally vague under the Fourteenth Amendment: Here, O.C.G.A. § O.C.G.A. §

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Supreme Court on Patent Law for October 2022

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315(e)(2) extend to all grounds that reasonably could have been raised in the IPR petition filed, even though the text of the statute applies estoppel only to grounds that “reasonably could have [been] raised during that inter partes review.” Famed professor of constitutional law Erwin Chemerinsky (Berkeley) filed the petition.

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“The Spirit of Aloha”: The Hawaii Supreme Court Challenges the U.S. Supreme Court Over Gun Rights

JonathanTurley

Under Section 134-25 of the Hawaii Revised Statutes, “all firearms” must be “confined to the possessor’s place of business, residence, or sojourn.” And it downplays human beings’ aptitude for technological advancement. 22-caliber pistol in his “front waist band.”

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