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The 10 Legal Tech Trends that Defined 2021

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And it is true that other states continue to look at various reform measures along these same lines, including Colorado, North Carolina and Illinois. This year, it opened the proposal to public comment , with the expectation that the state’s supreme court will vote on it sometime in 2022. Do I believe these dominoes will fall?

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Funding for Native healthcare programs, and the Armed Career Criminal Act returns

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Prentice , involving an Illinois prisoner’s claim that his nearly three-year term of solitary confinement constituted cruel and unusual punishment prohibited by the Eighth Amendment. To promote tribal self-governance, Congress allows tribes to contract with the Indian Health Service to oversee these programs themselves.

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The 10 Legal Tech Trends that Defined 2021

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And it is true that other states continue to look at various reform measures along these same lines, including Colorado, North Carolina and Illinois. This year, it opened the proposal to public comment , with the expectation that the state’s supreme court will vote on it sometime in 2022. Do I believe these dominoes will fall?

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Whether “bump stocks” are “machineguns,” and a very specific arbitration issue

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Circuit upheld the regulation, holding that “the disputed rule is consistent with the best interpretation of ‘machine gun’ under the governing statutes.” In Cargill , the en banc U.S. Coinbase asserts that this situation arises frequently, and it argues that the circuits are divided: While the U.S. relisted after the Oct.

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Ninth Circuit sends life insurance case to the Supreme Court

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The Ninth Circuit today asked the Supreme Court to interpret California Insurance Code statutes concerning lapse and termination of life insurance policies “issued or delivered in this state.” ” In Pitt v. Two years after the move, the decedent failed to make a premium payment and he received a notice the policy had lapsed.

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No straight grants, but four multi-vote dissents from denials at this week’s conference

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Supreme Court opinion in Illinois v. The unpublished Second District, Division Five, opinion rejected constitutional challenges to the statute that prevents parole hearings for defendants serving life without parole sentences for special circumstances murders committed between the ages of 18 and 26. Perkins (1990) 496 U.S. In People v.

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Illinois governor signs two bills safeguarding LGBTQ+ rights

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Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed two bills on Friday safeguarding LGBTQ+ rights in the state. HB 1591 amends the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act. The Act previously prohibited out of state couples from obtaining and Illinois marriage license.

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