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False Confessions: Protecting the Vulnerable

The Crime Report

Our justice system is supposed to protect such people by assigning them a “legal guardian” —a surrogate decision-maker who acts under the authority of the probate court or of state laws governing guardianships. During a custodial interrogation of my adult ward, the investigator identified me on tape as the legal guardian.

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Win More Clients by Using Document Automation Differently

LawSites

This is the story of how I accidentally came to dominate the search results for an incredibly competitive legal keyword in New York City, of all places. I built a document automation app online to help people fight their tickets for free using a recent court decision that had come down in Manhattan. Schools were silent.

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Animal rights and the First Amendment, due process and a confession of error

SCOTUSBlog

Some older Supreme Court decisions support that theory of consent. Some courts read [Supreme Court precedent] as effectively foreclosing [this consent-by-registration theory of jurisdiction], while others insist it remains viable.”. Animal Legal Defense Fund. According to the petitioner, Kansas Gov.

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Federal appeals court upholds Texas law prohibiting second trimester abortion method

JURIST

In a plurality decision, Circuit Judges Jennifer Walker Elrod and Don Willett wrote that the lower US District Court for the Western District of Texas committed numerous reversible legal and factual errors, applying the wrong test to assess SB8, and disregarding and misreading the Supreme Court precedents.

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Private rights of action, overtime pay, and the constitutionality of a billboard tax

SCOTUSBlog

To begin with the unhappy news (at least for petitioners), the court denied review without comment in one-time relist Kelly v. Animal Legal Defense Fund , involving the constitutionality of a Kansas statute criminalizing trespass by deception at animal facilities with intent to damage the enterprise. rescheduled before the Jan.

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FERC Proposes Reforms to Speed-Up Approval of Interstate Transmission Infrastructure

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

First proposed in 2014, the 780-mile transmission line is intended to transport electricity generated by wind turbines in Kansas to customers in Indiana, passing through Missouri and Illinois along the way. Many commentators subsequently complained that the court’s decision would severely limit FERC’s ability to advance interstate projects.

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July 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

The district court found the analysis of greenhouse gas and climate change impacts to be adequate but remanded for consideration of alternatives that did not involve leasing all nominated parcels. The conservation groups’ appeal of the district court decision is still pending, with the opening brief due on July 12. BP p.l.c. ,

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