JURIST

OCTOBER 19, 2024

The organizations stated: “At least 10 lawyers who have taken up Zamora’s defense have been forced to abandon the case due to external pressures. Some have even faced unjust criminal proceedings leading to their imprisonment, as reprisal for their efforts on behalf of the journalist.”

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The Crime Report

MAY 18, 2021

That not only amounts to a reversal of a precedent set earlier by the Court, but is an “alarming” step back in protecting juveniles, say Arthur Ago and Rochelle Swartz of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. In Miller v.

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ABA Journal

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Supreme Court on Monday summarily reversed a federal appeals court decision on behalf of a death-row inmate who claimed that his trial lawyer…

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At the Lectern

APRIL 12, 2023

The Daily Journal today named the recipients of its annual California Lawyer of the Year award. Three of the cases resulted in Supreme Court opinions. One of the three CLAY award Supreme Court decisions is Guardianship of Saul H. The third CLAY award Supreme Court decision is Sheen v. 2022) 13 Cal.5th

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JURIST

OCTOBER 20, 2023

A court ruling allowed him to travel to London, England for medical treatment with the expectation that he would return to Pakistan to serve his jail term. According to Sharif’s lawyer Azam Nazeer Tarar, Sharif will appeal against his sentence, as he hopes to overturn his convictions and campaign for the general election.

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Law 360

JUNE 28, 2024

Supreme Court's decision to overrule a decades-old judicial deference doctrine may cause the "eternal fog of uncertainty" surrounding federal agency actions to dissipate and level the playing field in challenges of government policies, but lawyers warn it raises new questions over what rules courts must follow and how judges will implement them.

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JURIST

APRIL 24, 2021

Jeffrey Fisher, Mr. Gary’s lawyer, argued that his client’s autonomy was violated when the government neglected to tell him an entire element of the case they would have to prove when Gary entered into the plea agreement. Decisions in both cases should come this summer.

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JURIST

AUGUST 11, 2023

Mark Paoletta, Thomas’s friend and lawyer to Thomas’s wife Ginni, accused ProPublica of launching a partisan attack on Thomas and said the report “ does not mention Judicial Conference’s previous guidance that Justice Thomas didn’t have to disclose trips w/ friends.”

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JURIST

JULY 17, 2021

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit rejected Thursday a challenge to the mandatory membership requirements imposed by the State Bar of Michigan. Lucille Taylor, a lawyer from Michigan, challenged the state bar membership mandate on the grounds that it violates her freedom of association.

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JURIST

MARCH 1, 2024

A Belarus court declared the article contained “extremist” sentiments. He was not given access to a lawyer, and his trial was delayed. In a second case out of Belarus, Viktar Babaryka, a 2020 presidential candidate, was arrested while submitting the signatures necessary to be placed on the presidential ballot.

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JURIST

JUNE 8, 2023

United States that in order to constitute aggravated identity theft, the use of a person’s identity must be at the “crux” of what makes the conduct criminal, reversing a lower court decision. The opinion provides analogies including “a lawyer who rounds up her hours from 2.9

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The feature uses ChatGPT to deliver one-paragraph summaries of court decisions, with the goal of enabling legal professionals to more quickly gauge the relevance and implications of a decision. “This ensures users get precise insights into relevant court decisions,” Twigger said.

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Diane Drain

JANUARY 22, 2023

Arizona Bankruptcy Lawyer. – Diane L. Drain, P.A.,

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LLRX

MAY 30, 2022

Kathy Biehl is a lawyer licensed in two states, as well as a prolific multidisciplinary author and writer. In this article Biehl succinctly and expertly identifies how the upcoming Supreme Court decision in Dobbs V. Wade has been settled law during her entire career.

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Mondaq

JUNE 16, 2022

The Court's decision affirms the benefits of experienced legal representation when facing serious traffic charges.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Conclusion Civil society, lawyers and academics in the Netherlands and beyond will likely be studying the implications of this judgment for some time to come, both for carbon majors such as Shell, as well as for pending cases against fossil fuel financers, like Milieudefensie v. And with what dangerous effects on human rights?

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JURIST

JUNE 9, 2022

The APPGDC reviewed UK Supreme Court decisions, heard testimony from lawyers and judges, and reviewed public statements from Johnson and other member of his government. The report also cited alleged statements through a government source saying Johnson “ wants to get the judges sorted.”

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 6, 2025

In 1993, William Neilly was sentenced in Michigan state court to life without the possibility of parole for a homicide he committed as a juvenile. Because of intervening Supreme Court decisions prohibiting the imposition of no-parole life sentences for juvenile offenders, he was resentenced to a lesser sentence.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The book combines art and academic analysis into a refreshing and creative take on major Supreme Court cases — with an added dash of “Florida weirdness” to keep things interesting. Artist and lawyer Xavier Cortada has created 10 striking paintings, each depicting a significant Supreme Court case originating in Florida.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Arizona officials argue the prisoners should not be allowed to put forward evidence in federal court, because they failed to do so in state court at an earlier stage in their legal proceedings. Meanwhile, USA Today reports that a landmark Supreme Court decision last year in McGirt v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 10, 2023

Share In Re Grand Jury asks how courts should assess attorney-client privilege when a client seeks partly legal and partly nonlegal advice from a lawyer and the two parts cannot be disentangled. But then the form is shown to a lawyer who identifies three items that are “kind of iffy” and bills $200,000.

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Mondaq

AUGUST 23, 2022

New s22B makes it harder to make a successful bail application & easier for the prosecution to make a successful detention application.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 20, 2022

Federal Trade Commission (which involves essentially the same issue for that agency’s administrative process) that the court seems likely to hear both together next fall. That will reunite former Solicitor General Paul Clement (Axon’s lawyer) with his former #2 Greg Garre (Cochran’s lawyer), who succeeded him in that post.

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LawTechnologyToday

JUNE 21, 2021

At the risk of sounding like a lawyer: it will depend. The NFT will have to pass the Howey test, first described by the US Supreme Court in 1946. Most likely, it will take a couple of room-clearing court decisions to help owners and litigants navigate their waters. No changes to that contract are coming. About the Author.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In a four-page opinion joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh, the court on Tuesday granted Laufer’s request. This article was originally published at Howe on the Court.

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Mondaq

JULY 23, 2021

This Supreme Court decision considered the level of detail required for a valid payment schedule under the BIF Act.

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LawSites

MARCH 18, 2024

Harvard professor Jonathan Zittrain and l were sitting down with Daniel Lewis and Nik Reed , the founders of a legal research startup named Ravel Law, along with lawyers from Harvard’s Office of General Counsel, Debevoise & Plimpton and Gundersen Dettmer. About the Author Adam Ziegler is a lawyer and software builder.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Share On Wednesday, the court heard oral argument in Shinn v. Ramirez and Jones , two death penalty cases that will determine whether prisoners may develop new evidence to support claims that their lawyers were constitutionally ineffective at trial. But a 2012 Supreme Court decision, Martinez v.

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Law 360

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Appellate courts issued a bevy of important decisions applying federal benefits law in 2023, including a recent Second Circuit ruling in favor of Cornell University that deepened a circuit split and a Tenth Circuit finding that an Oklahoma law regulating pharmacy benefit managers was preempted.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JANUARY 22, 2010

The Supreme Court Decision in Citizens United v. At that point, the station has an obligation to investigate the truth of the statements made in the ad.

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Mondaq

JULY 25, 2022

Supreme Court decision that provides guidance on an employee's duty to reasonably mitigate his or her damage or losses on termination. Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd., 2022 BCSC 881 is a recent B.C.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The Furman litigation was the culmination of a campaign conducted by a group of lawyers under the auspices of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. They hoped the Supreme Court would strike down the death penalty because of its demonstrated racial discrimination and other inequities. The Furman Framework. The ruling was narrow in scope.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 19, 2022

Arizona is one of the most significant Supreme Court decisions in American criminal procedure. Generally, if the police obtain a suspect’s statement in violation of Miranda , the government cannot use that statement against the defendant in court. Share Miranda v. 5) What about the costs?

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 15, 2021

In a recent custodial interrogation, the subject made what the court viewed as an unambiguous invocation of his right to an attorney (and the court found that the interrogation should have been terminated) when he stated, “If I’m going to answer questions, I’m going to need a lawyer here.”. However, we urge caution.

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Intelligize Blog

AUGUST 31, 2023

Though some PredictIt users have become adept at this form of political wagering, few probably would have bought shares in the likelihood that PredictIt itself would become the subject of a potential landmark court decision. On those grounds, the judges ruled that the decision failed the so-called arbitrary-and-capricious standard.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 5, 2024

Glossip asked an Oklahoma court to set aside his conviction and sentence last year. In January 2023, he said, he had received for the first time files from the state indicating that prosecutors knew, but had not disclosed to Glossip or his lawyers, that Sneed had been prescribed lithium for bipolar disorder after his arrest.

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Court-MartialTrialPractice

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

In this earlier blo g, I commented on the pending litigation over unanimous verdicts at courts-martial. As military defense lawyers we continue to support the advice given that the issue should be raised in all courts going forward. The update is that the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces has decided United States v.

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