Above The Law

APRIL 22, 2022

. * Is US tech lagging for legal reasons? One man's trash is another's 4th amendment violation.for now: Iowa Gov. wants to overturn an Iowa Supreme Court ruling that bans cops from searching people's trash without a warrant. One man's trash is another's 4th amendment violation.for now: Iowa Gov. Some think so. [

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Patently O

JANUARY 4, 2024

The role of attribution is also receiving increasing focus as attorneys begin to rely more heavily on AI outputs for their legal documents. This form of copying and imitation is a longstanding legal tradition, but the question is whether copying ever goes too far. I hope that they did not overbill the client.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The US Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously upheld an Arkansas law setting prescription drug reimbursement rates for pharmacies. Enforcement of the law had been blocked since 2017 when PCMA won at both the district and circuit court levels. The decision in Rutledge v.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Iowa and other states prohibit texting while driving but allow cellphone usage for other purposes, such as navigation. Iowa , police officers pulled Struve over after observing Struve using a cellphone – for an unidentifiable reason – for 10 seconds while driving. In Steven Struve’s case, Struve v. In the decision below, the U.S.

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American Legal Net

JULY 20, 2021

New Court Rule Sets Available : Iowa District Court, 8 th Judicial District ( IA08 ). Courts Removed. The post July 15, 2021 Court Rules Update appeared first on American Legal Net.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2023

Share During oral argument in two consolidated cases on Tuesday, the court seemed poised to reverse the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit and reject a ruling observers said would gut the government’s primary anti-fraud statute.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

“They contradict both their legal mandate and the evidence-based best practices they’re supposed to reflect, and they have already resulted in discrimination that violates state and federal law.” According to the ACLU, there are currently 11 anti-LGBTQ+ bills in the Virginia state legislature.

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JURIST

JULY 18, 2024

US Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond submitted an appeal to the US Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals Wednesday. The appeal challenges a court order against a preliminary injunction that halts the controversial anti-illegal immigration House Bill 4156 in the state.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 24, 2022

Share The current Supreme Court is undoubtedly pro-arbitration – but after Monday’s oral argument in Morgan v. At the same time, the justices seemed to differ over why that was, and what standard the court should adopt for future cases. The district court decided that by delaying, Sundance waived its right to demand arbitration.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 18, 2022

Share The Federal Arbitration Act requires courts to enforce arbitration agreements in most circumstances. Most courts have held that the arbitration agreement is still enforceable unless the other party has been prejudiced. Sundance , which will be argued on Monday, the Supreme Court will consider whether this is the correct rule.

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

That’s because current disclosure of litigation funding relies on a patchwork of state law, court rules, self-reporting, FOIA requests, leaks to journalists, and funding pitches. As such, the Federal District Court of Delaware has recently found itself at the center of this high-stakes debate about transparency and the purpose of the courts.

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Patently O

OCTOBER 31, 2022

His legal scholarship was deep and contemplative, and includes two articles published in the Iowa Law Review. is cited extensively in petitions for certiorari before the Supreme Court. His most recent work with Mark Lemley and Sean Seymore, The Death of the Genus Claim , 35 Harv. & Tech., Guest Post by Prof.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 14, 2023

On Tuesday, the justices will hear arguments in a pair of cases on whether a defendant can be found to have acted knowingly if it believed its conduct was unlawful but its conduct represented an objectively reasonable interpretation of the relevant legal requirement.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 10, 2022

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in a challenge to the constitutionality of the law. And both sides of the dispute contend that a ruling for the other side will have legal implications far beyond animal welfare. A federal district court rejected the challengers’ argument, and the U.S.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 28, 2022

The Supreme Court has called the right to a jury trial one of the foundations of American law. However, through laws and court decisions it has been recognized as one of the most basic requirements of a fair trial. Supreme Court has held that acquitted conduct may be considered by a judge for sentencing. Constitution.

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JURIST

MARCH 17, 2021

Effective immediately, these rights will be restored upon completion of any sentence of incarceration, even if the individual remains on community supervision or has outstanding court fees and fines. ” Only two other states—Iowa and Kentucky—have constitutions that permanently disenfranchise citizens with past felony convictions.

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MyCase

AUGUST 12, 2022

Legal record management is a vital aspect of any law firm. Though legal record keeping is part of daily practice for law firms, it is often disorganized. In this article, we’ll cover: Tips on organizing and accessing your legal records by category groupings . The Type of Legal Records You’re Storing.

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Patently O

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Ebrahim is visiting at Iowa Law this semester, where he’s teaching Cybercrime & Security and Entrepreneurship Law & Ethics. Companies and law firms with a transnational presence in Islamic countries should recognize that patents may present different considerations in countries with less secular legal systems.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

She contacted the Minneapolis police officer at the scene and shifted blame to Mohamud and her friends, according to court documents. Because of Weyker’s statements, which one court described as “ lies and manipulation ,” Mohamud and her friends were arrested on suspicion of tampering with a federal witness. Supreme Court.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

In June 2020, the Supreme Court issued a summary reversal – meaning it decided the case without merits briefing or oral argument – in Andrus v. In an unsigned opinion, the court ruled that Terence Andrus had demonstrated that his lawyer provided deficient performance at sentencing for failing to investigate or introduce mitigating evidence.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit striking down some provisions of the Indian Child Welfare Act. Although the district court largely agreed with the challengers, the en banc 5th Circuit later upheld various provisions. Four petitions involve a decision by the en banc U.S. In Cherokee Nation v.

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Fordham Law News

OCTOBER 15, 2024

1] Recent cases in the Fifth and Eighth Circuit Courts delve into the complexities of compelled speech [2] , ideological expression [3] , and constitutional scrutiny within the framework of securities law. [4] Berry, Iowa v. Office of Disciplinary Counsel of Supreme Court of Ohio, 471 U.S. Alliance for Fair Board Recruitment v.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2022

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. The court denied cert on Monday. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justices Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan, filed an opinion dissenting from the court’s denial of summary vacatur.

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Broadcast Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

On or before October 1, radio stations in Alaska, American Samoa, Guam, Hawaii, Marianas Islands, Oregon, and Washington and TV stations in Iowa and Missouri must submit their license renewal applications. After 20 years, enhanced equal employment opportunity data collection could again be a reality for broadcasters.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. Before we discuss changes to the Supreme Court’s docket this week, a word about last week’s post. The court wound up taking both the case brought by two school board members, O’Connor-Ratcliff v.

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Patently O

MARCH 17, 2022

I’m teaching my usual Introduction to Intellectual Property course, together with an especially large Civil Procedure class (which at Iowa is 4 credit hours), and the Iowa Innovation, Business & Law Center is running an exciting speaker series on Genetics, Law and Society. Read it here: [link].

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Broadcast Law Blog

AUGUST 30, 2021

Circuit Court of Appeals challenging the new sponsorship identification rules. Looking ahead to October, radio stations in Alaska, American Samoa, Guam, Hawaii, Marianas Islands, Oregon, and Washington and TV stations in Iowa and Missouri should be preparing their license renewal applications for submission on or before October 1.

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Patently O

JUNE 15, 2022

Gugliuzza, Temple University Beasley School of Law; Jonas Anderson, American University Washington College of Law; and Jason Rantanen, University of Iowa College of Law. Guest post by Paul R. Overall, from 2008 through 2021, the Federal Circuit granted 37.3%

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

US District Judge Stephen Locker ruled Sunday that Iowa can continue to challenge the validity of hundreds of ballots after Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate sent a letter to county commissioners on October 22 stating that a review of voter registration data showed 2,176 registrants might be ineligible to vote due to non-citizenship.

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LawSites

MARCH 10, 2023

Part 1 ) ( Part 2 ) Ed Walters, CEO at Fastcase, Adjunct Professor at the Georgetown University Law Center and at Cornell Law School/Cornell Tech Ed Walters is the CEO of Fastcase , a legal intelligence company based in Washington, D.C. Today we take for granted that legal services must be reformed, or they will be disrupted.

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LawSites

APRIL 19, 2022

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. And now I’ll share it with you.

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Above The Law

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

I wonder if he's as nonchalant about collecting his paycheck. The post Lawyer Pulls A Bartleby On Disciplinary Committee appeared first on Above the Law.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

But that hasn’t stopped some from promoting his methods and even deploying 911 call analysis in court to win convictions. In 2016, Missouri prosecutor Leah Askey wrote Harpster an effusive email, bluntly detailing how she skirted legal rules to exploit his methods against unwitting defendants. “Of

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Broadcast Law Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2022

As part of the settlement, subject to approval by the courts, Google will pay approximately $9 million and iHeart will pay approximately $400,000 to the states that were part of the agreement. The deceptive endorsements aired over 28,000 times across ten major markets from October 2019 to March 2020.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

The ACLU of Iowa and 11 parents of minor children across the state with disabilities filed a federal lawsuit on Friday challenging an Iowa law that bans school districts from imposing mask mandates in schools. In the last few days of the 2021 legislative session, the Iowa Legislature passed House File 847.

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Broadcast Law Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2016

This would be similar to the controls over the rates of ASCAP, BMI and SESAC, whose rates can only be imposed following an agreement with a copyright holder or, where there is no voluntary agreement, by a determination by a court (for ASCAP and BMI) or an arbitration panel (for SESAC) that the new rates are reasonable.

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Broadcast Law Blog

AUGUST 28, 2022

A further requirement to confirm the representations received from the programmers by searching for the programmer’s names in certain FCC and Department of Justice databases was struck down by the Court of Appeals following an appeal by the NAB (see our article here ), but the rest of the rule remains in effect.

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