JURIST

JANUARY 18, 2025

The Senate voted on Friday to invoke cloture on the “ Laken Riley Act ,” which is a bill requiring the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to detain non-citizens charged with theft-related offenses in the United States. The bill seeks to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act , requiring the DHS to detain non-citizens charged with offenses such as theft, burglary, larceny, and shoplifting.

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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

JANUARY 18, 2025

It happens from time to time, when a third party pays for the legal services of another. Though, its still a fairly unusual situation. So, the question is: What do you do when it happens? Ideally, two things: First, you want to clearly explain to both the payor and the client that the payor is not the client, the client is which sounds like an obvious thing for lawyers, but wont be for your clients and the person paying the legal fees.

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JURIST

JANUARY 18, 2025

Ukraines State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) on Saturday charged former Member of Parliament and businessman Vadym Novynskyi with high treason and incitement of religious hatred in absentia. Despite Novinsky not being explicitly named by the statement of the law enforcement agency, local media reported that the description and thumbnail of the video attached showed that the SBI was referring to him.

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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

JANUARY 18, 2025

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HowAppealing

JANUARY 18, 2025

“Supreme Court lawyer indicted on tax evasion charges; SCOTUSblog co-founder allegedly used law firm money to pay gambling debts”: Alex Miller of The Washington Times has this report. And Pocharapon Neammanee of HuffPost reports that “ High-Profile SCOTUS Attorney Accused Of Using Firm’s Money To Pay Gambling Debt; Federal prosecutors allege that SCOTUSblog publisher Thomas Goldstein failed to report millions of dollars in his poker winnings.

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LLRX

JANUARY 18, 2025

Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness.

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JURIST

JANUARY 18, 2025

Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged Thailand not to forcibly repatriating 48 Uyghur men to China on Friday. The group stated that the detainees have been imprisoned for more than 10 years and may face a high likelihood of severe human rights violations, including arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance and torture. The group urged the Thai government to allow them access to refugee status determination processes.

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JANUARY 18, 2025

I was greatly honored yesterday to be selected as one of this year’s recipients of the Samizdat Prize, awarded by RealClearPolitics, a leading news site in the fight against censorship. I will receive the prize at the RCP conference on Wednesday, February 5, 2025,in Palm Beach, Florida. I am deeply grateful to receive this recognition for my work in free speech and my new book, The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.

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JURIST

JANUARY 18, 2025

A Bolivian criminal court judge ordered Friday the arrest of former President Evo Morales after he failed to appear at a precautionary measures hearing in an aggravated human trafficking case. Along with the arrest order, Judge Nelson Rocabado of the Fifth Anti-Corruption and Violence Against Women Criminal Court in Tarija, Bolivia, imposed national travel restrictions, ordered Morales’ assets frozen, and directed the freezing of his bank accounts.

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JANUARY 18, 2025

by Dennis Crouch As someone quite familiar with the subject matter, I was looking forward to writing about the trademark battle of Nerdio, Inc. v. NerdIO Limited. The appeal was recently dismissed based upon a joint stipulation, but I still wanted to dig into the TTAB file for a few nuggets. Nerdio, Inc. v. NerdIO Limited , Cancellation No. 92075281 (TTAB May 14, 2024).

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JURIST

JANUARY 18, 2025

US President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 2500 non-violent drug offenders on Friday, marking the highest number of pardons and commutations issued by a president in US history. Biden said he commuted the sentences because he saw them as disproportionately long for the sentences they would have received today given the passage of the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 and the First Step Act of 2018.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 18, 2025

Below is my column in Fox.com on President Joe Biden’s last-minute declaration that the 28th Amendment is now part of the United States Constitution. It appears that our president sees dead amendments, but that is not the greatest thing that should worry you. Here is the column: President Joe Biden wants people to know that he sees dead amendments.

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JURIST

JANUARY 18, 2025

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Trk sounded an urgent alarm on Friday over the escalating ethnic violence in Sudan. Reports of ethnically motivated attacks, hate speech, and violence against civilians have become increasingly common in the ongoing conflict that has already devastated the lives of millions. Turk warned: Retaliatory attacks – of shocking brutality – on entire communities based on real or perceived ethnic identity are on the rise, as is hate spe

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JURIST

JANUARY 18, 2025

The European Commission announced on Friday additional measures in the ongoing proceedings against social media platform X under the Digital Services Act (DSA). The European Commission adopted three new investigatory measures. First, the EU obliged X to provide information on its recommender system, including any changes made to this algorithm. Moreover, the EU issued a “retention order,” which requires the Very Large Online Platform (VLOP) to maintain and preserve any information re

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JANUARY 18, 2025

UN launched Friday the United Nations Action Plan to Enhance Monitoring and Response to Antisemitism. The UN Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) developed the Action Plan , aiming to ensure a more coordinated and effective response to antisemitism. The Action Plan outlines comprehensive global antisemitism prevention strategies, with a focus on monitoring, training, advocacy, and stakeholder collaboration.

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JURIST

JANUARY 18, 2025

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputy, Joseph Benza III, pleaded guilty to a federal civil rights charge on Friday. He assaulted a transgender man, Emmett Brock, who exercised his First Amendment rights by making an obscene hand gesture while driving. The incident occurred on February 10, 2023. Benza, stationed in Norwalk, was responding to a domestic violence call in Whittier.

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JURIST

JANUARY 18, 2025

Amnesty International on Friday condemned a Russian court’s sentencing of three lawyers for aiding the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), calling the decision “shameful.” Amnesty International’s Eastern Europe and Central Asia Director Marie Struthers stated: The prosecution and sentencing of Vadim Kobzev, Aleksei Liptser and Igor Sergunin is a shameful attempt to silence those who dared to defend Aleksei Navalny and make his v

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JURIST

JANUARY 18, 2025

Supporters of impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol breached Seoul’s Western District Court early Sunday after the court authorized a warrant for Yoon’s formal arrest and the president was taken into custody, according to national media outlet Yonhap News. Images and video unverified by JURIST purport to show protesters entering the courthouse through a broken window.

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JURIST

JANUARY 18, 2025

A federal US appeals court on Friday held that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) violated US immigration law. The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld a district court’s decision to block the DACA program, finding it to be unlawfully created. The court emphasized that since Congress had deliberately excluded DACA recipients from the nation’s comprehensive immigration and naturalization framework, “Congress’s rigorous classification scheme forec

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