JURIST

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The New York Times (NYT) and The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) revealed previously redacted details Saturday of a US multi-state lawsuit against Facebook parent company Meta, alleging that Meta purposefully designed its social media platforms to be attractive to children and collected children’s personal data despite the company’s guidelines barring young children from joining its platforms.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Share The argument on Wednesday in Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy will present a remarkable spectacle of three entirely distinct constitutional challenges to wholly disparate attributes of the SEC. Ordinarily, the ability of the justices to control their docket would allow them to wait on each question for the development of a circuit conflict and select a suitable case in which to resolve each issue.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development confirmed to German public broadcaster Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) last week that four local Afghan employees of the German government aid organization Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) office in Afghanistan have been arrested by the Taliban-backed Afghan government. According to a confidential EU security report obtained by WDR on Thursday, one employee, detained in early November, was arrested and is still being h

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Once upon a time, in a magical city called San Francisco, three former lawyers came together to develop an innovative legal research platform, as an alternative to traditional legal research services such as Thomson Reuters Westlaw and LexisNexis. They called their new company Casetext. Their original idea was to create a free, comprehensive library of primary legal research materials, supplemented by crowdsourced annotations and edits contributed by users, like a Wikipedia for law.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) Nicholas Haysom stressed that South Sudan must secure public confidence to ensure that its first post-independence elections in December 2024 will be held peacefully. Haysom suggested Thursday that South Sudan improve gender and political representation in the country by reconstituting government bodies such as the Political Parties Council, National Elections Commission and National Con

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Farzona Kayumova is a staff correspondent for JURIST in Uzbekistan and a law student at Tashkent State University of Law. President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev hosted the 16th summit of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) on November 9 held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan’s capital. The Economic Cooperation Organization is a regional intergovernmental organization established in 1985 in Tehran (Iran).

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HowAppealing

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

“Supreme Court Needs a Real Ethics Code. The justices have rightly responded to public criticism. But the self-policing system they’ve proposed doesn’t inspire much confidence.” Bloomberg Opinion has published this editorial. The post “Supreme Court Needs a Real Ethics Code. The justices have rightly responded to public criticism. But the self-policing system they’ve proposed doesn’t inspire much confidence.” appeared first on How Appealing.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Sierra Leonean president Julius Maada Bio declared a nationwide curfew with immediate effect on Sunday, a few hours after several unidentified gunmen attacked the Military Barracks at Wilberforce in the capital Freetown in the morning. According to a statement released by Sierra Leonean Minister of Information and Civic Education Mustapha Jambai Massaquoi, the attackers were trying to break into the military armory at Wilberforce Barracks, but all of them were rebuffed.

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HowAppealing

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

“Justices Search for Middle Ground on Mandatory Sentences for Gun Crimes; A federal law imposes a mandatory 15-year sentence for possessing a gun after committing three serious drug offenses; But which offenses count?” Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report. The post “Justices Search for Middle Ground on Mandatory Sentences for Gun Crimes; A federal law imposes a mandatory 15-year sentence for possessing a gun after committing three serious drug offenses; But which o

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ABA Journal

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Updated: A Connecticut lawyer charged with third-degree assault for slapping another lawyer has received a suspended sentence after pleading no contest.

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HowAppealing

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

“Parsing Invalidating Statutes (Part I)”: John F. Coyle has this post at the “Transnational Litigation Blog.” Therein, he writes, “There are hundreds of state statutes that direct state courts not to give effect to choice-of-law and forum selection clauses.” The post “Parsing Invalidating Statutes (Part I)” appeared first on How Appealing.

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ABA Journal

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The ABA Journal is read by half of the nation's 1 million lawyers every month. It covers the trends, people and finances of the legal profession from Wall Street to Main Street to Pennsylvania Avenue.

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HowAppealing

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

“Today at SCOTUS: Guns or Drugs?” Michael C. Dorf has this post at his blog, “Dorf on Law.” The post “Today at SCOTUS: Guns or Drugs?” appeared first on How Appealing.

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Above The Law

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

No, 'till death do you part' is not a valid defense. The post And It Says Right Here You Can’t Try To Kill Your Former Husband With An Axe And Expect Money From Him appeared first on Above the Law.

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HowAppealing

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

“Bad Facts, Bad Law: In a recent Supreme Court oral argument about disarming domestic abusers, originalism itself was put to the test.” Duncan Hosie has this essay (subscription required for full access) online at The New York Review of Books. The post “Bad Facts, Bad Law: In a recent Supreme Court oral argument about disarming domestic abusers, originalism itself was put to the test.” appeared first on How Appealing.

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Attorney at Work

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Holiday parties can be more awkward than meeting the parents. Try these tips to become confident. The post How to Take the Awkward Out of Holiday Parties appeared first on Attorney at Work.

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HowAppealing

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

“A Deregulatory Sh*t Show Waiting to Happen”: You can access today’s new episode of the “Strict Scrutiny” podcast via this link. The post “A Deregulatory Sh*t Show Waiting to Happen” appeared first on How Appealing.

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Above The Law

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Novo Nordisk’s planned expansion will more than double the footprint of its France production site, bringing new capacity for manfacturing GLP-1 drugs for metabolic conditions. The location is already one of the company’s largest for making diabetes products.

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HowAppealing

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

“A Mail-Vote Time Bomb Keeps Ticking; Pennsylvania’s undated ballots might go to the Supreme Court — again”: This editorial appears in today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal. The post “A Mail-Vote Time Bomb Keeps Ticking; Pennsylvania’s undated ballots might go to the Supreme Court — again” appeared first on How Appealing.

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Above The Law

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

LockBit threatened to publish the Biglaw firm's data unless it negotiated a price by November 28, and now the firm has been removed from hackers' site on the dark web. What could this mean? The post Top Biglaw Firm Removed From Notorious Hackers’ Website 1 Day Ahead Of Ransomware Deadline appeared first on Above the Law.

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HowAppealing

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

“The new SCOTUS Code of Conduct”: Charles Geyh has this post at “SCOTUSblog.” The post “The new SCOTUS Code of Conduct” appeared first on How Appealing.

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Above The Law

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Your chances of making partner aren't the best they've ever been. The post It’s Really Not A Good Time To Be A Capital Markets Senior Associate appeared first on Above the Law.

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HowAppealing

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

“Federal Defenders Combine Forces to Argue at US Supreme Court; Individual defenders don’t argue often at high court; Experienced defenders partner with first-timers to improve advocacy”: Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson of Bloomberg Law has this report. Read the article, among other reasons, to learn what the acronym DSCRAP stands for. The post “Federal Defenders Combine Forces to Argue at US Supreme Court; Individual defenders don’t argue often at high court; Experienced defende

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OneLegal

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Commingling of funds occurs when personal funds are mixed with client funds, creating a blur in financial clarity and accountability, and can be an easy trap to fall into. Here's what you need to know about it. The post Understanding the commingling of funds and why law firms must avoid it appeared first on One Legal.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Share Tuesday’s argument in McElrath v. Georgia will take the justices back to law-school basics – the case could be a question on a law-school examination in criminal law. The facts are simple. Damian McElrath was prosecuted for several crimes after he stabbed his adoptive mother, Diane McElrath, to death in 2012. The case went to trial, where the jury returned a verdict that, among other things, found McElrath not guilty by reason of insanity on a charge of malice murder – the most serious mur

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