JURIST

DECEMBER 14, 2024

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Trk announced Friday that his office will resume operations in Venezuela. Trk’s office was forced to leave the country earlier this year following his statement on the enforced disappearance of human rights defender Roco San Miguel. Speaking at a Human Rights Council meeting, Trk stated: “The Office can play an important role between the institutions of the state and the people of the country.

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LLRX

DECEMBER 14, 2024

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

DECEMBER 14, 2024

The human rights situation in Ukraine has worsened significantly as intensified hostilities and systematic aerial strikes target critical infrastructure, according to a report by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) on Friday. The Sixth Interim Report on violations of international humanitarian and human rights law covered developments from June to November 2024, highlighting a sharp increase in civilian casualties and a deteriorating humanitarian crisis in Ukraine.

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DECEMBER 14, 2024

Babylon Bee The Scripps National Spelling Bee has triggered a controversy after adopting the alternative spelling of “women” as permissible. Students will now be allowed to spell “women” as “womyn.” Parody and reality seem to have emerged given a past Babylon Bee skit (below). The new 2024-2025 school year study listsinclude the feminist term “womyn” as an acceptable alternate spelling for “women.” “Womyn,” however, has itse

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Speaker: Anne Post, CEO North America, Xakia Technologies

Do you know that 40% of U.S. Legal Departments now have a formal legal intake process? With that in mind, where does your legal department stand today? Many legal teams still struggle with a flood of incoming requests, leaving everyone overwhelmed and frustrated. Implementing a formal legal intake process can seem like an obstacle between the business and the legal department, but it doesn’t have to be!

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JURIST

DECEMBER 14, 2024

Three human rights groups, Human Rights Watch, the Platform for Families in Pursuit of Justice, and the Citizens’ Assembly, called on the Turkish authorities on Friday to disclose information about civil servants under investigation for the collapse of buildings during the 2023 earthquake. Human rights groups are demanding that the perpetrators be brought to justice and that impunity be ended.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 14, 2024

The South Korea National Assembly Saturday passed an impeachment motion against President Yoon Suk Yeol with 204 votes in favor, surpassing the two-thirds majority of 300 lawmakers necessary to initiate impeachment proceedings. Under Article 66 of the South Korean Constitution , an impeachment motion requires support from at least 200 members of the National Assembly.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 14, 2024

University of Illinois Accounting Professor Li Zhang is under fire this week after warning students about their “unconscious and unintentional biases” against women and minorities before they completed their evaluations. The College Fix reported on the complaint after Professor Zhang warned students at the end of last semester that course evaluations can be biased against racial minorities and women.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 14, 2024

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday announced a court-enforceable agreement with the city of Louisville, Kentucky, following a sweeping investigation into the Louisville Metro Government. The investigation was prompted by the 2020 police killing of Breonna Taylor and a 2023 DOJ report detailing a pattern of racial discrimination by the police force.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 14, 2024

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit on Thursday against a New York doctor for allegedly providing abortion drugs to a Texas resident. The state of Texas filed the lawsuit at the District Court at Collin County, claimingthat the defendant’s “knowing and continuing violations of Texas law places women and unborn children in Texas at risk.” The state has prayed for a temporary injunction against the defendant, enjoining her from prescribing abortion-inducing drugs to

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Speaker: Joe Stephens, J.D., Attorney and Law Professor

Get ready to uncover what attorneys really need from you when it comes to trial prep in this new webinar! Attorney and law professor, Joe Stephens, J.D., will share proven techniques for anticipating attorney needs, organizing critical documents, and transforming complex information into compelling case presentations. Key Learning Objectives: Organization That Makes Sense 🎯 Learn how to structure and organize case materials in ways that align with how attorneys actually work and think.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 14, 2024

The Hague District Court in the Netherlands rejected Friday a motion by ten Palestinian and Dutch NGOs to halt arms export to Israel. The judge ruled that the State has room to assess whether its arms export policy violates its international law obligations. The court observed that applications for export have been rejected regularly, indicating that the government has complied with its international obligation not to violate international humanitarian law.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 14, 2024

A Georgia state judge on Friday shut down an effort by former Trump lawyer Kenneth Chesebro to undo his guilty plea in the states election interference case involving President-elect Donald Trump and his allies. Judge Scott McAfee of the Fulton County Superior Court denied Chesebros motion on multiple grounds, calling it [p]rocedurally defective in more ways than one.

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