JURIST

JUNE 13, 2021

The German Parliament passed a law on Friday requiring large and medium-sized businesses to do their due diligence in combating human rights violations along their supply chain. The law introduces a shift to mandatory compliance with international norms on labor exploitation. The Bundestag adopted the draft law by a large majority. The law introduces obligations for companies above a certain size to adopt and implement due diligence procedures that prevent human rights and environmental abuses a

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EvidenceProf Blog

JUNE 27, 2021

The qualified immunity doctrine insulates governmental agents from liability for unconstitutional acts as long “as their conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.” The primary purpose of the doctrine.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 22, 2021

Share The Supreme Court on Monday reshaped the relationship between universities and the athletes who play college sports. In an opinion by Justice Neil Gorsuch , the justices unanimously ruled that the National Collegiate Athletic Association cannot prohibit its member schools from providing athletes with certain forms of education-related benefits, such as paid post-graduate internships, scholarships for graduate school, or free laptops or musical instruments.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 21, 2021

The case of Dr. Jeffrey Goldstein, an Upper East Side doctor who was sentenced to 57 months in federal prison last week in connection with a kickback scheme involving fentanyl, draws back the curtain on a different form of fentanyl abuse. Goldstein was prescribing Subsys, a potent fentanyl-based spray, in exchange for bribes and kickbacks from Subsys’s manufacturer, according to the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.

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JUNE 1, 2021

Thomson Reuters is getting into the game of AI-powered contract analysis with the launch today of HighQ Contract Analysis , a contract review tool that uses machine learning to find answers to specific legal questions. Integrated with HighQ, the collaboration and workflow platform Thomson Reuters acquired in 2019, HighQ Contract Analysis is designed for attorneys to use in transactional due diligence, compliance review and contract investigations.

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JURIST

JUNE 25, 2021

The Cowessess First Nation announced the discovery of 751 unmarked graves near the site of the Marieval Indian Residential School, approximately 160km east of Regina, Saskatchewan, on Thursday. The bodies were found using ground-penetrating sonar across an area of 44 square kilometers. The site is believed to have been a cemetery for victims of the residential school, which operated from 1899 to 1996.

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EvidenceProf Blog

JUNE 9, 2021

According to a newspaper article headlined, “Police expert lied about credentials,” by Jennifer McMenamin, published 9 March 2007, in the Baltimore Sun, Kopera claimed in court to have degrees that he had not earned in fact. Kopera testified frequently that.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 1, 2021

Share The Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with the federal government in a dispute over when federal courts can treat asylum seekers’ testimony as credible. In a unanimous opinion in the consolidated cases of Garland v. Dai and Garland v. Alcaraz-Enriquez , the court rejected the approach of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, which had previously taken asylum seekers’ testimony as credible when reviewing cases where immigration courts were silent on applicants’ credibility.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 7, 2021

Within a decade or less, thousands of self-driving cars could be zooming on American highways, but law enforcement is still a long way from addressing the safety and criminal issues posed by sharing the road with traditional vehicles, warns a panel convened by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ). The panel, comprising researchers from the RAND Corporation and the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF), as well as selected police, industry and traffic safety leaders, recently identified 33 ch

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JUNE 11, 2021

by Dennis Crouch. It appears that we have not yet seen the most invasive nature of contemporary patent eligibility doctrine. Case in point: Yu v. Apple Inc. (Fed. Cir. June 11, 2021) [ Yu vs Apple ]. Yanbin Yu and Zhongxuan Zhang are the inventors and owners of U.S. Patent No. 6,611,289 (‘Digital cameras using multiple sensors with multiple lenses’).

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The Fashion Law

JUNE 2, 2021

Consumers are confused about sustainability in the fashion sphere. A new report from clean manufacturing firm Genomatica found that while “consumers in the United States want to make more environmentally-friendly choices when it comes to shopping for clothing,” a large portion of them are unsure where exactly they can to purchase sustainably-made apparel, and even more fundamentally, they are “confused about what makes something sustainable” in the first place, with one survey respondent stating

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JURIST

JUNE 22, 2021

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet condemned the humanitarian crisis in Tigray, Ethiopia, in a statement delivered Monday at the forty-seventh session of the Human Rights Council. Bachelet said that Eritrean soldiers in Tigray “perpetrate violations of human rights and humanitarian law.” The UN estimates that more than 350,000 persons in Tigray are living in a famine.

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LawSites

JUNE 8, 2021

These days, the duty of technology competence requires lawyers not only to know how to use Zoom, but also to remember that it can record you. It seems a lawyer inconveniently forgot that fact when he flipped the bird during his opponent’s appellate argument on Zoom, and then denied it. It was an expensive lesson, as the combination of those two acts — of flipping the bird and then denying it — cost him $3,000.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 1, 2021

Share In its first major opinion on the scope of American Indian tribes’ sovereign powers in decades, the Supreme court held on Tuesday in United States v. Cooley that tribal governments — and thus their police officers — have the power to search and temporarily detain non-Indians suspected of breaking federal or state laws within reservations. Justice Stephen Breyer wrote the opinion for the court.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 14, 2021

Are efforts to help the homeless by diverting them to mental health services doing more harm than good? Over the weekend, several advocacy organizations based in Venice, Ca., claimed recent action by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department aimed at helping the 60,000 people experiencing homelessness in the area have resulted in the “forced displacement and criminalization of unhoused people,” according to the Daily News. .

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LawTechnologyToday

JUNE 21, 2021

On March 11, 2021, the esteemed Christie’s auction house sold a digital artwork (titled Everydays ) by an artist named Beeple for $69,346,250 USD. Beeple (real name, Mike Winkelmann) is a well-known and prolific online digital author. But he’s not exactly Vincent Van Gogh and prior to October 2020, had never sold a piece for more than $100. Strange, to say the least.

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The Fashion Law

JUNE 15, 2021

Last month, Shein brought “Amazon’s 152-day streak as the most downloaded shopping app in the U.S.” to a halt, Bloomberg reported this week, in what it calls “a remarkable feat” for any budding clothing brand, “let alone one most Americans over 30 still have not heard of.” The rise of the Chinese fast-fashion retailer has been quiet, but impactful thanks in large part to its dirt-cheap prices and wildly-sped-up take on fast fashion, a model that sees garments and accessories plucked from runway

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JURIST

JUNE 20, 2021

The US Supreme Court on Thursday reversed a ruling that allowed several individuals to sue food corporations Nestlé USA and Cargill over child slavery claims, limiting corporate liability under the Alien Tort Statute. The case which the Supreme Court decided was Nestlé USA, Inc. v. Doe I, consolidated with Cargill, Inc. v. Doe I. In these cases, the unnamed plaintiffs alleged that Nestlé and Cargill were complicit in the use of child slave labor on cocoa farms in the Ivory Coast.

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LawSites

JUNE 6, 2021

Palo Alto, Calif., based Intapp , a major provider of cloud-based business applications for larger law firms and financial services firms, filed papers Friday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering of its common stock. For the legal technology industry, where IPOs have been few and far between, the news is significant.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 17, 2021

Share The Supreme Court on Thursday threw out a lawsuit alleging that two U.S.-based companies, Nestlé and Cargill, facilitated human-rights abuses on cocoa plantations in the Ivory Coast. By a vote of 8-1, the justices ruled that the lawsuit cannot go forward because it is based on conduct that occurred overseas. Although the decision was obviously a victory for the two companies, it was not the sweeping one that the business community had sought.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 14, 2021

When FBI agents led a shackled, unkempt Ted Kazcynski out of his Montana cabin in 1996, they brought to an end the longest and most expensive manhunt in the agency’s history. And almost immediately, it set in motion a stream of books, films and documentaries about the so-called “Unabomber” and the 17-year terror campaign he pursued single-mindedly across the U.S.

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Above The Law

JUNE 28, 2021

The court found that Giuliani committed such egregious violations of the rules of professional conduct that his immediate suspension was necessary to avoid 'continuing misconduct.'.

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The Fashion Law

JUNE 29, 2021

Adidas is suing Thom Browne in the latest battle that it has waged over its famous three stripes. According to the trademark infringement and dilution complaint that it filed in a New York federal court on Monday, adidas claims that “despite Thom Browne’s knowledge of adidas’s rights in the famous three-stripe mark,” which adidas has been using since as early as 1952, adidas claims that the New York-based brand “has expanded its product offerings far beyond” its staple “formal wear a

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JURIST

JUNE 18, 2021

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau named the Honorable Mahmud Jamal to the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) on Thursday. Jamal will replace the retiring Justice Rosalie Abella, and becomes the first person of color to sit on Canada’s highest court. Preceding Jamal’s appointment, the Liberal government formed a non-partisan advisory board led by former Progressive Conservative Prime Minister Kim Campbell.

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LawSites

JUNE 7, 2021

As companies plan for safely returning to the office, two new resources — including one that is free — are available to help legal professionals advise them with access to comparative federal and state legal requirements and case law. One of these new back-to-office resources is an expansion of the COVID-19 State & Federal Compare Smart Chart , a comprehensive, free resource that Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S. first launched shortly after the onset of the pandemic as a way of sup

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