EvidenceProf Blog
MARCH 16, 2021
I'm reposting a prior post from January. Pervis Payne is scheduled to be executed on April 9th. I am asking readers to contact Governor BillLee (615-741-2001) to ask him to commue Pervis Payne's death sentence to a life sentence because.
Diane Drain
MARCH 14, 2021
You have a reverse mortgage: Know your rights and responsibilities. Publication from Consumer Financial Protection Bureau “CFPB” Reverse mortgages can be a nightmare, leaving your spouse evicted from their home once the signing spouse dies. This in-depth guide teaches current reverse mortgage borrowers about their rights and responsibilities under a Home Equity Conversion Mortgage loan.
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Patently O
MARCH 17, 2021
by Dennis Crouch. The vast majority of US non-provisional patent applications (utility) claim some form of priority relationship back to a previously filed patent document. The chart below shows the percentage of applications that assert these various forms of priority claims. Note that continuation applications have continued to rise while provisional applications show a plateau.
JURIST
MARCH 19, 2021
The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled Wednesday that Uber Technologies, Inc. (Uber) cannot force plaintiffs to arbitrate their disability discrimination claims. The plaintiffs include motorized-wheelchair users from the Pittsburgh area and the Pittsburghers for Public Trust, which is a non-profit organization that aims to make “transportation … available and accessible to all, including people with limited mobility.” The plaintiffs alleged that Uber discriminated
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EvidenceProf Blog
MARCH 18, 2021
Reptile strategy has taken the plaintiffs' bar by storm. The Reptile theory asserts that you can prevail at trial by speaking to, and scaring, the primitive part of jurors' brains, the part of the brain they share with reptiles. The.
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CourtTechBulletin
MARCH 17, 2021
Via press release, March 16, 2021. NIJ has released a four-part series on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Criminal Justice System. Through the National Criminal Justice Reference Service , NIJ has made available the following final technical reports (these reports are the result of NIJ-funded projects but were not published by the U.S. Department of Justice).
JURIST
MARCH 19, 2021
Archbishop of Hamburg Stefan Hesse offered to resign Friday after allegations that he mishandled sexual abuse cases appeared in a lengthy report on abuse in the Archdiocese of Cologne. Professor Bjorn Gercke, who compiled the 800-page study, said it identifies more than 200 perpetrators and more than 300 victims of abuse from 1975 to 2018. In a statement , Hesse commended Gercke for compiling the report and said it has allowed him to see his own actions in a new light.
EvidenceProf Blog
MARCH 19, 2021
Should prosecutors be required to refer to defendants by their preferred pronouns? That was the question of first impression addressed by the Eighth Circuit in its recent opinion in United States v. Thomason, 2021 WL 966844 (8th Cir. 2021). In.
LDA PRO
MARCH 17, 2021
Before we discuss estate planning laws, you must know what an estate is. An estate is an individual’s personal possessions, real estate, or other holdings. When someone passes away, his or her estate is divided as per the wishes of the deceased or if there is no will, the decision is left up to probate court. In any case, it is better to plan your estate while you are young so that it can be managed according to your wishes.
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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog
MARCH 16, 2021
Lawyers who relied totally on networking and the personal referrals generating therefrom have take a hit of late, as many of those in-person marketing opportunities have dried up, or been significantly reduced. It’s not the end of networking as we know it, even if it feels that way. A lot of those networking opportunities have moved online, and lawyers can now take advantage of broader marketing options via the web.
JURIST
MARCH 19, 2021
The Mito District Court ruled Thursday that Japan Atomic Power Company (JAPC) cannot reactivate its idled Tokai No. 2 nuclear power plant in Ibaraki Prefecture. The No. 2 unit has been idled since the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, which also heavily damaged the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Complex. The Tokai station originally contained two reactors, the first of which has been dismantled.
EvidenceProf Blog
MARCH 17, 2021
Similar to its federal counterpart, OCGA § 24-6-609(a) states the following: For the purpose of attacking the character for truthfulness of a witness: (1) Evidence that a witness other than an accused has been convicted of a crime shall be.
Diane Drain
MARCH 15, 2021
Protection of Stimulus Payments from a Bankruptcy Trustee. The following is from the NCLC Consumer Law Implications of the American Recovery Plan Act. Public Law No. 116-260 , Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021, div. FF, tit. 10, § 1001(a) adds a new Bankruptcy Code § 541(b)(11) to the list of exclusions from property of the bankruptcy estate. It provides that “recovery rebates made under section 6428 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986” are not property of the estate.
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HowAppealing
MARCH 15, 2021
“Are the Elite Supreme Court Advocates Better — or Just Better Known?” Ross Guberman has this post at The Juris Lab.
JURIST
MARCH 15, 2021
The Central Criminal Court of England and Wales convicted Sahayb Abu on Friday for attempting to carry out a terrorist attack after he created pro-Islamic state music videos and purchased weaponry online. The police first began investigating Abu last March when his “extremist mindset” drew their attention. Throughout the next few months, Abu “purchased a number of items that gave investigators cause for further concern—a lock knife, a ballistic vest, two balaclavas, fingerless
EvidenceProf Blog
MARCH 15, 2021
Most errors at criminal trials are subject to a harmless error analysis. In other words, the appellate court looks at the gravity of the error and the overall weight of the evidence to decide whether the error was harmless (meaning.
LLRX
MARCH 15, 2021
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HowAppealing
MARCH 19, 2021
Judge who maligned media can’t get coverage of his Broadway shows: A longtime correspondent of this blog emailed tonight to note: I notice that Judge Silberman’s long dissent-in-part in Tah v. Global Witness contains what is either a clever pun or a truly inspired typographical error. On page three of his dissenting opinion he writes: “In that deal, Global Witness asserted that the National Oil Company paid bribes to legislators on behalf of the Broadway Consolidated oil compan
JURIST
MARCH 15, 2021
JURIST EXCLUSIVE – A law student reporting for JURIST in Myanmar offered these reflections Monday about the direction of her country as the military junta cut off mobile data access and civilian casualties from police and military violence continued to mount. Some sources said more than 15 more people were killed after a particularly bloody Sunday that saw over 5o deaths, most of them in Yangon, Myanmar’s largest city.
EvidenceProf Blog
MARCH 14, 2021
In my new essay, "The End of Comparative Qualified Immunity," I argue that the one-two punch of the Supreme Court's recent opinion in Taylor v. Riojas and summary disposition in McCoy v. Alamu will significantly limit the qualified immunity defense.
The Process Street
MARCH 19, 2021
If you’re moving fast and breaking things, at what point in time do you realize things are broken? When there is public uproar against your product? Such as the Amazon case in 2019 involving job listings for the role of “union buster” (someone who reports on fellow employees seeking fair labor practices). Or, when regulators come down on you like a ton of bricks?
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SCOTUSBlog
MARCH 17, 2021
To celebrate March Madness (and to have some fun during an unusually slow March argument calendar), SCOTUSblog is hosting the first-ever SCOTUS bracketology: a crowd-sourced tournament in search of the greatest Supreme Court justice of all time. You can find the opening round here. As. The post How we chose the Supreme 16, and other bracketology FAQs appeared first on SCOTUSblog.
JURIST
MARCH 17, 2021
JURIST EXCLUSIVE – Uncertainty reigned in Myanmar late Wednesday as the ruling military junta announced it was cutting off public wifi access after stopping mobile data services Monday in a bid to stop videos and photos showing brutal police actions against civilian pro-democracy protesters from flooding the internet. It is still unclear whether the announced cut-off of public wifi will extend to home broadband services in the country, but Myanmar citizens and members of the international
EvidenceProf Blog
MARCH 13, 2021
When a defendant enters a traditional guilty plea, that plea is usually admissible against her at a subsequent civil action. So, for instance, if Dana pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in connection with a fatal car accident, that plea would.
LawTechnologyToday
MARCH 19, 2021
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