LDA PRO
JUNE 24, 2021
One of the most crucial parts of a litigation process is serving legal documents. But what if you are unable to locate the defendants or witnesses? That is where hiring a professional process server is required. However, appointing the wrong person can cost you even more! Firstly, your money and effort will go in vain. And secondly, yet most importantly, there will be unnecessary delays in the litigation process.
Above The Law
JUNE 23, 2021
Cheerleader wins case against school for off-campus speech. Thomas files lonely dissent.
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The Crime Report
JUNE 23, 2021
The surge in violent crime has thrust the nation’s police chiefs into the middle of an uncomfortable debate between those demanding a radical overhaul of policing and those calling for a return to stricter, hardline law enforcement. And the debate threatens to undermine efforts to address the reasons for the surge, police chiefs of four major cities reeling from the violent crime increase warned Tuesday.
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 22, 2021
With firemark toolmark testimony, a ballistics expert testifies that a particular shell casing came from a particular gun. Here is how we described it in our recent Undisclosed series about the Darrell Ewing trial: When Derrico Searcy was arrested for.
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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.
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.
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.
SCOTUSBlog
JUNE 23, 2021
Share A Pennsylvania school district on Wednesday may have won the war over regulating off-campus student speech, but it lost the battle over a cheerleader’s profanity-laden complaint on Snapchat. The justices ruled that the First Amendment allows schools to regulate at least some student speech that occurs off campus. But, by a vote of 8-1, the justices agreed with the cheerleader that her one-year suspension from the cheerleading team nonetheless violated the First Amendment.
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The Crime Report
JUNE 21, 2021
To address hate crimes, restorative justice approaches may offer a more effective solution than carceral ones, according to a joint report by Stanford Law School (SLS) and the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law School. Titled “Exploring Alternative Approaches to Hate Crimes,” the report evaluated programs in New York City and Oakland, Ca., conclued that “alternative” approaches “may offer a way to identify and mend the unique individual and community harms caused by hate crime
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.
Attorney at Work
JUNE 25, 2021
Whether you travel near or far, physically or virtually, here are some tips from our tech experts on getting away from it all. Summer’s here and the country’s reopening around us. A time like this will inspire many lawyers and staff members to take a family road trip, spend time off at a nearby beach town, or hop a plane to a farther-away dream spot.
LawSites
JUNE 23, 2021
A report out yesterday provides further evidence of a trend I have written about several times in recent years — the increasingly instrumental role law librarians play in innovation and technology adoption. The 2021 AALL State of the Profession Report , the second such report published by the American Association of Law Libraries, compiles data from three surveys to provide quantitative insights on such issues as the impact of COVID-19 in law libraries, diversity, budgets, user services, operat
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The Crime Report
JUNE 21, 2021
Photo courtesy Florida Department of Corrections. Edward Demoreta, a 39-year-old resident at Everglades Correctional Institution (ECI) and former schoolteacher from West Palm Beach, Fl., isn’t the typical person you’d envision in prison. “I had a perfect family and great life before I was arrested,” he said. “Not a day goes by where I don’t miss laughing and playing video games with my kids.”.
JURIST
JUNE 23, 2021
After six months of deliberation, a panel of 12 independent legal experts from across the globe on Tuesday unveiled a working definition of “ecocide” that they hope will be adopted by the International Criminal Court (ICC). The panel was amazed by the Stop Ecocide Foundation , an NGO whose stated focus is facilitating the adoption of ecocide by the ICC in order to “protect future life on Earth.” The panel recommends adding “(e) the crime of Ecocide” to Article
Patently O
JUNE 25, 2021
by Dennis Crouch. Kanye West and Yeezy v. Walmart (California State Court 2021). West helped to design the YZY Runners — a shoe that I would never have imagined possible. Walmart’s version are clearly knock-offs and West has sued. [ WestvsWalmartYeezyComplaint ]. The problem for West is that there is no underlying design patent, utility patent, or copyright registration.
SCOTUSBlog
JUNE 23, 2021
Share The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that when police are pursuing someone for a misdemeanor, that pursuit does not automatically create the kind of emergency that allows the officer to follow the suspect into a home without a warrant. The court acknowledged that many cases will involve such emergencies – but that determination, Justice Elena Kagan stressed in her opinion for the court , will depend on the facts of each case.
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The Crime Report
JUNE 24, 2021
Photo by Caitlin Regan via Flickr. Women account for a disproportionate number of jail deaths, many of them as a result of complications from alcohol or drug intoxication that occur within days of being admitted to custody, says the Prison Policy Initiative (PPI). The median time served by jail detainees before a death caused by drug or alcohol intoxication was just one day, said the PPI in an analysis of the most recent figures compiled by the Bureau of Justice Statistics on jail mortality.
JURIST
JUNE 20, 2021
Brussel’s first court of instance ruled on Friday that Belgium has failed to meet its climate obligations, and that its failure amounts to a violation of human rights under the Belgian Civil Code and article 2 and 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights. The suit was initiated by NGO Klimaatzaak against the Belgian state, the Wallonne Region, the Flemish Region, and the Brussels-Capital Region.
The Fashion Law
JUNE 23, 2021
The $36 billion secondhand market is projected to double in the next 5 years, reaching $77 billion, ThredUp states in its 2021 Resale Report. The Oakland, California-based resale company asserts in its newly-released annual study – which surveyed 3,500 American adults between March and April 2021 – that “as it becomes easier to sell clothes online, more consumers are purging their closets.” 36.2 million customers sold pre-owned apparel online for the first time in 2020, joining a larger po
SCOTUSBlog
JUNE 25, 2021
Share Alaska Native corporations are eligible for about $500 million in COVID-19 relief money that Congress earmarked for Native American tribes, the Supreme Court ruled Friday. Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote the opinion in Yellen v. Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation. The case required the court to decide whether Alaska Native corporations are “Indian tribes” for the purpose of the 2020 CARES Act.
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The Crime Report
JUNE 23, 2021
Sociologists and criminologists have spent decades studying theories of what impacts crime — whether it’s an individual’s moral character, socioeconomic status, or even the age-old debate of nature versus nurture. . Now, a group of Harvard University researchers say in an unprecedented longitudinal study that they’ve identified another societal marker that can be used to predict the trajectory of criminal behavior: the changing social and historical context of when someone comes of age based on
JURIST
JUNE 23, 2021
Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed legislation Tuesday legalizing cannabis for adult-use, in an effort to uplift those hardest hit by the failed “War on Drugs.” Senate Bill 1201 aimed to promote “responsible and equitable” regulation of cannabis use by making Connecticut the eighteenth US state to legalize recreational adult use of marijuana.
LawSites
JUNE 24, 2021
The global managed services company Integreon has been acquired by the private equity firm EagleTree Capital, the two companies announced this morning. EagleTree, a middle-market PE firm based in New York, acquired Integreon from the PE firm NewQuest Capital Partners. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. EagleTree also owns ALM, the media company that is parent to Law.com, The American Lawyer, and other publications and services.
SCOTUSBlog
JUNE 25, 2021
Share The Supreme Court on Friday substantially narrowed a class action against TransUnion , one of the nation’s three major credit-reporting companies. By a vote of 5-4, the court ruled that roughly 1,800 people whose personal information was given to someone else have a legal right to sue on their claim that TransUnion failed to follow proper procedures, but about 6,000 other people whose information was not disclosed do not.
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