JURIST

MARCH 29, 2021

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held Friday that public universities cannot compel professors to respect student pronoun preferences. Per the court, such speech is protected under the First Amendment, particularly if pronoun preferences go against a professor’s religious or philosophical beliefs. The case stemmed out of a dispute between Professor Nicholas Meriwether and a transgender student at Shawnee State University in Portsmouth, Ohio.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 1, 2021

A scant 38 days after oral argument, Florida finds itself at the end of the road in its quest to limit the amount of water that Georgia uses in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin. In a unanimous opinion written by Justice Amy Coney Barrett in Florida. The post No April Fool’s joke for Florida: Water rights case is dismissed appeared first on SCOTUSblog.

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Paralegal.edu

MARCH 29, 2021

Achieving success in your chosen career depends not only on possessing the requisite knowledge and skills to be proficient on the job, but also on being adept at navigating the often tumultuous terrain of employment, relationship building, and career advancement. During this 4-hour interactive seminar and presentation, you will learn valuable strategies to help find and promote success in the career you have today, or in the next opportunity that presents itself tomorrow.

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EvidenceProf Blog

APRIL 2, 2021

Plaintiffs seeking to bring a class action must receive class certification. For example, Lyngaas v. Ag, 2021 WL 1115870 (6th Cir. 2021), involve[d] two unsolicited fax advertisements received by Brian Lyngaas, D.D.S., in March 2016. Lyngaas asserts, on behalf of.

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JURIST

MARCH 29, 2021

Following the release of a report on the future of artificial intelligence (AI) in government, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said Friday that they have filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request in order to gather details about how national security and intelligence agencies are using AI in ways that may violate people’s civil rights.

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LDA PRO

MARCH 31, 2021

If you plan to file for divorce in Citrus Heights, it is not as simple as you think. You will be surprised to see the countless people waiting to file their divorce cases in Sacramento County. You may have to wait for hours, days, even weeks to get assistance from the court. And finally, when you arrive at the courthouse, your documents may get rejected if they are not filled incorrectly.

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EvidenceProf Blog

APRIL 1, 2021

Federal Rule of Evidence 609(b) states the following: (b) Limit on Using the Evidence After 10 Years. This subdivision (b) applies if more than 10 years have passed since the witness’s conviction or release from confinement for it, whichever is.

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JURIST

MARCH 30, 2021

The Arkansas Senate on Monday approved a bill that would ban access to gender-affirming care for transgender minors. Titled the “Arkansas Save Adolescents from Experimentation (SAFE) Act,” the legislation specifically prohibits “gender transition procedures for minors.” The bill would make it unlawful for any physician or other healthcare professional to “provide [or refer] gender transition procedures to any individual under eighteen (18) years of age.” The b

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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

MARCH 29, 2021

As much as I advocate for the use of cloud software by law firms, sometimes there can develop an over reliance on such tools by lawyers. Take, for example, cloud document storage. If you’re a law firm, and you’ve recently moved to a paperless office , adding your document files to a cloud drive system ( like Google Drive , Microsoft OneDrive or Dropbox ) may seem like the solution to all of your problems.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 30, 2021

This weekend the National Collegiate Athletic Association will host its storied “Final Four” to determine the champions of the men’s and women’s Division I basketball tournaments. But first the NCAA will be in a different high court on Wednesday: the U.S. Supreme Court, which will. The post Amid March Madness, antitrust dispute over college athlete compensation comes to the court appeared first on SCOTUSblog.

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EvidenceProf Blog

MARCH 31, 2021

Federal Rule of Evidence 704(b) states that In a criminal case, an expert witness must not state an opinion about whether the defendant did or did not have a mental state or condition that constitutes an element of the crime.

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JURIST

MARCH 31, 2021

New York governor Andrew Cuomo signed a bill into law Wednesday legalizing the adult use of marijuana, making it the fifteenth state to fully legalize the drug. The bill passed Tuesday by wide margins in both the state senate, by a 40 to 23 vote, and the state assembly, with 100 votes in favor to just 49 against in a late-night session. Cuomo, the subject of an impeachment investigation over sexual harassment claims, said that this legislation was one of his top priorities this year, and called

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Patently O

APRIL 1, 2021

by Dennis Crouch. The America Invents Act of 2011 included a major reshuffling of what counts as “prior art” against a given patent. 35 U.S.C. § 102 was substantially rewritten with a new focus on an application’s effective filing date, and zero focus on whether a patent applicant was the “first to invent.” The new law applies only to post-AIA patents.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 2, 2021

On Thursday, the Supreme Court unanimously sided with Facebook in a lawsuit over unsolicited text messages the social-media giant sent to a cellphone number in the company’s database. In an opinion authored by Justice Sonia Sotomayor in Facebook v. Duguid, the court adopted a narrow. The post Supreme Court sides with Facebook in narrowing the federal robocall ban appeared first on SCOTUSblog.

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EvidenceProf Blog

MARCH 30, 2021

Professor Katie Kronick (American University Washington College of Law) has posted "Forensic Science and the Judicial Conformity Problem" (Seton Hall Law Review, forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Almost a quarter of known wrongful convictions have involved faulty forensic.

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JURIST

MARCH 31, 2021

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Monday denied the federal government’s motion to stay a district court decision striking down the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) eviction moratorium. In response to COVID-19, the CDC ordered a nationwide moratorium on residential evictions last fall. This moratorium covered tenants if they provided their landlord with a statement attesting that they incurred a substantial loss of income, applied for all available rent relie

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My Paralegal Place

MARCH 31, 2021

As a licensed attorney and technology enthusiast who is immersed in A.I., I found it interesting when my 65-year-old mother came out of retirement as an English professor to work as a paralegal in a law firm for the first time. Like many today, my mother was curious on how […]. The post Why Paralegals Should Understand A.I. and Analytics in Today’s Legal Field appeared first on.

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Patently O

MARCH 31, 2021

by Dennis Crouch. For the most part, Certificates of Correction are boring, simple, and quite common. 35 U.S.C. § 254 & 255 provide for correction of minor mistakes by the PTO and applicant respectively. PTO mistakes are fixed when a mistake is “clearly disclosed by the records of the Office.” For applicant-mistakes, the correction is allowed for “clerical or typographical nature, or of minor character” made in good faith.

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EvidenceProf Blog

MARCH 29, 2021

As the trial of Derek Chauvin in connection with the death of George Floyd began today, the trial related to the death of Alex Aguilar, Jr. is set to start again. In an opinion issued on Friday, the Ninth Circuit.

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JURIST

MARCH 31, 2021

The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled Monday that Missouri is not barred from enforcing a state law that criminalizes misleading advertisements of vegan food products as containing meat. Missouri enacted a statute in 2018 that makes “misrepresenting a product as meat that is not derived from harvested production livestock or poultry” a class A misdemeanor, which can include up to one year imprisonment and a $1,000 fine.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 28, 2021

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard argument in Caniglia v. Strom over whether the “community caretaking” exception to the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement extends to the home. For a case one expert commentator deemed “small,” much was at play here, as evidenced by the simulacrum. The post “Possible cause”: Court seems poised to allow warrantless community caretaking entries into the home appeared first on SCOTUSblog.

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Patently O

MARCH 29, 2021

In re Hu ( Fed. Cir. 2021 ). Huping Hu (PhD, JD) and his spouse Maoxin Wu (MD, PhD) have been working for many years to understand human consciousness and its relationship to quantum theory. In a series of patent applications, the pair have disclosed and claimed various applications of quantum entanglement. Pending claim 1 of their Application No. 11/944,631 lists three easy steps for taking advantage of quantum entanglement.

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EvidenceProf Blog

MARCH 28, 2021

In its opinion last week in Torres v. Madrid, the Supreme Court held "that the application of physical force to the body of a person with intent to restrain is a seizure even if the person does not submit and.

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JURIST

MARCH 28, 2021

The Research Commission on the French Archives relating to Rwanda and the Tutsi genocide (Duclert Commission) on Friday submitted its report to French President Emmanuel Macron finding that the country bears responsibility due to its inaction, but was not complicit with the regime that perpetrated the genocide. Between April and July 1994, at least 800,000 people — Tutsis and moderate Hutus — were killed, and 250,000-500,000 raped, by Hutus.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 31, 2021

With just a few days until college basketball begins its “Final Four” to crown the men’s and women’s champion, the attention at the Supreme Court on Wednesday turned to college sports. The spotlight was often harsh, with several justices openly criticizing the state of elite. The post Justices employ full-court press in dispute over college athlete compensation appeared first on SCOTUSblog.

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