CourtTechBulletin

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Winter 2021 There is a massive amount of court technology news this month. We learned about, US Federal Courts response to the Covid-19 pandemic, conference news from the Innovating Justice 2021 and Legalweek 2021 events, California’s CourtStack initiative, Mark Beer’s upcoming talk on AI support for judicial decision making, Seattle and King County’s impact and response to the pandemic caseload, the NACM video podcast on Teleworking, and proposed USA federal government rules on digital for

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

This article is part of a symposium on the upcoming argument in Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee. Our case preview is here. LaShawn Warren is executive vice president of government affairs at The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, which filed an amicus brief in support of. The post Voting discrimination is getting worse, not better appeared first on SCOTUSblog.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Mojave Desert Holdings, LLC v. Crocs, Inc., 2020-1167 (Fed. Cir. 2021) [ Merits Decision ][ Substitution Decision ]. In this non-precedential opinion, the Federal Circuit has sided with the patentee CROCS — upholding the design patent for its really amazing footwear. D517,789. The setup here is an inter partes reexamination filed by Dawgs back in 2012 (now Mojave Desert).

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Norway-based Telenor Group , an international telecommunications company with extensive operations in much of Europe and Asia, sharply criticized a cyber security bill proposed by the leaders of Myanmar’s February 1 military coup in a statement issued Monday. The bill, which is expected to be formally promulgated this week, has been decried by many rights groups and international observers for rolling back online privacy and severely restricting Myanmar’s citizens’ access to th

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The Process Street

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

“A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan next week.” – George Patton. “Once I have X, I can do Y.”. This phrase is the defining characteristic of the toolbox fallacy: thinking you can’t do something until you have the right tool. The toolbox Fallacy is self-deception disguised as excuses or a lack of “tools” The issue with these tools is that you believe that you need them and thus, can’t (or won’t) start a project without them. “As soon as

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EvidenceProf Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Texas Rule of Evidence 614 provides that At a party’s request, the court must order witnesses excluded so that they cannot hear other witnesses’ testimony. Or the court may do so on its own. But this rule does not authorize.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The Sudanese government Sunday signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) for cooperating on the trial of former militant leader Ali Kushayb who is accused of committing war crimes in the Darfur region of Sudan. According to the Prosecutor , Kushyab was a top commander of pro-government Janjaweed militias that led attacks on towns and villages and is implicated in more than 300 murders and the forcing of 40,000 mainly Fur civi

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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Lawyers are great at bragging on themselves via their websites. And, a significant number of attorneys supplement that with ‘superlatives’. You know, those lawyer a wards, like ‘Super Lawyers’ , that you can apply for and/or purchase. Those specific awards, and the general superlatives of your own resume , go a long way to convince leads to become your clients -- but, those don’t get you the whole way the re.

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LegalReader

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

The lawsuit echoes many of the same arguments which failed to win over the California Supreme Court earlier this year.

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EvidenceProf Blog

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Federal Rule of Evidence 411 states that Evidence that a person was or was not insured against liability is not admissible to prove whether the person acted negligently or otherwise wrongfully. But the court may admit this evidence for another.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Homeless advocacy groups filed a lawsuit against the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) on Friday, challenging a rule that “target[s] the manner in which homeless persons use the subway system.” New York advocacy organizations Urban Justice Center (Safety Net Project) and Picture the Homeless seek to block a rule that bans the use of large wheeled carts on trains and prohibits people from staying in the subway station for over an hour.

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ALPS

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Difficult conversations can be, well difficult; particularly if the purpose of the conversation is to pass along bad news. After all, who looks forward to hearing bad news or having to be the one responsible for delivering it? I suspect this is why some lawyers will reach out to me looking for help when they suddenly find themselves in a situation where they must become the bearer of bad news.

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HowAppealing

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

“The Law & Corpus Linguistics Revolution: Why It Matters.” James Heilpern has this post at The Juris Lab.

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EvidenceProf Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Federal Rule of Evidence 414(a) provides that In a criminal case in which a defendant is accused of child molestation, the court may admit evidence that the defendant committed any other child molestation. The evidence may be considered on any.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

A trial court in The Hague granted a preliminary injunction Monday against the Dutch government’s curfew, which was instituted to stop the spread of the coronavirus. The curfew lasted from 9 PM to 4:30 AM and was enacted under the government’s emergency powers, which enabled the executive branch to bypass the Senate and House of Representatives.

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LawTechnologyToday

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The Legal Technology Resource Center ’s Women of Legal Tech initiative is intended to encourage diversity and celebrate women in legal technology. This initiative launched in 2015 with a list of innovators and leaders in legal technology and with this year’s additions, that list now includes 132 talented and influential women leaders. Every Monday and Wednesday, we will be featuring a woman from our class of 2021.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

This article is part of a symposium on the upcoming argument in Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee. Our case preview is here. Ilya Shapiro is director of the Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute and author of Supreme Disorder: Judicial Nominations and the Politics. The post Supreme Court needs to set clear standards for vote-denial claims appeared first on SCOTUSblog.

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EvidenceProf Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

I have posted the draft of my new article, "The Constitutional Right to an Implicit Bias Jury Instruction," on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The Supreme Court has gone to great lengths to prevent jurors from holding defendants’ silence against.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Several Malian individuals have sued seven American chocolate companies for abetting and supporting illegal child labor in Côte D’Ivoire. The plaintiffs are former child slaves who were trafficked from Mali to harvest cocoa beans in Côte D’Ivoire. They escaped the plantation and returned to Mali. As laborers, the children are not paid and are constantly subjected to physical abuse by farmers or traffickers.

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HowAppealing

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

“Did You Bring Home Covid? Spouse Sues Company for Infection.” Joel Rosenblatt of Bloomberg News has this report.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2021

by Dennis Crouch. I wrote earlier about the Supreme Court petition in Amarin Pharma, Inc. v. Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. (Supreme Court 2021) that focuses on secondary considerations of non-obviousness such as commercial success and long-felt un-met need. There has been a small movement over the years to refer to these as “objective indicia of nonobviousness” as opposed to secondary considerations.

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EvidenceProf Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Similar to its federal counterpart, Pennsylvania Rule of Evidence 806 states that When a hearsay statement has been admitted in evidence, the declarant’s credibility may be attacked, and then supported, by any evidence that would be admissible for those purposes.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Canada launched an initiative Monday to stop countries from arbitrarily detaining foreign nationals for diplomatic gain. This initiative was endorsed by 58 countries and the EU. Arbitrary arrests and detentions violate international human rights law, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

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HowAppealing

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

“The tragedy of Dianne Feinstein”: Mark Z. Barabak of The Los Angeles Times has this news analysis.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

This article is the first entry in a symposium on the upcoming argument in Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee. Our case preview is here. Christopher Kieser is an attorney at the Pacific Legal Foundation. He filed an amicus brief on behalf of the foundation and. The post Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act: Equal opportunity vs. disparate impact appeared first on SCOTUSblog.

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