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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Patently O

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 In this non-precedential opinion, the Federal Circuit has sided with the patentee CROCS — upholding the design patent for its really amazing footwear.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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Speaker: Joe Stephens, J.D., Attorney and Law Professor

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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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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The 2020 elections may be over, but the Supreme Court will soon hear oral argument in a pair of voting-rights cases from one of last year’s key battleground states, and the eventual outcome may determine how courts will assess allegedly discriminatory voting rules for years. The post Justices to consider whether Arizona’s voting rules discriminate against minorities appeared first on SCOTUSblog.

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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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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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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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Diane Drain

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

FTC Bans Payday Lender and Forgive Illegal Debt – Lead Express, Inc.; Camel Coins, Inc.; Sea Mirror, Inc,; Naito Corp.; Kotobuki Marketing, Inc.; Ebisu Marketing, Inc.; Hotei Marketing, Inc.; and Daikoku Marketing, Inc.From Industry. Owners, operators of tribal payday lending scheme settle charges they defrauded millions of dollars from consumers.

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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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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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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

On Monday, the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear Florida v. Georgia, round two. At issue is whether the court will require Georgia to cap its water use in the Apalachicola River system and allow more water to flow downstream into Florida. Georgia says its. The post Florida and Georgia face off again in long-running fight over water rights appeared first on SCOTUSblog.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2021

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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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EvidenceProf Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Like a handful of other states, Illinois still has a Dead Man's Act. Illinois's act can be found in 735 ILCS 5/8-201, which states in pertinent part that In the trial of any action in which any party sues or.

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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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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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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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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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Patently O

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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HowAppealing

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

“Executioners sanitized accounts of deaths in federal cases”: Michael Tarm of The Associated Press has this report.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta released exclusive documentation leaked from a government source Monday confirming that 27 men who went missing and were presumed dead in 2017 were in fact detained by Chechnyan local police, undermining the Chechnyan authorities’ official denial of their involvement in the disappearances. The documentation comes in the form of internal police charts that list mugshots and identities of the individuals, with many photos indicating the marks of ph

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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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Patently O

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

In re Earley ( Fed. Cir. 2021). In its December 2020 decision, the Federal Circuit sided with the PTO — upholding the PTAB conclusion that Mr. Earley’s claims were obvious based upon Earley’s own prior invention. The court has now also denied Early’s petition for rehearing. Earley represented himself pro se. His filings at the Federal Circuit were not pretty, and I expect that sealed his loss — even if he had a good underlying argument on the merits.

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