The Crime Report

AUGUST 23, 2021

Troy Burner (in black shirt) welcomed by his mother Jancie and his cousin Reginald Norwood after his release from prison in 2018. Photo courtesy Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project. On April 8, at a virtual hearing by the Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety in the District of Columbia, Troy Burner, a 49-year-old D.C. native, testified in favor of two bills that would expand the number of eligible offenses for record sealing.

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The Fashion Law

AUGUST 23, 2021

Walker Wear is taking on the soon-to-be LVMH-owned Off-White in a new lawsuit. In the recently-filed trademark infringement and dilution complaint, Walker Wear asserts that in line with Off-White founder Virgil Abloh’s “cheat code,” which sees him “chang[e] others’ designs by only ‘three percent’ and then claim the design as his own,” Off-White is making and selling a $2,234 jacket bearing “a design nearly identical to Walker Wear’s storied WW XXL Athletic mark design.

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JURIST

AUGUST 23, 2021

The Dubai government’s media office announced on Sunday that the Dubai Courts have established a specialized money laundering court to thwart financial crimes. The new court was set up within the Court of First Instance and the Court of Appeal. Through this specialized court, the Dubai Courts hope to increase “the UAE’s and Dubai’s global competitiveness by reinforcing the rule of law and upholding the values of justice and transparency.” This money laundering court

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The Estrin Report

AUGUST 26, 2021

Is there a brand new career just waiting for you? What exactly is a Virtual Assistant or VA? Simply put, a VA is someone who works remotely, online whether from their home or office. They are independent contractors or employees who work and use technology to deliver services. They provide administrative, technical, social media and creative services to clients.

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Speaker: Joe Stephens, J.D., Attorney and Law Professor

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 24, 2021

Thousands of criminal cases in Washington state have been thrown into doubt by reports of contamination at the state’s only forensic laboratory. Recent sampling at Washington’s only forensic toxicology laboratory, which has a history of false positives, has found more areas contaminated with methamphetamine and cocaine, reports The Seattle Times. The latest findings come after the lab had falsely detected meth in blood samples tested for 11 cases since 2019.

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JURIST

AUGUST 23, 2021

The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced Monday that it was imposing new sanctions over Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict. There has been ongoing concern for human rights abuses throughout the Tigray conflict. In April, the G7 countries called for an investigation into alleged human rights abuses in the region.

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LawSites

AUGUST 24, 2021

Much uncertainty surrounded attendance at this years ILTACON , the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association, and the first hybrid version of the conference, as the rise in the Delta variant of COVID-19 cause some to reconsider in-person attendance. Last week, two major vendors announced that they were withdrawing their staff from attending in person, while continuing to support and participate in the conference virtually. iManage was first to withdraw, followed by Lite

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 24, 2021

Women who are pregnant or give birth while incarcerated face a lack of supportive policies and practices, according to findings from the Pregnancy in Prison Statistics (PIPS) Project. The project, spearheaded by Carolyn Sufrin of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and School of Public Health, examined pregnancy and its outcomes among incarcerated women in 22 state prison systems, all federal prisons, six jails, and three youth confinement systems.

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LLRX

AUGUST 27, 2021

OK, you have gotten through the body of your presentation satisfactorily. Time to relax, right? Nope. There is one hurdle left: The question and answer period. This is when some presenters wilt and others shine. With a few tips, some experience and a modicum of intestinal fortitude, you can shine every time. Jerry Lawson's extensive experience as a speaker is put to good use in this article as he provides best practice advice for each stage of your presentation.

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Speaker: Amanda Adams, Fractional CFO, CPA

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JURIST

AUGUST 25, 2021

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt filed a class action lawsuit on Tuesday to challenge a school district’s authority to require that students and teachers wear masks. The defendants include Columbia Public Schools, the Board of Education for the School District of Columbia, and the Superintendent for Columbia Public Schools. Schmitt said , “We filed this suit today because we fundamentally don’t believe in forced masking, rather that parents and families should have the po

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Above The Law

AUGUST 25, 2021

Huge positive points to Wyoming for recognizing that surrogacy is a viable path to parenthood and that intended mothers to children born by surrogacy should not be in a worse position than intended fathers.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 23, 2021

America is seeing a steady increase in the number of protests popping up around the country, worrying advocates regarding the gun violence epidemic. Now, according to a new study from the advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety and researchers with the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project , armed protests are six times more likely to turn violent compared to protests where no guns are present. .

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ABA Journal

AUGUST 24, 2021

A federal appeals court on Monday upheld a federal judge’s refusal to block a mask mandate in a challenge brought by a Catholic elementary school…

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AUGUST 25, 2021

Thirty-one UK and European-based civil society organizations have issued a letter to the UK Parliament calling for a ban on the use of live facial recognition technology (LFRT) by police and private companies. The UK government recently issued a new code of practice to provide guidance on the use of surveillance camera systems and facial recognition technology.

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Attorney at Work

AUGUST 24, 2021

With my travel picking up, recent experiences have made me think about lawyer networking. I remember the days when the airports in Cincinnati and Memphis were major hubs for Delta Air Lines. Now, they are primarily final destinations. On the other hand, airports like New York’s LaGuardia and Salt Lake City have picked up more and more Delta connections.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 23, 2021

While victim compensation funds (VCF) exist to help victims and their families during a traumatic time, in order to be eligible for up to roughly $50,000, victims have to provide a police report of the event. This is no trouble for many victims with documentation; however, that’s not the case for victims where the assailant or perpetrator is a police officer.

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LawSites

AUGUST 23, 2021

Last month, AffiniPay , parent of the popular legal payments platform LawPay , named Dru Armstrong as its new CEO. With degrees in both law and business from the University of Chicago, Armstrong was previously CEO of Grace Hill , a company that provides software for owners and operators of real estate properties. Prior to joining Grace Hill as chief product officer, Armstrong was a VP of operations at The Gores Group and a project leader at The Boston Consulting Group in the consumer and technol

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JURIST

AUGUST 23, 2021

The Malawi Supreme Court of Appeals on Friday issued a ruling reversing its prior judgement that had declared the death penalty unconstitutional. In a corrected ruling, seven of the nine judges that were part of the initial bench hearing the case distanced themselves from the original judgment, claiming that the judge who expressed the opinion of the majority had written his own personal opinion without consultation with any of the other eight justices.

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Above The Law

AUGUST 26, 2021

Some of the most interesting statistics in this year's report relate to legal research, social media use, and the hardware and software choices of lawyers.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 24, 2021

A coalition of current and retired Black police officers is calling for the parole of Sundiata Acoli, a former Black Panther member who has been incarcerated for 48 years for the 1973 murder of a New Jersey state trooper, reports the Guardian. Acoli is one of at least 11 former members of the Black Panther Party and its armed wing, the Black Liberation Army, who are still in prison for acts of violence committed in the late 1960s and 1970s.

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Patently O

AUGUST 25, 2021

by Dennis Crouch. The next big software copyright case is before the Federal Circuit in the form of SAS Institute, Inc. v. World Programming Limited , Docket No. 21-1542. The litigation has substantial parallels to Google v. Oracle , but might end up with a different outcome. In Google , the Supreme Court found fair-use but did not decide the issue of copyrightability.

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Speaker: Kaitlyn "The Persnickety Paralegal" Story

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JURIST

AUGUST 26, 2021

The Indian Ministry of Civil Aviation (“the Ministry”) on Friday released “liberalised” Drone Rules , which will regulate the ownership and usage of private and commercial drones in the country. The new rules will replace the Unmanned Aircraft System Rules , released in March. The academia, startups, end-users and other stakeholders viewed the previous rules as restrictive because they entailed extensive paperwork and approvals for each drone flight.

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LLRX

AUGUST 22, 2021

Sümeyye Elif Biber is a PhD Candidate in Law and Technology at the Scuola Sant’Anna in Pisa. In 21 April 2021, the European Commission (EC) proposed the world’s first Artificial Intelligence Act (AIA). The proposal has received a warm welcome across the EU as well as from the US, as it includes substantial legal provisions on ethical standards. After its release, the media’s main focus laid on the proposal’s “Brussels Effect”, which refers to the EU’s global regulatory influence: EU laws exceed

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 27, 2021

Staffing shortages at Rikers Island have limited access to medical care for incarcerated people, leading to a “high level of disorder and chaos” as the New York jail fails to “provide basic services to people in custody,” according to a New York Focus investigation. According to jail leadership, there aren’t enough correction officers on hand to escort people to appointments, and city jails records show thousands of missed medical appointments each month.

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The Fashion Law

AUGUST 27, 2021

Forty-six percent of consumers admitted to purchasing counterfeit goods, according to a new survey, while 30 percent admitted to knowingly purchasing a counterfeit product on more than one occasion. In an attempt to explore the purchasing habits of U.S. consumers, including their attitudes towards counterfeit goods, intellectual property asset management firm Anaqua conducted a survey of 1,000 U.S. adults, and ultimately, uncovered results that it deemed to be “surprising” in some cases, includi

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