JURIST

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

France will introduce a new anti-bullying app to stop school bullying and increase parental control, in an announcement made by President Emmanual Macron Thursday. The legislation was proposed by MPs and supported by Macron on Twitter. He announced that the change in the law would include parental controls on all technology used by children, including smartphones and tablets.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Italy’s Anti-trust and Competition Authority (AGCM) fined Amazon and Apple over $225 million ( € 200 million) Tuesday for anti-competitive business practices, in violation of European Union competition law. The investigation launched last month discovered that the tech giants were using restrictive contractual agreements signed in 2018, which only allowed certain resellers to sell Apple and Beats products on Amazon in Italy.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

John Wetzel. Photo courtesy Pennsylvania Department of Corrections. To read about John Wetzel, the former Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (PADOC), one might think he is the August Vollmer of prison management. Vollmer, who established the first degree-granting program in police science at the University of California in the early years of the 20 th century, was called the “father of modern American policing.”.

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EvidenceProf Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

On September 28, 2017, Nikki Addimando fatally shot her boyfriend Christopher Grover. There is significant evidence that Chris was physically and sexually abusing Nikki and that she feared for her life when she fatally shot him: In 2017, Addimando was.

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

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Paralegal Bootcamp

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Paralegal schools want enrollments, so it’s easy to understand why they present the paralegal profession in a certain light. But after they’ve got you enrolled and you’re in the paralegal certificate program, it would be helpful for you to also hear the downsides of being a paralegal so that you can be better prepared for your new career.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Share Confirming expectations, the Supreme Court on Monday unanimously denied Mississippi’s claim that Tennessee is stealing its groundwater. If Mississippi wants to pursue its groundwater battle with Tennessee, it will have to file a new complaint with the court asking for an equitable apportionment of the Middle Claiborne Aquifer, which lies beneath Mississippi, Tennessee, and other states.

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Paralegal Brief Submitted Articles

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

How progressive General Counsel are leveraging Lean Six Sigma principles to support the business and improve governance

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Photo by Clyde Robinson via Flickr. After 50 years of representing indigent defendants in urban criminal courts I have no objection to seeing prosecutors disciplined for their misconduct. As a matter of fact, I find the prospect delectable. But during those same 50 years I have represented a few (thousand) guilty people. Almost all of those clients understood perfectly well that their acts were illegal and that there were authorities eager to punish them for those acts if they were discovered.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

A bipartisan group of U.S. senators Thursday introduced a joint resolution to block a White House agreement to sell weapons to Saudi Arabia. The group includes Rand Paul (R-KY), Mike Lee (R-UT), and Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and the resolution aims to stop the sale of 280 medium-range air-to-air missiles, 596 missile launchers, and other weapons, equipment, and training related to the missile systems.

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Speaker: Amanda Adams, Fractional CFO, CPA

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The Fashion Law

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

House of Gucci has made its way to theaters after months of marketing and seemingly endless media reports, including ones that have suggested that at least some Gucci family members are none too happy about the “ugly” casting choices and have explored potential avenues for litigation over fictionalized elements of the plot – there certainly are some of those.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Share On Monday, November 22, we will be live blogging as the court releases orders from the November 19 conference and opinions in one or more argued cases from the current term. Click here for a list of FAQs about opinion announcements. ?. The post Announcement of orders and opinions for Monday, November 22 appeared first on SCOTUSblog.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Photo by janinsanfran via Flickr Photo by PROjaninsanfran via Flickr. In August of this year, New York City had 45,789 individuals awaiting disposition of their case — a vast majority of them accused of misdemeanor crimes, according to the Pretrial Release Dashboard , a new service launched Monday by the New York City Criminal Justice Agency (CJA) in partnership with the New York City Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice and leading national pretrial justice consultants Luminosity, Inc.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

South Africa’s Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) Tuesday made a monumental move in the attainment of justice for apartheid-era victims. In a revised indictment for the COSTAS FOUR case, the DPP included apartheid as a crime against humanity for the first time. The United Nations General Assembly declared apartheid a crime against humanity in 1966.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Condé Nast is slamming the right of publicity lawsuit that nearly 50 models filed against it and Moda Operandi last fall for allegedly using photos of them walking in the Spring/Summer 2020 runway shows in order to sell runway garments and accessories without their authorization. On the heels of the high fashion retailer and the magazine publisher pushing back against the models’ claims in respective motions to dismiss, and a New York federal court stripping down the case, Condé Nast is trying

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LegalReader

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Water intake can make or break your fitness success in more ways than one. Insufficient consumption of H2O will result in lethargy and exhaustion, and it will also make it more difficult to break down nutrients in your food.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Recently, the Baltimore City State’s Attorney and Prince George’s County State’s Attorney took a giant leap forward to strengthen trust in the legal system and trust in police. They released their offices’ “Do Not Call” lists , which contain information about police officers whom prosecutors will no longer call to testify because they believe the officers are not credible witnesses.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

The United Nations Thursday adopted a historical text defining the common values and principles needed to ensure the healthy development of artificial intelligence. The agreement was adopted at the 41st session of the UNESCO General Conference, showing renewed cooperation on the ethics of artificial intelligence. The agreement called the Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence says tha t: It approaches AI ethics as a systematic normative reflection, based on a holistic and evolvi

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Above The Law

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Ask yourself: Am I studying to keep up with an imaginary ideal student who I think is in a cave studying without distraction 24/7?

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Attorney at Work

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Question: I feel like I did all I could over the last few years to keep my cell number out of clients’ hands. But I think I opened the floodgates when I recently began allowing clients to text me. The convenience factor and desire to modernize my customer service won out, or at least that’s what I told myself. Now that I’ve opened the door to another channel of communication, what ethics pitfalls might come from texting clients?

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

A jury has convicted three men of murder in the death of Ahmaud Arbery, rejecting claims that they acted in self-defense, reports The Chicago Tribune. The case attracted national attention after claims that the men, all white, were motivated by racism when they accosted Arbery while he was jogging down a suburban street in Brunswick, GA. Defense attorneys said the men had reason to believe he was a burglar who had been operating in the neighborhood and shot him after he tried to wrench their gun

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

A panel of the International Criminal Court Thursday reduced by two years the nine-year sentence of Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi, convicted of a war crime for destroying religious and historic buildings in Timbuktu in 2012. Allegedly a member of Ansar Eddine, a UNSC-sanctioned militant outfit associated with al Qaeda, Al Mahdi was the head of the “Hisbah” (a body set up to uphold public morals and prevent vice) and associated with the Islamic Court in Timbuktu.

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Speaker: Kaitlyn "The Persnickety Paralegal" Story

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Above The Law

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

While the bill doesn’t provide a path to citizenship that many advocates had hoped for, it does include some important provisions.

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Attorney at Work

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Do you read books? Of course you do. Maybe you like to escape into James Patterson’s latest thriller or load a beach read into your smartphone for those precious few minutes of downtime. Many lawyers anticipate extended time for leisure reading during travel or while on vacation. Getting Smarter With Nonfiction Leisure Reading. Perhaps you read books to improve your lawyering skills.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Starting in December, Los Angeles will send unarmed outreach workers and trained crisis responders instead of police officers to nonviolent homelessness-related emergency calls, according to Courthouse News. . Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti called it a “bold experiment” when he announced the new policy Tuesday. The new initiative will be focused on the communities of Hollywood and Venice, according to KTLA-5 , where teams of outreach workers and mental health clinicians are already

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Colombian President Iván Duque Márquez Thursday confirmed that the U.S. formally requested that Colombia extradite accused Clan del Golfo leader and drug trafficker Dairo Antonio Usuga David, known as “Otoniel.” Duque added that extraditing the drug clan’s leader will pose a significant blow to the cartel’s structure. Duque stated that the request is currently progressing through Colombia’s administrative process.

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