CourtTechBulletin
MARCH 25, 2021
Microsoft announced an AI-powered live transcription service (AI we can use BTW) in Microsoft Teams, answering Zoom’s new feature. That got me thinking that they are not alone, as we share below. -- Read more ».
Diane Drain
MARCH 22, 2021
CFPB Submits 2020 Report to Congress on the Administration of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. Report highlights commitment to protect consumers during the COVID-19 Pandemic. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released the 2020 annual report to Congress on the administration of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA). The report highlights efforts by the CFPB and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to protect consumers, particularly those who have suffered profound fin
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SCOTUSBlog
MARCH 25, 2021
Against a backdrop of increasing national attention to police violence, the Supreme Court on Thursday issued an opinion in a closely watched criminal-procedure case that clarifies the meaning of the term “seizure.” The Fourth Amendment provides important constitutional limits on abusive policing. These protections take. The post Divided court issues bright-line ruling on Fourth Amendment seizures appeared first on SCOTUSblog.
JURIST
MARCH 21, 2021
The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia affirmed the dismissal of a lawsuit on Friday brought by Oregon ranchers which would have prevented the Klamath Tribes from exercising their water rights when they interfere with Oregon ranchers’ irrigation. The district court originally dismissed the ranchers’ lawsuit for lack of standing under Article III of the US Constitution and ruled that the Klamath Tribes’ water rights, pursuant to a treaty made in 1864, s
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EvidenceProf Blog
MARCH 26, 2021
Federal Rule of Evidence 403 states that The court may exclude relevant evidence if its probative value is substantially outweighed by a danger of one or more of the following: unfair prejudice, confusing the issues, misleading the jury, undue delay,
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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog
MARCH 23, 2021
Law firm managers have always preferred to have staff onsite; and, the ongoing pandemic has represented a significant change in circumstances. Even now, many law offices are either entirely remote or adhering to hybrid arrangements, where attorneys and staff are sometime in the office, and sometimes at home. Now, that may not be likely to change, even as the majority of the population is vaccinated against the coronavirus.
JURIST
MARCH 23, 2021
The EU sanctioned two Russian individuals Monday for their alleged human rights abuses including persecuting, detaining and torturing LGBTQ individuals in the Chechen Republic. Officials from the Chechen government have been repeatedly accused by international governments and human rights groups, like Human Rights Watch , of detaining, torturing and extrajudicially executing members of the Chechen LGBTQ community.
EvidenceProf Blog
MARCH 25, 2021
Today, the United States Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling in Torres v. Madrid, holding that "[t]he application of physical force to the body of a person with intent to restrain is a seizure, even if the force does not.
HowAppealing
MARCH 23, 2021
“Judge Silberman Laments Reality’s Liberal Bias”: Michael C. Dorf has this post at “Dorf on Law.
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MyCase
MARCH 24, 2021
Three decades ago, the internet was not well-traversed and very few people even knew it existed. Fast forward to 2021 and it’s an entirely different story. We live in a digital world now, and the internet is central to many aspects of our personal and business lives. These days we communicate, interact, purchase goods and services, and get work done online.
JURIST
MARCH 26, 2021
The US Supreme Court heard oral argument Tuesday in United States v. Cooley , a case about whether tribal police officers have the authority to detain non-Indians on Indian land. The case stems from a 2016 incident wherein a police officer of the Crow Nation —a federally recognized tribe with an Indian reservation located in south-central Montana—detained Joshua Cooley and searched his truck, which was parked on the side of US Route 212.
EvidenceProf Blog
MARCH 23, 2021
Om Friday, Judge Peter Cahill ruled that some evidence of George Floyd's prior arrest in May 2019 would be admissible at Derek Chauvin's trial for murder/manslaughter in connection with the death of George Floyd during his May 25, 2020 arrest.
The Process Street
MARCH 24, 2021
Every 28 days, a lovely Hermes delivery-person brings a crate of the world’s finest craft beer to my house. But if it were up to me, I wouldn’t receive these beer boxes at all. In early 2020, I tried to unsubscribe from [REDACTED] — a monthly beer subscription company — as I felt it was an unnecessary expense. I soon realized, though, that unsubscribing would be a Herculean task.
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SCOTUSBlog
MARCH 26, 2021
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in United States v. Cooley. The case concerns whether tribal police officers may detain or search non-Indians suspected of violating state or federal law on public highways running through reservations, and if so, in what circumstances. Tribal. The post Court struggles with the “indefensible morass” it’s made in Indian law appeared first on SCOTUSblog.
JURIST
MARCH 24, 2021
JURIST EXCLUSIVE – A Myanmar law student who was shot Monday by police using live rounds to disperse protesters in a Mandalay township has died, becoming the first law student fatality of the Myanmar military coup. Myo Hein Kyaw, 24, was a law student in his final year at Mandalay’s Yadanabon University. One of our Myanmar law students correspondents wrote Wednesday: He was arrested on 22 Mar during the crackdown of Aung Pin Lae township, Mandalay.
EvidenceProf Blog
MARCH 22, 2021
Professor Meghan J. Ryan from the SMU Dedman School of Law has published "Escaping the Fingerprint Crisis: A Blueprint for Essential Research," in the University of Illinois Law Review. Here is the abstract: There is a fingerprint crisis in the.
Patently O
MARCH 23, 2021
by Dennis Crouch. In re True Chemical Solutions, LLC ( Fed. Cir. 2021 ). This is another mandamus petition out of Judge Albright’s courtroom — this time denied. The patentee True Chem filed the declaratory-judgment lawsuit against PCC in the Midland division of W.D.Tex. back in 2018, before Judge Albright joined the bench. In 2019 the case was reassigned to Judge Albright who conducted some of the proceedings in his Waco courtroom.
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SCOTUSBlog
MARCH 22, 2021
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in United States v. Cooley. At issue is whether the court should exclude evidence that a tribal police officer collected while detaining and searching a non-Indian driver stopped alongside a federal highway that runs through the. The post Tribal police drag messy Indian sovereignty cases back to the court appeared first on SCOTUSblog.
JURIST
MARCH 21, 2021
JURIST EXCLUSIVE – As the Myanmar military junta attempts to tighten its grip on power, the Myanmar economy is slowing down with anti-coup strikes, supply chain interruptions, and power outages. One of our Myanmar law student correspondents reflects on what’s been happening. We’re almost run out of “Cash” so we’re back to “barter trade” In Burmese, we call this campaign “???????????
LawTechnologyToday
MARCH 22, 2021
Large scale remote work entered the legal sector as a reactionary response to a global pandemic, and it’s now part of a new normal that’s redefining the professional landscape. According to the 2021 Report on the State of the Legal Market by Thomson Reuters and Georgetown Law, the number of lawyers and staff wanting to work remotely at least one day a week has doubled in the past year.
Patently O
MARCH 25, 2021
Transtex v. Laydon Composites (Fed. Cir. 2021). If you have driven on American highways, then you have seen semi-tractor-trailers with the under-body aerodynamic skirt. I was viscerally disappointed when these first came-out because I have a movie scene lodged in my childhood memory of a Lamborghini driver hiding from the police by driving under a trailer.
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SCOTUSBlog
MARCH 26, 2021
This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, when religious groups are subject to state-law tort claims and whether a federal agency that enacted a new fishing regulation should have taken into account a pair of early. The post Defamation claims against churches and American Samoa’s Deeds of Cession appeared first on SCOTUSblog.
JURIST
MARCH 25, 2021
The Court of Appeal for England and Wales overturned the convictions of a group of trade unionists called the Shrewsbury 24 on Tuesday after almost 50 years. The Shrewsbury 24 were a group of trade unionists that included actor Ricky Tomlinson who were involved in the first national building workers’ strike in September 1972 against low pay, lack of employment rights, and unsafe working conditions.
LegalReader
MARCH 24, 2021
While no one wants a bad thing to happen to them, there’s nothing that can promise something won’t. However, rules and laws exist to dissuade those who intend to do wrong.
Patently O
MARCH 26, 2021
by Dennis Crouch. I previously wrote about the Federal Circuit’s decision in WPEM, LLC v. SOTI Inc. , 2020-1483 (Fed. Cir. Dec. 9, 2020). The case focuses on pre-filing investigation — the amount of investigation that a patentee must conduct before filing a patent infringement lawsuit. Here, WPEM filed an infringement action against SOTI, but later dismissed the action after learning that the patent claims were very likely invalid.
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