Above The Law

AUGUST 16, 2023

Bloomberg Law News ] * Black lawyer says he was handcuffed while a judge ordered him to produce documents or settle the case. [ ABA Journal ] * Lawsuit claims that state law illegally favors Iowa wineries. In other news, Iowa has wineries. [ DMR ] * Class action suits filed against Hawaiian utility companies over fires.

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LegalReader

AUGUST 30, 2022

The unfortunate reality of the inside of many nursing homes is that the people who work in these facilities may engage in various kinds of elderly abuse.

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LegalReader

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

There are various types of compensation that the victim can collect.

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Above The Law

APRIL 19, 2023

Axios ] * Interesting question: are juries influenced by the billboards and other lawyer advertisements they see? [ Roll Call ] * Iowa places slide into Lochner era into high gear. That's a shocker. New Jersey Law Journal ] * Jim Jordan continues his possibly criminal, definitely unconstitutional harassment of the Manhattan DA.

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Patently O

JANUARY 4, 2024

Additionally, the Opinion emphasizes lawyers’ duties under other ethics rules regarding competence, diligence, candor to the tribunal, and avoidance of frivolous filings. A key case on point is Iowa S. 2d 756, 757 (Iowa 2010). I suspect the Winston attorneys are likely happy to be in NY rather than Iowa.

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JURIST

JANUARY 3, 2021

In terms of criminal cases, the courts developed “new partnerships with law enforcement, corrections officers and counsel to ensure that defendants have virtual access to courts and their lawyers.” ” To prepare for the return of jury trials, spaces in courtrooms have been reconfigured to allow for social distancing.

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LegalReader

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Each bankruptcy district has local rules, procedures, and local bankruptcy forms that it uses.

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LegalReader

JUNE 2, 2022

One of the reasons that car insurance exists is that the civil courts have allowed lawsuits against negligent drivers for compensation.

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LegalReader

JANUARY 26, 2022

If a driver is involved in an accident during the course of a ride, the passenger should notify the ridesharing service and call the local police to conduct an investigation.

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LegalReader

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The first thing you need to know about Iowa’s car insurance laws is that this state does not follow a “no-fault” system.

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LegalReader

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Hostile work environment claims use evidence of repeated episodes of inappropriate behavior to show that the victim’s ability to function as normal at work was limited due to constant harassment.

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LegalReader

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

If an officer has committed acts against a person that involve excessive force, the victim has the right to sue for compensation.

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ALPS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

JOHN SIMEK: You didn’t tell [inaudible 00:01:53], you’re a lawyer though. John is the veteran technologist and I am the lawyer, and that’s why we decided to work together when we started the company some 25 years ago, more than that now, just a little bit. JOHN: I’m not a lawyer, as you can probably tell.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 14, 2023

The dissent in the 7th Circuit similarly warned that the majority’s framework would “create[] a safe harbor for deliberate or reckless fraudsters whose lawyers can concoct a post hoc legal rationale that can pass a laugh test.”

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Patently O

JUNE 15, 2022

Gugliuzza, Temple University Beasley School of Law; Jonas Anderson, American University Washington College of Law; and Jason Rantanen, University of Iowa College of Law. Yet none of this Federal Circuit case law is “law” in the way lawyers usually think about appellate decisions that are labeled as “precedential.”.

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CourtTechBulletin

DECEMBER 16, 2021

From there is a link to their courthelp web page ( [link] ) that "can help you when you don't have a lawyer". Indiana courts use a portal E-filing model that allows the public to choose from several providers. The nice thing about their web page is that it provides a feature comparison page. There is a lot of information there.

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Broadcast Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

We share some of those dates below and urge you to stay in close touch with your lawyers, engineers, and consultants for the dates and deadlines applicable to your station’s operations.

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LawSites

APRIL 19, 2022

My law firm website now ranks on the first page, sometimes in the top spot, for all sorts of queries about red light camera tickets and speeding camera tickets in New York City, where there are more lawyers than laypeople. Get a high-level overview of the document automation tools for lawyers, so you can see what’s right for your firm.

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LawSites

MARCH 10, 2023

Having worked both on internal law firm apps as well as building tools for lawyers and clients, Joe has gotten to play with a lot of cool tech, including industry NLP tools and a variety of front end and back end technologies. Joe continues to tinker away and can currently be found in Northwest Iowa. After London came ReInvent 2013.

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ALPS

JULY 30, 2021

And you fly into Iowa and you’d have all these visits set up and, and drive all over the state, and visiting with solo and small firms. I mean, we have staff of probably 10 or 15 lawyers out here trying to do this, and we still couldn’t keep up. Just trying to identify where lawyers are struggling.

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MyCase

AUGUST 12, 2022

On top of that, lawyers risk losing their license if they fail to comply with laws that protect client information contained in records. . Cloud-based legal management software allows lawyers to file documents electronically and save emails and attachments directly to specific matters and records. . Retention policies.

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LawSites

MARCH 18, 2024

Harvard professor Jonathan Zittrain and l were sitting down with Daniel Lewis and Nik Reed , the founders of a legal research startup named Ravel Law, along with lawyers from Harvard’s Office of General Counsel, Debevoise & Plimpton and Gundersen Dettmer. About the Author Adam Ziegler is a lawyer and software builder.

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Patently O

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

4] The term “litigation financing” refers to “mechanisms that give a third party (other than the lawyer in the case) a financial stake in the outcome of the case in exchange for money paid to a party in the case.” ” Amer. See Advisory Committee on Civil Rules, Memorandum 4 (Dec. 2, 2014). [22] 22] See C.D.

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Attorney at Work

JUNE 23, 2022

My home state, Iowa, has disciplined an average of 68 attorneys (just under 1% of the number of practicing attorneys in the state) each year over the past decade. I’m an Iowa-based attorney and CPA. That is, not if you don’t allow it to become one. A rough extrapolation would suggest that perhaps thousands of attorneys across the U.S.

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Broadcast Law Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2014

A station runs a third-party ad, and the politician who is being attacked by the ad will contact the station – or have their lawyer contact the station – demanding that the station pull the ad for its alleged untruthfulness. This question arises all the time. Other stations may have more tolerance for risk.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 31, 2021

Judge Joel Yates has sentenced Cristhian Bahena Rivera to life in prison without parole in the abduction and killing of University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts, three years after she disappeared while out for an evening run, reports the Associated Press. The 27-year-old former farmhand, who testified that he came to the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 24, 2021

A Christian group at the University of Iowa scored a major win this week before the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. The University of Iowa registers student organizations under its “Registration of Student Organizations” (RSO) policy. The policy requires compliance with federal, state, and university rules.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 4, 2021

The appeals court agreed with Kizer’s lawyers, who argued “any offense” did indeed mean “any offense.” The decision could also have bearing on whether other states with broad affirmative defense laws, including Iowa, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Wyoming, allow individuals to employ them when charged with violent offenses.

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The Crime Report

JULY 2, 2021

Some counties in Alabama, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, and Tennessee pay $10; in Georgia, some pay $5, says The Indy. San Francisco isn’t the only place dealing with a lack of diversity in their juries due to the low pay that jury duty provides. Many other cities and counties are trying to increase jury duty pay.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 6, 2021

Indeed, that was the evidence used in the famous case from San Francisco involving lawyers and dog owners Marjorie Knoller and Robert Noel. States like Iowa, Kansas, Ohio, Missouri, Wisconsin, Mississippi, Arkansas, Michigan, Louisiana, and Kentucky have breed specific laws barring or limiting certain dog breeds, including pit bulls.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Almost a dozen states (including Idaho, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Arizona, and North Dakota) have passed legislation to bar CRT and roughly a dozen more are considering such legislation. A coalition of educators and public interest groups has sued states like Oklahoma over such laws.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 21, 2022

Louis lawyer who was arrested for pointing guns at Black Lives Matters protesters in 2020, and the three white men who were charged with chasing down Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia and killing him while he was out for a jog have sparked this movement. The criminal cases of Mark McCloskey , a St.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Harris has been using Uptrust , an application with two-way text messaging, and automated reminders for court dates for the past six months, through a pilot program in Clinton, Iowa. It has since expanded into probation offices and plans to work in dependency court as well.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 10, 2021

In an unsigned opinion, the court ruled that Terence Andrus had demonstrated that his lawyer provided deficient performance at sentencing for failing to investigate or introduce mitigating evidence. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit decision upholding a similar Iowa law concerning agricultural facilities. Washington.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

Lawyers objected but the judge let the testimony in. People like Faria, defense lawyers and sometimes even the judges are blindsided. “I When agencies refused to turn over public records, ProPublica’s lawyers threatened litigation and in one case sued. Faria was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

They would also be required to go before a panel, which includes a doctor, a lawyer and a community member, that decides whether their claims have merit. Similarly, a federal judge in Iowa in 1995 weighed in on the meaning of “arising” out of health care : “Rape is not patient care activity,” he wrote. I don’t think it’s a close call.

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Above The Law

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Motive Shmotive : Murdaugh's lawyer thinks jury is too burdened by good evidence. No Way You're Serious : Trump lawyer's argument so out of left field they court sanctions. The post Iowa Lawyer Wants Sexual Harassment To Have 1st Amendment Protections — See Also appeared first on Above the Law.

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