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SCOTUS dispatch: Supreme Court appears likely to side with straight women in ‘reverse discrimination’ case

JURIST

Chloe Miracle-Rutledge is a JURIST Supreme Court Correspondent and a 2L at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC. Department of Ohio Youth Services , a case in which the Court has been asked to clarify the requirements for majority-group plaintiffs bringing employment discrimination claims.

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California Supreme Court: prisoners must get lawyer when challenging convictions for killings committed by others

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This case originated in the trial court when the defendant Vince Lewis filed a petition, under a newly enacted law that took effect in January 2019, requesting counsel to challenge his murder conviction under that same law. The new law in question was California Senate Bill No.

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Australia High Court hears submissions on Cambridge Analytica data breaches

JURIST

The High Court of Australia Tuesday began hearing submissions that a Facebook app tied to the Cambridge Analytica scandal contravened national privacy laws. The oral submissions will determine whether Facebook is liable for consumer data breaches in contravention of the Privacy Act 1998 (Cth).

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WHAT IS ASSOCIATIONAL DISCRIMINATION?

JayS.Rothman&Associates

These protections help safeguard employees against discrimination or retaliation which the law may not otherwise prohibit. What laws protect employees against associational discrimination? Protected Class Associational discrimination cases can be brought under various laws. 12112(b)(4).

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Making a Proper Determination of Obviousness

Patently O

Still, the guidelines spend some time on the requirements of a prima facie case; the necessity of both evidence and reasoning to support any obviousness rejection; and consideration of all evidence before the examiner. The guidelines do not reference the US Constitution or any other Supreme Court cases besides Graham and KSR.

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Dismissal of Defamation and False Light Claim under Tennessee Public Participation Act partially reversed.

Day on Torts

Defendant filed a petition for dismissal pursuant to the TPPA, and after finding that the TPPA applied, that plaintiff was a limited-purpose public figure in the context of this action, and that plaintiff “had not established a prima facie case for actual malice,” the trial court dismissed the case. The TPPA, Tenn.

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An incredible invention (incredible = not credible).

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On appeal, though, the Federal Circuit found that the USPTO had presented a prima facie case by noting that the invention: “violates the first law of thermodynamics,” is “contrary to traditional understanding of chemistry,” and “violates the classical laws of physics” including conservation of mass.