CourtTechBulletin

DECEMBER 16, 2021

We were curious as to the status of online court help to the self-represented litigants as a good 2021 year-end wrapup article for the CTB? We share what we found below. In addition, we just learned of a new NIJ study on the use of Chatbots in the Criminal Justice System to add to our list of online helpers.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

A product launched this week claims to be the fastest search and review platform in legal for matters involving large document collections — discovery, investigations and compliance — and the first to seamlessly combine keyword and algorithmic search. So is it the fastest document search in legal?

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Everchron

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Current legal frameworks are not necessarily equipped to handle deepfakes directly. The problem, of course, is that there is little legal precedent for applying the Federal Rules of Evidence to deepfakes. Deepfakes undermine evidence integrity in two key ways. Specifically, she cites two cases: Lorraine v. In Lorraine v.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Share In its first opinion of the 2023-24 term in an argued case, the Supreme Court on Tuesday morning threw out a dispute over whether a self-appointed “civil rights tester” has a legal right to file a lawsuit under the Americans with Disabilities Act alleging that a hotel had failed to provide information about its accessibility on its website.

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LegalReader

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Economic and non-economic losses, such as lost wages, medical bills, legal fees, property replacement and pain and suffering are addressed in loss valuations with punitive damages in some cases.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 8, 2023

The college then prolonged the litigation, virtually forcing the family into insolvency. Oberlin President Carmen Twillie Ambar and the Board needlessly spent millions in litigation costs above the damages rather than admit that the college was wrong in the targeting of this grocery.

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Patently O

JULY 23, 2022

University of Maryland. Transformative Legal. Klarquist Sparkman, LLP – Litigation/IPR Associate. Shook Hardy & Bacon – IP Litigation Attorney. Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney – Biotech Intellectual Property Associate. Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney – Electrical Patent Associate. AstraZeneca. Unified Patents.

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SCOTUSBlog

JULY 28, 2023

Deborah Laufer, who has physical disabilities and vision impairments, told the justices that she has voluntarily dismissed her case in the district court after an attorney who represented her in other cases was disciplined by a federal court in Maryland. That dearth of information, she contended, violated the Americans with Disabilities Act.

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Legal Research is Easy

AUGUST 5, 2019

Arnold , the parents of Caleigh Wood sued Charles County Public Schools in Maryland, the county board of education, and Evelyn Arnold and Shannon Morris, principal and vice principal of La Plata High School for violating a student’s (i.e. In the early 1960s, the Governor of Maryland appointed Roy Torcaso as a notary public.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE. Energy & Environment Legal Institute v. and non-U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 14, 2024

In the first months of 2024, legislators in four states— Maryland , Massachusetts , New York , and Vermont —have pushed for legislation that would collectively require large fossil fuel producers and refiners to pay for hundreds of billions of dollars of state-level climate adaptation infrastructure.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Laufer , the justices will consider when a self-appointed civil rights “tester” has a legal right to bring a lawsuit under the Americans with Disabilities Act. She will face off against her predecessor, former Solicitor General Noel Francisco, representing the industry groups. In Acheson Hotels v. The case has drawn widespread interest.

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Broadcast Law Blog

APRIL 27, 2023

In addition, always remember to keep in touch with your legal and regulatory advisors to make sure that you don’t overlook any regulatory deadlines that are specific to your station. Always review these dates with your legal and technical advisors, and note other dates not listed here that may be relevant to your operations.

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LawTechnologyToday

DECEMBER 8, 2022

You can find more articles and resources to help build your legal career at InfoTrack’s website. Yet there’s one critical aspect of trust that legal professionals rarely talk about: the trust that we have in one another as colleagues within a law firm setting. Legal professionals work hard under incredible deadlines.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 12, 2021

One of the briefs written in support of the district in the recent litigation was from constitutional scholars, including my colleague Alan B. He has not only previously written on the blog, but he is one of the most respected legal figures in the country with extensive litigation and public interest experience.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. On November 23, GM announced that it was withdrawing from the litigation. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Roati.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 12, 2023

In total, at least 25 cases have been filed in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawai’i, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Vermont. And the Supreme Court was likely strongly influenced by this backdrop of lower court legal consensus that the cases should be sent back to state court.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 8, 2022

In the course of the litigation, Abdelhady asked the court to ignore her election (and receipt) of workers’ compensation benefits and find that the WCA does not apply after all. Abdelhady had a drawn out litigation under WCA to force payments from the university. Id. ¶ 174. I d. ¶ 154. ” Robinson v. Howard Univ., Robinson v.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 10, 2025

That purpose, he told the justices, is undermined when federal courts allow a patchwork of state procedural rules to govern, creating a chaotic landscape where litigants face dramatically different procedural standards based solely on where they file. In a brief filed in December, Elizabeth Prelogar the U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 6, 2017

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. The Second Circuit also distinguished the Connecticut program from a Maryland regulatory scheme that the U.S.

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LegalTalkNetwork

JANUARY 9, 2025

Over the years, our Legal Talk Network podcasters have been honored to host conversations with senators, justices, and other remarkable leaders shaping the legal and political landscape. Too many people, particularly the poorest people in America, dont have legal representation. North Dakota Senator Byron L.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The legal dispute concerns the extra contract support costs that the tribes use to administer health programs. Maryland ; and (2) whether suppressed impeachment evidence of the state’s key witness is per se non-material under Brady because that witness’ credibility had been otherwise impeached at trial. Maryland and Napue v.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

A brief by the Chamber of Commerce argues that cases like Laufer’s are part of a “wave in abusive litigation” that is “driven by the economics of attorneys’ fees,” with “serial plaintiffs” (including Laufer) filed 67 percent of the “reservation rule” cases filed since the rule was issued in 2011.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 28, 2025

The states California, along with Massachusetts, New Jersey, Colorado, Illinois, Maryland, New York, and Wisconsin challenged the termination of the grants in federal court in Massachusetts. Those concerns, the states concluded, are properly litigated in the context of those other cases.

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 31, 2021

However, there are still some notable additions that raise more legal frights. McKamey insists that it is just a “crazy haunted house” and stops well short of the legal-definition of torture. Maryland v. So, with no further ado, here is this year’s updated list of actual cases related to Halloween. Janik (2009).

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JonathanTurley

OCTOBER 30, 2022

She insists in the video that she knows all of the governing legal rules and shows the path in detail. McKamey insists that it is just a “crazy haunted house” and stops well short of the legal-definition of torture. Maryland v. She later deleted her account (likely after her attorney regained consciousness). Janik (2009).

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 27, 2022

Animal Legal Defense Fund , involving the constitutionality of a Kansas statute criminalizing trespass by deception at animal facilities with intent to damage the enterprise. In Monday’s orders , the Supreme Court disposed of three relists. rescheduled before the Jan.

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FDA Law Blog

JULY 21, 2024

That’s what happened last week in District Court in Maryland. a judge in Maryland dismissed another suit against FDA for lack of standing. In dismissing the suit for lack of standing, the court in Maryland followed the precedent from Hippocratic Medicine. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine et al. ,

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Swalwell is a lawyer with a degree from the University of Maryland Law School. Swalwell is equally mistaken in his analogies to the medical and legal professions. Clients and Legal Consent. It was adopted by bars to give clients the right to direct their own legal affairs. Swalwell is missing is called informed consent.

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LawSites

MAY 5, 2021

This week, David Lat, who founded the blog Above the Law in 2006, and who earlier, in 2004, started the anonymous blog Underneath Their Robes , and who left blogging two years ago to take a job as a legal recruiter, is returning to writing as a full-time livelihood. But this time, Lat will not be publishing his writing on a blog.

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The Crime Report

MAY 24, 2023

It instructed jurors that they would sit through witness testimony and review evidence by a prosecutor, and then “discuss with each other the evidence and the legal instructions” before voting on whether or not there is probable cause to indict each felony suspect.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The owner of a Maine hotel argued that because the tester, Deborah Laufer, never intended to stay at the hotel, she does not have a legal right to bring a lawsuit. It agreed with Acheson that because Laufer did not intend to book a room at the inn, she did not have a legal right to sue, known as standing. But the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 17, 2022

Below is my column in the Hill on the next round of litigation over the Second Amendment. Montgomery County, Maryland, officials have proposed to bar the legal right to carry firearms “in or within 100 yards of a place of public assembly.”. That includes simply passing through Times Square.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

There, a judge held that chemical giant du Pont was bound by legal determinations made in three trials involving the discharge of acid into the Ohio River. Abbott , involving a challenge to the use of nonmutual offensive collateral estoppel to hold that issues resolved in bellwether tort trials bind the defendant in later cases.

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JonathanTurley

MAY 11, 2024

Weeks after the election, journalists discovered that the Clinton campaign hid payments for the Steele dossier as “legal fees” among the $5.6 When Vogel tried to report the story, he said, Elias “ pushed back vigorously, saying ‘You (or your sources) are wrong.’” Elias has been sanctioned in past litigation.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 11, 2023

It then concluded with respect to the Hymes/Harwayne-Gidansky suit that the Dodd-Frank language quoted above simply codified the pre-existing legal standard and held their claims preempted. For insured claims, the insurer would have to seek the same information in litigation on a case-by-case basis. Maryland and Napue v.

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The Crime Report

JULY 7, 2021

This essay explores what “defund the police” means to leading criminologists, community organizers and legal scholars. Hitchens, the University of Maryland criminologist, thinks spillover is likely when police flood a neighborhood experiencing high crime. This is a legal process. Berkeley, Ca., The National Conversation.

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