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Sunset recommendation for a 'blue-ribbon panel' on Texas police licensing agency: Grits wonders what's left to study?November 18, 2020 at 11:13 PM The new Sunset Commission report for the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement came out earlier this month: A once-every-12-years review of agency functions and practices. The good news: They didn't short sell the problems. (See more background here.) Their issue #1 stated flatly that "Texas' Approach to Regulating Law Enforcement is Ineffective," an observation with which Grits wholeheartedly agrees. They described a "fragmented, outdated system with poor accountability, lack of statewide stand...Tags: Texas, Law, Gop, San Antonio, Sunset, Abbott, Legislature, Gritsforbreakfast, Texas Commission on Law Enforcement, Sunset Commission, Texas Training, TCOLE, Bureau of Justice Statistics Texas, Texas Approach, Office of Court, Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Grits 16 people like this. Like Rothco Employee Spotlight - Meet AmandaNovember 18, 2020 at 11:14 PM  Tags: Military, Amanda, Rothco, Rothco NY, Amanda Amanda, Employee Spotlight 69 people like this. Like A Lesson from Judge Chen on Waiver vs ForfeitureNovember 18, 2020 at 9:59 PM by Dennis Crouch
In re Google Technology Holdings LLC (Fed. Cir. 2020)
Decision authored by Judge Chen and joined by Judges Taranto and Stoll
This is an ex parte appeal of a patent office refusal to grant a patent to Google on its U.S. Pat. App. No. 15/179,765 (distributed caching of content for video-on-demand). The examiner rejected the claims as obvious and that was affirmed by the PTAB. On appeal here the Federal Circuit affirms on forfeiture grounds:
Because we conclude that Google has fo...Tags: Google, Law, Johnson, Patent, Board, Chen, Federal Circuit, Stoll, Dennis Crouch, PTAB, Olano, Equitable Estoppel, Judges Taranto, Zerbst, Google Technology Holdings LLC Fed, Supreme Court Case of US 6 people like this. Like At the Sunset Café...November 18, 2020 at 6:02 PM  Tags: Photography, Law, Trees, Moon, Sunset, Ann Althouse, Sunset Café 85 people like this. Like Australian special forces Afghanistan war crimes inquiry report released – latest updatesNovember 18, 2020 at 7:32 PM Australian defence force releases long-awaited Brereton report into allegations SAS committed war crimes in Afghanistan from 2006 to 2016. Follow live 12.32am GMT Campbell is asked what the ADF intends to do about individuals who did not bear criminal negligence, but may have been negligent. I will look at them case by case, working with the chief of Army and dealing with our administrative and disciplinary processes to understand their part in this story and their degree of accountability a...Tags: Law, World news, Australia news, Afghanistan, South and Central Asia, War Crimes, Army, Australian military, Sas, Campbell, ADF, Brereton 27 people like this. Like A Big Day For Judges — See AlsoNovember 18, 2020 at 7:14 PM Some Judges Are Singing And Dancing: Federal judges deliver fantastic Hamilton parody.
Some Judges Are Testy: Judge Leon isn't happy with any of this case.
Some Judges Are Just Confused: Judge Brann eyes Rudy with normal scrutiny.
And Some Judges Have Promising Clerks: Justice Alito clerk joining Biden White House.Tags: Law, Biden, Rudy, Hamilton, Leon, Alito, Brann, See Also 1 people like this. Like On The History Of Court PackingNovember 18, 2020 at 6:45 PM Will history repeat itself? Depends on these Georgia Senate runoffs...Tags: Supreme Court, Law, Courts, Georgia Senate, Trivia Question of the Day, Court Packing 8 people like this. Like Crying Is HealthyNovember 18, 2020 at 6:18 PM I cry at least once a week. Crying is an incredibly healthy way of releasing stress, grief, and anxiety. It's not weakness, it's strength. Find a safe spot and let it rip!Tags: Crying, Law, Health and Wellness, Brian Cuban, Health / Wellness 37 people like this. Like "Against Thanksgiving."November 18, 2020 at 5:51 PM It's a podcast. Topics: "Biden and embarrassment, Mo Willems and aging, kids and coronavirus, the war on Thanksgiving, shunning the Trumps, ogling in Pakistan, and the depiction of bad people as ugly." [Author: [email protected] (Ann Althouse)]Tags: Podcast, Law, Pakistan, Biden, Ann Althouse, Mo Willems 40 people like this. Like Judge Tosses Hank Greenberg’s Lawsuit Against Eliot Spitzer, Insults Him To His FaceNovember 18, 2020 at 5:47 PM The former AIG CEO is too blinded by hatred and rage to see any similarities between himself and the libidinous former governor.Tags: Law, Finance, Aig, Tosses Hank Greenberg, Lawsuit Against Eliot Spitzer Insults 42 people like this. Like Hackers HQ and Space Command: how UK defence budget could be spentNovember 18, 2020 at 5:30 PM Creation of specialist cyber force and artificial intelligence unit in pipelineBoris Johnson agrees £16bn rise in defence spendingA specialist cyber force of several hundred British hackers has been in the works for nearly three years, although its creation has been partly held back by turf wars between the spy agency GCHQ and the Ministry of Defence, to which the unit is expected to jointly report. Continue reading...Tags: UK, Technology, Internet, Gchq, UK News, Military, Hacking, Defence policy, Ministry Of Defence, Espionage, Johnson, Cyberwar, Artificial intelligence (AI 12 people like this. Like Autism Spectrum Disorder Is the Main Defence in the Van Attack Trial (Alex Minassian Trial): Autism Canada Speaks OutNovember 18, 2020 at 5:24 PM In April 2018, Minassian drove a van into a crowd of people, killing 10 people. His trial is now happening in Ontario by videoconference. The defence is arguing that he is not criminally responsible on account of his autism spectrum disorder. They are arguing that he did not understand what he was doing was wrong. Expert psychiatrists have been retained to provide opinions on both sides.
Each person with Autism spectrum disorder is unique. To learn more about the characteristics, see here.
Autis...Tags: Law, Canada, Ontario, Review Board, Substantive Law, Minassian, Autism Canada speaks out, Autism Defence, Van attack trial, Alex Minassian 5 people like this. Like Virtual Mediations Are Fairly EffectiveNovember 18, 2020 at 5:17 PM Virtual mediations have been fruitful for a number of reasons.Tags: Technology, Law, Zoom, Small Law Firms, Jordan Rothman, Coronavirus, COVID-19 28 people like this. Like "The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime over the Last Two Decades"November 18, 2020 at 4:45 PM The title of this post is the title of this notable new work from John Donohue and Steven Levitt published in the American Law and Economics Review. Here is the abstract:
Donohue and Levitt (2001) presented evidence that the legalization of abortion in the early 1970s played an important role in the crime drop of the 1990s. That paper concluded with a strong out-of-sample prediction regarding the next two decades: “When a steady state is reached roughly twenty years from now, the impact of ab...Tags: Law, Levitt, Donohue, Douglas A Berman, Steven Levitt, John Donohue 50 people like this. Like If You Agree To Your Partner Being A Parent To Your Child, Beware Of The No ‘Take-Backsies’ RuleNovember 18, 2020 at 4:43 PM Courts are increasingly recognizing that families take many forms.Tags: Law, Family law, Ellen Trachman, Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART 31 people like this. Like UC Law Review Online publishes symposium on "COVID-19 and Criminal Justice"November 18, 2020 at 4:28 PM I was intribued to see this new University of Chicago Law Review Online symposium exploring the COVID pandemic's impact criminal justice. Here are all the great-looking pieces:
Valena E. Beety & Brandon L. Garrett, COVID-19 and Criminal Justice (series introduction)
Sharon Dolovich, Mass Incarceration, Meet COVID-19
Maybell Romero, Law Enforcement as Disease Vector
Valena E. Beety, Pre-Trial Dismissal in the Interest of Justice: A Response to COVID-19 and Protest Arrests
Deniz Ariturk, William...Tags: Law, Douglas A Berman, Interest of Justice, VALENA, University of Chicago Law Review Online, UC Law Review Online, Valena E Beety Brandon L Garrett, Deniz Ariturk William E Crozier Brandon L Garrett, Pamela R Metzger Gregory J Guggenmos, Jennifer D Oliva 15 people like this. Like Pyrrhic victory for federal death row inmates in DC Circuit lethal injection litigationNovember 18, 2020 at 4:04 PM As reported in this Courthouse Legal News piece, headlined "Federal Executions on Track but DC Circuit Flags Legal Errors," two federal defendants scheduled to be executed in coming days and weeks got some cold comfort from the DC Circuit today:
Though it declined to block two federal executions, the first just over 24 hours away, the D.C. Circuit was critical Wednesday that seven lethal injections have been carried out in the last few months without medical prescriptions.
This year alone, Pres...Tags: Supreme Court, Law, Aclu, Donald Trump, Justice Department, Hall, Trump, Fdca, Bernard, D C Circuit, Lisa Montgomery, DC Circuit, Chutkan, Douglas A Berman, William Barr, Christopher Vialva 16 people like this. Like GM is following Tesla's example and launching its own insurance with OnStarNovember 18, 2020 at 2:28 PM Tags: MetroMile, Transportation, Elon Musk, California, Car Insurance, Trends, Insurance, General Motors, Tesla, Ford, Gm, Musk, Graham Rapier, Bill Pugliano Getty, Asad Hussain, Business News Desk 124 people like this. Like Empirical SCOTUS: How the court’s decisions have limited the national electorateNovember 18, 2020 at 3:05 PM  Tags: Supreme Court, Law, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Middleton, Republican National Committee, Kennedy, Thomas, Sonia Sotomayor, John Roberts, Scalia, Moore, Merrill, Roberts, Ginsburg 107 people like this. Like Biglaw Firm Pushes First-Year Start Date To Summer 2021November 18, 2020 at 3:15 PM Oof! Are other law firms considering doing the same thing?Tags: Law, Biglaw, Schiff Hardin, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Start Dates 37 people like this. Like Kasowitz Suing Its Janitors Just In Time For The HolidaysNovember 18, 2020 at 2:44 PM Timing is a big part of litigation and this... isn't great timing.Tags: Law, Biglaw, Kasowitz, Kasowitz Benson Torres 12 people like this. Like Partner Out At Magic Circle Firm Following Internal InvestigationNovember 18, 2020 at 2:14 PM Not much is known about what led up to his retirement.Tags: Law, Biglaw, Slaughter & May, Magic Circle, Steve Cooke, Oliver Storey, Magic Circle Firm Following Internal Investigation 2 people like this. Like Dispatch 46: Revolution, Insurgency, and Civil War – we are thereNovember 18, 2020 at 1:31 PM  Tags: Facebook, Asia, Hong Kong, New York, Featured, Colorado, Washington, Oregon, China, Iraq, America, Atlanta, Afghanistan, Thailand, Military, United States 60 people like this. Like Thomson Reuters Unveils Offerings That Make Adopting New Technology Easier Than EverNovember 18, 2020 at 1:43 PM No more excuses to avoid new technology.Tags: Technology, Law, Thomson Reuters 15 people like this. Like READ: Formal request to Senate Ethics Committee to investigate Sen. Lindsey GrahamNovember 18, 2020 at 1:32 PM Three ethics experts -- Walter Shaub, a former top ethics watchdog for the federal government, Richard Painter, the chief ethics lawyer for President George W. Bush's administration, and Claire Finkelstein, the director of the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law -- asked the Senate Ethics Committee on Wednesday to look into Sen. Lindsey Graham's call last week with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, and whether Graham "suggested" that Raffensperger "dis...Tags: Law, Georgia, Cnn, Graham, University of Pennsylvania, George W Bush, Sen Lindsey Graham, Richard Painter, Senate Ethics Committee, Walter Shaub, Claire Finkelstein, Raffensperger, Brad Raffensperger 27 people like this. Like So You Want To Build A Well-Being CLE Program? 10 Tips For Accreditation [Sponsored]November 18, 2020 at 1:13 PM Offering CLE credit is an excellent incentive for overscheduled, overstressed attorneys to attend well-being programs — but it can be tricky to get these programs accredited.Tags: Law, Biglaw, Health & Wellness, Pli, Sponsored Content, Continuing Legal Education / CLE, Practising Law Institute (PLI, PLI Custom 12 people like this. Like Refunding Student Loans Already Paid Is A Better Idea Than Forgiving Student Loan BalancesNovember 18, 2020 at 12:48 PM Will Biden’s $10,000 proposal be enough?Tags: Law, Joe Biden, Student Loans, Law Schools, Will Biden 9 people like this. Like There’s A Run On Law School, With Applicants And Applications WAY UpNovember 18, 2020 at 12:12 PM It may be an 'RBG moment' or just because of the pandemic, but people *really* want to go to law school right now.Tags: Law, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Law Schools, Law School Applications, COVID-19 3 people like this. Like |
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