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Men in 2 cities were charged with hate crimes for targeting people for their race as protests against anti-Asian violence ramp up across the countryMarch 27, 2021 at 11:07 PM Tags: Law, Abc, Office, US, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Trends, Atlanta, Georgia, Young, Hate Crimes, Brown, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles California, Hamner, Seattle Times 85 people like this. Like Mee, MM And IMarch 27, 2021 at 11:26 PM The Maine Grievance Commission has ordered a public reprimand for an attorney's adverse action toward a former client By way of background, Ms. Mee was a romantic partner to MM from approximately 2013 through October 2017. At some point, MM's... [Author: Legal Profession Prof]Tags: Law, Legal Profession Prof, Bar Discipline & Process, Maine Grievance Commission, Ms Mee 18 people like this. Like At The Saturday Night Cafe...March 27, 2021 at 8:46 PM ... you can talk about whatever you want. [Author: [email protected] (Ann Althouse)]Tags: Law, Ann Althouse 45 people like this. Like Girls und Panzer Saishuushou Episode 3 a Truly Wild & Explosive RideMarch 27, 2021 at 8:00 PM Following the debut of Girls und Panzer Saishuushou Episode 3 in theaters, the official Twitter account has uploaded one final glimpse at the film in an attempt to convince a few more observers into going to see it, with the tank battles being more wild and deadly than ever before. The action-packed final look: About […]Tags: Movies, Drama, Trailer, Sports, Military, Anime, Adaptations, Girls und Panzer, Continuations, Actas 49 people like this. Like Coronavirus live news: English churches to be allowed choirs for Easter; Venezuelan president’s Facebook page frozen over cure claimMarch 27, 2021 at 6:26 PM Small groups allowed to perform in places of worship in England; Brazil daily deaths near 4,000 amid surge; Facebook says Nicolas Maduro has violated its misinformation policiesOne in 25 hospitalised with Covid in UK since December had vaccine‘Vaccine prince’: the Indian billionaire set to make Covid jabs for the UKGazebo sales boom as families plan outdoor Easter gatheringsSee all our coronavirus coverage 10.23pm GMT 10.08pm GMT Small choirs will be allowed to perform at churches in En...Tags: Health, Facebook, UK, England, Society, World news, Brazil, Vaccines and immunisation, Nicolás Maduro, Robert Jenrick, Coronavirus 40 people like this. Like Marine Corps commanders ordered to make changes after deadly AAV training accident off San Clemente IslandMarch 27, 2021 at 5:00 PM  Tags: Facebook, News, Navy, California, Oregon, Sport, Marine, Soccer, Military, United States, Middle East, Stockton, Portland, Marine Corps, Marines, Portland Oregon 140 people like this. Like 'Protest is a human right': one long week in Bristol, a city with a history of dissentMarch 27, 2021 at 3:35 PM Demonstrations against the police bill follow a long tradition of radicalism. Protesters say that, after last week’s violence, their side of the story has not been toldFor the third time in less than a week thousands of protesters gathered in the centre of Bristol last Friday to oppose the controversial police and crime bill, which many fear will criminalise the social movements and vibrant, alternative cultures that have made the West Country city such a hub of resistance to the government.As t...Tags: Politics, Human Rights, Protest, Law, Police, UK News, Bristol, Black Lives Matter, West Country, Edward Colston, College Green 10 people like this. Like Coronavirus live news: Venezuelan president’s Facebook page frozen over cure claim; UK deaths pass 150,000 milestone, analysis showsMarch 27, 2021 at 3:32 PM Turkey sees highest number of daily cases this year; Brazil daily deaths near 4,000 amid surge; UK vaccines minister says first booster doses will go to the top four priority groupsOne in 25 hospitalised with Covid in UK since December had vaccine‘Vaccine prince’: the Indian billionaire set to make Covid jabs for the UKGazebo sales boom as families plan outdoor Easter gatheringsSee all our coronavirus coverage 7.19pm GMT Here is more on the rock concert in Barcelona where spectators had rapi...Tags: Health, UK, France, Barcelona, Society, World news, Turkey, Brazil, Vaccines and immunisation, Reuters, Palau Sant Jordi, Coronavirus 50 people like this. Like Coronavirus live news: UK Covid deaths pass 150,000 milestone, analysis shows; Turkey sees highest number of daily cases this yearMarch 27, 2021 at 2:33 PM Brazil daily deaths near 4,000 amid surge; vaccines minister says first booster doses will go to the top four priority groupsOne in 25 hospitalised with Covid in UK since December had vaccine‘Vaccine prince’: the Indian billionaire set to make Covid jabs for the UKGazebo sales boom as families plan outdoor Easter gatheringsSee all our coronavirus coverage 6.32pm GMT Facebook has frozen Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s page for violating policies against spreading misinformation about Co...Tags: Health, Facebook, UK, Society, World news, Turkey, Brazil, Vaccines and immunisation, Nicolás Maduro, Reuters, Maduro, Roman Catholic Church, WHO World Health Organization, Coronavirus, COVID, Carvativir 37 people like this. Like Capitol protester spotted at anti-mask rally while under indictment, and his lawyer says he has not been paid, according to reportMarch 27, 2021 at 12:20 PM Tags: News, Law, Boston, Massachusetts, Trends, Washington Dc, News UK, Army, Lgbtq, Rhode Island, Trump, Boston Common, Mark, Capitol, Daily Beast, Rinaldo Del Gallo III 113 people like this. Like Facebook Defeats Lawsuit Over Alleged ‘Shadowbanning’–De Souza Millan v. FacebookMarch 27, 2021 at 11:52 AM The term “shadowbanning” does not have a single well-accepted definition. In my Content Moderation Remedies paper, I say: “A shadowban keeps a user’s account active, but only the accountholder can see the content.” However, others sometimes use the term as a generic descriptor of undisclosed visibility reduction steps, such as removing an accountholder’s items from internal search indexes.
I can’t say for sure that “shadowbanning” accurately describes what happened to the plaintiff, but close en...Tags: Facebook, Law, Congress, ECPA, Usc, Facebook Inc, Content Regulation, Derivative Liability, Millan, Instead Congress, De Souza Millan, Rodrigo de Souza Millan, Souza Millan 4 people like this. Like Coronavirus live news: England passes 25m first vaccine dose milestone; Brazil daily deaths near 4,000 amid surgeMarch 27, 2021 at 11:32 AM Vaccines minister says first booster doses will go to the top four priority groups, which includes care home staff, NHS workers and clinically extremely vulnerableOne in 25 hospitalised with Covid in UK since December had vaccine‘Vaccine prince’: the Indian billionaire set to make Covid jabs for the UKGazebo sales boom as families plan outdoor Easter gatheringsSee all our coronavirus coverage 3.31pm GMT A woman in New York lost her personal injury lawsuit after her attorney refused to wear a...Tags: Health, UK, England, New York, Indonesia, India, Society, World news, Brooklyn, NHS, Brazil, Who, Astrazeneca, Vaccines and immunisation, New York Daily News, Reuters India 17 people like this. Like New Sheriff In ArizonaMarch 27, 2021 at 11:13 AM To my knowledge, two jurisdictions - Colorado and Arizona - use a Presiding Disciplinary Judge system that grants significant authority in the disciplinary process to a single person. Arizona has just announced that a new PDJ has been named. AZ... [Author: Legal Profession Prof]Tags: Law, Colorado, Arizona, Legal Profession Prof, Bar Discipline & Process 37 people like this. Like Home Office revives plan to deport non-UK rough sleepersMarch 27, 2021 at 11:05 AM Priti Patel’s ministry has quietly relaunched a covert programme exposed in 2019 by the ObserverThe Home Office has quietly relaunched a controversial programme that uses councils and homelessness charities to obtain personal data that could lead to the deportation of non-UK rough sleepers.Two charities and six councils have signed up to the scheme since it was relaunched six months ago, according to documents obtained by Liberty Investigates, a journalism unit of the human rights organisation L...Tags: Politics, UK, Human Rights, Law, Society, UK News, Immigration and asylum, Poverty, Homelessness, Charities, Social exclusion, Voluntary sector, Home Office, Priti Patel, Liberty Continue, Liberty Investigates 3 people like this. Like "Black nerds unsettle the myth of a monolithic Blackness."March 27, 2021 at 10:10 AM "In an American imagination that has historically stereotyped Black people as alternately ignorant and emotional or sexualized and cool, the nerd — smart and cerebral, unsexy and decidedly uncool — creates cognitive dissonance. Not only do Black nerds confound racist stereotypes, they also pierce the protective orthodoxy of Blackness passed down in the United States across generations. Under slavery and Jim Crow, Black people maintaining — or at least projecting — unity proved a necessary protec...Tags: Law, America, United States, Nerds, Black, Adam Bradley, Race Consciousness, Ann Althouse, Race And Pop Culture, Jim Crow Black 28 people like this. Like Elizabeth Warren tells a joke... tells the truth...March 27, 2021 at 10:08 AM I didn’t write the loopholes you exploit, @amazon – your armies of lawyers and lobbyists did. But you bet I’ll fight to make you pay your fair share. And fight your union-busting. And fight to break up Big Tech so you’re not powerful enough to heckle senators with snotty tweets. https://t.co/3vCAI93MST— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) March 26, 2021 Via "Elizabeth Warren Wants To Break Up Amazon So It's 'Not Powerful Enough To Heckle Senators With Snotty Tweets'/She said the quiet part out loud"...Tags: Amazon, Comedy, Law, Elizabeth Warren, Warren, Schwarzenegger, Ann Althouse, Emotional Politics 47 people like this. Like Coronavirus live news: Boris Johnson has 'seen nothing to dissuade him from continuing along roadmap to freedom'; Philippines imposes stricter conditionsMarch 27, 2021 at 8:34 AM Vaccines minister says first booster doses will go to the top four priority groups, which includes care home staff, NHS workers and clinically extremely vulnerableOne in 25 hospitalised with Covid in UK since December had vaccine‘Vaccine prince’: the Indian billionaire set to make Covid jabs for the UKGazebo sales boom as families plan outdoor Easter gatheringsSee all our coronavirus coverage 12.34pm GMT Boris Johnson has attributed the UK’s vaccine success to “capitalism” and “greed”. Thoug...Tags: Health, UK, India, US, Society, World news, Philippines, NHS, Boris Johnson, Vaccines and immunisation, Ucl, Serum, Reuters, Novavax, Mariana Mazzucato, Serum Institute 38 people like this. Like "I don’t like struggle sessions; I think critical race theory as it developed in the academy is intellectually rich, but some of the ways it’s been adapted by workplace diversity trainers..."March 27, 2021 at 8:26 AM "... and education consultants seem risible.... The right-wing caricature of progressive public schools as pampered re-education camps is extremely far from my own family’s experience, but if any kids are being bullied and shamed for refusing to espouse social justice principles, even principles I agree with, that’s wrong. However, the claim that the right’s war on critical race theory doesn’t threaten academic freedom is also wrong. Consider what just happened in Idaho, where last week Boise St...Tags: Law, Freedom, Idaho, Free Speech, Legislature, Goldberg, Michelle Goldberg, Boise State University, CRT, Race And Education, Ann Althouse, Critical Race Theory 24 people like this. Like "I had a producer bring me to his office, where he had malted milk balls in a little milk-carton-type container under his arm with the spout open."March 27, 2021 at 7:46 AM "He walked back and forth in his office with the balls falling out of the spout and rolling all over the wood floor as he explained to me why I should fuck my co-star so that we could have onscreen chemistry. Why, in his day, he made love to Ava Gardner onscreen and it was so sensational! Now just the creepy thought of him in the same room with Ava Gardner gave me pause. I watched the chocolate balls rolling around, thinking, You guys insisted on this actor when he couldn’t get one whole scene o...Tags: Law, Sex, Actors, Candy, Ava Gardner, Sharon Stone, Ann Althouse, Sleep With Male Co Star 20 people like this. Like Sharon Osbourne, cancelled at "The Talk."March 27, 2021 at 7:40 AM It's a complicated story, so read the whole thing at "Sharon Osbourne Is Out at 'The Talk'" (Hollywood Reporter). I'll just excerpt some highlights, which I don't expect you to understand if you don't know the context.From the statement by CBS: "As part of our review, we concluded that Sharon’s behavior toward her co-hosts during the March 10 episode did not align with our values for a respectful workplace." From Hollywood Reporter: "The news came two weeks after the March 10 dustup, one that wa...Tags: Hollywood, Law, Cbs, Julie Chen, Sharon Osbourne, Leah Remini, Sharon, Sara Gilbert, Osbourne, Remini, Ann Althouse, Holly Robinson Peete, Race And Pop Culture, Robinson Peete, RSB- Osbourne 14 people like this. Like Great coverage of recent "second chance" reforms and scholarship at CCRCMarch 27, 2021 at 7:35 AM Regular readers are used to my regular reminders to regularly check out work over at the Collateral Consequences Resource Center. Doing so recently brings up a number of posts over the last month or so covering recent "second chance" reforms and scholarship:
After a haul of record relief reforms in 2020, more states launch clean slate campaigns
Access Barriers to Felony Expungement: The Case of Illinois
Virginia poised to enact “transformative” record clearance law
Study measures gap be...Tags: Law, Ccrc, Douglas A Berman, Collateral Consequences Resource Center Doing, Illinois Virginia 14 people like this. Like The Secret Tax Benefits Of A Term Insurance Plan And How To Claim ThemMarch 27, 2021 at 6:00 AM Do you know term insurance plans can benefit you in tax? Read about the secret tax benefits of a term insurance plan and how to claim them.
The post The Secret Tax Benefits Of A Term Insurance Plan And How To Claim Them appeared first on Young Upstarts.Tags: Startups, Taxes, Insurance, Others, Tax Issues, Term Insurance Plan 28 people like this. Like "Focusing Presidential Clemency Decision-Making"March 27, 2021 at 5:25 AM The title of this post is the title of this new paper now available via SSRN authored by Paul J. Larkin, Jr. Here is its abstract:
The Article II Pardon Clause grants the President authority to grant clemency to any offender. The clause contains only two limitations. The President cannot excuse someone from responsibility for a state offense, nor can he prevent Congress from impeaching and removing a federal official. Otherwise, the President’s authority is plenary. The clause authorizes the ...Tags: Law, Congress, Department Of Justice, Douglas A Berman, SSRN, Paul J Larkin 28 people like this. Like Coronavirus live news: UK over-70s could start getting booster jabs in September, Czech government extends state of emergencyMarch 27, 2021 at 5:24 AM Vaccines minister says first booster doses will go to the top four priority groups, which includes care home staff, NHS workers and clinically extremely vulnerableOne in 25 hospitalised with Covid in UK since December had vaccine‘Vaccine prince’: the Indian billionaire set to make Covid jabs for the UKGazebo sales boom as families plan outdoor Easter gatheringsSee all our coronavirus coverage 9.24am GMT With the season of university offers well under way in the UK, some institutions are wooi...Tags: Health, UK, Society, World news, NHS, Vaccines and immunisation, Rishi Sunak, Coronavirus, Tildesley, Mike Tildesley 49 people like this. Like Sony’s Procurement of Crunchyroll Could Be Impeded by Anti-Trust ProbeMarch 27, 2021 at 4:00 AM Those disgusted by the censorship-happy Sony’s impending acquisition of Crunchyroll might have at least a very small glimmer of hope as an anti-trust probe might have the potential of stopping the deal completely. Announced last year, Sony is set to acquire Crunchyroll for over $1 billion (Sony already owns similar anime platform Funimation), though this […]Tags: Business, Usa, Law, Sony, Anime, Crunchyroll 47 people like this. Like 'Vaccine prince': the Indian billionaire set to make Covid jabs for the UKMarch 27, 2021 at 4:00 AM Serum Institute boss Adar Poonawalla has rented a Mayfair mansion for £50,000 a weekCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe AstraZeneca vaccine has made Prof Sarah Gilbert – who led the Oxford team that created it – one of the UK’s most famous modern scientists and turned the Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical company into a household name.But almost half of all the AstraZeneca shots, destined for the arms of hundreds of millions of people around the world, are being produced b...Tags: Health, Business, UK, India, Society, UK News, World news, South and Central Asia, Oxford, Astrazeneca, Pharmaceuticals industry, Vaccines and immunisation, Mayfair, Sarah Gilbert, Serum Institute, Adar Poonawalla 12 people like this. Like 'Moment of reckoning' for UK schools as 5,800 accounts of abuse publishedMarch 27, 2021 at 4:00 AM Campaign website Everyone’s Invited reveals the extent of sexual abuse and harassment in schools and universities And the stories keep coming. At the end of this week more than 5,800 anonymous testimonials cataloguing acts of sexual harassment, abuse and assault in UK schools have been posted on Everyone’s Invited – and they are still coming.But, the 22-year-old who set up the campaign in June has said that the focus on fee-paying schools risks minimising the issue, which she warns is happening ...Tags: UK, Education, Society, UK News, Schools, Private Schools, Rape and sexual assault 44 people like this. Like Forgotten how to socialise? Here's your post-lockdown primerMarch 27, 2021 at 3:00 AM Six ways to bring some pizzazz to those first socially distanced interactions as restrictions are liftedFrom Monday in England, people from two households will be permitted to meet outdoors in groups of up to six, including in private gardens. While this is exciting, it may also be a little daunting – many of us will have forgotten how to socialise normally during the long months of lockdown. Here’s a quick refresher course on the art of making conversation under current guidelines: Continue rea...Tags: England, Life and style, Society, Culture, Health & wellbeing, Walking 2 people like this. Like Those who get drunk on their own can't be considered 'mentally incapacitated' in rape cases, Minnesota Supreme Court saysMarch 27, 2021 at 1:07 AM Tags: Minnesota, Supreme Court, Law, Sexual Assault, Trends, Rape, CSC, Minnesota Supreme Court, Legislature, Keith Ellison, Khalil, Paul Thissen, Moller, MPR News, Jim Mone, Abby Honold 73 people like this. Like |
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