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Law in Popular Culture

‘Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel’ and the problem with internet sleuths

Second Amendment

Gun owners have no unfettered right to carry their weapons in public, en banc appeals court says

Women in the Law

What is holding women lawyers back?

News Roundup

Afternoon Briefs: Judge irked by ‘60 Minutes’ interview; Caesars sues insurers for pandemic losses

Criminal Justice

Federal prosecutor is removed from criminal cases after allegations of witness pressure

Election Law

Law gives Congress more authority in vote count than Constitution allows, op-ed says

Labor & Employment

Yale prof claims she was wrongly fired after tweeting about Trump, Dershowitz, shared psychosis

Legal Education

Hiring decisions based on first-year grades miss ‘exceptional students,’ according to new paper

Criminal Justice

DA says she will toss 74,800 criminal cases because of lab fiasco

The Modern Law Library

In ‘The Watergate Girl,’ Jill Wine-Banks gives an inside look at the special prosecution team that brought down Nixon

News Roundup

Afternoon Briefs: Christian baker faces trial in new bias case; city approves housing reparations

Law Schools

Law dean reveals retirement was due to ‘slaveholder’ comment; remark followed tenure controversy

First Amendment

Sidney Powell lawyers argue no reasonable person would have accepted her stolen election claims as fact

Appellate Practice

3rd Circuit calls out lawyer for ‘copy-and-paste’ appeal, orders him to pay attorney fees

U.S. Supreme Court

Conservative SCOTUS justices question abortion decisions but delay action on Mississippi’s viability cert petition

Advancing Racial Equality & Social Justice

High tech can heighten discrimination; here are some policy recommendations for its ethical use

Technology

AI certification initiatives could prove very useful to legal industry, experts say

News Roundup

Afternoon Briefs: Judge allows DNA collected from suspect via fake survey; judge resigns amid probe of texts

Prosecutors

Prosecutor’s DoorDash side gig leads to demotion

U.S. Supreme Court

Supreme Court will consider reinstating death sentence for Boston bomber

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