Build a customized email digest by following topics, folks, and companies printed on JD Supra. Our attorneys are frequent contributors to native and national publications on a extensive range of topics. Affirms the denial of Quantae Johnson’s movement to switch his sentence after his neighborhood corrections placement and probation had been revoked. Marion County’s Second Chance Workshop, a program that helps reinstate suspended driver’s licenses and expunge legal convictions, has secured $96,000 in federal aid. In this concern, “In the Fight,” we spotlight alumni’s efforts to answer the COVID-19 pandemic, repair a damaged justice system, and confront toxic injustice.
Campaign Trail BC Law professor Steve Koh, presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg’s college roommate, is featured in an ABC Nightline feature. Support for Judge Six Boston College law professors signed a short to drop charges in opposition to a Newton District Court Judge accused of helping a person escape ICE. Bombing Appeal Bob Bloom talks to NPR about the work by Tsarnaev’s legal professionals to attraction the death penalty decision.
Playing Hardball BC Law professor Jeffrey Cohen talks to Law 360 concerning the college admissions scandal and the powerful tactics of prosecutors. Star Island Conference Professor Daniel Kanstroom will present on world migration and government responses to unlawful immigrants. Trump’s Taxes Professor Repetti appears Law News on NBC Boston to discuss the New York Times story on the large losses reported by the president. Systemic Failure Professor Francine Sherman discusses how black ladies are disproportionately punished in school techniques with USA Today.
Most lately, the state final 12 months passed a six-week abortion ban law, but it required a positive federal court ruling in an identical case to take effect, and that hasn’t happened. Republican Gov. Brad Little signed into law the measure that enables people who would have been family members to sue a health care provider who performs an abortion after cardiac exercise is detected in an embryo. In celebration of Black History month, Minnesota Law students interviewed Black college and alumni about their experiences and ideas about Black History. The Law School’s Immigration and Human Rights Clinic lately helped a Guinean girl who confronted persecution in her native country due to her religious beliefs, women’s rights advocacy, and public health work win asylum in the United States.
01/21- Assistant Dean Belinda Dantley, along together with her colleague at American University Washington School of Law released a report from a survey of diversity, fairness, and inclusion professionals at law schools throughout the nation. Several Minnesota Law college students joined school and employees from the James H. Binger Center for New Americans to offer authorized support to Afghan refugees on the Fort McCoy military base in Wisconsin late last month. The staff helped the refugees understand the complicated and often difficult U.S. immigration system, put together their asylum or particular immigrant visa functions, and get related to a nationwide network of legal professionals. Reuters reviews that “several giant U.S. law companies are as soon as again postponing office return dates as the COVID-19 Omicron variant continues to shake up their plans.” Legaltech News stories that “fierce competition for attorneys has pushed some law companies to add algorithm-based assessments into their hiring and retention protocols.” Law.com International reports that “law corporations in Australia have pushed again plans to convey extra workers again to the workplace and are requiring those who do go in to wear masks…the change in plans follows a surge in COVID-19 instances that hit Sydney and Melbourne in January.”
