Judiciary.org - Part 11

Supreme Court

The morning read for Friday, August 30

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Friday morning read:

Native voters can swing elections, but court ruling suppresses turnout, leaders say (Arlyssa D. Becenti, Arizona Republic)
Prisoner With Parkinson’s Is Executed After Supreme Court Paves the Way (Abbie VanSickle, The New York Times)
How the Trump election subversion indictment changed after Supreme Court ruling (Peter Charalambous, Alexander Mallin, & Katherine Faulders, ABC News)

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Circuit Courts

New Supreme Court Fellows Begin Term

Four new U.S. Supreme Court Fellows are set to begin their 2024-2025 fellowships in September.
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Civil Law

“‘Everything is technology’: examining technology access and use among returning citizens”

The title of this post is the title of this new paper available via SSRN authored by Kaelyn Sanders. Here is its abstract:

Digital exclusion is a barrier for people on parole, herein referred to as returning citizens. Yet, much remains unknown about the specific issues they encounter. As the world continues to advance technologically, it is important that we understand returning citizens’ access to and use of technology and how it impacts their ability to reintegrate into society. Framed

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Supreme Court

The morning read for Thursday, August 29

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Thursday morning read:

Supreme Court, for Now, Keeps Block on Revamped Biden Student Debt Plan (Adam Liptak & Abbie VanSickle, The New York Times)
Justice Sotomayor’s side hustle during a hectic term? A kids’ musical. (Justin Jouvenal, The Washington Post)
Judge Releases Jan. 6 Protester Citing Supreme Court Ruling (Aila Slisco, Newsweek)
The president’s crimes (Jonathan Sumption,

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Civil Law

Wisconsin Federal Court Rejects Two-Step “Conditional Certification” FLSA Process

By Gerald L. Maatman, Jr., Jennifer A. Riley, and Derek S. Franklin Duane Morris Takeaways: On August 21, 2024, Judge William C. Griesbach of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin joined in the fray over whether the long-used two-step process for issuing notice of a Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) collective …

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Supreme Court

Special Counsel Jack Smith revises indictment against Trump

Just under two months after a divided Supreme Court ruled that former presidents have broad immunity from prosecution for their conduct in office, Special Counsel Jack Smith charged former President Donald Trump in a revised indictment alleging that Trump conspired to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

The court’s July 1 ruling, written by Chief Justice John Roberts, held that former presidents can never be prosecuted for actions related to the core powers of their office. Moreover, the … Read the rest

Supreme Court

Justices allow Arizona to enforce proof-of-citizenship law for 2024 voter registration

A divided Supreme Court on Thursday afternoon granted a request from the Republican National Committee and the Republican leaders of Arizona’s legislature to reinstate a state law that requires residents to provide proof of citizenship to register to vote using a form provided by the state. The court turned down a request, however, to reinstate the portion of the same law that would bar voters who register using a standard federal form from voting for president or by mail … Read the rest

Civil Law

Cross-Examination Checklist

A checklist can be a survival guide. Checklists are critical to pretrial and trial work. To illustrate the importance of checklists, Dr. Atul Gawande tells the true story of an October 30, 1935 airplane flight competition that the U.S. Army Air Corps held at Wright Air Field in Dayton Ohio to determine which military-long range bomber to purchase. Boeing’s “flying fortress” was the likely winner. But, after the plane reached three hundred feet, it stalled, turned on its one wing

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