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Amy Fettig to Lead The Sentencing Project

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The Sentencing Project concluded its months long search for a new executive director and has tapped human rights lawyer and a leading criminal justice expert Amy Fettig, the organization announced.

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Pandemic Forces SCOTUS to Take up Unprecedented Oral Arguments Protocol

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There are few institutions, if any, that have escaped the wrath of the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s impacts, in some ways, has quite literally made history—New York’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade, in some form or another has been held continuously for almost 260 years and the Boston Marathon, for the first time in its 124-year history, has been postponed. All of that changed when the COVID-19 coronavirus ravaged every corner of the U.S. and much of the globe.

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Low-income Earners in Need of Legal Services, Courts to Benefit from CARES Act

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The recently passed Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act (PDF) is a thick text featuring measures dealing with nearly every sector of the economy. Baked into the bill are a number of provisions directly impacting law firms, the courts and those navigating the judicial system. Even with the injection, though, concerns about potential shortfalls still loom.

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Will State Travel Bans Hold up to Constitutional Scrutiny?

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With the aim of stunting the spread of COVID-19, a number of states have taken measures to limit travel in and out of their territories, raising questions about how effective those policies are, and, in some cases, their legality.

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Government Makes Drastic Changes to Legal Processes Amid Pandemic

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With personal interactions being kept to a minimum, governments, courts and agencies across the country have taken extreme measures to protect the public interest and ensure a smooth transition back to functional society on the other side of the COVID-19 health crisis.

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ABA Offers Guidance as Law Schools Shutter Classrooms Over Pandemic

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With seemingly no quadrant of civilization unaffected by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, aspiring lawyers have also been forced to deal with the ramifications of its proliferation. As such, many students are facing disruptions to their legal education as schools are taking precautionary measures to limit campus interaction.

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Sotomayor Punts on 'Faithless Electors' Case Due to Potential Conflict

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Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has removed herself from a case involving Electoral College law due to her relationship with Polly Baca, one of its challengers. So reports NBC News.

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Number of Inmates Serving Life Sentences Exceeds All Prisoners in 1970: Report

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A new report from The Sentencing Project claims there are more individuals in prison serving a life sentence right now than the entire prison population, nationwide, in 1970.

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Google’s Top Lawyer to Headline TECHSHOW 2020

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Virtual Law, artificial intelligence and Mary Shen O’Carroll, Google’s director of legal operations, technology and strategy, are among some of the highlights of an upcoming four-day-long legal technology exhibition.

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Questions Swirl About Iranian Student Sent Packing at Logan Airport

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The controversy surrounding deported Iranian student Shahab Dehghani has again put federal law enforcement’s treatment of non-citizens in the spotlight.

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