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Thursday, March 28, 2024

CORPORATE COUNSEL

Old Models, New Practices
Splunk GC Scott Morgan says the Wild West mentality of the technology sector presents a challenge to thoughtful attorneys to provide calibrated advice.

Small Businesses

What started as an unwanted Christmas gift led to an untapped passion for Dre Brown, but the Scottsdale barber couldn’t see past the gift-wrapped box on that December morning.

judges

California’s new Democratic senator, Laphonza Butler, will take over for the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein on the Senate Judiciary Committee, making it possible for confirmations of President Joe Biden’s judicial nominees to move forward.
News
$1.2 trillion budget bill, racing against shutdown, funds more border security
Lawmakers have approved a $1.2 trillion package of budget bills that includes funding for 42,000 new beds in migrant detention facilities and for the hiring of an additional 22,000 Border Patrol agents.
Bonta: Apple has ‘created a moat around its kingdom’
A mammoth antitrust suit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice and a bipartisan coalition of 15 states accusing Apple Inc. of monopolistic conduct is expected to take three years or more to resolve, according to California Attorney General Rob Bonta.
Tesla worker accuses Civil Rights Department of ‘smear campaign’
A Tesla employee has sued to force the California Civil Rights Department to hand over documentation she says could show the agency’s 2022 lawsuit against the company was motivated by its “apparent desire to harm and defame” the company.
The ‘Poverty Penalty’: No Cash, No Freedom
A fundamental tenet of Anglo-American jurisprudence, dating back to the Magna Carta, is that all those accused of a crime are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
Mobile maternity care clinics work to expand prenatal care accessibility
Minority communities without access to adequate prenatal care often suffer high maternal and infant morbidity and mortality rates. In Arizona, approximately 1 in 6 infants in 2022 was born to a woman who didn’t get adequate prenatal care.
Cybersecurity threats caused by insiders are costing companies millions
“We’ve traced the calls...they’re coming from inside the house!” is the terrifying reveal from police to a babysitter being tormented by a killer’s repeated calls in the 1979 horror movie “When a Stranger Calls.”
The decision may have been unanimous, but many issues went unaddressed
The U.S. Supreme Court has reversed the Colorado Supreme Court ruling that Donald Trump may appear on the Colorado 2024 presidential primary ballot. The decision was unanimous, but four Justices – Amy Coney Barrett, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson filed significant concurring opinions.

GUEST COLUMNS

A holiday present for all of us… no more Confederate names of military bases
On Oct. 7, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin ordered implementation of the findings of the Naming Commission, established by Congress last year. Austin’s order will be held up by a 90-day waiting period, and the renaming process should be in place by 2024 at the latest.
Voting rights litigation may become a contradiction in terms
The scope and strength of the Voting Rights Act, 52 U.S.C. § 10101, et seq., is again at issue this Supreme Court term.
Courtroom displays of bias assault the Justice System
Once a wealthy, manicured business scion, the defendant sits slumped and disheveled on her wheelchair.
Guest Column
Privately enforceable rights under spending clause on Supreme Court docket

On November 8, when it hears oral argument for Health and Hospital Corporation of Marion County, et al., v. Talevski, 6 F.4th 713 (7th Cir. 2021), review granted (May 2, 2022), the U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether: (1) it should reexamine its holding that the spending clause may allow for privately enforceable rights under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (“Section 1983”); and (2) assuming it does, whether the Federal Nursing Home Amendments Act of 1987 (FNHRA) provisions on transfer of residents and medication warrant such private enforcement.
Guest Column
Platform immunity in the crosshairs

“Section 230 should be revoked, immediately should be revoked, number one. For Zuckerberg and other platforms.” Transcript of Dec. 16, 2019, editorial board interview of presidential candidate Joe Biden, The New York Times, Jan. 17, 2020.