Uruguay

Morning Docket: 08.06.19

* The mail bomber, Cesar Sayoc, gets sentenced to 20 years in prison for sending 16 explosive devices to journalist, high ranking officials and former elected politicians. [New York Law Journal] * Roger Stone would really like the D.C. Circuit to lift the gag imposed last month by U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson. [Law360] * In the wake of the latest round of mass shootings, the governments of Venezuela and Uruguay issue warnings for their citizens traveling in the U.S. [Huffington Post] * With the courts being the way they are, don't get too excited about the prospect of actual gun control. [Slate] * The legal ethics behind AI: An ABA proposal urges the legal profession to address the emerging use of the technology now, before it's too late. [Big Law Business] * The U.K. is lowering the standard of proof in lawyer misconduct ethics tribunals. Beginning in November, lawyers will be judged on "the balance of probabilities." [Law.com]

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Non-Sequiturs: 10.18.12

* For the first time in history, both major party presidential candidates are graduates of Harvard Law School. When reached for comment, Yale Law School said, “President, that’s one of those jobs that you don’t get for life, right?” [Harvard Law Bulletin] * Please tell me our election technology has at least caught up with 1996 by now. [Election Law Blog] * Uruguay legalizes abortion — subject to a panel review, a five-day waiting period, and getting the father’s opinion on the matter. Yay? [Salon] * Twitter censors a user! But it was a Nazi group, so nobody is going to freak out too much. [Slate] * If this freaking idiot makes it even harder for young, intelligent students to come here on student visas, then his thwarted attack will have caused real damage to American interests. [WSJ Law Blog] * Abraham Lincoln would have gotten tort reform done. [Futility Closet]

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