With bar exams learning that at least one examinee has since tested positive for COVID, the fig leaf protections examiners implemented from spot temperature checks to signed statements have been exposed. People can have this virus without realizing it for days and that’s exactly how it ported itself into the test site. With these dangerous exercises … Continue reading More High-Profile Support For Diploma Privilege Continue Reading
As reported by ATL and many other news outlets, law schools are increasingly moving to online classes for the fall 2020 semester. Yet, most of these schools are not offering any kind of meaningful tuition reduction for the students who are getting an online experience rather than the in-person experience they originally signed up for. You can’t … Continue reading As Law Students Sue Schools Over Exorbitant Tuition For Online Classes, Consolidation Might Be Coming Continue Reading
Buildots, a Tel Aviv and London-based startup that is using computer vision to modernize the construction management industry, today announced that it has raised $16 million in total funding. This includes a $3 million seed round that was previously unreported and a $13 million Series A round, both led by TLV Partners. Other investors include Innogy Ventures, Tidhar Construction … Continue reading Buildots raises $16M to bring computer vision to construction management Continue Reading
Reid Wilson for The Hill: A little more than three months before November’s election, partisans who back both President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden are growing anxious over what they see as the mounting potential for a chaotic contest marred by disenfranchised voters, administration errors and mountains of litigation. The new anxiety comes on top of the typical … Continue reading “100 days out, parties fear chaotic election” Continue Reading
Japanese new space startup ispace has revealed the final design of its HAKUTO-R lunar lander, a spacecraft set to make its first touchdown on the moon in 2022 if all goes to the updated plan (it had been set to fly in October 2021 until today). Ispace is part of a team led by Draper selected by … Continue reading Ispace reveals the final design of its lunar lander ahead of its first mission to the moon in 2022 Continue Reading
Ohio SOS Frank LaRose in Columbus Dispatch: While absentee voting is trusted by millions of Ohioans as a safe and secure way to vote, and our state ranks among the top in the nation for this voter-first convenience, our system requires some improvements. I have long advocated for online requests and postage-paid envelopes, but the legislature … Continue reading “Column: Time is running out for a crucial Ohio election law fix” Continue Reading
Here is the order. The judges left the Florida court before it issued the opinion, and the judges claim that the cases are not related enough to merit recusal. Mark Joseph Stern made the case earlier that this is wrong: The Florida Supreme Court held oral arguments on the matter, in which Lagoa and Luck energetically participated. Lagoa was particularly … Continue reading Two Trump-Appointed 11th Circuit Judges Who Sat on Florida Supreme Court When It Heard Oral Argument Over Meaning of Florida Disenfranchisement Amendment Won’t Recuse in Disenfranchisement Case Current Before the 11th Circuit Continue Reading
The Georgetown Law Journal Online has published the final version of my article, The Supreme Court’s Pro-Partisanship Turn. Here is the abstract: The United States Supreme Court’s conservative majority has taken the Court’s election jurisprudence on a pro-partisanship turn, which gives political actors freer range to pass laws and enact policies that can help entrench politicians (particularly Republicans) in power … Continue reading “The Supreme Court’s Pro-Partisanship Turn” Continue Reading
Photo by Robyn Beck / AFP via Getty Images The Consumer Electronics Show (CES), long the world’s largest tech trade show, will be all-digital in January 2021, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) announced on Monday. The CTA cited the COVID-19 pandemic and concerns about the spread of the virus as its reasoning for canceling the in-person event … Continue reading CES, the world’s largest tech conference, will be online-only in 2021 Continue Reading
In the monitoring world, typically when you spin up a new instance, you pay a fee to monitor it. If you are particularly active in any given month, that can result in a hefty bill at the end of the month. That leads to limiting what you choose to monitor to control costs. New Relic wants to … Continue reading New Relic is changing its pricing model to encourage broader monitoring Continue Reading