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Understanding Legal Protections in America
The Intricacies of Personal Injury Law: A Layman’s Guide
Selling a Car Online vs. To a Local Dealership
7 Must-Know Tips for Choosing the Right Divorce Firm
A Comprehensive Exploration of Experience in Criminal Justice
The Strategic Management of Legal Professionals
Unraveling the Depths of Legal Knowledge
Unraveling the Depths of Legal Knowledge
Unraveling the Expertise of an Injury Lawyer
The Expertise of Criminal Regulation Attorneys
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Understanding Legal Protections in America The Intricacies of Personal Injury Law: A Layman’s Guide Selling a Car Online vs. To a Local Dealership 7 Must-Know Tips for Choosing the Right Divorce Firm A Comprehensive Exploration of Experience in Criminal Justice The Strategic Management of Legal Professionals Unraveling the Depths of Legal Knowledge Unraveling the Depths of Legal Knowledge Unraveling the Expertise of an Injury Lawyer The Expertise of Criminal Regulation Attorneys
Dec
2022
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Short Take: Congressman-ish Santos | Simple Justice

I asked a neighbor of mine who had a Santos sign on his property what he thought. George Santos was elected my congressman, having beaten the Democratic nominee, Robert Zimmerman, pretty handily, replacing Tommy Suozzi as our representative. Why, I asked. He wasn’t the Democrat, was the answer my neighbor gave me. But did you know anything about Santos, who he was, what he stood for? “Nah. Who cared? He wasn’t the Democrat.”

As it turned out, George Santos wasn’t a lot of things.

Long Island Rep.-elect George Santos came clean to The Post on Monday, admitting that he lied on the campaign trail about his education and work experience — but insisting that the controversy won’t deter him from serving out his two-year term in Congress.

“I am not a criminal,” Santos said at one point during his exclusive interview. “This [controversy] will not deter me from having

Dec
2022
27

A Tangled Webb | Simple Justice

With a tip from Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, a cosmologist at the University of New Hampshire who described herself as “Jewish. queer/agender/woman/she” with an overactive twitter account seeking out and attacking people for their failure to live up to her woke demands, an article in Science accused James Webb of being unworthy of having a telescope named after him.

But as the telescope neared completion, criticism flared. In 2015, Matthew Francis, a science journalist, wrote an article for Forbes titled “The Problem With Naming Observatories for Bigots.” He wrote that Mr. Webb led the anti-gay purge at the State Department and that he had testified of his contempt for gay people. He credited Dr. Prescod-Weinstein with tipping him off, and she in turn tweeted his article and attacked Mr. Webb as a “homophobe.”

As it turned out, Webb wasn’t the person who did this and Prescod-Weinstein was simply factually wrong.

Dec
2022
26

Celebrating A Beloved Christmas Song

Esau McCaulley writes of hearing the “Christmas spiritual ‘Sweet Little Jesus Boy‘” when he was a young boy in his grandmother’s kitchen. Great. And it would be totally fine if he just really liked it, or even kinda liked it, or even just remembered it. But that’s not lofty enough to set us up for where he’s taking us.

“Sweet Little Jesus Boy” was, in my childhood imagination, a connection to the faith of my ancestors, a song composed in the hush harbors where enslaved people gathered clandestinely to celebrate the birth of our savior. The song fought for supremacy in Black church Christmas services alongside hymns like “Go Tell It on the Mountain” and “Mary Had a Baby.”

See what happened there? It went from a song to a cause. It went from a Christmas spiritual to the embodiment of black oppression

Dec
2022
24

No Entry For Enemies of Jimmy

There is a general assumption that if a venue is open to the public, then you can buy your ticket and enter. The basis of this assumption is that it’s pretty much the way the world has always functioned, not to mention that it would be pretty bonkers otherwise. After all, if you’re in business to sell tickets to your venue, why would you not want people to buy them, watch whatever display you’re putting on and enjoy it, just as you enjoy the sweet, sweet money they’re paying for entry?

But then, Jimmy Dolan, enjoying the wealth his father Chuck amassed, can afford to be a bit more circumspect, controlling, petty some might say. And when Kelly Conlon chaperoned her daughter’s girl scout troop from Jersey to the Christmas show at Radio City, high-kicking for Santa, she learned the price of being a lawyer at a firm that was

Dec
2022
23

Evidence, Lost | Simple Justice

When fire broke out in the police evidence warehouse in Red Hook, Brooklyn, my initial reaction was that a lot of defendants were going to walk when the prosecution was unable to introduce evidence at trial. But the Legal Aid Society has raised a very different question about lost evidence.

A week after a three-alarm fire destroyed a Red Hook New York City Police Department warehouse that contained decades’ worth of evidence, the Legal Aid Society said the blaze will have “far-reaching consequences” for ongoing court cases and called for the city to conduct a thorough investigation of what was lost in the fire and contact defendants whose cases have been impacted.

“We recognize that this is an evolving situation, and we expect there will be an investigation in the coming weeks about precisely what evidence was lost and what cases the fire impacted,” wrote David Loftis, head of

Dec
2022
22

Why Is Branding Important For A Business? Because your Trademark is Everything

Every business needs to establish (and assert) itself as a brand. Whether this means trademarking a logo, patenting a product, or creating marketing material that speaks to a target audience, it’s an essential step in creating a successful entity.

In today’s commerce-driven world, branding ‌is what sets businesses apart from their competitors. We’re going to explore why branding is so important, and how it affects the success of a business.

WHY EVERY BUSINESS IS ALREADY A BRAND

You may not think of your business as inherently being a brand, but the rest of the world does. Indeed, what the rest of the world see is your trademark.

The way that consumers, customers, and clients perceive your business has a huge influence over whether they trust you, how they relate to you, and whether or not they want to invest their precious time and energy

Dec
2022
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El Paso’s Problem | Simple Justice

It’s hard to blame El Paso Democratic mayor Oscar Leeser, who has done his best to be compassionate to those crossing the border without prior authorization. But he knows he’s got a problem.

Dec
2022
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TRADEMARK OPPOSITIONS: STRATEGIES TO WIN

Are You Thinking of Filing a Trademark Opposition? These Strategies Can Help

The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) is a unique, federal administrative body which provides trademark applicants with a highly-focused avenue to pursue adversarial moves against trademark infringers (among other activities). If you are preparing to file a trademark opposition (or trademark cancelation for that matter), it is important to remember that the TTAB is an administrative court, and you are embarking on a formal legal process, much akin to a traditional litigation in a traditional court room. TTAB actions will require time, money, and a great deal of attention and one should strive to have a broad sense of what has helped litigants succeed or fail in past cases. The purpose of this Memorandum is to provide trademark litigants with insights into successful (and not so successful) strategies for TTAB

Dec
2022
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The Felon On The Jury

For years, people have asked how they can get out of jury duty. My response has always been the same, that we need good jurors or the system doesn’t work. People tend to agree, but they still want to get out of jury duty. Let some other guy be the good person.

But now a Legal Aid Society lawyer with a felony conviction has decided he not only wants to be on a jury, but that his exclusion from jury service for having a prior felony conviction is racist and unconstitutional.

This civil-rights action challenges the mass disenfranchisement of Black people—
especially Black men—from the state court jury pool in Manhattan. A New York statute—Section 510(3) of the Judiciary Law—disqualifies people convicted of felonies from serving on juries, no matter the offenses or how long ago the convictions occurred. As a result of decades of racially biased policing and

Dec
2022
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Short Take: Nuts Or Broke?

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Rarely is that more true than here.


This was the “major announcement” of a putative candidate for president, that he was selling NFTs of his thin and manly fantasy self. Was this his way of demonstrating his self-loathing or just another grift to see how stupid his followers were, whether they would spend good money to buy the Trump version of the Barbie Dream House?

When Donald Trump teased a “major announcement” Wednesday, the MAGA boards went crazy with speculation. He’s going to be the next speaker of the House! He’s enlisted Ron DeSantis to be his vice presidential candidate! He’s finally found that voter fraud he’s been promising for two years!

But no, it was a digital card collection of Trump dressed up like a superhero. In other words, another money grab.

Another? Indeed.

He raised nearly $100