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A long-requested feature that arrives with iOS 14 is a new compact iPhone call interface that doesn’t take over the whole screen. Here is how it works and the different ways you can use it.
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The new compact iPhone call interface is a banner-style alert at the top of your screen that lets you easily silence calls with a swipe, answer a call and keep doing what you were doing, or expand to the full-screen UI for the dial pad/audio options/mute/etc. in the Phone app or third-party apps.
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Month: September 2020
Cuomo extends eviction, foreclosure protections to 2021–Times Union
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Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Monday announced he will extend the eviction moratorium – set to expire Oct. 1 – to next year, continuing protections for tenants as well as homeowners who have been unable to pay rent and mortgage during the public health crisis.
Cuomo said he will sign an executive order extending the eviction moratorium, known as the Tenant Safe Harbor Act, to Jan. 1. It also protects homeowners from foreclosure for nonpayment of mortgages during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Memo on Supreme Court Delay Tactics Circulates Among Senate Democrats
Ryan Grim
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A memo circulating on Capitol Hill, put together by several people with knowledge of congressional procedure and obtained by The Intercept, lays out some of the options that could be available to Schumer even in the face of a determined Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Senators looking to obstruct in the Senate have a dizzying array of opportunities, but a majority leader with 50 votes, plus a tie-breaking vice president, also has an extraordinary amount of power in the upper chamber. Elements of the memo were first published earlier Thursday by the Daily Poster.
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First-Ever Measure to End Life Tenure on the Supreme Court Via Statute, Not Amendment, to Be Introduced | Fix the Court
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Fix the Court is applauding Reps. Ro Khanna, Don Beyer and Joe Kennedy III for announcing their plan to introduce the first-ever measure to end life tenure on the Supreme Court via statute, not amendment. Their bill, Supreme Court Term Limits and Regular Appointments Act, would limit future justices to a nonrenewable 18-year term, staggered so that two would be appointed each presidential term.
The bill would also create the status of “senior justice” for current retired justices and for future justices who complete their 18-year terms at the high court. This would be similar to the senior status that exists for federal judges on lower courts and would permit them to rejoin the high court should it find itself at less than full strength due to an unexpected vacancy.
The current eight justices would be exempt from term limits section and could continue to serve as long as they want…
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Pioneering Cloud Practice Management Platform Rocket Matter Acquired By Private Equity Firm | LawSites
By Bob Ambrogi
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It will become part of a new company, ProfitSolv, that will focus on billing, payments and software for professional services firms.
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Two other companies have also been acquired and made part of the new company, TimeSolv, a provider of cloud-based software for legal billing and timekeeping, and ImagineTime, a practice management and payments company serving accounting and other professional services firms.
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In Place of Police: The Oregon Experiment | by Krithika Varagur | The New York Review of Books
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The need for trust, in place of force, has been a recurrent theme of police reforms discussed across the country over the long summer that followed George Floyd’s murder in Minneapolis on Memorial Day. The idea is that armed police officers are simply called to address too many situations, often ones in which trained mental health or social workers would be more effective and more humane. CAHOOTS has been in operation since 1989, administered by a local nonprofit, the White Bird Clinic, and publicly funded by municipal government, making it one of the oldest such organizations in the country. And the service it provides–responding to crises that would elsewhere, by default, become police matters–has lately drawn national attention.
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US Sanctions Against the International Criminal Court: Where is International Law Going? – JURIST – Commentary – Legal News & Commentary
Abbas Poorhashemi, President of the Canadian Institute for International Law Expertise (CIFILE) discusses the US sanctions against the International Criminal Court and its implications on international law….
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On September 2, 2020, US Foreign Minister Mike Pompeo announced United States sanctions of ICC officials and its prosecutor Ms. Fatou Bensouda. Based on this sanction, their possible assets in the US will be frozen, and access to the American financial system is barred. The reason for this sanction is because the ICC continues to target Americans. According to his press conference statement, any individual or entity that continues to assist these individuals materially is also subject to sanctions.
President Trump is already engaged in an unprecedented offensive against the ICC. In June 2020, he authorized economic sanctions against officials of the ICC to dissuade the jurisdiction from prosecuting the American military for their involvement in the conflict in Afghanistan.
Under US Executive Order 13928 on June 11, 2020, the US President has authorized economic sanctions against officials of the International Criminal Court. They would take part directly in investigating or indicting US military personnel without the consent of the United States.
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CDC pulls revised guidance on coronavirus from website | TheHill
BY JUSTINE COLEMAN
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Monday pulled revised guidance from its website that had said airborne transmission was thought to be the main way the coronavirus spreads, saying it was “posted in error.”
The sudden change came after the new guidance had been quietly posted on the CDC website Friday.
“CDC is currently updating its recommendations regarding airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19),” the CDC wrote. “Once this process has been completed, the update language will be posted.”
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Tanvir v. Tanzin (formerly Tanvir v. Holder and Tanvir v. Lynch) | Center for Constitutional Rights
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This case was filed on behalf American Muslim men who were placed or kept on the No-Fly List by the FBI in retaliation for their refusal to spy on their Muslim communities. The case asks the simple question, can government officials be held accountable when they coerce people to become informants and retaliate against them when they refuse? The precise legal question before the Court is whether Congress intended in the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) for individuals to be able to receive damages when government officials have interfered with their freedom to practice their religion.
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Join the Center for Constitutional Rights, CLEAR, and the law firm of Debevoise & Plimpton for Supreme Court argument in this case, Tanzin v. Tanvir. CUNY School of Law Professor Ramzi Kassem will argue.
The first argument begins at 10:00 a.m., and Tanzin v. Tanvir will follow. This will be a telephonic argument with a live audio link. October 6, 2020.
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In Lawsuit for Attorney Fees, Appeals Court Says Lawyer Who Was ‘Mere Finder’ of Plaintiff Cannot Recover | New York Law Journal
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A state appeals court has tossed out a deceased solo practitioner’s widow’s suit for attorney fees based on a client referral her late husband made in a medical malpractice case, writing that he “was merely … a finder” of the case’s plaintiff who did not contribute “work, labor or service” in the case.
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