The United States and the European Union evaluate the aviation safety standards of countries and their airlines. Here’s where to find that information before you book.
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Top 6 Things Clients & Attys Planning for Retirement Must Do
Retirement Planning 101: The Top Six Things Both Clients and Attorneys Planning for Retirement Must Understand and Do
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Cops aren’t entitled to kill dogs during search just because they are unlicensed, 6th Circuit says–ABA Journal
Police officers who fatally shot a couple’s dogs during a home search weren’t entitled to kill the animals just because they were unlicensed, a federal appeals court ruled Monday.
In a 2-1 decision, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Cincinnati ruled that the couple who owned the dogs could proceed with their Fourth Amendment suit against two of six officers.
The two officers had shot two of the couple’s dogs during their search of the home for marijuana.
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One of the two officers had testified he had previously shot 39 dogs. As of July 2016, he had shot at least 69 animals, the lower court opinion said.
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Online Survey| Albany Law School’s Rural Law Initiative
Albany Law School’s Rural Law Initiative has asked for the assistance of the Association of Towns with marketing a survey as they attempt to develop a realistic portrait of rural legal practice in New York.
Link to the survey: https://albany.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9HxZiGThwd3XuoR
Thank you for considering our request for your participation.
Christopher Anderson
Director of Research and Programming
Association of Towns of the State of New York
150 State Street, Albany, New York 12207-1671
Phone (518) 465-7933
https://twitter.com/AoTAnderson
Read more about the survey below:
The Rural Law Initiative at Albany Law School’s Government Law Center, in partnership with UAlbany’s Center for Human Services Research, is surveying the 5,258 attorneys registered in 42 rural counties.
This project will provide a data-driven, realistic portrait of the state of rural legal practice in New York. The empirical data that will come from this research will have multiple uses for diverse stakeholders, including governments invested in their rural communities, as well as rural lawyers, legal services organizations, and community-based organizations.
If you are a practitioner in rural New York, please fill out this survey now, and share it with your local bar association and others within your legal network. The more of us who fill it out, the better the data.
Deadline: October 19, 2018. The survey closes in two weeks and this is the final push for submissions. Please make your voice count and help us understand the realities of rural practice.
If you have any questions about this survey please be in touch with Taier Perlman, Staff Attorney at the Rural Law Initiative at (518) 445-3263 or tperl@albanylaw.edu
A suspect is forced by the FBI to unlock an iPhone using facial recognition–ABA Journal
BY JASON TASHEA
An Apple iPhone X user, suspected of possessing child pornography, was forced by the FBI use facial recognition to unlock their phone.
Forbes, Endgadget and CNET all have coverage.
Forbes reports this is the first known case where law enforcement in any country has compelled someone to unlock their phone using Apple Face ID.
On Aug. 10, the FBI searched the Columbus, Ohio, home of Grant Michalski. Using his face, Michalski unlocked his phone at the FBI’s request, at which point the agent was able to go through chats, photos and any other accessible material.
New York Issues Final Model Sexual Harassment Policy and Training Guidelines – Bond, Schoeneck & King PLLC
By: Subhash Viswanathan
On October 1, the New York State Division of Human Rights issued its final model sexual harassment policy and training guidelines to assist employers in complying with the new sexual harassment legislation that will become effective October 9, 2018. One piece of good news for employers is that the Division’s final training guidelines no longer require that employers train all employees by January 1, 2019, as the Division initially proposed. Instead, according to the FAQs, employers will have until October 9, 2019 — a full 12 months from the effective date of the legislation — to complete the training for all employees
DiNapoli: Calls to Investigate Violations of Do Not Call Law Going Unanswered
ATL Clio Solo and Small Firm Compensation Report 2018
Reliable, detailed compensation information for solo practitioners and small-firm attorneys is scarce. Above the Law in partnership with Clio created Solo and Small Law Firm Compensation Report for the benefit of law students looking to join a small firm as well as practicing attorneys looking to benchmark their own compensation.
Users fret over Chrome auto-login change – Naked Security
by Danny Bradbury
Users were complaining this week after discovering they’d been logged in to Google’s Chrome browser automatically, after logging into a Google website.
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Recently… Matthew Green, assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University and a cryptography expert, discovered that an update to Chrome has been signing users into their Chrome browsers whenever they logged in to a Google website. He blogged about it in full here.
Facebook Warns Memphis Police: No More Fake “Bob Smith” Accounts | Electronic Frontier Foundation
BY DAVE MAASS
Facebook has a problem: an infestation of undercover cops. Despite the social platform’s explicit rules that the use of fake profiles by anyone–police included–is a violation of terms of service, the issue proliferates. While the scope is difficult to measure, EFF has identified scores of agencies who maintain policies that explicitly flaunt these rules.
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