️ Postponement: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is reportedly considering delaying the upcoming Palestinian national elections slated for next month. Blocked: Facebook announced it identified and took down two clusters of hackers with ties to the Palestinian Authority intelligence services. At the Table: Iraq is mediating talks between Iran and Saudi Arabia in an attempt to develop warmer relations between the two countries, but little progress has been made so far.
️ Big Brother: Controversial Israeli cyber firm NSO Group reportedly held talks with Jordan to sell its spying technology to the government. Hospitalized: ZAKA founder Yehuda Meshi-Zahav, who was accused earlier this year of decades of sexual abuse, attempted to take his own life this morning and is in critical condition.
From Interferon to Philanthropy: Autobiography of Immunologist and Philanthropist Jan Vilcek Published as Audiobook
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From Interferon to Philanthropy: Autobiography of Immunologist and Philanthropist Jan Vilcek Published as Audiobook
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Professor Ric Simmons joined The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law faculty in 2003. He is a graduate of Columbia Law School, where he was a Stone Scholar and a senior editor of the Columbia Law Review. Following law school, he clerked for the Honorable Laughlin E. Waters of the Central District of California and then served for four years as an assistant district attorney for New York County. He was an acting assistant professor at New York University School of Law from June 2000 through June 2003 before coming to Moritz.
Professor Simmons’ research focuses on the intersection of the Fourth Amendment and new technology. He has written about the use of big data in the criminal justice system, searches of cell phones and other electronic devices, and hyper-intrusive surveillance devices. He has also written about the privatization of the criminal justice system and the role of the prosecutor. He is a national expert on the grand jury and served on the Ohio Supreme Court’
The same way a reasonable police officer would never suffocate an unarmed man to death, a reasonable justice system would recognize its roots in white supremacy and end qualified immunity, tweeted Derrick Johnson, president of the NAACP.
Despite skepticism from both progressive Democrats and libertarian-minded Republicans, qualified immunity has remained largely intact. Several experts said they don t expect the Chauvin trial to change the political calculation or the Supreme Court s reluctance to explore the issue broadly – at least not right away.
The nation s highest court dodged the issue last year, declining to hear a number of cases dealing with the doctrine. Those decisions came after George Floyd s death and the nationwide protests and riots that it sparked. On the other hand, the court has more recently instructed the lower courts to reconsider claims of qualified immunity in a handful of cases.