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We are talking with different people to better understand ourselves and others. Sharing tools and tips on how to live our lives with more purpose and peace.
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Raw oral argument audio from the US Supreme Court.
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13: Why kindness leads to change with Carey Davis Munro
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There is a new science around kindness and compassion, and how transformative it is for mental health. In this podcast, Carey Davis Munro discusses the benefits of being kind and how this research around the ‘helpers high’ demonstrates the positive benefits for the self in being kind and helpful to others. Carey discusses random acts of kindness an…
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10: The power of habits to increase health and happiness when everything feels uncertain with Dr Heather McKee
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If we want to eat more healthily, start an exercise routine that you commit to, or any other positive ‘lifestyle change, your focus should be on ‘habits’ rather than motivation or willpower. Dr Heather McKee, global behaviour change expert unpacks how building a habit is the most important thing we can do when it comes to changing our behaviour. Sh…
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9: Overcomplicating food is bad for our mental health…how to keep it simple and enjoyable with Dr Lisa Gatenby
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Dr Lisa Gatenby registered nutritionist offers a real-world view on the chaos and confusion which surrounds what and how we eat. This podcast is full of scientifically backed advice and support to take the stress and guilt out of our relationship with food. Lisa discusses the way in which we over complicate food with an excessive amount of food inf…
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8: How to make friends with exercise and alter your perspective for good with Dr Paula Watson
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Paula is an experienced BPS Chartered Psychologist with 18 years’ experience of developing and delivering health behaviour change interventions. Paula’s vast experience of working with different people to build exercise as a long lasting habit has created a wealth of effective tricks, tools and techniques which she discusses in this podcast. So man…
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7: Why buying things makes us sad….materialism and mental health with Dr Louise Lambert
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Dr Louise Lambert, employee wellbeing specialist and positive psychologist explores the issue of materialism, the high valuation of material goods. Louise unpicks the way in which our focus on buying thing negatively impacts our mental health. Louise describes the consistent inverse relationship between materialism and wellbeing; such that as mater…
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6: How to Manage Fear with Carey Munro
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Listen to Carey as she explains how fear and anxiety, common emotions that overwhelm so many of us are detrimental to our health. Carey describes how these powerful emotions extract energy from us and alter our daily experiences, mood and reactions. This podcast helps us to understand how we can begin to cognitively understand, detect and manage fe…
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5: How we can imagine ourselves into a better place. Visualisation and mental health with Maya Raichoora
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Maya Raichoora, expert in mental fitness and TEDx speaker describes the power of visualisation to reverse a medical condition in her own life. Maya discusses how the power of imagination led to an empowered journey to take charge of her own health. Maya illustrates the way our own thoughts and beliefs limit us and describes how we can begin to use …
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4: How culture, art and history can help us think differently with Dr Louise Lambert
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In this interesting conversation Dr Louise Lambert, employee wellbeing specialist and positive psychologist describes how art and history can support positive mental health. Louise discusses how art evokes emotion. This is the role of art. Within this there is room for contemplation and reflection. We can examine what we feel and why. Art and cultu…
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3: For every back problem..... there is a back story. How our bodies and minds are interlinked with Rachel Wilkinson
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A chiropractor for over 20 years, Rachel Wilkinson has an intuitive understanding of the way the body reflects so much of our mental health and trauma. In this podcast she describes how so many problems relating to our back and body have a root in mental health. Rachel illustrates with real -life example clients who present with pain and dysfunctio…
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2: You are not 'broken'.....why anxiety is doing exactly what it should and how to embrace it for change, with Jonny Ward
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Why your anxiety is serving a purpose and how you can reframe it". Content descriptor: Jonny Ward aka 'The Anxious Firefighter' brings a fresh perspective on anxiety. A station manager in the Fire and Rescue Service in the North of England he describes his own raw and traumatic journey with anxiety across his career. He explains how he learnt to ma…
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We are talking with different people to better understand ourselves and others. Sharing tools and tips on how to live our lives with more purpose and peace. Join us from wherever you may be and indulge in the conversations we have to offer.Oleh On Wellbeing
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Did the Colorado Supreme Court err in ordering President Trump excluded from the 2024 presidential primary ballot?
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Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 makes it unlawful for an employer "to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual, or otherwise to discriminate against any individual" with respect to "compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment" on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-2…
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The Sixteenth Amendment authorizes Congress to lay "taxes on incomes ... without apportionment among the several States." Beginning with Eisner v. Macomber, 252 U.S. 189 (1920), this Court's decisions have uniformly held "income," for Sixteenth Amendment purposes, to require realization by the taxpayer. In the decision below, however, the Ninth Cir…
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Harrington v. Purdue Pharma L.P.
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Whether the Bankruptcy Code authorizes a court to approve, as part of a plan of reorganization under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code, a release that extinguishes claims held by nondebtors against nondebtor third parties, without the claimants’ consent.
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1. Whether statutory provisions that empower the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to initiate and adjudicate administrative enforcement proceedings seeking civil penalties violate the Seventh Amendment.2. Whether statutory provisions that authorize the SEC to choose to enforce the securities laws through an agency adjudication instead of fi…
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Wilkinson v. Garland, Att'y Gen.
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Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, the Attorney General has discretion to cancel removal of non-permanent residents who satisfy four eligibility criteria, including "that removal would result in exceptional and extremely unusual hardship" to the applicant's immediate family member who is a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident. 8 U.S.C.…
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The Georgia Supreme Court held that a jury's verdict of acquittal on one criminal charge and its verdict of guilty on a different criminal charge arising from the same facts were logically and legally impossible to reconcile. It called the verdicts "repugnant," vacated both of them, and subsequently held that the defendant could be prosecuted a sec…
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Brown v. United States &
Jackson, v. United States, Consolidated
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The Armed Career Criminal Act provides that felons who possess a firearm are normally subject to a maximum 10-year sentence. But if the felon already has at least three "serious drug offense" convictions, then the minimum sentence is fifteen years.Courts decide whether a prior state conviction counts as a serious drug offense using the categorical …
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Rudisill v. McDonough, Sec. of VA
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Whether a veteran who has served two separate and distinct periods of qualifying service under the Montgomery GI Bill, 38 U.S.C. § 3001 et seq., and under the Post- 9/11 GI Bill, 38 U.S.C. § 3301 et seq., is entitled to receive a total of 48 months of education benefits as between both programs, without first exhausting the Montgomery benefit in or…
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Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(8), which prohibits the possession of firearms by persons subject to domestic-violence restraining orders, violates the Second Amendment on its face.
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Dept. of Agric. Rural Dev. v. Kirtz
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Whether the civil-liability provisions of the Fair Credit Reporting Act, 15 U.S.C. 1681 et seq., unequivocally and unambiguously waive the sovereign immunity of the United States.
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Vidal, Under Sec. Of Comm. v. Elster
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Section 1052(c) of Title 15 provides in pertinent part that a trademark shall be refused registration if it "[c]onsists of or comprises a name * * * identifying a particular living individual except by his written consent." 15 U.S.C. 1052(c). The question presented is as follows:Whether the refusal to register a mark under Section 1052(c) violates …
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Courts have increasingly been called upon to determine whether a public official who selectively blocks access to his or her social media account has engaged in state action subject to constitutional scrutiny. To answer that question, most circuits consider a broad range of factors, including the account's appearance and purpose. But in the decisio…
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Whether a public official engages in state action subject to the First Amendment by blocking an individual from the official's personal social-media account, when the official uses the account to feature their job and communicate about job-related matters with the public, but does not do so pursuant to any governmental authority or duty.…
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In determining whether the Due Process Clause requires a state or local government to provide a post seizure probable cause hearing prior to a statutory judicial forfeiture proceeding and, if so, when such a hearing must take place, should district courts apply the "speedy trial" test employed in United States v. $8,850, 461 U.S. 555 (1983) and Bar…
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Great Lakes Insurance SE v. Raiders Retreat Realty Co., LLC
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The questions presented are:1. Under federal admiralty law, what is the standard for judging the enforcement of a choice of law clause in a maritime contract?2. Under federal admiralty law, can a choice of law clause in a maritime contract be rendered unenforceable if enforcement is contrary to the "strong public policy" of the state whose law is d…
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Alexander v. SC Conference of NAACP
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The three-judge district court never mentioned the presumption of the South Carolina General Assembly's good faith, analyzed Congressional District 1 as a whole, or examined the intent of the General Assembly as a whole. It also disregarded the publicly available election data used to draw District 1 and legislator testimony demonstrating that poli…
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Murray v. UBS Securities, LLC
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The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 protects whistleblowers who report financial wrongdoing at publicly traded companies. 18 U.S.C. § 1514A. When a whistleblower invokes the Act and claims he was fired because of his report, his claim is "governed by the legal burdens of proof set forth in section 42121(b) of title 49, United States Code." 18 U.S.C. § 1…
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Acheson Hotels, LLC v. Laufer
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Does a self-appointed Americans with Disabilities Act "tester" have Article III standing to challenge a place of public accommodation's failure to provide disability accessibility information on its website, even if she lacks any intention of visiting that place of public accommodation?
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CFPB v. Com. Fin. Services Assn
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Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that the statute providing funding to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), 12 U.S.C. 5497, violates the Appropriations Clause, U.S. Const. Art. I,§ 9, Cl. 7, and in vacating a regulation promulgated at a time when the CFPB was receiving such funding.…
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The "safety valve" provision of the federal sentencing statute requires a district court to ignore any statutory mandatory minimum and instead follow the Sentencing Guidelines if a defendant was convicted of certain nonviolent drug crimes and can meet five sets of criteria. See 18 U.S.C. § 3553(f)(1)-(5). Congress amended the first set of criteria,…
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Hennepin County confiscated 93-year-old Geraldine Tyler's former home as payment for approximately $15,000 in property taxes, penalties, interest, and costs. The County sold the home for $40,000, and, consistent with a Minnesota forfeiture statute, kept all proceeds, including the $25,000 that exceeded Tyler's debt as a windfall for the public. In …
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Yegiazaryan v. Smagin & CMB Monaco v. Smagin, consolidated
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In RJR Nabisco, this Court, applying the presumption against extraterritoriality, held that a civil RICO plaintiff states a cognizable claim under RICO's private right of action only if it alleges a "domestic"-not foreign-injury. 579 U.S. 325, 354 (2016). The Court left unresolved, however, what legal test determines whether an injury is foreign or…
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Whether the Bankruptcy Code expresses unequivocally Congress's intent to abrogate the sovereign immunity of Indian tribes.
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This case presents a clear, recognized, and intractable conflict regarding an important issue related to the preservation of legal claims for appeal.Parties may appeal only from "final decisions of the district courts." 28 U.S.C. § 1291. Thus the general rule is that "[a]n appeal from the final judgment brings up all antecedent issues," In re Kilgu…
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Whether, to establish that a statement is a "true threat" unprotected by the First Amendment, the government must show that the speaker subjectively knew or intended the threatening nature of the statement, or whether it is enough to show that an objective "reasonable person" would regard the statement as a threat of violence.…
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U.S., ex rel. Schutte v. SuperValu Inc. (21-1326) & U.S., ex rel. Proctor v. Safeway, Inc. (22-111)
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The False Claims Act protects government programs from fraud by, inter alia, imposing civil liability on anybody who knowingly presents false claims for payment to the government or makes false statements that are material to such claims. 31 U.S.C. § 3729(a). The statute defines "knowingly" to include acting with: (1) actual knowledge; (2) delibera…
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Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 generally prohibits an employer from discriminating against an individual "because of such individual's * * * religion." 42U.S.C. §§ 2000e-2(a)(l), (2). The statute defines "religion" to include "all aspects of religious observance and practice, as well as belief, unless an employer demonstrates that he is …
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Slack Technologies, LLC v. Pirani (22-200)
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Section 11 of the Securities Act of 1933 permits suits alleging misrepresentations in a registration statement only if the plaintiffs "acquir[ed] such security." 15 U.S.C. § 77k(a). Section 12(a)(2) of the Act provides that someone who "offers or sells a security ... by means of a prospectus" may be liable for misstatements in that prospectus "to t…
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Pugin v. Garland (22-23)
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Under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), a noncitizen who is convicted of an "aggravated felony" is subject to mandatory removal and faces enhanced criminal liability in certain circumstances. One aggravated felony is "an offense relating to obstruction of justice." 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(43)(S). The questions presented are:1. Whether a state o…
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The Internal Revenue Code generally requires the IRS, when it serves a summons on a third-party recordkeeper for records pertaining to a person "identified in the summons," to give that identified person notice of the summons. I.R.C. § 7609(a)(l). If the IRS issues a summons directing a bank to produce an accountholder's records, for example, it mu…
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Whether admitting a codefendant's redacted out-of-court confession that immediately inculpates a defendant based on the surrounding context violates the defendant's rights under the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment. https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/22-196.html…
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District courts have discretion to impose either consecutive or concurrent sentences unless a statute mandates otherwise. 18 U.S.C. § 3584(a). Section 924(c)(l)(D)(ii) of Title 18 includes such a mandate, but only for sentences imposed "under this subsection." Efrain Lora was convicted and sentenced under a different subsection, Section 924(j), whi…
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Whether the proper remedy for the government's failure to prove venue is an acquittal barring re-prosecution of the offense, as the Fifth and Eighth Circuits have held, or whether instead the government may re-try the defendant for the same offense in a different venue, as the Sixth, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuits have held. https://www.suprem…
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Whether the federal criminal prohibition against encouraging or inducing unlawful immigration for commercial advantage or private financial gain, in violation of 8 U.S.C. 1324(a)(1)(A)(iv) and (B)(i), is facially unconstitutional on First Amendment overbreadth grounds. https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/publi…
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Section 112 of the Patent Act provides that a patent's "specification shall contain a written description of the invention, and of the manner and process of making and using it," sufficient "to enable any person skilled in the art * * * to make and use the" invention. 35 U.S.C. § 112(a). The requirement that the specification teach skilled artisans…
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Jack Daniel's Properties, Inc. v. VIP Products
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Respondent VIP Products LLC markets and sells dog toys that trade on the brand recognition of famous companies such as petitioner Jack Daniel's Properties, Inc. The district court found that VIP's use of Jack Daniel's trademarks to sell poop-themed dog toys was likely to confuse consumers, infringed Jack Daniel's marks, and tarnished Jack Daniel's …
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Under§ 16(a) of the Federal Arbitration Act, when a district court denies a motion to compel arbitration, the party seeking arbitration may file an immediate interlocutory appeal. This Court has held that an appeal "divests the district court of its control over those aspects of the case involved in the appeal." Griggs v. Provident Consumer Disc. C…
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Abitron Austria GmbH v. Hetronic International, Inc.
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Petitioners-all foreign nationals-were subjected to a $90 million damages award under the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1051 et seq., for allegedly infringing respondent's U.S. trademarks. While trademark rights are distinctly territorial, the accused sales occurred almost entirely abroad. Of approximately $90 million in sales, 97% were purely foreign: T…
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