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FEBRUARY 10, 2025

million; Investigation started in 2020, court filings say.” At Air Mail, George Pendle has an article headlined “ Tommy Supreme and the Blitz: Tom Goldstein was a star in arguing cases before the Supreme Court; He was also one of the worlds highest-rolling — and most recklesspoker players; Then his worlds collided.”

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JANUARY 14, 2025

Rachael Kent-Aitken, representing the claimants, brought the collective action through Article 47B of the Competition Act 1998 , which allows a court-authorized representative to bring legal action that combines several individual claims into one ‘class action’, that is, an action on behalf of a given group of people.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2024

The governments of the Republic of Chile, the Republic of Costa Rica, the Kingdom of Spain, the French Republic, Luxembourg, and Mexico referred Afghanistan for further investigation to the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday for violation of women’s rights in Afghanistan.

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DECEMBER 21, 2024

Said stated: The sentencing of journalist Yauhen Nikalayevich is yet another example of the Belarusian authorities vindictiveness against those who covered the 2020 protests demanding President Aleksandr Lukashenkos resignation.” ” The CPJ’s statement came after the Brest Regional Court upheld a 1.5-year

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APRIL 29, 2025

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) declared on Tuesday that the Republic of Malta’s “golden passport” program, where foreign investors could apply to be naturalized as a Maltese citizen for making direct investments, amounted to the commercialisation of EU citizenship.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The Hong Kong Court of First Instance sentenced 45 defendants for conspiracy to commit subversion on Tuesday, with prison terms ranging from 50 to 120 months depending on their alleged roles in an ill-fated primary election staged by pro-democracy groups in 2020.

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MAY 29, 2025

The Constitutional Court of Peru (TC) approved on Wednesday a five-year extension for reducing overcrowding of the nation’s prisons. The resolution, formed in 2020 and set to expire on Tuesday, was extended due to complaints from Congress.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Share The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that a group of Virginia drivers challenging a state motor vehicle law was not entitled to reimbursement of their attorneys fees even though a federal district court issued an order in their favor that temporarily prohibited the state from enforcing the law and the states legislature repealed the law.

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MAY 27, 2025

The Higher Regional Court of Vienna (Oberlandesgericht Wien, OLG) acquitted former Chancellor Sebastian Kurz on Monday of having made false statements during an inquiry before parliament. Kurz served twice as the chancellor of Austria, initially from December 2017 to May 2019 and then a second time from January 2020 to October 2021.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The US Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas announced on Tuesday that the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas sentenced former Guatemalan congressman Jose Armando Ubico Aguilar to 18 years in prison for international drug trafficking.

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APRIL 17, 2025

Canada’s Federal Court of Appeal dismissed a prominent challenge to the federal government’s 2020 ban on assault-style firearms on Tuesday. The court found that cabinet had formed a reasonable opinion that the prohibited firearms were not suitable for such purposes.

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JURIST

JANUARY 9, 2025

Ebisawa’s plea was entered in a Manhattan federal court, where he acknowledged his role in smuggling dangerous materials, including uranium and weapons-grade plutonium, intended for potential use in nuclear armament development. Ebisawa, 60 years old, faced multiple charges related to his criminal activities.

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MARCH 9, 2025

A Delhi, India court on Friday dismissed a challenge from local Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Cabinet Minister Kapil Mishra to a summonsin a case involving allegations that he made inflammatory communal statements during the 2020 Delhi Legislative Assembly elections.

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APRIL 9, 2025

The Supreme Court of India on Tuesday exercised its discretionary powers to implement ten pending bills in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, marking a significant intervention in a prolonged constitutional deadlock between the state government and state Governor R.N. Justice J.B.

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JANUARY 14, 2025

Ending one skirmish amid the legal battles at Tesla over excessive compensation, a Delaware Chancery Court on January 8 approved a deal that Teslas board of directors struck 18 months ago to return roughly $919 million to the company. Along with the settlement, Delaware Chancery Court Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick also approved $176.2

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JURIST

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The Montana Supreme Court on Wednesday affirmed a lower court’s ruling that a state law violated the youth plaintiffs’ right to a clean and healthful environment under the state constitution. ” The court also ruled against the state’s argument that the plaintiffs lacked standing in the case.

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MAY 6, 2025

Spain’s Supreme Court dismissed charges of five tax violations against former King Juan Carlos on Monday due to a lack of new evidence, upholding a prosecutor’s 2022 exoneration of all tax violations that were found.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2021

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) will review a conviction of several climate activists for protesting on Swiss bank Credit Suisse’s grounds. While the activists were initially acquitted in January 2020 , the Swiss appeal court reversed that decision.

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JUNE 29, 2024

The UK Court of Appeal ruled Thursday that the UK National Crime Agency’s (NCA) refusal to investigate the importation of Uyghur forced labour cotton from China was unlawful. In April 2020, GLAN and WUC submitted evidence to HM Revenue and Customs, requesting the suspension of imports of cotton goods produced with forced labour in China.

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JANUARY 23, 2025

In November 2020, three EIPR executivesKarim Ennarah, Mohammed Basheer, and Gasser Abdel-Razekwere arrested shortly after meeting with foreign diplomats to discuss the human rights crisis in Egypt. Nonetheless, the group remains under tight scrutiny, with the courts freezing assets and subjecting EIPR staff to repeated arrests and threats.

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DECEMBER 1, 2023

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk condemned on Thursday the Russian Supreme Court’s decision to outlaw the LGBTQ+ movement in the country and label proponents of the movement “extremists” under new legislation.

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MARCH 23, 2024

The Irish High Court ruled Friday that a decision made by the country’s Minister for Justice in 2020 to declare the UK a “safe country” to send asylum seekers back to during processing was “unlawful as a matter of EU law.” The UK has yet to respond to the ruling.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

A federal appeals court in Los Angeles overturned the decision to house homeless people living on the streets of Skid Row in a controversial ruling on Thursday. However, there was no standing for this claim, as structural racism did not form any part of the plaintiff’s submission to the court.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 24, 2025

Share It was not clear at oral arguments on Monday how the Supreme Court will rule on a challenge to Louisianas latest redistricting plan. And with Republicans holding only a slim majority in the House of Representatives, the courts decision could affect the balance of power there. The legislature drafted a new map, known as S.B.

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JURIST

MARCH 6, 2025

The Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal unanimously quashed on Thursday the convictions of opposition activists Chow Hang-tung, Tang Ngok-kwan and Tsui Hon-kwong of failing to comply with notice to provide information under Article 43 of the China-imposed National Security Law (NSL). The assembly in question was the vigil held on June 4, 2021.

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DECEMBER 2, 2024

Amnesty International submitted on Monday a petition to the Pre-Trial Judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) requesting an end to the ICC Prosecutor’s delay in starting the court’s investigation against Nigeria.

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JURIST

JULY 27, 2021

The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has ruled that an immigration judge’s two-sentence decision denying asylum to an Ecuadorean man was insufficient. Valarezo-Tirado entered the US illegally in 2017 and was ordered deportation in early 2020.

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OCTOBER 31, 2024

The government introduced an amnesty law in 2020 which saves the plantation operators from criminal prosecution if they obtain a proper permit within three years. A corruption court had recently sentenced the former agriculture minister to 10 years over graft charges.

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

The High Court in Malaysia decided on Wednesday that the prosecution gathered sufficient evidence to proceed with the trial of former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak. However, the court maintained that it had thoroughly evaluated the presented evidence and found it to be credible and reliable.

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JURIST

JANUARY 12, 2021

The US Supreme Court on Monday heard oral argument in Pham v. In the lower US District Court, the government argued that Section 1231 of the Act automatically subjected the immigrants to “mandatory detention.” The court determined that the group was detained under Section 1226, ruling for the immigrants.

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MAY 9, 2022

A Paris appeals court Monday upheld former prime minister François Fillon’s conviction for the misuse of public funds. However, the court decided to shorten Fillon’s initial sentence of five years in prison to four years with three years suspended, meaning that the former prime minister will likely not spend any time in prison.

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JULY 14, 2024

The Constitutional Court of Latvia ruled against a challenge to a law that converted Russian-language schools to Latvian. The original court upheld the act and the Constitutional Court was hearing an appeal. A 2020 report by the Venice Commission, an advisory body of the Council of Europe, examined these amendments.

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MARCH 6, 2025

The Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal unanimously upheld Thursday the convictions of the opposition activist Tam Tak Chi of uttering seditious words under now-repealed section 10(1)(b) of the Crimes Ordinance. Another question before the court is whether the sedition offense was an indictable offense that must be tried by a judge and jury.

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JANUARY 24, 2025

In a presidential press release , Ramaphosa argued that Expropriation Act, 2020 aligns the law with the Constitution. ” It also requires the government to compensate for takings, “ the amount of which and the time and manner of payment of which have either been agreed to by those affected or decided or approved by a court.”

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DECEMBER 26, 2022

The Allahabad High Court Friday granted bail to Kerala-based journalist Siddique Kappan in the case concerning the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). Siddique was arrested on October 5, 2020, by the Uttar Pradesh police while travelling to Hathras to report the rape and murder of a Dalit girl.

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HowAppealing

JANUARY 20, 2025

And Doug Bock Clark of ProPublica reports that “ North Carolina Supreme Court Candidate Wants Military Absentee Votes Tossed. Republican Jefferson Griffin is trying to overturn his election loss by asking the North Carolina Supreme Court to toss 5,500 military and overseas absentee ballots. Years Earlier, Thats How He Voted.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Thursday vacated the class certification of Black Lives Matter protesters in their 2020 complaint against the city of Los Angeles for alleged use of excessive force. Judge Kenneth K.

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