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The German Constitutional Court on Tuesday ruled a law allowing double jeopardy in criminal cases where new evidence was available was unconstitutional. Originally, the law allowed four reasons for reopening a case: forgery of documents, false statements by a witness, judicial negligence or valid confessions post-trial.
The 20-month investigation uncovered, among other findings, a previously unreported flight to Saranac, New York, and a 2021 yacht trip to New York City, both financed by Texas billionaire Harlan Crow. Supreme Court justices and lower court judges are required to recuse themselves from cases in specific circumstances by law.
India’s Ministry of Law and Justice released Friday the Draft Mediation Bill, 2021 , inviting comments and suggestions from all stakeholders. As of date, in the absence of a separate statute, Section 89 of the Civil Procedure Code , as well as the rules framed by several high courts under that section, govern mediation in India.
A Washington DC judge sentenced on Friday multiple members of a far-right nationalist group known as the Proud Boys for their role in the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot. The jury found that Nordean and several other members of the Proud Boys conspired to prevent the US Congress from carrying out the vote certification on January 6, 2021.
The law imposes fines on organizers and attendees of pride marches, citing child protection as the justification of the law. “ Despite the proposed amendment to the law, we plan to hold Budapest Pride,” the organizers told Reuters , adding that the Pride March is needed more than ever.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) Tuesday published a call for India to end its controversial sedition law. The sedition law is a statute from the colonial era when India was controlled by the United Kingdom. ” More recently, HRW claims Prime Minister Narendra Modi has used the law to punish activists and protesters. .”
Amnesty International declared Monday that gender apartheid must be considered a crime under international law. “We are calling for the recognition of gender apartheid under international law to fill a major gap in our global legal framework. .
The US Supreme Court declined on Friday to block a district court ruling that a Missouri law that attempts to invalidate federal firearm law within the state is unconstitutional. 30, 44 (2021). In July 2021, Missouri Governor Michael L. Parson signed the Second Amendment Preservation Act ( SAPA) into law.
“8th Circuit court partially upholds Iowa’s 2012 ‘ag-gag’ law; a new lawsuit challenges the state’s 2021statute”: William Morris of The Des Moines Register has this report. ” You can access today’s ruling of a partially divided three-judge panel of the U.S.
France’s Independent Commission on Incest and Sexual Violence against Children (CIIVISE) published a report on Friday calling for the removal of the statute of limitations for sexual violence, in particular in cases of sexual violence against minors. The current statute of limitations is 30 years from adulthood at 18 years.
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US Judge Robert Hinkle from the Northern District of Florida (Tallahassee Division) Wednesday granted a preliminary injunction against Florida’s new social media law FL SB 7072 which, among other things, mandated social media companies to publish detailed standards for censorship, shadow-banning, and de-platforming of users.
The Minnesota Supreme Court Wednesday upheld a state law prohibiting convicted felons from voting while on probation or parole in a 3-1 ruling. The law at issue, Minn. The appellants, two convicted felons, argued that the law violates Article VII , Section 1, of the Minnesota Constitution.
Myanmar law students are reporting for JURIST on challenges to the rule of law in their country under the military junta that deposed the civilian government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021. Women who stand to be conscripted have been especially worried and devastated by this law.
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Karim AA Khan stated that his office collected solid evidence suggesting that the Supreme Leader of the Taliban and the Chief Justice of the “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan” committed the crime of persecution on gender grounds, violating Article 7 (1) (h) of the Rome Statute.
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A US Circuit Court Thursday declared the law preventing those subject to a domestic violence restraining order from owning a gun, unconstitutional. Rahimi , the US Appeals Court for the Fifth Circuit found that the law was an unconstitutional restraint on Americans’ Second Amendment rights to own a firearm.
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit by landlords challenging part of New York’s eviction moratorium statute. New York legislators then amended the law in response to the Supreme Court’s order.
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In March, a group of voters challenged Greene’s eligibility to run for office claiming that Greene had “engaged in insurrection” connected to the events at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. An administrative law judge ruled that the challengers lacked sufficient evidence to prove that Greene engaged in the January 6 insurrection.
In a press release, the DNA Chief Prosecutor stated there is reasonable evidence that between January and May 2021, while serving in government, Voiculescu and Mihăilă illegally contracted for and spent 1 billion Euros on more vaccine doses than necessary. million by authorities.
1 3, 2021. Arizonans currently are shielded from creditors on the first $150,000 of equity in homes they own and live in, thanks to a special provision in state law that’s designed to keep people from being thrown out on the streets. As laws change (they do all the time) your rights also change. Pub li shed 6 : 1 3 p.
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” Swedish law provides that courts can try its citizens for international crimes committed abroad. According to the International Criminal Court, the use of children under the age of 15 as soldiers constitutes a war crime under Article 8 of the Rome Statute. The Syrian Civil War is infamous for its use of child soldiers.
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The US District Court for the Western District of Missouri Central Division Tuesday ruled that a Missouri law attempting to invalidate federal firearm laws within the state is unconstitutional. ” The court ruled that SAPA violates the Supremacy Clause because it tries to invalidate federal law. Specifically, Judge Brian C.
” The ICC Prosecutor initially requested authorization in May 2021 to investigate the “war on drugs,” filing a public redacted version of the request on June 14. Based on the current facts, they stated that the “war on drugs” campaign was not a legitimate law enforcement operation.
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The report, co-authored by Fortify Rights and the Schell Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School, is focused primarily on the six months following Myanmar’s 2021 military coup. The report charges military officials with violating Article 7 of the Rome Statute.
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207/2022, in which the union claimed that the mechanism of compensation for unfair dismissal does not allow for adequate compensation to cover the damage suffered, the European Committee of Social Rights (ECSR), on 28 March 2024 by 13 votes to 1, found that Spanish law violates Article 24. 2/2015 , Law Governing Social Jurisdiction No.
The case was unanimously referred to the ICC by the Security Council as Libya is not a party to the Rome Statute. Khan has served as the prosecutor for the ICC since February 2021 and had introduced a new strategic vision in April 2022. So far, the investigation has resulted in three cases, with five arrest warrants issued.
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As an example, the Federal Wire Fraud statute makes it a crime to use the “wires” to move forward with “any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises.” But the federal fraud statutes at issue do not criminalize all such conduct.
Under § 2255, federal inmates can collaterally challenge their convictions on any ground cognizable on collateral review, with successive attacks limited to certain claims indicating “factual innocence” or relying on “constitutional law decisions made retroactive” by the Supreme Court. ” Jones v. Cochran is.
NYSCOELIG was created under New York Executive Law §94 as an independent ethics watchdog. Indeed, the whole reason for the commission’s existence is to be independent from any government control — an objective which Executive Law § 94 surely accomplishes. But it is for the people to decide and only the people.
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