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Peru dispatch: Constitutional Court ruling on father’s naming rights when mother’s identity unknown to him is a victory for equality

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Peruvian law students from the Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Políticas , Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco are reporting for JURIST on law-related events in and affecting Perú. Mégara Sophia La Torre Pino is a law student from UNSAAC and a member of CIED. She files this dispatch from Cusco.

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Connecticut judge orders conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay $473M in punitive defamation damages for Sandy Hook comments

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Jones received a similar outcome in a Texas court in August ordering him to pay $45.2 Jones has faced three claims in total over his comments that the massacre was a “staged” government plot to take guns from Americans. million in damages to other Sandy Hook parents.

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California legislature passes bill empowering private citizens to sue over gun violence

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In a press release from Newsom regarding the new legislation, a link was drawn between SB 1327 and the Texas abortion bill upheld by the Supreme Court. Newsom elaborated further by declaring, “So long as the Supreme Court has set this precedent, California will use it to save lives.”.

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We read all the amicus briefs in Dobbs so you don’t have to

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Jackson Women’s Health Organization , the potentially momentous abortion case concerning a Mississippi law banning abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Trinity Legal Center and Catholic Medical Association, National Association of Catholic Nurses-USA, Idaho Chooses Life and Texas Alliance for Life make similar arguments.