JURIST

DECEMBER 28, 2024

The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) reported on Saturday that at least 112,414 individuals remain forcibly disappeared due to the actions of the Assad regime in Syria, despite the recent releases of thousands of detainees. The SNHR emphasized that these disappearances are not isolated incidents but part of a broader strategy employed by the Assad government to instill fear and maintain control over the population.

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LLRX

DECEMBER 28, 2024

Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 28, 2024

Brazilian authorities held a hearing on Friday to discuss the c harges of human trafficking against Chinese automaker Build Your Dreams Auto Do Brasil (BYD Brazil) related to the treatment of 163 workers on BYD’s site. The joint virtual hearing involving BYD Brazil, JinJiang Open Engineering, and government representatives addressed the protection measures for 163 workers who were rescued from a BYD factory under conditions that Brazilian prosecutors said resembled slavery.

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 28, 2024

This week, Judge Mary Dimke of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington issued an interesting ruling. In United States v. Bolen, she rejected spousal immunity in a criminal case where she believed the couple got hitched for evidentiary rather thanromantic reasons. Spousal immunity has long been a thing of legend in the courts and cinema.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 28, 2024

Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond dismissed a criminal charge against Oklahoma City Police Sgt. Joseph Gibson on Friday. The charge stemmed from an incident where Gibson slammed a 71-year-old man to the ground during a heated dispute over a traffic ticket, leaving the man with a broken neck. Drummond stated: “As Attorney General, I will not permit Oklahoma police officers to face criminal prosecution for conduct adhering to their training … While the outcome of this incident

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JURIST

DECEMBER 28, 2024

Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko announced on Saturday that he has pardoned 20 individuals accused of committing “extremist crimes.” Human rights activists have identified these individuals as political prisoners. This latest act of clemency marks the eighth such pardon since the summer of 2024, bringing the total number of political prisoners released to 207.

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 28, 2024

“Trump Urges Supreme Court to Pause TikTok Ban; The president-elect took no position on the apps First Amendment challenge to the law, which sets a Jan. 19 deadline to sell or close the popular platform”: Adam Liptak of The New York Times has this report.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 28, 2024

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday issued an apology to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev following thecrash of an Azerbaijan Airlines plane in Russian airspace. During a phone call, Putin expressed his condolences to the victims’ families and apologized that the incident occurred in Russian airspace. Putin noted that Russian air defense systems were being fired at the time of the incident, but there was no explicit indication that the Russian air defense systems were directly

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Law 360

DECEMBER 28, 2024

President-elect Donald Trump has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to freeze the impending deadline for TikTok to divest from its Chinese parent company or face a nationwide ban, suggesting his new administration could negotiate a deal that would end the need for the congressional mandate.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 28, 2024

Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan on Friday approved a landmark billto strengthen protections for whistleblowers, according to local media. The bill represents a significant move in the country’s fight against corruption and illegal activities. The Public Welfare Whistleblower Protection Act establishes stringent penalties for civil servants who disclose the identities of whistleblowers, including up to five years of imprisonment and fines reaching NT $300,000 (approximately USD 9,100) for v

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At the Lectern

DECEMBER 28, 2024

In two pre-Christmas opinions this week, the Ninth Circuit denied relief to habeas corpus petitioners whose death sentences the California Supreme Court had affirmed. One opinion was on rehearing after a retiring judge was replaced on the panel that had vacated the death penalty in the case in May 2023. The turnaround decision was in Waidla v. Davis.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 28, 2024

The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) on Saturday released a review of the impact of armed conflicts on children around the world, holding 2024 to be one of the worst years on record for children in conflict. According to UNICEF, o ver 473 million children are now living in conflict-affected areas, with the percentage of children in these zones doubling from around 10 percent in the 1990s to nearly 19 percent today.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 28, 2024

Share The Biden administration on Friday afternoon urged the Supreme Court to leave in place a federal law that would require TikTok to shut down in the United States unless its parent company can sell off the U.S. company by Jan. 19. U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar told the justices that the social media giant collects vast swaths of data about tens of millions of Americans, which China could use for espionage or blackmail.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 28, 2024

Videographical substance is sensitive in nature. Viewer discretion is advised. The New York attorney general released video footage on Friday showing that correctional officers beat Robert Brooks at Marcy Correctional Facility hours before he was pronounced dead. The video recordings were reviewed by the office and by Brooks’ family before they were released.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 28, 2024

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Saturday condemned Israel’s military raid on the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, which has rendered the facility non-operational and exacerbated the ongoing health crisis in the region. The WHO described the raid as a “death sentence” for many Palestinians in need of medical care. The organization emphasized that attacks on medical facilities must cease immediately to prevent further humanitarian disasters.

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