JURIST
SEPTEMBER 24, 2023
A US military judge ruled on Thursday that Ramzi bin al-Shibh, a 9/11 defendant detained in US custody at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is unfit to stand trial. Military Judge Colonel Matthew N. McCall’s ruling comes after a medical panel found that al-Shibh has PTSD with “Secondary Psychotic Features” resulting from his abuse in Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) custody.
Above The Law
SEPTEMBER 24, 2023
Syntax Bio’s technology platform uses CRISPR to direct stem cells to become a desired cell type in a process that’s more scalable and less expensive than current methods. The startup is raising a Series A round of financing to further demonstrate the potential of its technology.
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JURIST
SEPTEMBER 24, 2023
A US district judge struck down on Friday a California ban limiting gun magazines to ten rounds. In the decision, US District Judge Roger Benitez stated that the state’s prohibition of high-capacity magazines was a violation of the US Constitution’s Second Amendment and “clearly unconstitutional.” In defense of the ban, California offered two main positions.
HowAppealing
SEPTEMBER 24, 2023
“ProPublica Buries Its Clarence Thomas News; The outlet’s latest hit piece unwittingly debunks its own political narrative about the Supreme Court justice”: Ira Stoll had this op-ed in Saturday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal. The post “ProPublica Buries Its Clarence Thomas News; The outlet’s latest hit piece unwittingly debunks its own political narrative about the Supreme Court justice” appeared first on How Appealing.
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JURIST
SEPTEMBER 24, 2023
The Italian Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi released a decree on Friday stating that asylum seekers will need to pay $5,259 (€4,938) to avoid being held at a detention center while their applications are reviewed. The decree called this plan a method of providing a financial guarantee to have the right to enter into Italy as an asylum seeker. The decree comes amid an increased tensions between Mediterranean countries and migrants arriving from North Africa.
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JURIST
SEPTEMBER 24, 2023
Thousands of public sector workers in Greece took part in a strike on Thursday in opposition to new labor law put forth in the Hellenic Parliament. Workers including doctors, transport staff and firefighters protested in Athens, Greece to voice their objection. The new labor law, yet to be passed by Parliament, reportedly allow employers to fire employees within the first year of work without warning or remuneration.
HowAppealing
SEPTEMBER 24, 2023
“Judicial Notice (09.23.23): Where Is The Love? A celebrity professor’s surprising engagement, Judge Newman’s troubling suspension, Wachtell’s exciting hire, and other legal news from the week that was.” David Lat has this post at his “Original Jurisdiction” Substack site. The post “Judicial Notice (09.23.23): Where Is The Love?
JURIST
SEPTEMBER 24, 2023
Human rights advocate groups Article 19 and CIVICUS on Thursday released a joint statement expressing concern that peaceful protestors across Malaysia are being met with harassment from police. The statement has come in the wake of a series of protests in the region, which has included farmers protesting against land eviction policies, a ‘Save Malaysia’ protest against Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi’s discharge from corruption charges and peaceful protest marches for International Wome
Patently O
SEPTEMBER 24, 2023
by Dennis Crouch A short non-precedential opinion from the Federal Circuit provides guidance on two key issues: (1) downstream non-party reliance upon settlement agreements; and (2) personal jurisdiction over foreign corporations. Siemens Industry, Inc. Caddo Sys., Inc. v. Siemens Aktiengesellschaft (AG) , Nos. 2022-1623, -1624 (Fed. Cir. Sept. 22, 2023).
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JURIST
SEPTEMBER 24, 2023
Norwegian police arrested former commander of the Wagner Group, Andrey Medvedev, on Friday under suspicion of attempting to illegally cross the border into Russia, according to local Norwegian news site the Barents Observer. Earlier this year, Medvedev sought asylum in Norway. Norwegian police in Finnmark confirmed they had arrested a man attempting to cross the border at Grense Jakobselv, a small village in northeast Norway.
JonathanTurley
SEPTEMBER 24, 2023
I have previously written about the near total meltdown of our public education system in some major cities. Prominent in these discussions has been Baltimore, which continues to fail inner city children in teaching the most basic subjects. This week, that failure is on full display with a report that forty percent of Baltimore’s schools lack a single student who has achieved grade-level proficiency in math.
JURIST
SEPTEMBER 24, 2023
The Paris prosecutor’s office said in a statement Friday that they have requested a trial for over 20 National Rally (RN) members on suspicion of embezzling European public funds over 12 years, according to AFP. RN Leader Marine Le Pen and her father Jean-Marie Le Pen as well as other parliamentary assistants stand accused in the embezzlement scheme.
The Crime Report
SEPTEMBER 24, 2023
Bail reforms eliminating the practice of cash bail went into effect last week in Illinois under the Pretrial Fairness Act, making the state the first to enact such a policy. Supporters say that the new law will give judges more time and discretion to decide whether a person should be placed behind bars based on more factors than simply because they cannot afford a cash bail.
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FDA Law Blog
SEPTEMBER 24, 2023
By Faraz Siddiqui — Every parent is familiar with the parade of horrors that accompany household items as mundane as window coverings. The cords that dangle from blinds are universally recognized as a grave danger to infants and children. It is also a hot-button issue for the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), the federal agency charged with monitoring and enforcing against dangerous consumer products.
Fordham Law News
SEPTEMBER 24, 2023
What do Alex Jones, Purdue Pharma, and Johnson & Johnson have in common? They all used bankruptcy to try to get out of mass tort claims. [1] Alex Jones filed for bankruptcy when he lost the Sandy Hook case and was ordered to pay $50 million dollars to the parents of the victims in Sandy Hook. [2] Purdue Pharma filed for bankruptcy when it faced the opioid crisis, allowing the Sackler family to be protected from the lawsuits.
Court-MartialTrialPractice
SEPTEMBER 24, 2023
Generally When deciding what a word or term in a statute means, the rule of statutory interpretation is to give the word or term its plain and ordinary meaning. This is known as the plain meaning rule. If the word or term is clear and unambiguous, then the court will not look beyond the text of the statute to determine its meaning. The principal rule is well known to military defense counsel as they prepare a case for trial.
The Crime Report
SEPTEMBER 24, 2023
At least five Black plaintiffs have filed lawsuits against law enforcement around the country, claiming that they were misidentified by facial recognition technology and then wrongly arrested, reports Sudhin Thanawala for the Associated Press. Critics claim that the technology, which allows law enforcement agencies to feed images from video surveillance into software that can search government databases or social media for a possible match, results in a higher rate of misidentification of people
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JURIST
SEPTEMBER 24, 2023
Ernesa Shala is a JURIST staff correspondent in Kosovo and a recent graduate of the University of Pristina Faculty of Law. She files this dispatch from Pristina. In the early morning of September 24, 2023, the peaceful village of Banjska near Kosovo’s Serbian border was a target of terrorist attacks which left one Kosovo Police officer dead, one with severe injuries and another with relatively minor injuries.
The Crime Report
SEPTEMBER 24, 2023
An assault by Texas prison guards that left an inmate hospitalized for more than two weeks has prompted a criminal investigation by the prison system’s inspector general, reports Paul Flahive for High Plains Public Radio. In the wake of the assault, which resulted from a response to an inmate located in the high-security wing of the Coffield Unit stabbing a guard, 13 guards have either been terminated or resigned.
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