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DECEMBER 22, 2024

Yassir Fazaga and other plaintiffs had initially filed a putative class action suit against the US Government, the FBI, and various FBI personnel in their official and individual capacities. Reynolds , wherein the Government asserted that the case should be dismissed to safeguard state secrets was not appropriate.

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DECEMBER 22, 2024

There is also a statute that prohibits government officers and employees from soliciting or accepting anything of value from a person. However, Democrats were quick to criticize the move, pointing out that, unlike the code governing other federal judges, this Courts code lacks any binding enforcement mechanism.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2021

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. The Department of Legal Affairs said that the proposed bill is a step forward in expanding the scope and reach of ADR.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2024

The RNC argued that the statute only permits notice and cure for mail-in voters when a ballot is not submitted and that mail-in voters bear the responsibility to file their ballots accurately and timely. ” Parties to the opinion jousted over how to interpret Election Code language.

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MAY 1, 2023

The question before the court is “Whether the Court should overrule Chevron or at least clarify that statutory silence concerning controversial powers expressly but narrowly granted elsewhere in the statute does not constitute an ambiguity requiring deference to the agency.”

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MAY 25, 2023

The US Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the government cannot keep the profits of properties sold to pay off tax debts. wherein a local Minnesota government sold off a woman’s condo to satisfy her tax bill. The court reached this decision in the case of Tyler v. Hennepin County, Minnesota, et al. Armstrong , 364 U.

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DECEMBER 10, 2022

The Canadian province of Alberta’s legislature Thursday passed Premier Danielle Smith’s Sovereignty Act , empowering the provincial government to dismiss federal law, programs, and policies. The post Alberta legislature passes bill allowing provincial government to override federal law appeared first on JURIST - News.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2024

In a unanimous slip opinion, the US Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) waives sovereign immunity and that the federal government can be liable for incorrect debt reporting that damages credit scores. The federal government plays a central role in the distribution and use of this data.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2023

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.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The newly elected Labour government is aiming to accelerate global efforts to establish a tribunal capable of trying Russian officials for crimes of aggression in Ukraine, according to Lord Chancellor Shabana Mahmood. The Labour government is committed to devising an efficient and legally sound approach, without unnecessary delays.

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JULY 11, 2024

In a unanimous decision, the Utah Supreme Court decided Thursday that Utah citizens have a constitutional right to reform their government in response to past redistricting efforts to divide Salt Lake City into four congressional districts, resulting in Republicans winning by a large margin.

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APRIL 8, 2025

“Goldstein Challenges Statute of Limitations Pauses in Tax Case; Blames accountants for failure to report some taxable income; Says government had evidence contradicting agents claims”: Holly Barker of Bloomberg Law recently had this report (subscription required for full access).

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NOVEMBER 16, 2023

This ceremony is the conclusion of the accession process which began in 2022 when the government approved a law on Rome Statute ratification and a declaration , accepting the ICC’s retroactive jurisdiction before the Armenian Constitutional Court authorized the ratification.

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AUGUST 11, 2023

” All parties to the Rome Statute , including the UK, must prevent, protect and punish those responsible for the crime of genocide. The conflict in Tigray began in November 2020 when tensions between government forces and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) boiled over.

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JANUARY 9, 2025

The principle of command responsibilityenshrined in both customary international law and statutes such as the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court requires senior officials to be held accountable for crimes committed by subordinates if they knew or should have known about such acts and failed to prevent them.

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MAY 11, 2023

Share For decades, the Supreme Court has steadily narrowed the scope of the federal criminal wire fraud statutes, and Thursday’s decision in Ciminelli v. The court held that the federal criminal wire fraud statutes do not incorporate a “right to control” theory of fraud. United States is no exception.

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MARCH 11, 2025

The prosecution of the crimes against humanity is based on Article 7 of the Rome Statute , with the alleged acts of murder, torture or inhumane acts, imprisonment, enforced disappearances, and sexual and gender-based crimes. ’ Relatedly, the Philippines criminalized the crime against humanity domestically in 2009.

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DECEMBER 2, 2024

Article 65 of the ICJ Statute further establishes the court’s jurisdiction to provide advisory opinions. The request for an advisory opinion was initially inspired by a grassroots movement in Vanuatu and subsequently advanced by its government. Although non-binding, they serve as authoritative statements of international law.

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JANUARY 22, 2025

The charges outlined in the ICC warrant are based on the provisions of Articles 7 and 8 of the Rome Statute , which define crimes against humanity and war crimes. His arrest has raised concerns in Libya, with calls for government intervention to secure his release.

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MARCH 4, 2025

The government of Rwanda is seeking damages of 50 million from the UK following the cancellation of a migrant transfer deal between Rwanda and the UK on Monday. ” Contrarily, the British government spokesperson told BBC that “Rwanda has waived any additional payments.”

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APRIL 29, 2021

Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote the majority opinion, adopting a rigid interpretation of a federal statute that requires the government to serve a “notice to appear” in order to trigger the “stop-time” rule. That rule can foreclose access to immigration relief by preventing noncitizens from accruing the time required for eligibility.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Venezuelan government Saturday rejected a decision by the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to resume an investigation into alleged human rights violations by the country’s officials. The post Venezuelan government rejects OTP’s decision to resume investigation appeared first on JURIST - News.

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APRIL 24, 2023

The court will consider the question of whether Congress intended to allow people to sue Native American tribes in bankruptcy disputes and will then determine whether the waiver of immunity under the Bankruptcy Reform Act for foreign or domestic government extends to these Native American tribes.

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DECEMBER 5, 2024

The databases are closely tied to Russia’s federal government, and the HRL alleges this program is directed by President Vladimir Putin and Russia Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights Maria Lvova-Belova. In tandem with other evidence, researchers indicate it may even support a case of genocide.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2024

A hīkoi (protest march) spanning the entirety of New Zealand’s north island rallying against the government’s constitutionally consequential ‘Treaty Principles Bill’ began Monday from Cape Reinga, the country’s northernmost point.

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OCTOBER 31, 2023

“A Small Fish and an Uncollected Fee Add Up to Big-Government Challenge at the Supreme Court; Herring fishermen and anti-regulation groups seek to overturn the ‘Chevron’ precedent that lets federal agencies interpret unclear statutes”: Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News has this report.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Kirtz , considered whether the federal government is exempt from that regime. For several of the justices, the language of the statute seemed more than enough to impose liability on the federal government. Government.” Several justices scoffed at the idea of government-on-government prosecutions.

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MAY 12, 2021

” This interpretation has harmonized the statute with the First Amendment, under which “abusive language” can be criminalized only if the government proves that the language had the direct tendency to cause immediate violence by the person to whom it was individually addressed.

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APRIL 3, 2023

The government of Bulgaria Monday made its first ever voluntary contribution to the Trust Fund for Victims (TFV) in the amount of €20,000 announced. The TFV was established in 2004 in accordance with Article 79 of the Rome Statute.

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MARCH 5, 2025

An attacking party remains at all times bound by the principle of proportionality, weighing the concrete and direct military advantage anticipated from an attack against the expected harm to civilians and civilian objects, including the reverberating humanitarian consequences resulting from the attack Amnesty International called for an investigation (..)

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NOVEMBER 10, 2021

In 2017, Oklahoma sued J&J, Purdue Pharma and Teva Pharmaceuticals under the state’s public nuisance statute alleging that the drug manufacturers deceptively marketed opioids within the state. This plan appropriated money to 21 government programs to combat opioid abuse statewide.

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MARCH 24, 2023

In the US, Congress, instead of the executive branch, controls government funding. Congress must pass appropriation statutes in order for the government to spend money. They cited the specific statute, 12 U.S.C. The intent of the clause was to limit the executive branch’s spending power.

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JUNE 8, 2023

The government also applied a sentence enhancement under 18 U.S.C. ” The Court claims that applying the interpretation of the statute advanced by the government, these people would be subject to serve at least two years in federal prison. 1028A(a)(1) for being overly vague and potentially dangerous in future disputes.

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JANUARY 22, 2024

The Philippines became a party to the Rome Statute , the founding treaty of the ICC, in November 2011. However, it withdrew from it in 2018 in accordance with Article 127 of the statute. Following the commencement of the preliminary examination, the Philippines subsequently withdrew from the statute.

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JUNE 23, 2021

” The panel recommends adding “(e) the crime of Ecocide” to Article 5(1) of the Rome Statute with the following definition: Article 8 ter. The “ecocide” amendment would remedy this problem, and give the ICC authority to hold business and government leaders for their actions in times of peace.

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MARCH 31, 2025

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson questioned whether the “religious purposes” part of the statute is not really about the motivation of the activity, but instead the types of activities the organization undertakes. She prompted the petitioners to look to the legislative history of the federal provision.

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MARCH 19, 2025

According to the Executive Director of Amnesty International Peru, leaving approval decisions to the authorities would increase the risk of arbitrary restrictions on civil society activism and could result in the removal of organizations critical of the government from the APCI register.

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