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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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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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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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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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JURIST

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 21, 2023

Philippine Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla said Friday that the Philippine government will have to learn more about the intentions of several investigators from the International Criminal Court (ICC) before granting them entry to the country. Remulla’s comments come after current President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.

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JURIST

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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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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FEBRUARY 19, 2025

According to the UN, the RSF has been conducting deliberate attacks on civilians and civilian objects since early 2023 when it began conflicting with the Sudanese government forces. They also constitute war crimes as outlined in Article 8 of the Rome Statute. million have fled across the border to neighboring countries as refugees.

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OCTOBER 11, 2022

A federal appeals court threw out Rodney Reed’s federal civil rights lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Texas law governing DNA testing, explaining that Reed had filed his suit too late. But in a case in which the TCCA does grant rehearing, he added, the statute of limitations would start to run then.

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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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SCOTUSBlog

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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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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JUNE 9, 2023

The government also charged Dubin with aggravated identity theft, which carries a separate two-year sentence. Choosing between the two competing readings, “one limited and one near limitless,” the Supreme Court on Thursday handily rejected the government’s “boundless” interpretation of the aggravated identity theft statute.

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SCOTUSBlog

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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JURIST

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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JURIST

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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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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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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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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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Kagan noted that the statute on which the lower courts relied points to the defendants profits, and that in common parlance defendant refers to the party against whom relief is sought in an action.

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MARCH 10, 2025

Five Questions About the Khalil Case: The government’s arrest and detention of a pro-Palestinian Columbia student (and green card holder) raises difficult questions about both technical immigration statutes and the First Amendment.” “131.

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JURIST

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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NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The government will now only be able to prosecute the company for failure to report suspicious prescriptions after October 2018, when the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) was amended. US District Court Judge Jerry Pappert limited the liability of opioid distributor Cencora (previously known as Amerisourcebergen) on Monday in the case US v.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Based on Article 8 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court , intentionally directing attacks against civilian objects constitutes a war crime. Russia has never signed the Rome Statute and does not recognize the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC).

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JURIST

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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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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JURIST

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Bolsonaro has repeatedly stated that his government has been the victim of an international “campaign of lies” and asserts that no country protects the environment better than Brazil. The Rome Statute lays out the “crimes against humanity” for which the ICC is its sole adjudicator.

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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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JULY 4, 2024

The Supreme Court of Japan ordered the Japanese government to compensate victims of forced sterilization after holding that the now-defunct Eugenic Protection Law was unconstitutional. The decision was a unified decision on five different appeals from Tokyo , Sendai , Sapporo , and Osaka.

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JURIST

AUGUST 22, 2021

” The statute for apprehension and detention of non-citizen immigrants, 8 U.S. The government appealed, hoping that the appeals court would rule in its favor that requiring the burden of proof to be placed on the immigrant satisfied due process. However, the court held that the burden must be placed on the government.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The dispute is centered on whether the UK Government has recognized Guaidó as Venezuela’s president. The UK government considered this election deeply flawed. Guaidó appointed the Guaidó Board as an ad hoc board of the Central Bank under a “transition statute” passed by the Venezuelan National Assembly.

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