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JURIST
JULY 19, 2024
The Supreme Court of Canada ruled Friday that the Canadian government can be held liable for enacting laws that are “clearly unconstitutional,” done in bad faith, or stem from abuse of power. A subsequent law enacted by Parliament retroactively made him permanently ineligible.
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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 Eugenic Protection Law was enacted in 1948 to address the population explosion in post-war Japan.
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JURIST
JULY 14, 2024
The Constitutional Court of Latvia ruled against a challenge to a law that converted Russian-language schools to Latvian. The Education Law of 1998 and the General Education Law of 2000 required all public schools to use Latvian as the primary language of teaching, while some private institutions choose to teach in Russian.
JURIST
JULY 19, 2024
A US appeals court on Thursday dismissed a challenge to a Tennessee law that restricts drag performances, reversing a lower court’s decision that blocked the law from taking full effect. The only thing that is clear about this law is that it’s firmly rooted in hate and defies the will of the majority of Tennesseans.
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Attorney at Work
JULY 17, 2024
“Battening down the hatches” has taken on a new impetus as state after state has passed privacy law requirements. The post 18 States Have Passed Privacy Laws: Law Firms Tighten Cybersecurity appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.
JURIST
MAY 18, 2024
President of Georgia Salome Zourabichvili on Friday vetoed a controversial “foreign agents” law that has been decried as “Russian-style” legislation and has sparked massive protests in the country. Zourabichvili took to her Twitter account to announce the veto, saying, “Today, I vetoed the Russian law.
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