Washington, D.C. officials launched a rewriting project of the District’s 120-year-old criminal code in consultation with Georgetown University Law Center professors. The Council of the District of Columbia is conducting a series of public hearings to discuss modernizing the city’s criminal statutes by redefining certain crimes, clarifying definitions and changing […]
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COURT CRAWL | Oral arguments resume, lawmakers take aim at eviction policy | Courts
Welcome to Court Crawl, Colorado Politics’ roundup of news from the third branch of government. The state Supreme Court will conduct oral arguments this week on topics ranging from lethal force to death during appeal, and some new policies in the judicial branch have drawn criticism from lawmakers. Cases resume […]
Will California be the next state to permit nonlawyer paraprofessionals?
Home Web First Will California be the next state to permit… Access to Justice Will California be the next state to permit nonlawyer paraprofessionals? By Lyle Moran November 8, 2021, 9:04 am CST The State Bar of California is considering a proposal to have the Golden State join a small […]
Supreme Court of Canada Bulletin, Nov 4 & 5, 2021 – Appeals decided and Applications for leave to appeal decided
H.M.B. Holdings Ltd. v. Antigua and Barbuda, 2021 SCC 44 – Private international law — Foreign judgments — Reciprocal enforcement On appeal from a judgment of the Ontario Court of Appeal (2020 ONCA 12) affirming a decision of Perell J. (2019 ONSC 1445). Antigua and Barbuda (“Antigua”), a country comprised […]
Alberta man who removed mask and coughed on waitress guilty of assault
Breadcrumb Trail Links World Reopening Canada PostPandemic News National More Reopening Canada Health and Wellness Health Canada Lawyers say Judge Heather Lamoureux’s ruling may be the world’s first such judicial pronouncement Author of the article: Tom Blackwell Publishing date: Nov 04, 2021 • 4 days ago • 4 minute read • […]
Why telling a cop you have Covid in New Jersey could get you 10 years in prison | Coronavirus
Deja Lewis was walking down a sidewalk in Salem, New Jersey, in the early, frightening days of the Covid-19 pandemic in April 2020, when she was stopped by police. Lewis, 28, was arrested on warrants related to failure to pay traffic tickets, and an incident in which she “escaped” from […]
The U.S. Has A Lot Of Guns Involved In Crimes But Very Little Data On Where They Came From
In August, police in Pennsylvania and New Jersey arrested three men they said were smuggling untraceable guns across state lines. Prosecutors have charged the men with several crimes related to a scheme in which they allegedly bought unfinished gun parts in Pennsylvania, assembled them into untraceable firearms with no serial […]
This Bill Cosby Juror is Lobbying for a Clear Legal Definition of Consent
To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. Some jurors were stunned during deliberations in Bill Cosby’s 2018 trial on sexual assault charges when they asked the judge for the legal definition of consent. He told them there was none […]
Posts falsely claim bestiality is legal in Canada
Copyright AFP 2017-2021. All rights reserved. Social media posts feature an image of a newspaper headline about a 2016 ruling by Canada’s top court to claim that bestiality is legal in the country. But the ruling — which found the term was not clearly defined in Canadian law — did […]