Ghislaine Maxwell’s siblings have filed a complaint with the United Nations, saying her pretrial detention is an act of “unprecedented discrimination” and accusing U.S. authorities of trampling the “narrow line between justice and revenge.” Maxwell, who is being held without bail ahead of her federal trial in New York City, was a confidante of Jeffrey… Read More »
BOSTON (State House News Service) – Renewing her case to overhaul the state’s hate crimes statute, Attorney General Maura Healey on Tuesday argued that existing law allows for effectively “no difference” in punishment between a racist assault and a punch thrown among feuding bar-hoppers. Healey urged legislators to advance a bill she and supporters have… Read More »
The Court of Appeals has shot down the latest bid by Cyber Ninjas to keep secret the records it has related to the audit of the 2020 election. In an 8-page ruling Tuesday, the judges rebuffed claims by the company that the documents, emails and other items it has are beyond the reach of Arizona’s… Read More »
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 of several islands in the… Read More »
The Nevada Court of Appeals has a unique structure in which all of its cases — approximately 700 each year — are assigned by the Nevada Supreme Court. The three-judge appellate court resolves cases by unpublished order and published opinion, which become part of Nevada’s case law and can be cited and relied on by lower courts. Appellate… Read More »