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ICC panel gives go-ahead to resume Venezuela human rights investigation

JURIST

A three-member International Criminal Court (ICC) panel authorized the ICC prosecutor’s office to continue its crimes against humanity investigation in Venezuela on Tuesday over Venezuela’s objections. million people to leave Venezuela between 2014 and 2018.

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Former Gambia Minister faces trial in Switzerland for crimes against humanity

JURIST

TRIAL International informed on Thursday that Ousman Sonko, a former Gambian Minister of Interior, will be tried by the Swiss Federal Criminal Court (FCC) in Bellinzona on January 8, 2024, and the trial will last till January 30. It ousted its long-time dictator, Jammeh, who had been ruling Gambia since 1994.

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Exclusion of HCLA expert based on locality rule affirmed.

Day on Torts

Where an HCLA plaintiff’s expert testified at his deposition that he was not very familiar with Kingsport and that he had only reviewed information about Kingsport the night before the deposition, rather than before forming his medical opinions, the trial court did not err by excluding the expert based on the locality rule. In Jackson v.

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Denial of Natural Justice as a Defence to Enforcement of a Chinese Judgment in Australia

Conflict of Laws

In Yin v Wu [2023] VSCA 130 , the Court of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Victoria set aside a judgment [1] which had affirmed the enforcement a Chinese judgment by an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. [2] On 13 October 2017, Wu commenced a proceeding against Yin in the Ningbo People’s Court.

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Sheriff’s Office Has Been Destroying Records Of Alleged Officer Misconduct For Years

The Crime Report

The illegal destruction of disciplinary records can make it harder to hold deputies accountable in a court of law, or track problem officers moving from department to department, said Sam Walker, emeritus professor of criminal justice at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. We don’t have any stick,” Newsome said.

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The Nuclear Option: States Could Take Over College Admissions

JonathanTurley

Below is my column in the Hill on the opposition to the Supreme Court’s opinion declaring the use of race in admissions to be unconstitutional. Under the preexisting standards for the use of race in admissions, schools spent decades assuring the courts that race was not being weighed heavily and had only marginal effects on admissions.

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Texas and Louisiana lack right to challenge Biden immigration policy, court rules

SCOTUSBlog

In a major victory for the Biden administration, the Supreme Court on Friday ruled that Texas and Louisiana do not have a legal right, known as standing, to challenge a Biden administration policy that prioritizes certain groups of unauthorized immigrants for arrest and deportation. Share This article was updated on June 23 at 2:19 p.m.