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Amnesty International report alleges Pegasus spyware targeted India journalists

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.” This report emerges amidst a global discourse on government use of spyware and in the context of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act , 2023 and recently enacted criminal laws aimed at reform, which have been criticized for increasing state surveillance and being ambiguous.

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Leaked Draft Opinion Rocks the Court and Washington

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Jackson Women’s Health Organization has rocked the Court and Washington. The Washington Post did run some leaks the court’s internal deliberations. The leaking of a draft opinion in Dobbs v. The 98-page draft opinion is dated Feb. 10, 2022 and authored by Associate Justice Samuel Alito. Roe itself was the subject of leaks.

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Canada Supreme Court Considers ‘Extreme Intoxication’ Defense in Murder Trial

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The law led an Ontario trial judge to convict Chan of manslaughter and aggravated assault, despite finding that he, with no apparent rational motive for the attack, had been in a drug-induced, “not reasonably foreseeable” psychosis that rendered him incapable of knowing that his actions were wrong, or of reasonably controlling them.

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Virginia Doctor Convicted of Decade-Long Drug Distribution Conspiracy

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An Arlington County doctor has been convicted on all but one count of oxycodone distribution in a 21-count indictment naming her as part of decade-long drug distribution conspiracy, Salvador Rizzo reports for the Washington Post. Ball testified at her trial in U.S.

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The Case for Punishing ‘Police Bystanders’

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For the sake of civilian safety, police must intervene if they see misconduct by colleagues,, according to a forthcoming paper in the George Washington Law Review. Kaufman writes that Congress and state legislatures should enact criminal laws mandating a “duty to intervene” in their colleagues’ misuse of force.

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Media companies investigating data leak uncover global abuse of cyber-surveillance technology

JURIST

The list of numbers includes the editor of the Financial Times, Roula Khalaf, co-founder of Indian news website The Wire, Siddharth Varadarajan, and associates of the murdered Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

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President Reagan shooter given unconditional release by US judge

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Hinckley was sent to a Washington D.C. After Hinckley attempted to assassinate President Reagan, he was found not guilty by reason of insanity at trial but has since received mental health treatment. mental hospital for treatment but since 2016 has resided in Virginia.

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