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Badr on Religion, Colonialism, and Legal Pluralism: The Story and Legacy of the Egyptian Choice of Law Rules for Personal Status International and Interpersonal Conflicts of Law

Conflict of Laws

The latter focal point includes a special examination of the challenges associated with the application of Islamic Shariah law to non-Muslims and the reluctance of the Coptic Orthodox Church to recognize divorce decrees issued by Egyptian courts.

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Self-Help Information by the Courts in 2021

CourtTechBulletin

Indiana courts use a portal E-filing model that allows the public to choose from several providers. For example, USLegalPro has guided forms for divorce, name change, eviction, and small claims. Very well done. The nice thing about their web page is that it provides a feature comparison page.

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The Biggest Crop in Prison Gardens: Hope

The Crime Report

IGP is now offered in 11 California prisons, one juvenile correctional facility in Indiana, and one Ohio correctional facility. Timler agreed that correctional gardening programs needed to be explicitly divorced from the the kind of exploitive agriculture that characterized many American correctional institutions.

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Son Sues Parents for Tossing His Porn & Wins

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Michigan plaintiff files a lawsuit against his parents for throwing away his pornography collection and they're ordered to pay damages.

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Path To Well-Being In Law: Episode 18: Janet Stearns

ALPS

I’m divorced and I haven’t been able to visit my child. Again, thanks to a lot of great advocacy by Tish Vincent and others involved with the LAP in Michigan, the law schools in Michigan, and a month later, Indiana followed Michigan’s suit just after the pandemic had started. And this really sucks right now.