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FEBRUARY 17, 2024

A United Nations report published Friday indicated that the Taliban’s restrictions on women’s attire and its requirement that women have a male guardian are limiting Afghan women’s freedom of movement and access to education, employment, health care and other basic rights. The report states that many Afghan women are not leaving their homes alone due to decrees issued by the Taliban, who took control of Afghanistan in August 2021.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2024

“Trump’s anger at courts, frayed alliances could upend approach to judicial issues”: Josh Dawsey and Marianne LeVine of The Washington Post have this report. The post “Trump’s anger at courts, frayed alliances could upend approach to judicial issues” appeared first on How Appealing.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

The UK Central Criminal Court handed down its sentence Friday in the landmark female genital mutilation (FGM) case against defendant Amina Noor for carrying out an FGM procedure on a UK citizen oversees, sentencing Noor to 7 years imprisonment. The victim of the crime, under the alias of Jade for her protection, was three years old when Noor took her to Kenya where she was subjected to FGM.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2024

This week brought the eighth annual Startup Alley pitch competition, the opening night event of ABA Techshow at which 15 startups competed for top honors by delivering their pitches live to an audience of Techshow attendees. Now on my way home from Techshow, I finally have a chance to post the winners. Here were the companies that won the top three spots: AltFee , a product that helps law firms replace the billable hour with fixed-fee pricing.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito granted a stay order Friday to appellants contesting the terms of a $2.46 billion settlement between sexual abuse victims and the Boy Scouts of America (BSA). BSA declared bankruptcy in 2020 amid thousands of lawsuits for sexual abuse against Scout Leaders. A settlement was approved by a bankruptcy judge in September of 2022 and upheld by a federal court in March of the following year.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court announced Friday that it will hear an appeal from Derek Lee, a man convicted of second-degree murder who is challenging the state’s law requiring mandatory life prison sentences for those found guilty of the offense who did not intend to kill. The court granted Lee’s petition for an appeal on the issues of whether Lee’s mandatory life sentence violates Article I §13 of the Pennsylvania Constitution and the Eighth Amendment of the US Constitution.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2024

The United Nations Agenda 2030 with its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) seems to have a blind spot for the role of private and private international law. That blind spot is beginning to be closed. A collective volume with global outlook published in 2021 addressed “ the private side of transforming our world ”: each of the 17 SDGs was discussed in one chapter of the book devoted to the specific relevance of private law and private international law.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Zimbabwean Vice President Constantino Chiwenga warned young people in the country on Thursday that the government will block all higher education scholarships from LGBTQ+ advocacy organizations. In his statement, Chimwenga denounced LGBTQ+ organizations’ scholarships as “unlawful” and a move by “foreign interests” to recruit less privileged students into “lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual activities.” He went on to say that: Our schools and institu

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FEBRUARY 17, 2024

I have written about the disastrous policies of Mayor Brandon Johnson for Chicago. As a native son, it is hard to watch this wonderful city undermined by Johnson and radical allies in the city council. Some initiatives like reparations and state-funded grocery stores will cost money but will not impose nearly the costs of Johnson’s dismal record on crime and taxes.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

India’s National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) recommended Friday the imposition of President’s rule in West Bengal state in its report to India’s President Droupadi Murmu after allegations surfaced of multiple sexual assaults in the state perpetrated by a member of the ruling state party Trinamool Congress (TMC). President’s rule is when a state government is removed and direct rule by the President of India is imposed.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2024

We have previously discussed the increasingly aggressive role of the White House Counsel’s Office (WHCO) in defending President Joe Biden, including spreading disinformation about various investigations. WHCO spokesman Ian Sams has taken the lead in attacking critics and denying facts related to corruption and other allegations. Now, the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) is blasting a memo in which the WHCO instructs reporters on how to cover the recent Hur report and allegati

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

The Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (HHS-OIG), the government watchdog responsible for oversight of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), published a report Thursday alleging that significant deficiencies in safeguarding unaccompanied migrant children arriving in the US have been discovered. According to the report, HHS, which is tasked with sheltering unaccompanied migrant children upon their arrival, often transferred them to adult sponsors

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Leading technology corporations such as Adobe, Amazon, Google, IBM, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI and TikTok convened at the Munich Security Conference on Friday to announce a voluntary commitment aimed at safeguarding democratic elections from the disruptive potential of artificial intelligence tools. The initiative, which was joined by 12 additional companies such as Elon Musk’s X, introduces a framework designed to address the challenge posed by AI-generated deepfakes that could deceive voter

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) denied South Africa’s request for urgent safeguards in Gaza in the form of additional measures Friday, as Israel appears to be preparing a ground invasion of Rafah. Israel responded to the request Thursday, requesting it be rejected on the basis that it lacked legal or factual basis. South Africa submitted the request February 12 in response to the threat of a ground invasion by Israeli troops in Rafah, where 280,000 Palestinians are taking refuge.

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