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The Spanish Parliament passed a bill on Thursday which seeks to protect child victims of sexual abuse. The bill was approved by a landslide 268 votes in favour and 57 against, whilst 16 elected to abstain. “El Proyecto de Ley Orgánica de protección integral a la infancia y la adolescencia frente a la violencia,” more commonly known as the “Rhodes law,” sets forth to guarantee the fundamental rights of children and adolescents to physical, psychological and moral integrity

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“The chipping away of a woman’s right to choose; This most private personal decision, as the Supreme Court declared, must be protected”: Mary Ann Sorrentino has this essay online at The Boston Globe.

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APRIL 17, 2021

Bernie Madoff, former Wall Street kingpin and mastermind of the largest Ponzi scheme in history, died Wednesday at the age of 82 in prison while serving his 150-year sentence. He spent about 12 years in prison for engineering a fraud as high as $65 billion. His death resulted from natural causes as he had been suffering from terminal kidney disease and other health complications.

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APRIL 17, 2021

“Federal appeals court overturns verdict that found Sherwin-Williams, other paint companies responsible for lead poisoning”: Bruce Vielmetti has this front page article in today’s edition of The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel about a ruling that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued yesterday.

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APRIL 17, 2021

The Florida Senate passed House Bill 1 on Thursday, a bill which “combat[s] public disorder” by requiring that municipalities allow law enforcement “to respond appropriately to protect persons and property during a riot or an unlawful assembly” and imposes civil liability for any damages incurred during the riot if a municipality breaches this duty.

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APRIL 17, 2021

On Friday, media tycoon Jimmy Lai and two other pro-democracy activists received sentences for unauthorized assembly relating to 2019 protests in Hong Kong. Lai was found guilty in two separate trials for unauthorized assembly. He will serve 14 months in prison for his involvement in the pro-democracy protests. On April 1, 2021 , a Hong Kong district court found Lai and several other activists guilty of unauthorized assembly because of their involvement in peaceful demonstrations in August 2019.

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APRIL 17, 2021

“Controversial MN Supreme Court ruling fuels legislative change to protect sexual assault survivors; With student support, the Minnesota Legislature is working to close the ‘intoxication loophole'”: Samantha Woodward of The Minnesota Daily, the student newspaper of the University of Minnesota, has this report.

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APRIL 17, 2021

US President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that his administration is withdrawing American troops from Afghanistan beginning May 1. “We will not conduct a hasty rush to the exit. We’ll do it—we’ll do it responsibly, deliberately, and safely. And we will do it in full coordination with our allies and partners, who now have more forces in Afghanistan than we do,” he said.

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APRIL 17, 2021

“Supreme Court rulings on traffic stops reinforce structural racism in policing; The court was well aware of what it was doing”: Dean A. Strang and Nancy Gertner of The Boston Globe have this report. And online at Politico Magazine, Christopher Wright Durocher has an essay titled “ How the Supreme Court Helped Create ‘Driving While Black’; A reckoning with police violence must include a reckoning with how the nation’s highest court enabled it.

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APRIL 17, 2021

Over 100 major corporations, including Starbucks, Apple, and Facebook, joined a full page ad in the New York Times affirming their support for democracy and accessible voting. The statement reads: As Americans, we know that in our democracy we should not expect to agree on everything. However, regardless of our political affiliations, we believe the very foundation of our electoral process rests upon the ability of each of us to cast our ballots for the candidates of our choice.

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APRIL 17, 2021

“Stylish judicial writing undermines legal system, may breach judges’ duties — new paper”: Alison Frankel’s “On the Case” from Thomson Reuters News & Insight has this post about a new paper that I linked to in this earlier post.

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APRIL 17, 2021

The Constitutional Court of Moldova handed the country’s President Maia Sandu a victory on Thursday when it ruled she can dissolve the country’s parliament. President Sandu has been at odds with the parliament since winning a landslide election against the previous president, pro-Russia incumbent Igor Dodon. The parliament is dominated by Dodon’s Socialist Party and has prevented Sandu from forming a government.

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APRIL 17, 2021

“The Supreme Court’s key Second Amendment opinion and what might come next”: Joan Biskupic of CNN has this report.

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APRIL 17, 2021

Mexico’s Senate voted Thursday to pass several measures that seek to combat nepotism and corruption by restructuring the country’s Supreme Court. One notable measure will extend the current Supreme Court President’s term from four to six years. Arturo Zaldívar Lelo de Larrea was elected Supreme Court President and took office on January 2, 2019, with a term set to end on December 31, 2022.

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APRIL 17, 2021

“What is the perfect number of Supreme Court justices?” Columnist Alexandra Petri has this op-ed in today’s edition of The Washington Post.

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APRIL 17, 2021

Tory Sanders called police for help after he got lost en route to Memphis and ran out of gas. Hours later, he was dead.

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APRIL 17, 2021

“The 2020 election still hovers over the Supreme Court with another pending Pennsylvania case”: Ariane de Vogue of CNN has this report.

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APRIL 17, 2021

Uber considers cannabis, public transit pays, and Lyft drivers get fixed. LegalRideshare breaks it down.

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APRIL 17, 2021

“Have tech platforms captured the Supreme Court?” Law professor Jonathan M. Barnett has this essay online at The Hill.

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APRIL 17, 2021

Attorneys for the family members believe the Boeing 737-500's autothrottle failed, causing or contributing to the deadly crash.

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APRIL 17, 2021

The Army has announced servicewide and command-specific changes in the wake of a scathing independent report last year that called for a major overhaul of both its Criminal Investigation Command and its Sexual Harassment/Assault Response and Prevention Program, reports Army Times. The changes include the following, according to an Army statement: Army-wide.

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APRIL 17, 2021

Giovonn Joseph-McDade was shot dead after a low-speed pursuit for an expired vehicle registration.

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APRIL 17, 2021

Anot her treat for German-reading friends and colleagues of CoL: On the occasion of Erik Jayme’s 85th birthday on 7th June 2019, Martin Gebauer and Stefan Huber , both at the University of Tübingen (one of the few „Universities of Excellence“ in Germany), convened the symposium “ Politisches Kollisionsrecht: Sachnormzwecke, Hoheitsinteressen, Kultur ”.

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APRIL 17, 2021

A group of 10 US senators led by Ed Markey (D-MA) introduced legislation Wednesday that would require Secretary of State Antony Blinken to investigate Myanmar’s military attacks on the Rohingya minority and decide whether they constitute genocide. Since 2017, more than 750,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh hoping to escape the military’s systemic killing of their people, says the legislation.

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Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and security, often without our situational awareness.

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