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AUGUST 20, 2023

The ACLU and Planned Parenthood of the Heartland announced Friday that they intend to appeal a Lancaster County district court ruling in favor of a Nebraska law restricting both abortions and gender-affirming healthcare to the Nebraska Supreme Court. The suit centers around the Nebraska state constitution’s one-subject clause , which restricts the purview of laws to only one issue.

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AUGUST 20, 2023

Video | Deborah Savadra demonstrates a few quick tricks for making your automatic paragraph numbering behave. The post Getting Automatic Paragraph Numbering Back on Track appeared first on Attorney at Work.

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JURIST

AUGUST 20, 2023

The European Union (EU) claimed on Friday that Hong Kong experienced declines in autonomy, democracy, and fundamental freedoms in its 2022 report on Hong Kong. The EU also cast doubt on China’s commitment to its ‘One Country, Two Systems’ principle. The Hong Kong government released a statement in response on Saturday, countering that claims in the report are baseless attacks, slanders, and smears.

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AUGUST 20, 2023

Analog Attorney | Some people organize better with ranged pages instead of dated pages. What we need is blank paper, a ruler and a vague idea. The post Best Undated Planners appeared first on Attorney at Work.

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AUGUST 20, 2023

United Nations humanitarian coordinator for Ukraine Denise Brown condemned a Russian missile strike in the city of Chernihiv on Saturday. The Saturday strike on the northern city came as many citizens were leaving church on the Eastern Orthodox holiday of the Transfiguration of the Lord. It resulted in seven casualties, including a six-year-old child, and left hundreds wounded.

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JURIST

AUGUST 20, 2023

Pakistani President Arif Alvi announced on social media Sunday that he asked his staff to return a pending espionage bill and a pending military bill to Parliament unsigned, raising constitutional concerns from the country’s Ministry of Law and Justice. The two bills at issue are the Official Secrets Amendment Bill 2023 and the Pakistan Army Amendment Bill 2023.

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AUGUST 20, 2023

The annual meeting of the California Lawyers Association in San Diego next month will feature some special Supreme Court-related programs. The meeting runs from Thursday September 21 through Saturday September 23, but Thursday is the Supreme Court day. First will be “A Conversation With the Chief Justice of California, Patricia Guerrero.” Then San Francisco Chronicle writer and long-time Supreme Court watcher Bob Egelko will interview retired Justice Ming Chin in a session titled, &#

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JURIST

AUGUST 20, 2023

Iranian authorities arrested at least a dozen activists on Saturday ahead of the anniversary of nationwide protests that erupted in September 2022, according to a new report from Human Rights Watch (HRW). Last year, protests broke out across the region in response to the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after Iranian morality police arrested her for “improper” hijab.

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AUGUST 20, 2023

Penne Soltysik’s California Courts news release reports the Supreme Court appointed four people to the State Bar’s Board of Trustees, including the Board’s chair and vice chair, and five to the Bar’s Committee of Bar Examiners. The appointments are among the court’s many non-case-related responsibilities. (See: The multi-tasking Supreme Court.

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AUGUST 20, 2023

Vice Chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-eInsaf (PTI) party, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, was detained and arrested Saturday by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA). Qureshi was arrested on charges of exposing a letter last year claiming that former Prime Minister Imran Khan was ousted from power by the US. At a press conference on Saturday, Qureshi voiced his and his party’s trust in Khan’s leadership, and also stated he would challenge any delay to the country’s election in the courts.

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AUGUST 20, 2023

Below is my column in USA Today on the growing excitement among pundits on the prospects that former President Donald Trump could be going to jail. The celebration is a tad premature. Indeed, Trump could be convicted before the election and not be sent to prison for years, if ever. The prospect of prison depends on the specific conviction, long appellate challenges, and pardons.

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JURIST

AUGUST 20, 2023

India’s Jharkhand High Court on Thursday released its judgment ordering a new investigation into the killing of a man which took place in the district of Latehar in 2021. The court in its judgment held that the initial police investigation was “hasty” and that it must order a new investigation to stress that “the Rule of Law is meant for everybody.” Bramdev Singh, who is a member of a scheduled tribe, was shot and killed along with five others by local police.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 20, 2023

In the last few weeks, we have seen a disturbing uptick of reported threats against public figures, grand jurors , and judges. One of the most disturbing and disgraceful are threats against Judge Tanya S. Chutkan, who will be presiding in the trial of former president Donald Trump. Abigail Jo Shry, 43, of Alvin, Tex., allegedly left an Aug. 5 voice mail at Chutkan’s chambers in which she called her a racial slur and threatened her, saying, “If Trump doesn’t get elected in 2024, we are coming to

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JURIST

AUGUST 20, 2023

Hong Kong’s national security police reportedly detained and questioned the sister-in-law of Hong Kong fugitive pro-democracy activist Nathan Law-Kwun-Chung on Saturday, according to Hong Kong’s public broadcaster and local media. The wife of Law’s older brother was taken away by the National Security Department of the Hong Kong Police Force after a home raid.

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JURIST

AUGUST 20, 2023

A New York federal judge rejected former President Trump’s motion to stay his defamation case with author E. Jean Carroll on Friday pending his appeal of the court’s decision to deny his defense of presidential immunity. The case is being overseen by Judge Lewis Kaplan in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. Kaplan found that Trump did not meet his burden of demonstrating that a delay of the case was necessary.

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