JURIST
FEBRUARY 4, 2024
A Pakistani court on Saturday sentenced former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, to seven years in prison for violating a marriage law when they wed in 2018, officials and a lawyer for the couple said. The prosecution asserted Khan and his wife violated Islamic law, which says that a woman must wait three months before re-marrying.
Above The Law
FEBRUARY 4, 2024
Mayo Clinic has entered into a collaboration with TruLite Health — Mayo is helping the Phoenix-based startup develop its software platform designed to address providers’ clinical bias. The health system said it chose to collaborate with TruLite because of the platform’s potential to mitigate health inequities and enhance patient outcomes at the point of care.
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JURIST
FEBRUARY 4, 2024
The Chamber of Deputies of Argentina, which is the lower chamber of the country’s legislature, passed on Friday an omnibus bill titled “Bases and Starting Points for the Liberty of Argentines” that included a number of reforms and was proposed by libertarian President Javier Milei. The bill passed with a majority vote of 144 in favor and 109 against, following a debate that began Wednesday.
Conflict of Laws
FEBRUARY 4, 2024
Introduction: I have been reporting on this blog some recent cases from the Dubai Supreme Court (DSC) regarding the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments (see here , here and here ). Reading these posts may have given the legitimate impression that the enforcement of foreign judgments in the UAE, and especially in Dubai, is particularly challenging.
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The Relativity Blog
FEBRUARY 4, 2024
As part of Relativity’s Justice for Change program, Law In Order collaborated with the National Justice Project to shine a light on punitive practices in Australia’s youth detention centres—including their treatment of individuals with disabilities.
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JonathanTurley
FEBRUARY 4, 2024
For most of us, climate activists throwing soup at the Mona Lisa and gluing themselves to art only makes environmentalists look unhinged and hysterical. They are doing for the environment what PETA did to animal rights. alienating millions while reducing science to the level of graffiti. However, in an LA Times opinion piece, USC professor Shannon Gibson has praised this in-your-face activism as a positive force in prompting a broader dialogue.
At the Lectern
FEBRUARY 4, 2024
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear the four oral arguments on its February calendar. The arguments will be live streamed. Opinions in the cases should file by May 6. Because of the oral arguments, the court will not be conferencing (also here ) this week and there will be a double conference next week.
FDA Law Blog
FEBRUARY 4, 2024
By Steven J. Gonzalez & Gail H. Javitt & Allyson B. Mullen — On January 18, 2024, the director of FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health and the chief medical officer and acting director of CMS’ Center for Clinical Standards and Quality issued a joint press release supporting FDA’s recent proposed rule regulating Laboratory Developed Tests (LDTs).
JURIST
FEBRUARY 4, 2024
Senegal presidential candidate Khalifa Sall expressed Saturday his opposition to postponing the country’s presidential elections. This stance comes in direct response to Senegal President Macky Sall’s announcement of the decision to postpone the elections, which were originally scheduled for February 25, 2024. The postponement was attributed to alleged corruption in the final approval process of the 20 candidates selected to run for the presidency of Senegal.
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HowAppealing
FEBRUARY 4, 2024
“In Trump v. Anderson, the Respondents’ Theory Would Render Unconstitutional Every Speaker and President Pro Tempore Since 1789, as Well as President Grant’s VP and Presidential Candidate George McGovern; Justice Scalia erred because there are no ‘Officers of the United States’ appointed outside Article II, Section II”: Josh Blackman and Seth Barrett Tillman have this post at “The Volokh Conspiracy.” The post “In Trump v.
JURIST
FEBRUARY 4, 2024
Australian police stated at a press conference on Friday that their investigation into the pro-Palestinian demonstration outside the Sydney Opera House last year did not find any evidence of protesters chanting “gas the Jews” However, the investigation did say other antisemitic slogans were used. The demonstration took place following the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7.
JonathanTurley
FEBRUARY 4, 2024
Shellyne Rodriguez, the machete-wielding former Hunter College professor, has now been fired by the Cooper Union college. The school previously stood with Rodriguez after she trashed a student display and held a machete to the neck of a journalist. It appears that Rodriguez’s anti-Israel comments were finally too much for Cooper Union. What is interesting is what it takes at both Hunter College and The Cooper Union to be fired.
JURIST
FEBRUARY 4, 2024
A DC federal judge indefinitely postponed the trial date in former US President Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference case. US District Judge Tanya Chutkan vacated the trial date, originally set for March 4, since both parties are still awaiting a decision from the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit on Trump’s claim of immunity. Chutkan previously stayed any further court filings in the case for the same reason.
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JURIST
FEBRUARY 4, 2024
The Supreme Court of Wisconsin, in a per curiam opinion, ordered state election officials on Friday to include US Representative Dean Phillips on the state’s Democratic presidential primary ballot. The court noted that, under Wisconsin law , the ballot selection committee has discretion to determine if candidates are “generally advocated or recognized in the national news media throughout the United States.” If this standard is met, the committee has to place the candidate on t
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