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OCTOBER 16, 2021

The Belarusian Ministry of Internal Affairs announced Thursday new media restrictions that may result in citizens who subscribe to “extremist” social media channels receiving up to seven years imprisonment. The Main Directorate for Fighting Organized Crime (GUBOP), a ministerial body in the country, announced that generalists sites that include extremist activities, including encrypted communication platforms like Telegram, would now be deemed as extremist.

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Written by Marco Farina, Italian lawyer, PhD in Civil Procedural Law at the University La Sapienza of Rome – Adjunct Professor of Civil Procedural Law at the University LUISS of Rome. In a judgment rendered on 16 September 2021, the Italian Supreme Court ( Corte di Cassazione ) reversed a decision from the Court of Appeal of Rome, which had denied recognition and enforcement of a monetary judgment issued by the Royal Court of Guernsey, due to a breach of the fundamental rights of defence alleged

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JURIST

OCTOBER 16, 2021

The Polish parliament voted Thursday on a bill for a border wall with Belarus, a major escalation in its recent migrant dispute with its neighbor. Poland has accused Belarus of allowing Middle Eastern migrants to transit through the country and enter Poland as revenge for EU sanctions leveraged against Belarus earlier this year. The Polish bill no. 1657 authorizes the wall in the name of state border security and empowers the Polish Minister of Internal Affairs to begin construction on border la

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OCTOBER 16, 2021

The attributes of the decision-making person is of paramount importance in any dispute resolution process.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 16, 2021

A man shot by Kyle Rittenhouse filed a lawsuit Thursday in federal court, claiming that local law enforcement officials conspired with white nationalist militias during protests over the police shooting of Jacob Blake last year in Wisconsin. Blake, a Black man, was shot seven times in the back by a Kenosha police officer, which led to protests for racial justice in the town.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Singapore’s media regulator, the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA), canceled Friday the license of a local news site for failure to disclose all its sources of funding in its 2020 annual declaration. The Online Citizen (TOC) was founded 15 years ago and often publishes stories that were critical of the government, one of which recently led to a journalist being sued for defamation by the Singapore Prime Minister earlier this year.

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OCTOBER 16, 2021

Tuffy’s Pet Foods is recalling certain packages of Pure Vita Salmon Entrée Dog Food due to elevated levels of vitamin D.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Former Taliban commander Haji Najibullah has pleaded not guilty in US federal court Friday to murdering three US soldiers In Afghanistan in 2008, according to Reuters. Najibullah entered the plea in a Manhattan federal court after the prosecutor unveiled the new charges last week. Haji had previously been accused of kidnapping New York Times Journalist David Rohde and Afghan journalist Tahir Ludin, as well as one other, at gunpoint in an unrelated 2008 incident.

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OCTOBER 16, 2021

The Heights at Columbia Knoll was recently sued over allegations of elder abuse and negligence.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Local activists and rights groups in California filed a lawsuit Thursday against the Marin County Sheriff for illegally sharing the license plate and other sensitive data of drivers with federal and out-of-state agencies over a period of years. Three local residents filed the suit, represented by lawyers from the ACLU and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), seeking to end Sheriff Robert Doyle’s practice of having his office scan drivers’ license plates to identify and track in

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OCTOBER 16, 2021

The statutory power of court under Section 34 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 (Act, 1996) is limited to the setting aside of the award subject to the grounds provided therein.

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OCTOBER 16, 2021

Nippon Steel filed a lawsuit Thursday alleging that Toyota Motor infringed on a patent for non-oriented magnetic steel sheets used in electric vehicles. The Japanese steelmaker is suing for compensation totaling 20 billion yen ($177 million). Nippon has also named public-listed Chinese steelmaker Baoshan Iron & Steel in the lawsuit for producing and supplying the allegedly patent-infringing steel to Toyota.

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OCTOBER 16, 2021

On this National Dictionary Day, a defamation case should remind everyone not to forget their proper punctuation with their proper spelling (particularly those of us who are recidivists). In Australia, a court found that a real estate agent committed defamation due to the lack of an apostrophe. On Oct. 22, 2020, posted the message accusing his former workplace and boss Stuart Gan of not paying retirement funds to all its workers: “Oh Stuart Gan!!

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OCTOBER 16, 2021

“Biden’s Supreme Court commission is leaving everyone unhappy”: Ariane de Vogue of CNN has this report. Alex Swoyer of The Washington Times reports that “ Biden’s Supreme Court commission splits over court-packing proposals.” Jon Levine of The New York Post reports that “ Conservatives resign from Biden’s Supreme Court packing commission.” In commentary, online at Slate, Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern have a jurisprudence essay titled

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JURIST

OCTOBER 16, 2021

An urgent writ petition was filed Saturday calling for an end to the protests in the wake of the lynching and murder of a Dalit laborer at the Singhu border, a farmer protest site near Delhi. The body of Lakhbir Singh was found mutilated and hung on the police barricades in the early morning Friday. The petition has been filed by Advocate Shashank Shekhar Jha under Article 32 of the Indian Constitution, which empowers the Supreme Court to issue writs for upholding the fundamental rights of citi

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OCTOBER 16, 2021

During the Trump Administration, we discussed a series of Hatch Act violations by officials and the response of the White House Chief of Staff that “ nobody really cares.” It is certainly true that the Hatch Act represents little more than a speed bump in governmental ethics as was evident this week when White House press secretary Jen Psaki was hit by a complaint from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW).

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JURIST

OCTOBER 16, 2021

The House committee investigating the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol announced Thursday that it would move to hold Trump ally and political strategist Stephen K. Bannon in criminal contempt after Bannon failed to attend a deposition in refusal to comply with a subpoena. Bannon was a key advisor to former president Trump advisor for years, and Bannon was still in regular communication with Trump before the riot.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 16, 2021

The US has been elected into a 3-year term to the UN Human Rights Council by the UN General Assembly. The US ran unopposed in the election session and received 168 votes out of all 193 members in the General Assembly. The election occurred on Thursday in the Human Rights Council Office located in Geneva. The 3-year term starts in January. President Biden has reiterated that “ human rights will be the centre of our foreign policy,” a campaign promise he announced since becoming Pres

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