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JULY 8, 2023

A Royal Commission into Australia’s Robodebt scheme has referred several government officials for civil and criminal prosecution after handing down its final report on Friday. The inquiry included 46 days of hearings, received over 1000 submissions and heard from 115 witnesses regarding the unlawful scheme. The report contains an “additional sealed chapter that is not part of the bound report,” which recommends referrals of multiple individuals involved in the scheme for prosec

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JULY 8, 2023

“Split appeals court says Tennessee’s trans care ban can go into effect during appeal; ‘We may be wrong,’ Judge Jeffrey Sutton wrote for himself and Judge Amul Thapar; They are the only judges to rule that bans on gender-affirming care for minors are likely constitutional”: Chris Geidner has this post at his “Law Dork” Substack site.

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JURIST

JULY 8, 2023

Irish barristers have scheduled another in a series of protests regarding pay in relation to Criminal Legal Aid cases. The campaign, entitled “A Celebration of Failure 2” will take place outside the Criminal Courts of Justice in Dublin on July 14. The purpose of this event, which follows similar demonstrations in March and April 2022, is to “again mark the failure of the Irish State to honour its rule of law obligations in criminal legal aid funding.” One of the main issu

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JULY 8, 2023

Divided three-judge Sixth Circuit panel grants emergency stay pending appeal of district court’s preliminary injunction blocking Tennessee law that prohibits healthcare providers from performing gender-affirming surgeries and administering hormones or puberty blockers to transgender minors: You can access today’s ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit at this link.

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JULY 8, 2023

A group of United Nations (UN) human rights experts called on the Russian Federation on Friday to investigate and bring to justice the perpetrators of a violent attack against journalist Yelena Milashina and human rights lawyer Alexander Nemov. The incident occurred on July 4 in the Russian Republic of Chechnya. Milashina was covering and Nemov was participating in the trial of Zarema Musaeva , the mother of exiled opposition activists who challenged the leader of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Ka

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JURIST

JULY 8, 2023

On Thursday, in his letter titled “The Cup of Blood,” the Haitian ombudsman expressed that the failure to shed light on the assassination of the 48th President of Haiti, Jovenil Moïse, will lead to a train of violence. The letter was published on account of the second anniversary of the assassination. The Office De La Protection Du Citoyen (OPC) expressed that the larger scheme of violence caused the assassination and the failure to bring justice and will only lead to more violence i

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JULY 8, 2023

Privacy and cybersecurity 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 online security, often without our situational awareness.

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JULY 8, 2023

As the U.S. Supreme Court began its summer recess last week, it’s time to look at the high court’s review of California Supreme Court cases. The only matters of note were certiorari denials. (Let us know if we missed anything.) There was one civil case cert denial: Pulliam v. HNL Automotive Inc. (2022) 13 Cal.5th 127, cert. denied (2023) 214 L.Ed.2d 336 [143 S.Ct. 566].

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JURIST

JULY 8, 2023

The US announced Friday it would provide Ukraine with cluster munitions, despite a Thursday plea from Human Rights Watch (HRW) for both Russia and Ukraine to cease their use of the deadly weapons. In a White House press briefing Friday, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan stressed that the US deferred the decision for as long as they could but ultimately found that the harm of a continued Russian offensive outweighed the risk of providing the munitions.

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JULY 8, 2023

“Student debt: Why Biden’s backup plan may wind up in trouble again at the Supreme Court.” John Fritze of USA Today has this report. The post “Student debt: Why Biden’s backup plan may wind up in trouble again at the Supreme Court.” appeared first on How Appealing.

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JURIST

JULY 8, 2023

Ashley Wong is a law student at CUHK and JURIST’s Deputy Bureau Chief in Hong Kong. On July 3, the Hong Kong Police Force (HKPF) offered HK$1 million bounties for each arrest of eight exiled democracy activists, who are accused of violating the National Security Law. This is the first time Hong Kong has offered bounties with respect to its National Security Law, which was promulgated and applied in Hong Kong on June 30, 2020, to safeguard national security.

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JULY 8, 2023

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has delivered a body blow to free speech as well as academic freedom in a ruling against a statistics professor at North Carolina State University. Professor Stephen Porter objected to what he considered the lower standards used by his school to hire minority faculty. The school declared such views as insufficiently “collegial” and retaliated against him.

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JURIST

JULY 8, 2023

A District of Columbia (DC) Bar Association Disciplinary committee released a report Friday recommending that former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani be disbarred and prevented from practicing law due to his involvement in lawsuits attempting to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. Giuliani was Mayor of New York City from 1994-2001, a 2008 presidential candidate, a cybersecurity advisor to former President Donald Trump and Trump’s personal attorney for much of Trump’s preside

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JULY 8, 2023

“Leading Democrats Vote Against Clinton’s Strident Liberal Nominee; Judge Lee Sarokin’s stormy path to, and quick exit from, Third Circuit”: Ed Whelan has this post at his “Confirmation Tales” Substack site. The post “Leading Democrats Vote Against Clinton’s Strident Liberal Nominee; Judge Lee Sarokin’s stormy path to, and quick exit from, Third Circuit” appeared first on How Appealing.

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JULY 8, 2023

“Democrats, spare me your complaints about partisan justices”: Columnist Henry Olsen has this essay online at The Washington Post. The post “Democrats, spare me your complaints about partisan justices” appeared first on How Appealing.

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