Mike Segar/ReutersChris Cuomo won a new battle in his fight with CNN on Thursday, as a judge agreed to temporarily halt arbitration proceedings after Cuomo claimed the arbitrator tasked with settling his beef with the network being biased against him.
New York Supreme Court Justice Andrea Masley ruled that Cuomo’s arbitration would be stayed until at least July 6 so that the mediation firm JAMS could argue why its arbitrator, Stephen P. Sonnenberg, should remain on the case. Cuomo had asked the New York Supreme Court on Thursday to remove Sonnenberg from the former CNN star’s multimillion-dollar lawsuit against…
The Archbishop of Sydney voices strong criticism against a proposed legislation bringing down the age limit for voluntary assisted dying to 14 in the Australian Capital Territory.By Vatican News staff reporter
Archbishop Anthony Fisher of Sydney has warned that a new legal framework considered by the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) allows for children as young as 14 to receive voluntary assisted dying (VAD) could see euthanasia become available to “anyone that wants it”.
Voluntary assisted dying in Australia
Voluntary assisted dying was introduced in the Australian state on January 31 2023, following South Australia, Victoria, Queensland, Tasmania and more…
Amid his ongoing legal issues, Donald Trump has had to retain a host of lawyers to represent him during legal proceedings, as well as replace those who have left.
In recent months, the former president has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts as part of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s investigation. Trump is accused of falsifying business records over allegations he instructed his lawyer, Michael Cohen, to pay adult film star Stormy Daniels $130,000 to keep an alleged affair she and Trump had a secret ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
Cohen was reimbursed for the payment, which was…
Seyfarth Synopsis: Four days before enforcement of New York City Local Law 144 (“Local Law 144”) is set to begin, the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (“DCWP”) published FAQ guidance governing the use of Automated Employment Decision Tools (AEDTs). The release of the FAQs follows a series of roundtables DCWP has held with various stakeholders. As expected, DCWP is moving forward with the July 5, 2023 enforcement deadline.
Late this afternoon, DCWP released its highly anticipated FAQs regarding the requirements of Local Law 144 in an attempt to clarify the law’s requirements. The FAQs which can be accessed here…
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — When Florida prosecutors charged former Deputy Scot Peterson for his alleged inaction during the 2018 Parkland school massacre, they faced a major hurdle: no law precisely fit.
So it was not a surprise to legal observers that Peterson was acquitted Thursday of child neglect and other charges for failing to confront the shooter who killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Without an on-point statute to base their case upon, prosecutors tried to make the law fit the facts instead of the facts fit the law, lawyers said. That is always a tougher…
MEXICO CITY –
Mexico’s president called on US citizens Monday not to vote for Florida governor and Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis because of his state’s enactment of a tough immigration bill.
The comments about the Florida law, which the Mexican government has said is likely to cause discrimination against migrants, marks President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s second recent break with Mexico’s tradition of non-intervention in the politics of other countries. In March, he called Peru’s government racist and illegitimate.
“We could not remain silent,” Lopez Obrador said of the Florida law at news conference Monday.
Under the Florida law…
GEORGETOWN, Ky (WTVQ) — The Georgetown Police Department hosted training for Casey’s Law on Thursday at the Scott County Public Library.
The event begins at 5:30 pm and lasts until…
Casey’s Law is a legal proceeding which results in a court order for involuntary treatment for addiction.
The law was started by Casey’s mother, Charlotte Wethington, after losing her son to an overdose on August 19, 2002. He was 23 years old.
GPD shared information about the disease of addiction, how to go through the process of filing the petition and ended with a Narcan distribution.
Corey Councill, the Recovery…
BEIJING — The US recommended Americans consider traveling to China because of arbitrary law enforcement and exit bans and the risk of wrongful detentions.
No specific cases were cited, but the advisory came after a 78-year-old US citizen was sentenced to life in prison on spying charges in May.
It also followed the passage last week of a sweeping Foreign Relations Law that threatened countermeasures against those seen as harming China’s interests.
China has also recently passed a broadly written counterespionage law that has sent a chill through the foreign business community, with offices being raided, as well as a…