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Local NewsThe Canadian Constitution Foundation has championed people fighting vaccine mandates and vaccine passports in courtPublished March 17, 2023 • 3 minute readThe Calgary Municipal Building. Photo by Brendan Miller /PostmediaArticle content
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On March 8, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) published a special edition of its Supervisory Highlights report that focused on back-end fees charged to consumers in connection with deposits, auto servicing, mortgage servicing, payday and small-dollar lending, and student loan servicing. In the CFPB’s view, nearly all of the fee practices highlighted in the report constitute unfair, deceptive, or abusive acts or practices (UDAAPs) in violation of federal law. the Supervisory Highlights report is another attempt by the CFPB to pressure financial service providers to reform fee practices involving so-called “junk” fees.
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The CFPB noted several…
During a federal committee hearing examining Canada’s bail system, Conservative MP Larry Brock questioned University of Windsor assistant law professor Danardo Jones in a way some are describing as racist.
Last week, Jones provided testimony before the House of Commons standing committee on justice and human rights. He pointed to inequities in Canada’s judicial system for racialized and marginalized people.
When people are racially profiled by police, Jones said, that leads to an over-incarceration of Black and Indigenous people. Since good is based on credibility and trustworthiness, he said that puts racialized people on an unfair playing field.
“Some people,…
This post was originally published on the RLUIPA Defense blog by Evan Seeman, Esq. of Robinson & Cole, and is reposted with permission.
A district court has ruled that the City of Meriden, Connecticut (the City) discriminated against Omar Islamic Center Inc. following the City’s denial of the Islamic Center’s application to move its mosque to another location. The Islamic Center (the Center) outgrew its prior location – a 1,200 square foot space above a pizza restaurant in a neighboring city – and was unable to accommodate the members of the assembly, the number of students interested in its Quran…
Prominent Michigan attorney Geoffrey Fieger, 72, had a stroke earlier this month and is now in active rehabilitation, his wife and a business associate said Wednesday.
In a statement, Keenie Fieger said that her husband had an elective procedure March 1 for a minor heart arrhythmia. Following the procedure, it was determined that he had suffered a stroke.“The recovery time from an event such as this varies from patient to patient, therefore it’s difficult to predict how long Geoffrey’s recovery will take and when he will be back in the office,” Keenie Fieger said in the statement. “For those…
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Increase article font sizeIsraelis took to the streets Saturday to protest planned judicial reforms that some say could lead to authoritarian powers for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.Tens of thousands of people have protested the judicial overhaul every weekend for the last two months.
Israelis protest Saturday against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to overhaul Israel’s judicial system, in Tel Aviv, Israel. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov).Netanyahu’s government says the overhaul is meant to correct an imbalance that has given courts too much power and prevented lawmakers from carrying out the voters’ will. But…
An NWT Supreme Court judge has signed off on an order to appoint another lawyer to potentially help Devon Larabie represent himself in his murder trial later this year.
That’s if Larabie dismisses his current lawyer before the trial.
Larabie is scheduled to go on trial Nov. 14 for second degree murder in the death of Breanna Menacho, whose body was found in a Yellowknife apartment in May 2020.
Larabie’s current lawyer is Michael Spratt, an Ottawa-based criminal defense lawyer who also works in the Northwest Territories.
Spratt is the fourth publicly-appointed lawyer to represent Larabie in this case. Larabie…
LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–$CCSI #CCSI—The Schall Law Firm, a national shareholder rights litigation firm, announced that it is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Consensus Cloud Solutions, Inc. (“Consensus Cloud Solutions” or “the Company”) (NASDAQ: CCSI) for violations of the securities laws.The investigation focuses on whether the Company issued false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose information pertinent to investors. Consensus Cloud Solutions disclosed on February 22, 2023, that “as a result of the unintentional errors noted [below], the audit committee (the ‘Audit Committee’) of the board of directors of the Company reached a determination to restate its…