Block on Iowa’s strict abortion law can be appealed, the state Supreme Court says

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Law society issues citation to another former Alberta justice minister

Descrease article font size Increase article font sizeAnother former Alberta justice minister has been cited by the professional oversight body for lawyers for his conduct.In the citation posted to the Law Society of Alberta website, Kaycee Madu is alleged to have “engaged in conduct that undermined respect for the administration of justice” when he called Edmonton Police Service Chief Dale McFee over a traffic ticket on March 10, 2021. CBC News first broke the story of the phone call. Hours after news of that phone call was made public, then-premier Jason Kenney stripped Madu of his cabinet post,…
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US News & World Report indefinitely postpones law and medical school rankings amid backlash

Lists originally slated for release on April 18(Reuters) – US News & World Report has delayed the release of its law school and medical school rankings for a second time, without a new publication date. In a Wednesday message posted to its website, US News said it is working to address a large volume of inquiries from schools and will publish the new law and medical rankings “when this work has been completed.” The rankings were initially slated to publish April 18, then pushed back to April 25 due to an “unprecedented” number of questions from schools. US News…
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Is the Trump Indictment a “Legal Embarrassment”?

Last week, Donald Trump surrendered to authorities and was arraigned in a Manhattan courtroom on thirty-four felony stem charges from hush-money payments made during the 2016 Presidential campaign. (The money went to the adult-film star Stormy Daniels, who claims to have had an affair with Trump.) In an indictment that was unsealed after the hearing, Trump is accused of falsifying business records; an accompanying statement of facts alleges that the former President “violated elections laws and made and caused false entries in the business records of various entities in New York.” A number of legal commentators across the political spectrum…
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