Following weeks of legal debate about foreign sovereignty and the nuances of US law, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia joined the fray with a friend-of-the-court brief and a breakdown of Saudi law that promises to complicate the PGA Tour’s counterclaim against the country’s Public Investment Fund (PIF).
The PIF and its governor, Yasir Al-Rumayyan, have argued that they are nothing more than investors in LIV Golf, which filed an antitrust lawsuit against the Tour last year. Lawyers for the Tour claim the Fund and Al-Rumayyan are deeply involved in the day-to-day operations of LIV and, therefore, must submit to US…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Thursday he would sign a Republican-sponsored resolution blocking new District of Columbia laws that overhaul how the nation’s capital prosecutes and punishes crime.WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Thursday he would sign a Republican-sponsored resolution blocking new District of Columbia laws that overhaul how the nation’s capital prosecutes and punishes crime.
City officials have spent nearly two decades trying to redo Washington’s criminal laws, including redefining crimes, changing criminal justice policies and reworking how sentences should be handed down after convictions. The overhaul passed the DC Council late last year.
But…
With heat-related illness on the rise amid record-breaking temperatures across the country, some Canadian cities are adopting by-laws that require landlords to keep their buildings below a maximum temperature.In Manitoba, organizations say that kind of regulation would get the cold shoulder.
“Conceptually, it’s extremely important, we all want to do what’s best,” Avrom Charach, spokesperson for the Professional Property Manager’s Association, said about keeping tenants cool. “Practically, sometimes it’s difficult.”
Shared Health reports 33 people went to hospitals with heat-related illnesses from June 1st to July 4th, up from just 18 last year. However, the city has by-laws to…
Geneva (AFP) – The Swiss, feeling the impact of global warming on their rapidly melting glaciers, were voting on Sunday on a new climate bill aimed at steering the country towards carbon neutrality.Issued on: 18/06/2023 – 07:20Modified: 18/06/2023 – 07:52Recent opinion polls indicate strong support for the proposed law, which would require Switzerland to slash its dependence on imported oil and gas, scaling up the development and use of greener and more home-grown alternatives.
But the backing slipped in the most recent survey by pollster gfs.bern, although remaining at 63 percent in favor, amid claims by the populist…
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Canada should give “urgent consideration” to legal mechanisms as a way to combat residential school denialism, says a new report from the independent special interlocutor on unmarked graves.
Justice Minister David Lambetti said he was open to such a solution.
Kimberly Murray made the call in an interim report released Friday, just over a year after she was appointed to an advisory role focused on how Ottawa can help Indigenous communities search for children who died and disappeared from residential schools.
The former executive director of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada spent much of the past…
Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino is facing a court application aimed at forcing him to determine whether Canada’s war crimes laws prevent former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett from attending a speaking engagement in Toronto later this month.
The application — known by its technical term of a mandamus — was filed Friday in Federal Court and asked a judge to compel Mendicino into making a decision on Bennett’s admissibility.
It was filed by Khaled Mouammar, a former national president of the Canadian Arab Federation, human rights groups Palestinian and Jewish Unity and Just Peace Advocates, and the think-tank Canadian…
More than a dozen parents and students alleging sexual violence at some Quebec high schools came together Friday to call for a law to prevent and fight the issue in secondary schools.
At a news conference Friday in Montreal, several young women and parents — some holding signs reading “No means no” and “#sexualassault awareness” — took turns speaking about their experiences, denouncing the way their school administration and boards handled allegations of sexual assault.
They, along with several politicians present, implored Education Minister Bernard Drainville to do more to clamp down on the problem.
“It’s been a while that…
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HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong lawmakers on Wednesday passed an amendment to a law granting the city’s leader the power to bar overseas lawyers from handling national security cases, following a high-profile row sparked by a pro-democracy Hong Kong publisher’s hiring of a British lawyer.
The changes will require overseas lawyers who do not generally practice in Hong Kong to obtain permission from the chief…