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Quick Glance: Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 Rape Conviction Overturned
  • New York's highest court overturned Harvey Weinstein's 2020 rape conviction, disappointing those who celebrated historic gains during the #MeToo era.

  • The ruling was based on legal technicalities and did not exonerate Weinstein's behavior, according to #MeToo advocates.

  • Weinstein, convicted in Los Angeles for another rape, will face retrial in New York, despite remaining in prison.

  • The court criticized the admission of uncharged sexual acts as evidence, deeming it an abuse of judicial discretion.
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Iran sentences popular rapper to death for supporting Mahsa Amini protests: An Iranian court has sentenced to death a popular rapper jailed for more than a year ...
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Iran sentences popular rapper to death for supporting Mahsa Amini protests
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Brazil judge probes Musk over refusal to block some X accounts: A standoff between X platform owner Elon Musk and Brazil escalated on Sunday when a Supreme Court ...
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Brazil judge probes Musk over refusal to block some X accounts
Quick Glance: Elon Musk and the Support of Far-Right in Brazil
  • A court in Brazil is planning an investigation against X owner Elon Musk for alleged obstruction of justice, following Musk's reactivation of accounts belonging to far-right individuals that were flagged by the Brazilian government for removal.

  • Under Musk's leadership, X has transformed into a sanctuary for the far right and dissemination of misinformation, resulting in an escalation of hate speech on the platform.

  • Experts caution that Musk is establishing a dangerous precedent by protecting and promoting the far right on his platform, regardless of local regulations or public opinion.

  • Despite Musk's claims of advocating for free speech, the implementation of these principles on the platform has been inconsistent under his direction, especially concerning government requests to deactivate accounts.
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Brazil's Bolsonaro rallies supporters in Rio: RIO DE JANEIRO/SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday rallied thousands of ...
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Quick Glance: Bolsonaro Mobilizes Supporters in Rio
  • Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro rallied thousands of supporters in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday to boost his political capital after losing a reelection bid in October 2022 and facing allegations of involvement in a coup.

  • Bolsonaro, under investigation for undermining faith in Brazil's voting system, took the opportunity to praise Elon Musk and urged the crowd to applaud the billionaire.

  • Brazil's federal police formally accused Bolsonaro of sowing doubts about his vaccination records during the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to potential criminal charges.

  • Bolsonaro emphasized that his government never operated outside the bounds of the constitution and addressed accusations of involvement in manipulating decrees to overturn the 2022 election results.
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Brazil Judge Wrangling With Elon Musk Has Long Battled Social Media: Alexandre de Moraes is also at the heart of the Brazilian Supreme Court’s case against ...
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Brazil Judge Wrangling With Elon Musk Has Long Battled Social Media
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Media Giants Confront Supreme Court Over Free Speech Issues in Brazil: Leading Brazilian newspapers united this weekend to challenge the Supreme Court's ...
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Media Giants Confront Supreme Court Over Free Speech Issues in Brazil
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Brazil’s Supreme Court Steps In Amid Social Media Law Controversy: In a critical juncture for Brazilian politics and digital regulation, the Supreme Court has ...
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Brazil’s Supreme Court Steps In Amid Social Media Law Controversy
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Rising Organized Crime in Rio de Janeiro Amidst Reduced Police Raids: After Brazil's 2020 Supreme Court ruling limited police raids in favelas during the ...
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Rising Organized Crime in Rio de Janeiro Amidst Reduced Police Raids
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Elon Musk vs Brazil Supreme Court: five things to know: X owner Elon Musk is under investigation in Brazil after he accused a Supreme Court judge of censoring ...
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Elon Musk vs Brazil Supreme Court: five things to know
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#MintInFocus | The conflict between #ElonMusk and Brazilian authorities started after #Brazil 's Supreme Court judge Justice #AlexandredeMoraes included the Twitter owner as a party in ... Show more
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Robinho must serve rape sentence in Brazil, court says: SAO PAULO/BRASILIA: Brazilian judges ruled on Wednesday to uphold former AC Milan and Brazil striker ...
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Robinho must serve rape sentence in Brazil, court says
Quick Glance: Robinho Arrested in Brazil for Rape Conviction
  • Former footballer Robinho was arrested in Brazil after his last-minute attempt to delay his nine-year rape sentence was rejected.

  • Robinho was found guilty by an Italian court for participating in a gang rape and exhausted all appeals.

  • Italy requested Robinho to serve his sentence in Brazil since the country does not extradite its nationals.

  • Criticism arose in the football world over the silence on cases of violence against women, especially with Robinho and Dani Alves' convictions.
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Shamima Begum loses appeal over UK citizenship - BBC News: The Court of Appeal ruling means Begum, who left the UK in 2015 to join the IS group ...
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Shamima Begum loses appeal over UK citizenship - BBC News
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Judge orders that status quo remain with teachers salary pending hearing: Justice Sandil Kissoon this afternoon ruled that the Government is barred from ...
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Judge orders that status quo remain with teachers salary pending hearing
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Russian anti-war Putin rival Nadezhdin vows court appeal after being barred from election
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Quick Glance: Exclusion of Putin's Challenger from Russian Election
  • Boris Nadezhdin intends to challenge the election commission's rejection in Russia's Supreme Court.

  • He contested the election commission's claims of over 15% flawed signatures in his submission.

  • The Central Election Commission stated over 9,000 submitted signatures by Nadezhdin were invalid.

  • Russia's presidential election is scheduled for March 15-17, with the result not in doubt as only Kremlin-approved candidates are running.
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Giving Elon Musk the RBG Award for 'Women of Leadership' Is a Mistake: Anti-diversity crusaders claim the movement is “lowering standards ...
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Giving Elon Musk the RBG Award for 'Women of Leadership' Is a ...
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Pre-Trial Clampdown on Former Panama Chief Martinelli: Judge Baloísa Marquínez ordered the detention of Ricardo Martinelli, Panama's former leader from 2009 ...
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Pre-Trial Clampdown on Former Panama Chief Martinelli
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Plan to deploy RBDF officers to Haiti up in the air: Plans to send 150 Royal Bahamas Defence Force (RBDF) officers to Haiti as part of a United Nations (UN) ...
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Plan to deploy RBDF officers to Haiti up in the air
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GTU takes gov’t to court over planned deductions: As it had vowed, the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) has moved to the court to challenge the planned deduction ...
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GTU takes gov’t to court over planned deductions
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Woman fined for smuggling cigarettes into court lockups: Twenty-three-year-old mother of two, Melissa Cort, appeared yesterday at the Georgetown Magistrate’s ...
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Woman fined for smuggling cigarettes into court lockups
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European court chief says UK must comply with any Rwanda injunctions: The president of Europe's Court of Human Rights said on Thursday Britain had a legal ...
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European court chief says UK must comply with any Rwanda injunctions
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Guyanese lawyer admitted to Montserrat bar: GUYANESE attorney, Mohamed Ravindra Ali, has achieved a significant milestone by being officially admitted as a ...
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Guyanese lawyer admitted to Montserrat bar
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WATCH: The Colorado Supreme Court declared on Tuesday that former U.S. president Donald Trump is ineligible for the presidency under the U.S ... Show more

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Donald Trump Fears Justices He Appointed May Keep Him Off Ballots: Report: Trump’s appeals to the high court are set to arrive as soon as Tuesday ...
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Donald Trump Fears Justices He Appointed May Keep Him Off Ballots: Report
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Shooting at Prague university leaves at least 15 dead and others injured: An arts faculty building was completely evacuated and people nearby were urged ...
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Shooting at Prague university leaves at least 15 dead and others injured
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P-plater’s legal rollercoaster over ‘phone’: A New South Wales P-plate driver has lost a legal battle over using a phone as a GPS while driving without cellular ...
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P-plater’s legal rollercoaster over ‘phone’
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The U.S. #Colorado Supreme Court has announced Former President #DonaldTrump as unfit for public office. The court has ordered Trump's removal from the Colorado Primary ... Show more
Quick Glance: Supreme Court Rejects Fast-Tracking Prosecution in Trump Case
  • The Supreme Court refuses to immediately rule on Jack Smith's plea to prosecute Donald Trump for election subversion.

  • The case is now in the hands of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, which intends to act quickly.

  • With the justices staying out of the dispute, additional appeals are likely that could delay the case.

  • The decision avoids a swift ruling that could have dismissed Trump's immunity claims and raises the possibility of further delays through additional appeals.
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Court orders release of terror leader Abdul Nacer Benbrika on strict conditions: The convicted terrorist will walk free on Tuesday after a Supreme Court judge ...
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Court orders release of terror leader Abdul Nacer Benbrika on strict ...
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La Belle Alliance businessman for High Court trial over rape: Haimchand Takram, a 60-year-old businessman of La Belle Alliance, Essequibo Coast was on Wednesday ...
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La Belle Alliance businessman for High Court trial over rape
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High Court President Uzi Vogelman Decries ‘Leaks’ of Ruling on Netanyahu’s Judiciary Overhaul
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High Court President Uzi Vogelman Decries ‘Leaks’ of Ruling on Netanyahu’s ...
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Lip-reader tells defamation case Brittany Higgins said 'I don't want to' when Bruce Lehrmann told her to finish drink on night of alleged rape
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Lip-reader tells defamation case Brittany Higgins said 'I don't want to' ...
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Dreyfus accuses Coalition of stoking fear over terrorist Benbrika’s release: Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus accuses acting Opposition Leader Sussan Ley of stoking ...
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Dreyfus accuses Coalition of stoking fear over terrorist Benbrika’s ...
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Top court upholds 3-year prison term for academy teacher over SAT test leakage : An English teacher at a private academy has received a three-year prison term ...
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Top court upholds 3-year prison term for academy teacher over SAT test ...
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How courts saw Periyar’s 1953 act of breaking a clay Ganesha ‘idol’: Periyar E.V. Ramasamy's 1953 clay 'idol' breaking of Lord Pillaiyar sparks ...
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How courts saw Periyar’s 1953 act of breaking a clay Ganesha ‘idol’
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Fake physio jailed for $400k fraud, money laundering: The money he obtained fraudulently was deposited into his own bank accounts at an automatic teller machine ...
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Fake physio jailed for $400k fraud, money laundering
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Supreme Court rejects ex-prosecutor's compensation claim in 'MeToo' case
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Supreme Court rejects ex-prosecutor's compensation claim in ...
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Australian mother wrongfully jailed for death of four babies has convictions overturned
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Australian mother wrongfully jailed for death of four babies has ...
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Electronic court filing/management system seen as key development: By Mia Anthony The year 2024 will be an impactful year for the administration of justice in ...
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Electronic court filing/management system seen as key development
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Judiciary launches extensive seven-year plan: –to bridge technological gap, improve human resources, address other critical needs THE Judiciary of Guyana has ...
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Judiciary launches extensive seven-year plan
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Opinion: Judicial Independence Triumphs in Israel: In a decisive move, Israel's Supreme Court invalidated a reform law that threatened judicial independence ...
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Opinion: Judicial Independence Triumphs in Israel
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Lula Bucks Calls to Put First Black Woman on Brazil’s Top Court: President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva defied calls from activists and allies to appoint the first ...
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Lula Bucks Calls to Put First Black Woman on Brazil’s Top Court
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Roger Barker sworn in as Master of High Court: Barbados continues to make strides in the management of the case load of its Supreme Court with the swearing-in of ...
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Roger Barker sworn in as Master of High Court
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Judge says parts of Higgins, Lehrmann evidence ‘simply can’t be accepted’: Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation case against Network Ten and Lisa Wilkinson has entered ...
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Judge says parts of Higgins, Lehrmann evidence ‘simply can’t be accepted’
Quick Glance: Bruce Lehrmann's Federal Court Defamation Trial
  • The defamation case was filed after Mr. Lehrmann's criminal trial was abandoned.

  • The focus of the case is on an interview in The Project where Ms. Higgins first made her allegation.

  • Although not named, Bruce Lehrmann is identified in the interview and his employment history is mentioned.

  • Despite allegations, Network Ten and Lisa Wilkinson claim they should be protected from liability as they believe Ms. Higgins' allegations are true.
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S. Korea top court upholds wartime labor damages order for Japan firms - The Mainichi
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S. Korea top court upholds wartime labor damages order for Japan firms - ...
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‘Mission complete’: Lisa Wilkinson’s text before Higgins interview aired: The text prompted veteran news boss Peter Meakin to sound a note of caution ...
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‘Mission complete’: Lisa Wilkinson’s text before Higgins interview aired
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Court finds rejection of asylum application illegal due to lack of review : A court on Sunday found immigration officials’ rejection of an asylum application to ...
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Court finds rejection of asylum application illegal due to lack of review
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South Korea’s Top Court Rules Against Japanese Firms; Requisitioned-Worker Plaintiffs Must be Compensated
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South Korea’s Top Court Rules Against Japanese Firms; Requisitioned-Worker ...
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Top court takes historic step of quashing Kathleen Folbigg’s convictions: The state’s top criminal appeal court has quashed Kathleen Folbigg’s 20-year-old ...
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Top court takes historic step of quashing Kathleen Folbigg’s convictions
Quick Glance: Kathleen Folbigg: Convictions Overturned in Infant Deaths Case
  • Kathleen Folbigg wipes a tear away alongside supporters

  • The New South Wales Supreme Court ruled that the evidence leading to Kathleen Folbigg's convictions was 'not reliable'

  • There were damning doubts about her guilt due to scientific findings on rare gene mutations

  • Her conviction was overturned after a landmark inquiry found reasonable doubt about her guilt
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Key questions about cover-up claims dominating Lehrmann case: The high-profile defamation suit has swung the blowtorch onto Network Ten and its star presenter ...
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Key questions about cover-up claims dominating Lehrmann case
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Charlie Read, son of Mark 'Chopper' Read, sentenced over burglary, drug possession and driving while disqualified charges
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Charlie Read, son of Mark 'Chopper' Read, sentenced over burglary ...
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High Court Setback For Mukhtar Ansari's Son In Poll Code Violation Case: An FIR was registered by Police Sub Inspector Ganga Ram Kotwali Nagar, Mau ...
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High Court Setback For Mukhtar Ansari's Son In Poll Code Violation ...
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"Do It In 6 Months": High Court To Centre On Women In CISF Posts: The Delhi High Court was hearing a petition alleging "institutional ...
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"Do It In 6 Months": High Court To Centre On Women In CISF Posts
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Supreme Court Rejects Manish Sisodia's Request To Review Denial Of Bail: A Supreme Court bench dismissed the review petitions on Wednesday during in-chamber ...
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Supreme Court Rejects Manish Sisodia's Request To Review Denial Of ...