#Court

Can people harmed by #Covid19 sue the government for failing to keep them safe? A (probably very long because I'm a long-winded law professor) thread: 2/ Short answer: It will
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We are where we are because folk stayed their asses home in 2010 & 2014. This is what the GOP has done in one decade! McConnell did this shit in
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The Shah Faesal fiasco and India’s gambit for Kashmir. THREAD 1/ Shah Faesals dad was a small time mukhbir who got caught and met his end whilst working for ADG
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I think there needs to be a detailed thread on the death penalty/castration. Firstly, if the victim ever made it public that she wants a death penalty or castration, I
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A thread for those newly β€œwoke” to leftist intolerance: I learned the term β€œpolitically incorrect” circa 1988 as a PhD student in a state university when it was used unironically
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MJ Akbar v. Priya Ramani: Senior Adv Rebecca John begins her final arguments before ACMM at Rouse Avenure court in the defamation case filed by MJ Akbar against journalist Priya
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While the Beethoven tweetstorm's going on there's a bunch of cool historical figures we know were poc and they still aren't getting the attention they deserve. Thomas Alexandre Dumas, born
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I have received requests from people who want to know how we can engage the ICC on #EndSARS , #LekkiMassacre and other killings.This is international criminal law and the process
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I've been reading into the Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe case a little.Not sure there is much more the UK govt could actually do to secure her release tbh.Some points of note
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The Guardian has published a cartoon of a beheading, in which Jeremy Corbyn is portrayed as the martyr St John the Baptist [at the court of King Herod]There are at
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I've now had a look at the sentencing briefs in #Ongwen, which offer some new perspectives. (Victims: https://www.icc-cpi.int/CourtRecords/CR2021_03241.PDF; Prosecution: https://www.icc-cpi.int/CourtRecords/CR2021_03229.PDF; and Defence
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So uh, The Guardian's still-uncorrected obituary for Ruth Bader Ginsburg repeatedly claims that she "abandoned her religion," which you can only write if you know less than nothing about RBG,
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On 20 August 2018, Mudassar Naaru was disappeared from Kaghan while on a trip there w/ his family. The police station refused to register an FIR. In October 2018, Mudassar
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something i'm thinking through this morninghttps://twitter.com/LeeFlower/status/1329832417260154882 T.W:IPV when my stalker broke into my house in March, I talked to quite a few DV counsellors who worked specifically with the LGBTQ
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Legal tech friends-if you want a pick-me-up, get ready: 3 weeks ago, a judge I’m friendly with, Hon.Scott Schlegel (Jefferson Parish, Louisiana), dropped me a note about an idea he
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