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High Court to hear case against ACT candidate’s election disqualification
The Citizen
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Dar es Salaam/Dodoma. The High Court in Dodoma is set to hear a case challenging the decision to block ACT-Wazalendo presidential candidate Luhaga Mpina after the party filed an emergency application following INEC’s refusal to accept his...
WA prosecutors ask judge to reconsider Shawn Kemp's shooting sentence
FOX 13 Seattle - Washington State
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TACOMA, Wash. - Pierce County prosecutors are asking a judge to reconsider the sentence handed down to Shawn Kemp for a 2023 shooting at the Tacoma Mall. What they're saying: A motion from the Pierce County Prosecuting Attorney claims Kemp...
Young Thug Claims He’s Paying Lil Durk’s Lawyer After Explosive Jail Call Leak
AllHipHop
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September 4, 2025
Young Thug vented about Lil Durk’s lack of support in leaked jail audio—only to later claim he’s the one paying for Durk’s lawyer. Young Thug dropped a bombshell on social media, claiming he’s footing the legal bill for Lil Durk’s attorney after...
Jolly LLB 3 Cleared for Release: Court Rejects Plea Alleging Defamation of Legal Profession
Asianet Newsable
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September 4, 2025
Akshay Kumar and Arshad Warsi's Jolly LLB 3 is creating quite a buzz. Petitions were filed to halt its release. The Allahabad High Court has given its verdict. Will the film release on the scheduled date? Akshay Kumar and Arshad Warsi's highly...
Bolt appeals court ruling authorising FIRS to tax its ride and food delivery services
Technext
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September 4, 2025
E-mobility company Bolt has filed an appeal at the Lagos Court of Appeal to challenge a High Court judgment that authorised FIRS to collect VAT on transport and food services provided by its drivers and food vendors. The development is the latest...
Zara Qairina Inquest: Let Court Decide If Suicide Or Otherwise, Says Pathologist
Bernama
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September 4, 2025
KOTA KINABALU, Sept 4 (Bernama) -- The first witness in the inquest into the death of Form One student Zara Qairina Mahathir told the Coroner’s Court today that it was up to the court to decide whether the teenager had committed suicide or...
ScaleAI, in which Mark Zuckerberg invested $14.3 billion, sues former employee Eugene Ling for stealing data; read his open post on lawsuit: I’m really sorry to my ...
The Times of India
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September 4, 2025
Eugene Ling, a former sales employee at Scale AI, has issued a public apology to his current team and employer, Mercor, after a report emerged that his ex-company is suing them. The lawsuit, filed two months after Scale AI secured a massive $14.3...
Sonia Gandhi registered as a voter 3 years before getting citizenship, says lawyer in Delhi court petition for probe
The Indian Express
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September 4, 2025
How could senior Congress leader Sonia Gandhi be registered as a voter in India three years before getting Indian citizenship, a lawyer who moved a Delhi court seeking the registration of an FIR against her asked on Thursday. “The documents...
Naples to join other cities, counties in lawsuit over…
Naples Daily News - Florida
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In a split decision, Naples Council decided to challenge a new state law that makes it more difficult for local governments to control development. Council voted 4-3 in favor of joining a class-action lawsuit against Florida Senate Bill 180. The...
Are Trump’s Tariffs Legal?
The Dispatch
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September 4, 2025
The court said that all these duties could stay in place through October 14—giving time for the White House to appeal the ruling—and the order’s enforcement will remain suspended until the Supreme Court rules on the case or declines to hear a...
No objectionable content: Court rejects plea against Akshay Kumar's Jolly LLB 3
India Today
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September 4, 2025
The Allahabad High Court has dismissed a petition seeking a ban on the release of Akshay Kumar-starrer ‘Jolly LLB 3’ over allegations of demeaning the legal profession [Jay Vardhan Shukla and Another vs Union of India and 6 others]. A division...
Federal court dismisses civil rights lawsuit filed by state lawmaker against City of Hartford
WFSB 3 - Connecticut
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September 4, 2025
HARTFORD, Conn. (WFSB) - A federal court has dismissed a civil rights lawsuit filed by a state lawmaker against the City of Hartford. Representative Maryam Khan claimed Hartford police officers didn’t do enough to help her after she was attacked...
House Oversight to take up bill giving Trump power to appoint DC attorney general
Washington Examiner
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September 4, 2025
The House Oversight Committee will mark up a GOP-led bill next week that would expand President Donald Trump‘s power over the criminal justice system in Washington by removing the D.C. attorney general and making the office federally appointed.The...
May Edochie Seeks N1bn in Damages from Ex-Lawyer Emeka Ugwuonye for Alleged Cyberbullying
Nigerian Eye
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September 4, 2025
May Edochie, estranged wife of Nollywood actor Yul Edochie, has issued a cease-and-desist notice to her former lawyer, Emeka Ugwuonye, accusing him of cyberbullying, cyberstalking, and defamation. In a letter from her legal team at Graylaw...
Zara Qairina inquest: Lawyer urges compassion as grieving mother seeks space
Malay Mail
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September 4, 2025
KOTA KINABALU, Sept 4 — The lawyer for the mother of the late Zara Qairina Mahathir today urged the public to be mindful of the sensitivities surrounding the ongoing inquest into the 13-year-old schoolgirl’s death, asking for compassion as painful...
Australia’s highest court denies decorated Afghanistan veteran Ben Roberts-Smith’s final appeal
Associated Press
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September 4, 2025
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia’s highest court on Thursday removed the last chance for highly decorated veteran Ben Roberts-Smith to clear his name of findings that he unlawfully killed four unarmed Afghans under Australian soldiers’...
Australia's top court denies decorated Afghanistan veteran final appeal
ABC News - New York
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September 4, 2025
MELBOURNE, Australia -- Australia’s highest court on Thursday removed the last chance for highly decorated veteran Ben Roberts-Smith to clear his name of findings that he unlawfully killed four unarmed Afghans under Australian soldiers' control...
Why Ghana is yet to file a response to Torkornoo’s case at the ECOWAS Court
GhanaWeb
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September 4, 2025
The Deputy Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Justice Srem Sai, has clarified why the government has not yet filed its defense with the ECOWAS Court regarding a suit from former Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo. According to him, a defense...
Badeggi FM, Niger effort to settle out of court fails
Eagle Online
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September 4, 2025
Badeggi FM has told a Minna High Court that the effort initiated by parties in the case with Niger government for an out-of-court settlement has failed. The position was made known when the matter came up for hearing in Minna on Wednesday. The...
Jimmy Lai risks dying in jail, legal team warns UN
The Times
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Jimmy Lai’s legal team is making a fresh appeal for United Nations intervention after uncovering “chilling” evidence on the alleged systemic failure of Hong Kong authorities to provide life-saving treatment to prisoners with health problems. Lai,...