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Showing posts with label sexual assault. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sexual assault. Show all posts
Thursday, February 1, 2024

Naming rape suspects may draw criminal charges for journalists under Northern Ireland privacy law

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Bernard Goldbach via Flickr CC BY 2.0 In Northern Ireland, it's a crime for a journalist to identify a rape suspect. The relevant provi...
Thursday, October 5, 2023

'Statute of limitations is a very real thing in this country'

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"The statute of limitations is a very real thing in this country," former President and Republican presidential front-runner Dona...
Friday, July 29, 2022

Charitable immunity does not protect diocese from claims of sexual assault in 1960s, high court rules

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St. Michael's Cathedral, Springfield, Mass. (John Phelan via Wikimedia CC BY-SA 3.0 ) Charitable immunity does not protect Catholic Chu...
Tuesday, March 22, 2022

Whitehouse laments mandatory arbitration, civil jury woes; SCOTUS-nominated Jackson does not engage

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I., one of my state senators) just questioned U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson on the...
Monday, January 11, 2021

Uber suffers high court loss, but binding arbitration, blanket disclaimers still devastate consumer rights

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Image by Mike Lang CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 Signs of life were spotted on the dead planet of consumer rights in click-wrap agreements. But don'...
Saturday, September 12, 2020

Defamation case against Trump fits woeful pattern, while DOJ defense is defensible, if disconcerting

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Notice of Removal in Carroll v. Trump The recent news ( e.g ., N.Y. Times ) that the Department of Justice (DOJ) will defend the President ...
Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Teachable torts, Patriots edition: Civil complaint against Antonio Brown

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Antonio Brown in 2014 (by Brook Ward CC BY-NC 2.0 ) New England news is afire today over the civil lawsuit filed against NFL Patriots ...
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Tuesday, August 27, 2019

Minhaj: With tort impunity, cruise lines externalize risk, costs to workers, passengers, environment

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One of my favorite comedians—saw him perform Homecoming King at intimate Cherry Lane in NYC in 2016— Hasan Minhaj (self-described "s...