Boogie the monkey is suffering and needs our help. Boogie is a Japanese macaque confined at Bervie Zoo, a roadside zoo in Kincardine, Ontario, where he spends his days alone in a small barren cage—biting himself, pacing, and spinning in circles repeatedly. Animal Justice first witnessed Boogie’s suffering in 2022 when we released Canada’s largest-ever…
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On June 20, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas held that the US Department of Health and Human Services exceeded its authority by issuing a guidance bulletin that warned HIPAA regulated entries that tracking visitors to web pages with content about health conditions or health care providers is governed by the…
Utah is now .05 is New York far behind? At the end of 2018 Utah lowered it’s DUI BAC (blood alcohol concentration) to .05. They now have the lowest DUI alcohol law in the country. This is the second time Utah was first in lowering it’s limit for DUI. In 1983 Utah went from .10…
By MARK PEARSON Follow @Journlaw Journalists, publishers, academics, diplomats and NGO representatives from throughout the Asia-Pacific region will gather for the Pacific Media Conference at the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji on July 4-6. A notable part of the conference will be the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the journal Pacific…
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Balta v Graner 2024 NY Slip Op 51273(U) Decided on August 28, 2024Supreme Court, Kings County Rivera, J. An attorney is hired to litigate a fire case. He files a Summons with Notice and then fails to serve a complaint when it is demanded. A motion to dismiss is granted on default. Opposition to the…
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Many property owners are shocked to learn about the many legal implications that can arise from the seemingly simple act of putting up a fence around one’s yard. From my experience in handling boundary disputes among neighbors, I would estimate that most of these problems arise from the construction of an unwelcomed fence. Here, I’ll…
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The UK should move forward from financial services equivalence with the EU, writes Apostolos Thomadakis (CEPS). Furthermore, it should develop a clear focus for the City of London as a non-EU financial centre. After nine rounds of negotiations held between March and October 2020, covering eleven areas, the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) was…
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External migration policies, in which states cooperate with third countries to help manage migration, are now increasingly common. Drawing on new research, Matilde Rosina and Iole Fontana identify the key tools used by EU member states to implement these policies. In a rapidly changing world, countries are forging unexpected alliances to tackle irregular migration. From…
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Last year, I wrote about a series of outbursts by a provincial court judge in Quebec in response to criticism by a La Presse columnist, Yves Boisvert. Justice Joëlle Roy read out, in open court and in a trial that had nothing to do with Mr. Boisvert’s column, a statement detailing just how hurt her…
Since 2013, States have repeatedly reaffirmed in multilateral institutions that the principle of sovereignty applies in cyberspace, and in particular that “in their use of ICTs, States must observe, among other principles of international law, State sovereignty, sovereign equality” (A/70/174). As more and more states publish their views on the application of international law in…
