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On Wednesday 7th December the Supreme Court will hand down judgment in REFERENCE by the Attorney General for Northern Ireland – Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) (Northern Ireland) Bill [2022] UKSC 32. This will consider the issue ‘Is clause 5(2)(a) of the Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) (Northern Ireland) Bill outside the legislative competence of […]

Alliance School of Law is organizing Justice N. Santosh Hegde’s National Moot Court Competition, 2023, on February 25 and 26, 2023. About the Organizer Alliance School of Law, Alliance University is approved by the Bar Council of India (BCI), New Delhi. About the Competition The Alliance Moot Court Committee (AMCC) of Alliance School of Law […]

Walmart’s Liabilities Under the HWCL: A California Case Study Rita Elfarisi In December 2021, the California Attorney General along with approximately a dozen district attorneys filed a lawsuit against Walmart.[1] The complaint alleges Walmart dumped nearly 80 tons of hazardous waste from more than 300 stores in California landfills throughout the state every year over […]

Josh Barnett placed third in the Aug. 2 GOP primary in Arizona’s 1st Congressional District. A Maricopa County Superior Court judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a defeated primary congressional candidate to annul Arizona’s election results for governor, secretary of state and attorney general. The lawsuit, filed by Josh Barnett, was one of several […]

The extensive testimony of two former Trump lawyers to a federal grand jury about last year’s Capitol riot has been likened to a political earthquake, according to one prominent pundit. Pat Cipollone and Patrick Philbin, lawyers who served in the Office of White House Counsel during the latter years of the Trump administration, tested before […]

A FedEx driver has been charged with murder after police say he kidnapped a 7-year-old girl in northern Texas while making a delivery to her home. Tanner Lynn Horner, 31, was arrested Friday on charges of capital murder and aggravated kidnapping in the death of Athena Strand, Wise County Sheriff Lane Akin said at a […]

Hunter Biden’s past employer, law firm Boies Schiller Flexner, received $10 million in forgiven pandemic loans from the federal government — while donating nearly $1 million to Democratic candidates, an independent investigation has found. Of 300 top law firms investigated by transparency nonprofit Open the Books, Boies took the single-biggest loan, $10.14 million, from the […]

Congress must reauthorize the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) before the end of this session, with long-awaited language to acknowledge and protect children’s legal rights. I was only 18 months old when I was removed from my parents and placed in foster care. Like many of the roughly 250,000 children in America who […]

In this post, Sophie Campbell, an Associate in the litigation team at CMS, previews the decision awaited from the Supreme Court in Sara & Hossein Asset Holdings Ltd v Blacks Outdoor Retail Ltd. background Blacks Outdoor Retail Ltd (“B”) was the tenant of commercial premises in Liverpool. B had leased the premises since 2012 and […]

FEMALE CHAIR IMPROVE DEPARTMENTS’ GENDER DIVERSITY AND EQUITY. It’s common advice: to increase faculty gender diversity, increase the gender diversity of institutional leaders. But what about department chairs, a kind of middle-management position — do they make a difference? And beyond gender diversity, does having a female chair help improve the success of female academics? […]