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Haller’s trajectory — from rebuked purveyor of baseless claims to a go-to attorney for MAGA extremists — infuriates many liberal activists, including some groups who are targeting the lawyers for discipline, and alarms some nonpartisan specialists in legal ethics. They say those who helped legitimize the former president’s lies should not be allowed to use it as a foundation to build their legal practices, lest it serve as an incentive to profit from ever more outlandish claims that shake the confidence of Americans in the integrity of U.S. elections and endanger democracy.

In total, at least 16 lawyers who represented plaintiffs in five federal lawsuits promoting Trump’s baseless election fraud claims in the key battlegrounds of Michigan, Georgia, Wisconsin and Arizona remain in good standing or have no record of disciplinary action with their respective bar associations or licensing authorities, according to a POLITICO review.

Fourteen of them have since engaged in additional work in support of the election fraud conspiracies or conspiracists behind Trump’s attempt to remain in power despite losing the election to President Joe Biden. These include defending accused Jan. 6 rioters, consulting for partisan election “audits” or partaking in advocacy or legal cases sowing doubts about

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, announces the filing of a class action lawsuit on behalf of purchasers of the securities of Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) between February 24, 2021 and June 9, 2022, both dates inclusive (the “Class Period”). If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than August 29, 2022.

SO WHATS: If you purchased Wells Fargo securities during the Class Period you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.

WHAT TO DO NEXT: To join the Wells Fargo class action, go to https://rosenlegal.com/submit-form/?case_id=7261 or call Phillip Kim, Esq. toll-free at 866-767-3653 or email [email protected] or [email protected] for information on the class action. A class action lawsuit has already been filed. If you wish to serve as lead plaintiff, you must move the Court no later than August 29, 2022. A lead plaintiff is a representative party acting on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation.

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A prosecutor dismissed from a Foreign Office job after blowing the whistle on suspected corruption in the EU’s biggest foreign mission has agreed a settlement with the UK government of more than £400,000.

Maria Bamieh, a barrister, has claimed for the past eight years that the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) failed to provide support after she attempted to expose possible collusion between EU officials and suspected criminals in Kosovo.

Instead, she said, government officials told her to ignore apparent evidence of collusion at the EU’s rule of law mission, called EULEX.

Her employment claim was due to be heard by an employment tribunal in May and June this year, but a settlement of just under £423,000 was agreed shortly before the first hearing with no admission of liability. The FCDO said it continued to strongly deny Bamieh’s claims.

Speaking for the first time since the settlement, Bamieh told the Guardian she should have been praised for exposing evidence of corruption, but instead was mistreated and forced out of her job.

“I believe that I should have been recommended and supported by the FCDO for raising my concerns about possible corruption within EULEX and the treatment I suffered afterwards,

During the course of today and tomorrow, the UK Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the Lord Advocate’s Reference in relation to the Scottish Independence Referendum Bill (the “Bill”). The Court has been asked to determine whether it would be within the Scottish Parliament’s power to legislate for a second referendum on Scottish independence. 

The specific question posed by the Lord Advocate is “Does the provision of the proposed Scottish Independence Referendum Bill that provides that the question to be asked in a referendum would be “Should Scotland be an independent country?” relate to reserved matters? In particular, does it relate to: (i) the Union of the Kingdoms of Scotland and England; and/or (ii) the Parliament of the United Kingdom?”

The Lord Advocate (Dorothy Bain KC), will make arguments on behalf of the Scottish Government. The Advocate General (Lord Keith Stewart KC), will make arguments on behalf of the UK Government. Written arguments filed on behalf of the SNP will also be considered but the SNP will not be represented in Court.

Five Justices of the Court will hear the arguments and determine the question; Lord Reed, Lord Lloyd-Jones, Lord Sales, Lord Stephens, Lady Rose. Lord Reed is the

According to Transports Québec officials, there are still many drivers who don’t know what to do when they see an emergency vehicle stopped on the road with lights flashing.

The Montreal police service website states that the law requires drivers to “carry out the move-over maneuver when an emergency vehicle, tow truck or a surveillance vehicle is stopped on the road, with its yellow arrow light signal flashing, or rotating or flashing lights on.”

That maneuver: slow down and change lanes if possible, and if you can’t change lanes get as close to the center line as possible.

Transports Québec workers says though the law has been in effect since 2012 there’s still a problem.

“Every day it’s the same situation where motorists refuse to respect the law,” route surveillance worker Justine Robillard told Global News.

She and a colleague point out that it’s drivers of all sorts who sometimes forget to move over, laughing as a Société de transport de Montréal bus driver neglected to change lanes as he drove his bus past two Transports Québec trucks with flashing lights, then

Twitter chairman said that the company plans legal action after Elon Musk informed the company’s board that he is terminating his $44 billion merger agreement.

Bret Taylor, chairman of the Twitter board of directors, wrote that the social media platform is “committed to closing the transaction on the price and terms agreed upon with Mr. Musk and plans to pursue legal action to enforce the merger agreement. We are confident we will prevail in the Delaware Court of Chancery.”

Earlier Friday, Musk’s attorneys filed a letter with the SEC (read it here) accusing Twitter of being in material breach of the transaction agreement. They wrote that the company, after repeated requests for data on its accounts, “has failed or refused to provide this information”

His attorneys wrote that “to the extent that Twitter has underrepresented the number of false or spam accounts on its platform, that may constitute a Company Material Adverse Effect under Section 7.2(b)(i) of the Merger Agreement. Mr. Musk is also examining the company’s recent financial performance and revised outlook, and is considering whether the company’s declining business prospects and financial outlook constitute a Company Material Adverse Effect giving Mr. Musk a separate and distinct basis for

What steps are activists taking now that clinics are closing?

Some states have been quick to ban abortion, with trigger laws taking effect immediately after the ruling was released, but activists are working to maintain support for women needing abortions.

in TexasCathy Torres, organizing manager for Frontera Fund, a Texas group that helps pay for abortions, said there was a lot of fear and confusion near the US-Mexico border.

The state’s abortion law bans the procedure from conception, the Associated Press reports.

Under the law, people who help patients get abortions can be fined and doctors who perform them could face life in prison.

“We are a fund led by people of color who will be criminalized first,” Ms Torres said.

She said abortion funds like hers that have shut down operations hope to find a way to safely restart.

“We just really need to keep that in mind and understand the risk.”

Tyler Harden, Mississippi director for Planned Parenthood Southeast, said she spent Friday and Saturday making sure people with appointments at the state’s only abortion clinic that they don’t have to cancel them right away.

Abortions can still take place until 10 days after the state attorney

In this post, Alex Tubbs, an Associate in the CMS Disputes team, comments on the UK Supreme Court’s decision in BTI 2014 LLC v Sequana SA & Ors [2022] UKSC 25, handed down by the Supreme Court on 5 October 2022. This case concerns the issue of whether the trigger for the directors’ duty to consider creditors is merely a real risk of, as opposed to a probability of or close proximity to, insolvency.

Background

On 18 May 2009, the directors of a UK limited company, Arjo Wiggins Appleton Limited (“AWA”) resolved to distribute a dividend of €135m (“the Dividend”) to its parent company and sole shareholder, Sequana SA (“Sequana”). At the time, AWA’s assets consisted of an investment contract, insurance policies and a debt owed to the company by Sequana. These assets far exceeded the provision made for the company’s contingent liabilities on its balance sheet, and the company was consequently deemed solvent on both a cash flow and balance sheet basis at the date of distribution of the Dividend. Pursuant to their obligations under the Companies Act 2006, s 643(1), the directors signed a solvency statement confirming the same. It was common ground that the Dividend also complied

Russian authorities have launched a criminal case against Ilya Yashin, one of the last opposition figures remaining in the country, for allegedly spreading false information about the army, his lawyer said Tuesday.

“I got a call from an investigator — they are beginning to search his home,” lawyer Vadim Prokhorov said on Facebook.

Prokhorov was later quoted by Russian news agencies as saying the probe was launched because his client spoke of “the murder of civilians in Bucha” on his YouTube channel on April 7.

Russian forces have been accused of committing war crimes in the Kyiv suburb after civilian bodies were discovered there following their withdrawal.

Another of Yashin’s lawyers, Mikhail Biriukov, said a search had been carried out at his home and that Yashin was taken out of prison to attend.

In June, Yashin, who is a Moscow city councillor, was sentenced to 15 days in jail for disobeying police. He was set to be released in the early hours of Wednesday.

Yashin has been a prominent opposition figure in Russia since the mass protests against President Vladimir Putin in 2011-2012. He has denounced Russia’s offensive in Ukraine.

He is an ally of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny

The personal law in India is a law for people of various religion and applicable consistent with the faith of the person. For many decades Muslim women are fighting for gender equality in the Islamic law that govern right related to marriage, divorce and property rights. However, All-India Muslim Personal Law Board is, one among the most influential body in Muslim community. Muslim women rights of marriage, divorce, inheritance has encouraged many Muslim women activists to fight theirs rights. Personal laws in India and particularly Muslim personal law has been a serious political and controversial issue, and has been extensively debated. Since independence it has been a rallying point for not only Muslim organisations, but also for Hindu rights wing politics. After the 1986 Shah Bano Case, and the enactment of the Muslim Women (protection of Rights on Divorce) Act thereafter, the debate has assumed a central position, and majority identity politics has gained mileage, evident in the weakening of centrist secular parties in the absence of the proper codified law in Muslim personal law women are at much disadvantage position, because of the obscurity within the various rights and various interpretation of Quran. Moreover, many baseless ‘fatwas’ most of