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Brazil’s Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes lifted freezes on Starlink and X bank accounts after transferring 18.35 million reais ($3.3 million) from those accounts to the national treasury. The court issued this lift after determining that the transferred amount satisfied the fines X owed to Brazil, resulting from a dispute between Elon Musk and…
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Sean “Diddy” Combs is once again facing legal trouble, this time from his former Bad Boy Records artist, Dawn Richard. Richard, who gained fame as a member of the girl group Danity Kane, has filed a lawsuit against the music mogul, alleging a series of abusive behaviors dating back to her time working with him.…
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Harvey Weinstein faces new criminal charges as Manhattan prosecutors prepare to retry him following the reversal of his rape conviction. In 2020, a jury in Manhattan convicted Weinstein, 72, of rape, but the New York Court of Appeals overturned the conviction in April, ruling that the judge improperly allowed testimony from accusers not formally involved…
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Prominent civil rights attorney Ben Crump will host a special screening of the documentary “How to Sue the Klan” at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) on Tuesday, September 17. The event, organized by UTC’s Division of Access and Engagement, will take place from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the Fine Arts Center in…
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On Thursday, a Georgia judge dismissed two criminal counts in the 2020 election interference case against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and one additional count against his allies. Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee ruled that state prosecutors lacked the authority to bring charges related to the alleged filing of false documents in federal court. However,…
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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a lawsuit against the state of Maine, accusing it of violating the civil rights of children with behavioral health disabilities. The DOJ claims Maine has failed to provide adequate community-based services, forcing families to place their children in institutions rather than allowing them to remain at home.…
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On Thursday, a North Dakota state court judge overturned the state’s near-total abortion ban, allowing abortion to become legal in the state for the first time in over a year. Judge Bruce Romanick in Bismarck ruled that the state constitution protects women’s right to abortion before fetal viability, supporting abortion providers who challenged the ban.…
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NFL quarterback Deshaun Watson, 28, faces a lawsuit alleging sexual assault from a woman he reportedly met in 2020. The woman, who remains unnamed, claims the incident occurred during a private dinner date at her home. According to documents obtained by TMZ, Watson and the woman connected at a Houston bar and began texting before…
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Missouri’s top court ruled on Tuesday that voters will decide on a proposed abortion rights amendment in November, potentially restoring legal abortion in the state for the first time in over two years. The measure, which allows abortion rights in Missouri until fetal viability, will appear on the November ballot after organizers gathered more than…
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ABM Industry Groups has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Labor, claiming the agency’s administrative proceedings for enforcing anti-discrimination requirements on federal contractors are unconstitutional. The janitorial services company filed the complaint in Houston federal court on Monday, arguing that these in-house proceedings violate its constitutional right to a jury trial. ABM also…
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