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By Christopher Niesche | October 20, 2022
The report by retired judge Julie Dodds-Streeton KC did concede, however, that it is difficult to take strong action against judges given their 'constitutionally-protected status'.
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By Paul Hodkinson | October 5, 2022
Jill Greenfield's childhood was marred with the murders of women she knew. She explains how she is now one of the few people in commercial law taking on high profile sexual assault cases.
8 minute read
By Amy Guthrie | September 12, 2022
Nonprofit EarthRights International seeks compensation for more than 200 Colombians who were allegedly tortured or had family members killed by paramilitary forces funded by the U.S.-based banana grower.
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By Gail J. Cohen | August 3, 2022
Hundreds of tributes are flowing in for the Toronto lawyer, who took on some of the country's most groundbreaking and high-profile cases.
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By Gail J. Cohen | July 18, 2022
Toronto-based WeirFoulds partner Nadia Chiesa is providing significant litigation support to constitutional challenges in five Caribbean nations.
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By Anne Bagamery | July 1, 2022
The U.S. decision, which runs counter to global trends toward more liberal abortion rights, led almost immediately to a global call to strengthen legal protections for reproductive rights, as well as heightened fears for the knock-on effects on civil rights, privacy rights, women's health, and even local law.
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By Christopher Niesche | June 28, 2022
David Barnden has played a role in making the country a prime jurisdiction for test cases with broad policy implications for the environment at a time when climate change litigation has been spreading around the world.
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By Andrew Maloney | June 28, 2022
As law firms navigate a host of privacy, HR and political issues, several firms have issued ambiguous statements or said they are "exploring" the next steps.
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By Bruce Love | June 27, 2022
"We had to be nimble and alert to the developing facts. A huge amount happened in the first 12 hours after 'Dobbs' was issued," said Joanna Wright, of Boies Schiller Flexner.
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By Bruce Love | June 24, 2022
"Whatever your political views, people are going to have strong emotions today, and they should be given the time to reflect," said Steptoe chair Gwen Renigar.
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By Avalon Zoppo | March 18, 2024
"I think there's going to be a huge number of reverse discrimination type cases filed this year and in subsequent years," said employment lawyer Jason Schwartz.
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By Brian Lee | March 14, 2024
Court precedent finding New York's human rights laws do not apply to out-of-state workers in employment discrimination claims might be revisited after a New York Court of Appeals ruling, according to one attorney.
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By Mason Lawlor | March 14, 2024
The Alaska Supreme Court issued an opinion last week declaring the police practice of taking overhead pictures using telephoto lenses without a warrant to be an unreasonable search in violation of the Fourth Amendment's and Alaska Constitution's protections of privacy.
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By Adolfo Pesquera | March 13, 2024
"The Fifth Circuit decision contradicts federal law and is the latest high-profile decision relating to birth control access since the disastrous (Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health) decision," Democracy Forward Foundation said.
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By Alex Anteau | March 11, 2024
"Upsetting all of that will have policy consequences that we are ill-equipped to evaluate—and that it is not our role to evaluate," Presiding Judge Christopher McFadden wrote.
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By Avalon Zoppo | March 11, 2024
The Council on American-Islamic Relations told the court that the FBI's Terrorist Screening Dataset—commonly called the terrorist watchlist—poses a major question and that no federal statute authorized its creation.
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By Mason Lawlor | March 11, 2024
"Oftentimes, people who are victims of crime who have not received support find themselves in the criminal justice system. In fact, a lot of data indicates that about 90% of the people who are incarcerated were victims of crime at one point," Chief of Federal Advocacy for the Alliance of Safety and Justice, Shakyra Diaz, told Law.com ahead of Monday's SXSW Conference in Austin, Texas.
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By Emily Cousins | March 8, 2024
The number of lawsuits are skyrocketing, with some law firms filing dozens a day, alleging violations of the Americans With Disabilities Act, especially as it applies to business websites.
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By Ross Todd | March 7, 2024
Grigsby, who worked on civil rights issues as Deputy White House Counsel in the Biden Administration, returned to the firm earlier this year as a senior member of its institutional culture and social responsibility practice and co-chair of government litigation.
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By Gregg M. Goldfarb | March 5, 2024
Products marketed toward Black women are more likely to cause cancer and other diseases, recent research has found.
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