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Dubai: Egyptian Lawyer Samir Sabry has filed a lawsuit with the Public Prosecutor against celebrated Syrian singer Asala Nasri accusing her of quoting part of a Hadith by Prophet Muhammad in her recent hit song “Rifqan”. Sabry, well known for instigating lawsuits against celebrities, told
Vance High School will be renamed Tuesday, possibly for civil rights lawyer Julius Chambers.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Superintendent Earnest Winston announced in June that the district no longer considered it acceptable to have a school named for Zebulon Vance, a North Carolina governor who fought for the Confederacy.
“Vance owned slaves
DEAR JEFF: I am the independent executor of my brother’s estate. I’ve been approved, and Letters Testamentary have been issued. Am I now free to divide everything up and sell assets? Thanks, “Ready to Get This Done.”
Dear “Get This Done”: No — even in an independent administration, you should
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Renowned anti-apartheid struggle and human rights lawyer, Priscilla Jana, passed away on Saturday.
Tributes poured in for Jana, who served as the deputy chairperson of the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC). The
Black Attorney Told “He Wasn’t A Lawyer” Based on His Way of Dress Then Tased at Court
Attorney, Jaaye Person-Lynn (Courtesy Photo)
Bailiff tased and cuffed Person-Lynn in the middle of a verbal dispute.
When a lawyer enters the courtroom, they are supposed to be treated with respect. There is
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Struck-off Masterton lawyer Lindsay Boyd Gribben has been jailed for stealing just under $900,000 from clients.
Gribben, 67, pleaded guilty to nine charges of theft and fraud at the Ashburton District Court last Monday and was sentenced to prison
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The starting point of [this] crucial discussion, for me, has to be the acceptance of the idea that an independent and impartial judiciary is integral to and indispensable for any real constitutional democracy.
You can’t always get what you want, historical murder suspect Stephane Parent was told Friday when given the choice of delaying his trial or representing himself.
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Stephane Parent has been charged with second-degree murder in the 2002 death of Adrienne McColl.
“We don’t get everything
It’s not exactly the publicity most want these days, with polls showing nine in 10 Canadians don’t trust China’s authoritarian leaders and more than half want nothing to do with the telecom giant, Huawei.
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Vancouver immigration lawyer Richard Kurland has made more than 200 presentations
Tory Lanez is due to be arraigned on Tuesday on felony charges relating to an incident in July in which he allegedly shot Megan Thee Stallion.
“On July 12, the defendant and
WARWICK — House Speaker Nicholas Mattiello on Thursday recalled being incensed to learn that a mailer from a failed Republican candidate endorsing him was sent to voters just before Election Day during a tight race in 2016.
“I was angry at the mailer,” Mattiello testified. “I thought that it was
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Ryan Leaf‘s domestic battery arrest was NOT substance abuse-related … so says the ex-NFL QB’s attorney, who tells TMZ Sports the former San Diego Charger is still “100% sober.”
There had been some concern after 44-year-old Leaf — who has battled drug and alcohol problems in the past
“I wouldn’t say she’s my girlfriend, but we’re hanging out together.”
Joe Giudice isn’t wasting any time trying to find love again after he finalizing his divorce from Teresa Giudice last month.
During a virtual guest appearance on Friday’s “The Wendy Williams Show,” the former “The Real Housewives of New
Salzman pointed out that Brnovich never made an attempt to intervene in the case when it was filed. That put Hobbs in the role of deciding how to defend the law and, more to the point, when to stop, she said.
She pointed out that Brnovich and Hobbs have squabbled
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Fans behind the #FreeBritney movement grew louder this summer as headlines sparked by probate court proceedings stoked their belief that Britney Spears should be released from the conservatorship she’s been living under since 2008. On Wednesday, the singer’s court-appointed lawyer told an L.A. judge she lacks the capacity
A former Philadelphia man who left threatening messages for his late father’s lawyer and a Lehigh County assistant solicitor will serve no additional time in jail, a federal judge decided Thursday.
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Lehigh County commissioners have chosen to retain Magellan Behavioral Health as its
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A Kenyan lawyer said gunmen he suspects were security officials wearing black balaclavas abducted his client on Thursday shortly after he was acquitted of supporting the 2013 extremist attack on the Westgate Mall that left 67 people dead.
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Liban Abdullah Omar,
Jonathan Price recently had moved back to his East Texas hometown – before being fatally shot by a police officer last weekend while intervening in a domestic dispute, his family’s attorney told Fox News.
Price, 31, took a job with Wolfe City in maintenance after moving back to the area
SAGINAW, Mich. (WJRT) – The attorney for one of six men facing federal charges in the alleged plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and attack parts of the Michigan state government believes his client’s words may have been taken out of context.
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Daniel Harris
Rittenhouse, 17, is fighting to remain in Illinois, where he lives, instead of being prosecuted in Wisconsin. Rittenhouse’s lawyer, John Pierce, argued that Rittenhouse acted in self-defense and moving him to stand trial in Wisconsin would violate his constitutional rights and threaten his safety.
“To extradite Rittenhouse would be to
Maya Wiley, former legal counsel to NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, announced her bid to succeed him as mayor in 2021.
The 56-year-old civil rights attorney and former media commentator touted
Multiple women described their harassment by a certain senior colleague. “He would send me videos of things from his past and make comments how I was hot or cute or that he would like me and protect me, and help me get further in my career,” one said. “I endured
Alex Salmond believes the Scottish Government is trying to provide unlawful material to the committee established to investigate the handling of harassment complaints against him, the former first minister’s lawyer has warned.
In a letter to the committee, David McKie, a lawyer representing Salmond, said the former SNP leader believes
Law school is difficult, expensive, and time-consuming, but anybody can become a Google Lawyer for free.
Just ask “Google Lawyer Karen,” the militant anti-masker whose restaurant rant originally went viral on TikTok in July when @pizzaqueeniee uploaded it and resurfaced on the r/PublicFreakout subreddit this week.
You see, Google Lawyer
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We pet parents love our dogs, and we couldn’t imagine life without them. But some people rely on their animals for more than just love and companionship.
Service dogs are different from pets, therapy animals, and even emotional support animals. They provide specific services to persons
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