Clare’s Law could be a preventive tool, says Coun. Kimberly SmithAn Iqaluit city councillor says a law that allows people to request information from the police about a person’s history of violence should be adopted in Nunavut. Count. Kimberly Smith put forward a motion to city council in May for the council to formally request the Government of Nunavut to implement Clare’s Law in the territory. The Council unanimously approved the motion and sent a letter to Justice Minister David Akeeagok on May 30. Clare’s Law is named after Clare Wood, a woman who was murdered in England in 2009 by her ex-partner, a man who police knew had multiple convictions for violence against women.…

It’s no secret that Ripple Labs Inc., the company behind the prominent cryptocurrency XRP, is caught up in two legal maelstroms that could define its future. The first case involves the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which accuses Ripple of an unlawful sale of XRP tokens, perceived as unregistered securities. The second is a class-action lawsuit (originally filed in 2018) by an aggrieved investor, Bradley Sostack, arguing that XRP is a security and should have been registered under relevant laws. Interestingly, yesterday (6 July 2023), John Deaton, a prominent highly-respected attorney closely monitoring the US SEC’s lawsuit against Ripple, shed light on the unexpected legal intricacies binding these two cases.…

The slow start to Ukraine’s counteroffensive is by no means an indication it’s failing, the top US military officer said Tuesday, pointing out Kyiv’s forces have a “significant amount of combat power” they haven’t used yet, and their Russian opponents are not in great shape. A month and a half into its counterattack, Ukraine can claim cracking several villages but no major victories. Army Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said it’s too early to make any judgments while Ukraine is still trying to clear mines laid by Russian troops over several months. “Right now they are preserving their combat power,” Milley told reporters.…

The European Union’s parliament on Wednesday backed a major plan to protect nature and fight climate change in a cliffhanger vote that had the 27-nation bloc’s global green credentials at stake.After weeks of intense lobbying against the plan, the legislature still supported the general outlines of a European Commission bill in a razor-thin 324-312 vote with 12 abstentions. The plan is a key part of the EU’s vaunted European Green Deal that seeks to establish the world’s most ambitious climate and biodiversity targets and make the bloc the global point of reference on all climate issues. The vote “marks a significant milestone in our commitment to fulfilling the Green Deal,” said MEP Mohammed Chahim of the socialist group.…

Los Angeles City Councilmembers Hugo Soto-Martínez and Nithya Raman sat cross-legged in the middle of Century Boulevard last month, helping to block cars from reaching Los Angeles International Airport in a show of solidarity with the region’s hotel workers. That demonstration — and the subsequent arrest of Soto-Martínez, Raman and nearly 200 others — generated headlines for obvious reasons. Zip ties and police processing aside, the presence of the two council members was hardly surprising. In recent months, an array of federal, state and local politicians — including several members of the City Council — have walked picket lines or offered support not just to Unite Here Local 11, the hotel workers union, but also TV and film writers marching outside studios and school workers demonstrating outside Los Angeles Unified campuses.…

The Michigan Supreme Court issued an Opinion on July 11, 2023 in MSSC, Inc. v. Airboss Flexible Products Co., reversing a Court of Appeals opinion holding that blanket purchase orders were enforceable under the UCC Statute of Frauds. In short, the Michigan Supreme Court upheld the longstanding Statute of Frauds rule that contracts must contain a written quantity of terms to be binding, including its conclusions that:The parties’ blanket purchase order, terms and conditions, and other writings lacked a written quantity term. The term, “blanket,” does not constitute a quantity term within the meaning of the Statute of Frauds, overturning Great Northern Packaging, 154 Mich App 777; 399 NW 2d 408 (1986), “to the extent that it conflicts with the holding.”…

Special counsel Jack Smith’s office on Thursday urged US District Judge Aileen Cannon to reject an effort by Donald Trump’s legal team to indefinitely postpone setting a date for the former president’s trial on charges that he withheld government secrets and obstructed justice after leaving office, which he denies . “There is no basis in law or fact for proceedings in such an independent and open-ended fashion, and the Defendants provide none,” prosecutor David Harbach wrote in the filing. Harbach directly disputed several of the legal issues put forward by Trump’s attorneys in their own filing earlier this week, when they previewed plans to challenge the authority of the special counsel to bring charges and the intersection that they contend the Presidential Records Act has with the case .…

“Did Lisa kill Mitchell Bondurant in The Lincoln Lawyer?” might be the question on my fans’ minds who’ve already made their way through season 2 part 1. In season 1 viewers were left wondering whether Trevor Elliott was truly guilty of killing his wife and her lover and in The Lincoln Lawyer season 2 the question of guilt and innocence is every bit as twisty. After forming a connection with chef Lisa Trammell, attorney Mickey Haller ends up representing her as she faces a charge for the murder of property developer Mitchell Bondurant. As season 2 part 1 went on fans might well have started to form their own conclusions about whether Lisa is committed to the crime or not.…