On March 14 2022, Annie McAdams, a personal injury lawyer running a small firm in Houston, Texas, filed a civil action suit on behalf of one of her clients. The plaintiff was a 23-year-old woman who had endured years of sexual exploitation at the hands of a convicted trafficker. The defendant was one of the most powerful technology companies in the world. Contained within McAdams’s federal suit was a series of allegations that Meta – the owner of Facebook and Instagram, which are used by more than 3 billion people every day – had knowingly created a breeding ground for human trafficking and was actively facilitating the buying and selling of people for sex online.…
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Definition, Essentials and Duties of Bailor and Bailee under the Indian Contract Act, 1872
Bailment in simple words means delivering goods to a particular person without transfer of ownership. It is a technical word or term in common law although etymologically it means overhanding of goods. Anyone who gets custody without possession is not a bailee. If any person is already in possession of the goods of other contracts to hold them as a bailee he or she will hence become bailee and the owner will become the bailor in such cases. In the bailment contract, the bailee’s duty is to deal with the goods according to the instructions given by the bailor. 1. Delivery of possession There should be the delivery of possession from one person to another.…
Woman found guilty of 1st-degree murder in case of Toronto lawyer struck by U-Haul
A Toronto woman has been found guilty of first-degree murder after fatally striking a Toronto lawyer with a U-Haul in 2020. Anh Thu Chiem was found guilty by a jury at the Ontario Superior Court of Justice before Justice Peter Bawden on Tuesday. The 64-year-old was automatically sentenced to life in prison without the chance of parole for 25 years, the mandatory sentence for a first-degree murder, in the death of Scott Andrew Rosen in December 2020. Rosen, a commercial litigator who was representing Chiem’s ex-son-in-law, was 52 when he was fatally struck in an underground parking garage near Eglinton Avenue East near Mount Pleasant Road.…
Prince Harry’s Allegations Could Be ‘Extremely Damaging’ to Piers Morgan
Prince Harry’s lawyers are seeking to tie Piers Morgan to phone hacking after years of hostile commentary by the former newspaper editor about the duke and his wife, Meghan Markle. The Duke of Sussex has pronounced it his life’s work to transform British media through high-profile lawsuits, including three that are based on historical allegations of criminality by sections of the tabloid press. In one of those cases Harry has in his sights one of his most vocal and vociferous critics, a man who chose a dispute over Meghan’s account to Oprah Winfrey of experiencing suicidal thoughts as the hill he would die on.…
Trump Lawyer Joe Tacopina Previously Suggested Hush-Money Payments Made To Stormy Daniels May Have Been Illegal
Topline Former President Donald Trump’s lawyer Joe Tacopina suggested in a 2018 interview that hush-money payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels may have been illegal—statements that appear to complicate his defense of Trump as the former president could be indicted over the scheme as soon as Wednesday.Joe Tacopina (Photo by Gilbert Carrasquillo/Getty Images) Getty Images Key FactsIn the 2018 CNN clip, which resurfaced on Tuesday, Tacopina tells anchor Don Lemon that “if in fact” the payments were made in connection to Trump’s 2016 campaign “it’s an illegal agreement. It’s a fraud.”Tacopina was speaking about federal prosecutors’ 2018 case against former Trump lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen, in which Cohen pleaded guilty to five charges, including campaign finance violations, for paying adult film star Stormy Daniels $130,000 in exchange for her silence about her alleged 2006 affair with Trump.…
What is Communication & modes of Communication under the Indian Contract Act?
According to Section 2(h) of the Indian Contract Act 1872, An agreement enforceable by law is a contract. Before a contract comes into existence the promisor has to signify his willingness and a promise has to signify his assent. It, therefore, becomes necessary to explain what is meant by such signification and what should be the mode of the same. To bring into notice the willingness or assent of the parties to enter into a contract one needs to communicate. This mode of communication can be postal or instantaneous. Section 3 of the Indian Contract Act states that communication can be made by an act or omission, the first mode any act means any conduct and words, written or oral.…
Stormy Daniels: Donald Trump legal team ‘pushes to end to hush money case’ | Donald Trump
Donald Trump’s legal team recently urged the Manhattan district attorney’s office not to indict the former president over his role in paying hush money to a porn star, arguing that the payments would have been made irrespective of his 2016 presidential candidacy, sources familiar with the matter have said. The lawyer who represented the Trump team at the meeting with the district attorney’s office, Susan Necheles, also argued that campaign funds had not been used for the payments to the porn star, known as Stormy Daniels, and were therefore not a violation of campaign finance laws. The arguments presented to the district attorney’s office mark the most formal defense that the Trump team have raised to date, as they attempt to settle on a strategy to avoid conviction in the event that the former president is charged with a misdemeanor or felony over the payments .…
Trump files $500m lawsuit against former lawyer Michael Cohen | Donald TrumpNews
The lawsuit accuses Michael Cohen of breaking a confidentiality agreement and ‘spreading falsehoods’ about the former president.Donald Trump has sued his ex-lawyer Michael Cohen, seeking at least $500m in damages, as the former US president steps up attacks on his one-time loyal “fixer” after Cohen tested before the Manhattan grand jury that indicted Trump. The lawsuit accused Cohen of breaking a confidentiality agreement he signed as a condition of his employment, violating ethical standards for lawyers and “spreading falsehoods” about Trump “with malicious intent and to wholly self-serving ends”. The suit, filed in Miami on Wednesday, offered a preview of arguments that are sure to be featured in Trump’s defense against charges that he falsified internal business records to disguise payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign to silence claims of extramarital sexual encounters.…