Soccer, football, volleyball — it all happened on Sunday afternoon. Hours after Leo Messi and Argentina earned the country’s third World Cup final victory, the United States was treated to a excited volleyball match during Chargers vs. Titans. MORE: Titans QB Ryan Tannehill returns after being carted off with an ankle injury Titans defensive backs…
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Musk vows ‘legal action’ against jet-tracking teens
Elon Musk revealed Wednesday night that he is taking “legal action” against the teenager who runs a since-suspended Twitter account tracking the billionaire’s jet flights. The Twitter CEO made the announcement after implying the jet-tracking account operated by Jack Sweeney, a University of Central Florida freshman, was to blame for a Tuesday stalking incident where…
Pawtucket agrees to settle lawn sign lawsuit
PAWTUCKET − Campaign yard signs can roam free in Pawtucket and the city will pay two incoming state lawmakers $1,000 for ordering the removal of their signs during this year’s campaign. That’s the result of a settlement the city agreed to Tuesday to end a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of an ordinance that bans political…
Tory Lanez Faces a New Felony Charge As Megan Thee Stallion Assault Trial Begins [UPDATED]
Photo: Prince Williams/Wireimage (Getty Images) Updated as of 12/6/2022 at 4:55 pm ET: Another one [DJ Khaled voice]. Just a day after Tory Lanez was released from house arrest, he was also hit with a new felony charge in the Megan Thee Stallion assault case. On Tuesday Rolling Stone reported that prosecuting attorneys added a…
Shanghai Shipyard Co. Ltd v Reignwood International Investment (Group) Company Ltd – UKSCBlog
In this post Aleksandra Gajewska, an Associate, and David McKie, a Partner at CMS, preview the decision awaited from the UK Supreme Court in the matter of Shanghai Shipyard Co. Ltd v Reignwood International Investment (Group) Company Ltd. On 8 December 2022, the Supreme Court will hear the appeal in Shanghai Shipyard Co. Ltd v…
This Week in the Supreme Court – week commencing 5th December 2022 – UKSCBlog
On Wednesday 7th December the Supreme Court will hand down judgment in REFERENCE by the Attorney General for Northern Ireland – Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) (Northern Ireland) Bill [2022] UKSC 32. This will consider the issue ‘Is clause 5(2)(a) of the Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) (Northern Ireland) Bill outside the legislative competence of…
This Week in the Supreme Court – week commencing 28th November 2022 – UKSCBlog
On Wednesday 30th November and Thursday 1st Decemberthe Court will hear the conjoined appeals In the matter of an application by James Hugh Allister and others for Judicial Review (Northern Ireland), In the matter of an application by Clifford Peoples for Judicial Review (Northern Ireland). In these conjoined appeals, the appellants challenge the lawfulness and…
Reference by the Lord Advocate of devolution issues under paragraph 34 of Schedule 6 to the Scotland Act 1998 [2022] UKSC 31 – UKSC Blog
The Scottish Government drafted a Scottish Independence Referendum Bill which makes provision for a referendum on the question, “Should Scotland be an independent country?”. Under the Scotland Act 1998 (“the Scotland Act”), the power of the Scottish Parliament to make legislation (or its “legislative competence”) is limited. A provision of a Bill will be outside…
Opinions | Top law schools bow out of US News rankings. What’s the thinking?
Comment on this story Comment In 1983, a weekly newsmagazine called US News & World Report launched an annual ranking of colleges, planting the seed of what became a revolutionary change to the magazine’s business model — and eventually, to that of higher education. The magazine’s rankings of colleges, law and business schools, hospitals and…
Ukraine works to stabilize Kherson after Russian pullout
MYKOLAIV, Ukraine (AP) — The Ukrainian military carried out “stabilization measures” near the southern city of Kherson on Saturday following the end of an eight-month occupation by Russian forces, a retreat that cast a further pall on President Vladimir Putin’s designs to take over large parts of Ukraine. People across Ukraine awoke from a night…