Higgs’s changes to NB language law would eliminate automatic 10-year review

The Higgs government has introduced amendments to the Official Languages ​​Act that would eliminate the legal requirement for a review of the legislation every decade. It’s the only major change to the law, which has been a source of controversy for Premier Blaine Higgs since a mandatory review began in 2021. The bill, introduced by Higgs in the legislature Wednesday, also authorizes the creation of an official language secretariat within the executive branch of government to co-ordinate compliance with the law in the civil service. Higgs told reporters the secretariat would be able to recommend updates to the act at…Continue Reading

Why the DCUS Attorney decreased to prosecute 67% of those arrested

Comment on this story CommentAs the District grapples with rising crime and increasing attention from federal lawmakers over public safety issues, a startling statistic emerged in recent weeks.Last year, federal prosecutors in the District’s US attorney’s office chose not to prosecute 67 percent of those arrested by police officers in cases that would have been tried in DC Superior Court.that figure first reported earlier this month on the substack DC Crime Facts, nearly doubled from 2015, when prosecutors in the US attorney’s office declined to prosecute 35 percent of such cases.The increased number of declining cases…Continue Reading

White & Case settles with SPAC after derailed $480 mln deal

White & Case and Colonnade Acquisition Corp II have “amically resolved” disputes, the filing says Law firm sued for more than $8.2 million in legal fees(Reuters) – Law firm White & Case has quickly ended a lawsuit seeking legal fees from a special purpose acquisition company whose plans for a $480 million merger fizzled. White & Case, which last week sued former SPAC client Colonnade Acquisition Corp II and its directors in New York state court for more than $8.2 million, said in a Friday filing the parties “have amicably resolved their disputes.” The claims are “voluntarily discontinued with…Continue Reading

Federal budget bill to include grab bag of law changes

The 2023 federal budget released this week includes a series of affordability measures, tax changes, and major spends on health care and the clean economy. However, tucked into the 255-page document is a series of smaller items you may have missed. Specifically, a scan of the “proposed legislative action” annex—largely non-fiscal measures the Liberals plan to stuff into the coming budget implementation bill, or BIA—indicates a host of grab-bag law changes. From moving ahead with an electronic citizenship program and changes for natural health products, to amending an act regarding royal titles and imposing new privacy requirements on political parties,…Continue Reading

Trump Lawyer Ordered to Turn Over Mar-a-Lago Case Documents

(WASHINGTON) — A federal appeals court in a sealed order Wednesday directed a lawyer for Donald Trump to turn over to prosecutors documents in the investigation into the former president’s retention of classified records at his Florida estate. The ruling is a significant win for the Justice Department, which has focused for months not only on the hoarding of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago but also on why Trump and his representatives resisted demands to return them to the government. It suggests the court has sided with prosecutors who have argued behind closed doors that Trump was using his legal representation…Continue Reading

Client Legal Update: Judgment of the Federal Labor Court (BAG)

See below this judgment from 20 December 2022 on the merits and limitations of annual vacation entitlements. SummaryOn 20 December 2022, the German Federal Labor Court (“BAG”) ruled that the entitlement to statutory minimum vacation is only subject to the three-year year statute of limitations if the employer has (i) previously informed its employees about their specific vacation entitlements and that the vacation will lapse if they do not take it and (ii) the employee then freely decides not to take them (See judgment – 9 AZR 266/20). If the employer fails to do so, the corresponding vacation claims…Continue Reading

Serial Subject Adnan Syed’s Murder Conviction Reinstated

An update has been made in Adnan Syed‘s legal journey. Syed, the subject of the true crime podcast Serialhas had his murder conviction for the 1999 killing of Hae Min Lee reinstated by a Maryland’s appeals court, per NBC News. The decision comes as a result of a procedural problem, according to the outlet. After Syed was asked to be released from prison in September, Lee’s family filed a notice of appeal that same month that his conviction be reinstated as they were not given sufficient notice of the Sept. 19 hearing that led to his eventual release. On March…Continue Reading

US abortion laws: Wyoming at forefront of abortion pill bans

CHEYENNE, Wyo. – Wyoming has pushed to the front of state efforts to prohibit the most common type of abortion by instituting the nation’s first explicit ban on pills that terminate pregnancies. In many states women can get abortion pills prescribed online and delivered to their homes. The ease and availability of pills has made the method the most popular way to end a pregnancy – more than half of all abortions are done with that method, according to the Guttmacher Institute, an abortion access advocacy group. But 13 states now effectively ban abortion pills by prohibiting all forms of…Continue Reading