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Gag Order on Idaho Murder Case is ‘Likely Unconstitutional’, Lawyer Argues

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The gag order issued by a judge in the Idaho murders case is “likely unconstitutional”, according to outside criminal defense attorney Philip Holloway “The gag order in the #IdahoMurders case is likely unconstitutional under the #1st Amendment,” Holloway wrote in a tweet on Monday. Holloway is not directly involved in the Idaho murders case. Following the arrest of 28-year-old Bryan Kohberger in the deaths of Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Ethan Chapin, 20 and Xana Kernodle, 20, a judge in Latah County, Idaho, issued a nondissemination order, or a gag order, barring anyone involved in the case to speak…
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Sam Bankman-Fried’s Bahamas Litigation May Take ‘Months or Years,’ His Counsel Says

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Fraud proceedings against FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried could be delayed by “months or years” if extra charges are added, potentially running past a planned October trial date, his lawyers have said in legal filings made on Monday. Bankman-Fried is currently on bail after being arrested in December and extradited from the Bahamas after the collapse of his crypto empire, which had filed for bankruptcy in November. He has pleaded not guilty to charges including wire fraud and money laundering. His lawyers argue that charges added by the US Department of Justice after his extradition may breach the treaty the US…
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Florida plastic surgeon charged with murder in case of vanished lawyer | US crime

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One day last week, Steve Cozzi, a south Florida attorney, got up from his desk to use the bathroom. He never came back to work and has not been seen since. Police said he was apparently murdered during that bathroom break, by a plastic surgeon at the center of a lawsuit in which Cozzi represented the opposing side. Though Cozzi’s body had not been found as of late Monday, Dr Tomasz Roman Kosowski faces a charge of first-degree murder. Investigators stopped short of saying if they believed Kosowski, 44, killed Cozzi, 41, because of the suit the doctor filed against…
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Identification of evidence lacking in a murder case, the lawyer says

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Article content The lawyer for the double-murder suspect Gerald David Benn said Monday there’s no evidence to identify his client as the gunman in the fatal shootings of two Calgary men. Article content And defense counsel Andrea Urquhart argued even if there was, there’s nothing in the Crown’s case to show the gunman planned the deadly attack and the accused should only have to answer a charge of second-degree murder. Article content Urquhart made the comments in a directed verdict application before Justice Nick Devlin at the conclusion of the Crown’s case in Benn’s trial on two counts of first-degree…
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LIV Golf lawyers argue PGA Tour is ‘exploiting litigation’ after request to delay antitrust trial, discovery schedule

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Lawyers for both the PGA Tour and LIV Golf filed a joint motion Sunday to the US District Court for Northern California to ask for a case management conference to discuss delaying the current trial date and extending the discovery schedule for the ongoing antitrust lawsuit. US District Judge Beth Labson Freeman is overseeing the trial that is currently set for January 2024. The deadline for complete document discovery is March 30. The fact discovery deadline is May 26. Lawyers for the upstart circuit led by Greg Norman and financially supported by the Public Investment Fund argued “the Tour is…
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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHT: A BARRIER TO PUBLIC HEALTH?

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“With a fast-moving pandemic, no one is safe, unless everyone is safe” Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed The virus has now spread over the globe, causing tremendous physical, financial and social breakdown on every continent, nation, state, province and individual. This terrible predicament has come from the spread of the catastrophic and disastrous corona virus disease. As future and current apparatus, medications, treatments, and science must be made available to the medical community, intellectual property regimes have become a concern not only in India but around the world. Normally, IPR holders are afforded exemption from third-party use of their intellectual property…