38 h. ago Texas judge throws out rule that would have capped credit card late fees

A Texas judge has thrown out a federal rule that would have capped credit card late fees

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45 h. ago Judge rejects defense that Gaudreau brothers contributed to own deaths

Judge refuses to throw out indictment in Gaudreau caseDefense had hoped to have charges reduced or dismissedNHL player, brother were killed when hit by car in AugustThe family of NHL hockey player Johnny Gaudreau and his brother Matthew listened in pain Tuesday as lawyers debated whether the men’s own drinking contributed to their deaths when they were hit by an allegedly drunken and enraged driver as they cycled at night.After nearly two hours of argument, a judge agreed the issue was moot under New Jersey criminal law – upholding all of the charges against the driver, including manslaughter and vehicular homicide. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Rebekah Vardy loses another round of her Wagatha Christie legal battle after judges throw out her claim Coleen Rooney's lawyers committed 'serious misconduct'

Rebekah Vardy and Coleen Rooney were locked in a bitter courtroom battle in 2022 after the pair - both married to former England footballers - rowed over leaking stories to the press

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8 d. ago ‘HillmanTok’: how The Cosby Show inspired resistance to Trump’s war on Black education

Inspired by the university setting of A Different World, the world’s first crowd-sourced HBCU is expanding onlineIn 1987, the Cosby Show spinoff A Different World made its US TV debut and followed the elder child, Denise Huxtable (Lisa Bonet), as she studied at her parents’ alma mater. The fictional historically Black college (or HBCU), Hillman, would go on to become a byword for Black excellence. “The influence of kids wanting to go to school, period, I think is very powerful,” one of the stars of the series, Jasmine Guy, said while touring HBCU campuses with her former castmates in 2024, 35 years after the sitcom ended. “Because they could see themselves there.”Hillman College is credited with driving record levels of enrollment at actual HBCUs in the 1980s and 90s, and remains a source of inspiration for Black creatives to this day. The actor-screenwriter Lena Waithe had the fabled campus in mind when she launched her production company, Hillman Grad. “I want to call it something...

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9 d. ago Tesco issues update on major shortage of cupboard staple across UK stores

Shoppers have reported not being able to find cans of the supermarket’s own brand of kidney beans, black beans, butter beans, cannellini beans and chickpeas

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1 week ago ‘The law is another form of storytelling’: Philippe Sands in conversation with Juan Gabriel Vásquez

When Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was arrested in London in 1998, lawyer Philippe Sands was part of the prosecution. As his book about the case comes out, he talks to the Colombian novelist about literature and justiceWhat do law and literature have in common? Do they represent similar impulses towards understanding human motives and behaviour, or are they fundamentally different systems? In his new book, 38 Londres Street, lawyer and writer Philippe Sands revisits the attempts to extradite and prosecute former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, beginning in 1998, in which he was involved. He also finds himself on the trail of Walther Rauff, a former SS officer featured in Sands’s award-winning book East West Street, who went on to seek refuge in Chile, later becoming involved in the Pinochet regime’s arrangements for the detention, torture and murder of its opponents. The Colombian novelist Juan Gabriel Vásquez, who trained as a lawyer but decided...

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1 week ago Tufts PhD student scores legal win against Trump administration as her case moves to Vermont court

Federal judge denies Justice Department’s request to throw out Rumeysa Ozturk’s challenge to her arrest

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1 week ago Donald Trump ordered to pay £626,000 legal costs after Steele dossier lawsuit

US president had sued over denied allegations he took part in ‘perverted’ sex acts but UK case was thrown out last yearDonald Trump has been ordered by a judge in England to pay more than £620,000 in legal costs after unsuccessfully suing a company over denied allegations he took part in “perverted” sex acts.The US president brought a data protection claim against Orbis Business Intelligence, a consultancy founded by a former MI6 officer, Christopher Steele, in 2022. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Judge throws out Eric Adams corruption case and sides with Trump’s DOJ

Judge overseeing Adams’ case said he would drop the charges, in part, to protect the DoJ from using them as ‘leverage’

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2 w. ago P Diddy sex assault lawsuit dismissed as accuser refuses to reveal identity

A lawsuit against Sean 'Diddy' Combs has been dismissed after the accuser refused to reveal their identity - the case was thrown out by a federal judge in court

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2 w. ago Of Thorn & Briar by Paul Lamb: Meet Instagram's hunky hedgelayer heartthrob

Constance Craig Smith discovers what life is like as a hedgelayer in the West Country in Paul Lamb's new book.

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3 w. ago Stephen Lawrence's dad urges David Norris to name son's killers after admitting truth

Stephen Lawrence's dad Neville warned that anything David Norris says 'must be treated with the utmost caution' but said the convicted killer 'should name the others' who were involved

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3 w. ago Elon Musk’s dad touts billionaire’s friendships with his ‘Black servants’ as a kid

Errol Musk, Elon’s father, previously told a biographer he imported his emeralds from an unregistered mine because otherwise the “Blacks would take everything from you”

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4 w. ago Judge throws the book at a West Virginia couple convicted of treating adopted Black kids as ‘slaves’

In January, a jury found Jeanne Whitefeather and Donald Ray Lantz guilty on multiple counts of forced labor, human trafficking, and child abuse and neglect

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4 w. ago Judge rejects Trump administration’s attempt to throw out lawsuit from arrested Palestinian Columbia student

Mahmoud Khalil’s case is transferred from Louisiana to New Jersey

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4 w. ago She's the daughter of a rock legend and former X Factor judge... but can YOU guess who this is in childhood throwback snap?

Her father is a huge rock legend and her mother is renowned for being on the judging panel on X Factor... but can you guess who she is?

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last month Swimming pool lifts the lid on 'inaccurate' allegations it 'kicked out every Black kid'

One furious parent captured the moment a group of children were left stranded at the poolside with towels to their waists after being ordered to leave by police - who turned up to the New South Wales leisure centre

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