© Reuters. Pro-Ripple Lawyer Thinks XRP’s Fate on Secondary Markets Might Be Decided By This Supreme Court Case

U.Today – Pro-Ripple lawyer thinks XRP’s fate on secondary markets might be decided by the recently initiated Supreme Court case, “Slack v. Pirani.”

Hogan thinks that the US Supreme Court case Slack v. Pirani is analogous to XRP on the secondary market if or where XRP is sold as an “investment contract.”

He adds that XRP does not magically maintain status as a “security” outside the context of the initial “contract.”

Responding to a Twitter user’s inquiry as to how this case

A New Jersey lawyer was arrested this week in connection with a series of decade-old rapes in Boston after forensic genealogy linked him to the crime spree.

Matthew J. Nilo, 35, was arrested at his home in Weehawken around 4:30 pm Tuesday, the Boston Globe reported.

He has been charged with three counts of aggravated rape, two counts of kidnapping, one count of assault with intent to rape, and one count of indecent assault and battery in connection with the attacks on four women in the Terminal Street area between August 2007 and December 2008, the outlet said.

“This is

Letters written by the prime suspect in the Madeleine McCann case, in which he protests his innocence and tries to claim he had nothing to do with her disappearance, have been revealed for the first time.

Christian Brueckner, who is in jail for rape, penned a series of letters from his prison cell, attempting to distance himself from the unsolved case of the then-three-year-old, who vanished while on a family holiday from Praia da Luz, Portugal, in 2007.

“You can never imagine how it is when the whole world believes you are a child murderer, and you are not,” he

Mexican prosecutors said Saturday they’re dropping a case against a woman who was hit with a six-year prison sentence for killing a man as he raped and assaulted her.

The reversal comes after protests erupted when a court in Mexico State agreed last week that 23-year-old Roxana Ruiz was raped in 2021, but was still guilty of homicide with “excessive use of legitimate defense” and ordered to pay $16,000 to her attacker’s family.

The state Prosecutor’s Office said it made the decision to drop charges after taking into account that Ruiz, who is an Indigenous woman and single mother, is

The world has long been plagued by the devastating effects of war, leaving behind countless victims and destruction in its wake. Despite numerous efforts to prevent conflicts, war crimes continue to occur, causing unimaginable suffering to innocent civilians.

To combat this issue, the United Nations has implemented various treaties aimed at protecting human rights during times of war. In this blog post, we will delve into the topic of war crimes and UN treaties, exploring their significance and impact on global peacekeeping efforts.

The Geneva Conventions

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HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong lawmakers on Wednesday passed an amendment to a law granting the city’s leader the power to bar overseas lawyers from handling national security cases, following a high-profile row sparked by a pro-democracy Hong Kong publisher’s hiring of a British lawyer.

The changes will require overseas lawyers who do not generally practice in Hong Kong to obtain permission from the chief executive before submitting applications to represent clients in national security cases in court.

The city’s leader will only give approval if there are sufficient grounds to believe the lawyers’ involvement will not contradict the