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Ramapo settles civil rights lawsuit with developer claiming corruption for $3MRamapo settles civil rights lawsuit with developer claiming corruption for $3M

RAMAPO – The Ramapo Town Board has approved a mediated legal settlement potentially topping $3 million with a developer who accused town officials of corruption in a 2019 federal civil rights lawsuit.

Connectivity Systems LLC developer Solomon Menche’s lawsuit accused the Ramapo supervisor’s chief of staff, Mona Montal, and other town officials of manipulating land-use decisions pertaining to his mixed-use development. His housing-commercial business plan, known as Hearthstone Village, is off Route 59 in the Remsen Avenue-Treetop Lane neighborhood.

Ramapo Supervisor Michael Specht had called the lawsuit frivolous when Menche filed it in 2019. Specht and other board members voted

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McCulloch and others (Appellants) v Forth Valley Health Board (Respondent) (Scotland) – UKSCBlogMcCulloch and others (Appellants) v Forth Valley Health Board (Respondent) (Scotland) – UKSCBlog

This case is concerned with the extent to which a doctor is required, under the duty of care owed to a patient, to inform the patient about alternative possible treatments to the one that is being recommended.

In Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board [2015] UKSC 11 (“Montgomery”), the Supreme Court held that a doctor is under a duty to take reasonable care to ensure that the patient is aware of any material risks involved in any recommended treatment, and of any reasonable alternative or variant treatments. Following that decision, the main issue in this case is what test should be

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UPDATE 1-Ukraine’s Naftogaz takes legal action in US against Russia over Crimea compensationUPDATE 1-Ukraine’s Naftogaz takes legal action in US against Russia over Crimea compensation

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June 23 (Reuters) – Ukrainian state-owned energy company Naftogaz said on Friday it had taken legal action in the United States against Russia to recover $5 billion awarded in the Hague as compensation for damages and lost property in Crimea.

It said it had filed a motion in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, and that it had the right to do so as the US is among countries hosting Russian assets.

Russia, which launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, seized Crimea in 2014 and annexed the peninsula, triggering sanctions from

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R (on the application of Maguire) v His Majesty’s Senior Coroner for Blackpool & Fylde and another [2023] UKSC 20 – UKSC BlogR (on the application of Maguire) v His Majesty’s Senior Coroner for Blackpool & Fylde and another [2023] UKSC 20 – UKSC Blog

This appeal is concerned with the conduct of an request into the death of Ms Jacqueline Maguire (“Jackie”) who died in hospital on 22 February 2017, and the impact upon this of article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights (the “Convention ”), which concerns the right to life.

Jackie, who had Down’s Syndrome, lived in a care home for adults requiring round-the-clock supervision. In order to ensure she could be kept at the home under proper supervision, she was subject to a standard authorization for deprivation of liberty made under the Mental Capacity Act 2005. In the weeks

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Biden’s plan to fix a broken border? Asylum seekers should remain in CanadaBiden’s plan to fix a broken border? Asylum seekers should remain in Canada

President Joe Biden’s plan to fix a broken border just got the green light in Canada.

For months, Biden and his Canadian counterpart Prime Minister Justin Trudeau relied on their recently-hatched plan to restrict asylum seekers entering either country. But in Canada, the plan, a renegotiated Safe Third Country Agreement, faced a court challenge on the basis of whether the US was in fact a safe country to return people due to its dysfunctional immigration system.

On Friday, Canada’s highest court unanimously upheld in part that the agreement was safe to send asylum seekers back to the US, but the

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This Week in the Supreme Court – w/c 5th June 2023 – UKSCBlogThis Week in the Supreme Court – w/c 5th June 2023 – UKSCBlog

Hearings in the Supreme Court are now shown live on the Court’s website.

On Wednesday 7^th june the Court will hand-down judgment in London Borough of Merton Council v Nuffield Health [2023] UKSC 18. Section 43(5) and (6)(a) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 provides for a mandatory 80% relief from non-domestic rates on premises which are occupied by a charity and used wholly or mainly for charitable purposes . The Supreme Court will determine whether Nuffield Health is entitled to this mandatory relief in respect of its occupation of its members-only gym at Merton Abbey. The hand-down

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Jalla and another v Shell International Trading and Shipping Company and another [2023] UKSC 16 – UKSC BlogJalla and another v Shell International Trading and Shipping Company and another [2023] UKSC 16 – UKSC Blog

This appeal concerns the tort of private nuisance (a civil wrong) in the context of a major oil spill. The question at issue is whether there is a continuing private nuisance and hence a continuing cause of action. This is an important question because it affects when the limitation period for the bringing of claims (which in English law for torts is normally six years) starts to run.

The claimants and appellants are two Nigerian citizens. The defendants and respondents are both companies within the Shell group of companies. The Bonga oil field is located approximately 120km off the coast

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Letecia Stauch trial: Jury dismissed after 4 hours of deliberation | courtsLetecia Stauch trial: Jury dismissed after 4 hours of deliberation | courts

The jury started deliberations Friday afternoon in the trial against Letecia Stauch, who is accused of killing her 11-year-old stepson, Gannon Stauch, more than three years ago.

After five weeks of trial the attorneys in the case gave their closing arguments, where the key focus for both the prosecution and the defense was the sanity of Stauch. Following the end of rebuttal 12 jurors were sent to begin deliberations, and after four hours of deliberation the jury was sent home for the day at around 5 pm Deliberations will resume on Monday morning.

Prosecutors Dave Young and Michael Allen spoke

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