In a case that has wound its way through the courts for nearly ten years, this week a Connecticut federal district court gave a partial victory to the Orthodox Jewish Chabad organization which is seeking to expand a residential building it purchased in an area zoned as an Historic District. ...
Pakistan Court Fines and Jails Husband For Polygamous Marriage Without Wife’s Consent
According to Deutsche Welle, for the first time a trial court in Pakistan has sided with the woman in a polygamy case. A trial court in Lahore sentenced Shahzad Saqib to 6 months in jail and a fine equivalent to $1900 (US) for violating Pakistan's 2015 family law that requires the exiting wife's...
Canada’s Supreme Court Rejects Aboriginal Tribe’s Religious Objection To Ski Resort
In Ktunaxa Nation v. British Columbia (Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations), (Sup. Ct. Canada, Nov. 2, 2017), the Supreme Court of Canada rejected a claim by the aboriginal Ktunaxa Nation that government approval for the development of a ski resort on land they considered sacred would...
Former TV Anchor Claims Kevin Spacey Sexually Assaulted Her Son
She tweeted about it mid-October. Source: http://lslink.info/?c=263r
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