Outdoor dining now a permanent option for Honolulu restaurants with new law | News https://www.diningandcooking.com/2000005/outdoor-dining-now-a-permanent-option-for-honolulu-restaurants-with-new-law-news/ ##economy #bill #dining #food #hawaii #honolulu #law #LocalBusinesses #mayor #OutdoorDining #permit #PilotProgram #Restaurants #service
Judge acquits vulnerable man of murder due to 'oppressive' Winnipeg police interrogation
A man described as a vulnerable person with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder was acquitted of second-degree murder last month, after a Winnipeg judge found his police statement was made up of details he fabricated under pressure — as two detectives took turns screami...
#crime #law #police #Winnipeg #News #Canada
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/jonathan-gladue-murder-trial-acquitted-1.7502666?cmp=rss
The Peace Preservation Law, aimed at rooting out socialists and communists, was promulgated 100 years ago, while a new museum for kanji was opened in Kyoto 25 years ago. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/05/japan/history/peace-law-womens-week-minobe-kanji-history-1925-1950-1975-2000/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #history #law #freedomofspeech #feminism #womensrights #ryokichiminobe #ryoichikuroda #kanji #kyoto
More Than 500 law firms backed Perkins Coie in fight with Trump, calling the presidents action “a grave threat to our system of constitutional governance and to the rule of law itself.”
The brief filed by the law firms argued that Trump’s orders ran violated the First, Fifth and Sixth Amendments of the Constitution. “Unless the judiciary acts decisively now, what was once beyond the pale will in short order become a stark reality,” the brief said.
https://shorturl.at/NDMT8 #press #law
Next was a fascinating talk by Erika Chamberlain on who gets to decide when a person is dead at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. The effort and care that has gone into this deceptively hard to define phenomenon is instructive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK5NVZ7rSxM (4/7) #law #bioethics
More of this please:
The #NY State #Education Dept issued a defiant response to #Trump’s threats to pull federal #funding from #PublicSchools over #diversity, #equity & #inclusion programs, a remarkable departure from recent conciliatory approaches of other institutions. A day earlier, the federal govt issued a memo to education ofcls across the nation, telling them to confirm the elimination of all programs it argues *unfairly* promote #DEI.
#law #democracy #FreeSpeech
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/us/politics/new-york-trump-dei-order.html?smid=url-share
“A Thai court has issued an arrest warrant for an American academic under Thailand's lese-majeste #law that forbids insulting the monarchy. The army filed a complaint against #PaulChambers, a lecturer at Naresuan University in central Thailand, under lese-majeste & computer crime laws… the Thai Lawyers for Human Rights Centre [lawyer] representing Mr Chambers, told the BBC he did not know the reason for the complaint.” | BBC https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqx48egpgq1o.amp #LèseMajesté
Noisemaker ban in the works after assault at B.C. junior hockey game leaves man seriously injured
Officials in B.C.’s West Kootenay region are looking to ban noisemakers at a local hockey arena after a Fruitvale, B.C., man suffered serious injuries in an assault police say stemmed from the use of an air horn at a junior hockey game last month.
#sports #assault #accident #law #BC #WestKootenay
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-hockey-noisemaker-ban-assault-1.7502437?cmp=rss
Legal group apologizes after cancellation of noted Syrian Canadian's speech sparks 'profound' reaction
A prominent Canadian legal association is apologizing after it cancelled a keynote speech by Syrian Canadian entrepreneur and peacekeeping advocate Tareq Hadhad, prompting sharp criticism from many of its members.
#law #politics #speech #apology #News #Canada
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/advocates-society-tareq-hadhad-apologizes-1.7502600?cmp=rss
N.B. First Nation wants RCMP ‘held accountable’ after officer cleared in man’s death
Elisopogtog First Nation community members are upset after SiRT found no grounds for criminal charges against an RCMP officer who shot and killed a man during a wellness check.
#police #law #death #Elsipogtog #News #ElsipogtogFirstNation
https://globalnews.ca/news/11116353/nb-first-nation-officer-held-accountable-cleared-mans-death/
TL;DR: The recent Executive Order by President Trump to establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve signals a significant shift towards federal involvement in cryptocurrency, raising important compliance challenges for agencies and market players alike. https://www.lexblog.com/2025/04/04/federal-crypto-ownership-compliance-implications-of-the-strategic-bitcoin-reserve-and-u-s-digital-asset-stockpile/ #law #tech #legaltech 
#autosum
#kleptocracy & #corruption on full display:
Exclusive: #SpaceX, #ULA to clinch multibillion-dollar #Pentagon launch contract
#ElonMusk's SpaceX & United Launch Alliance are expected to each win a #US #SpaceForce rocket launch contract on Friday worth billions of dollars over the next several years to send some of the Pentagon's most sensitive #satellites into #space, acc/to 2 people familiar w/the procurement decision.
#law #Trump #broligarchy #plutocracy #USpol
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/spacex-ula-expected-clinch-multibillion-dollar-contract-key-pentagon-launch-2025-04-04/
'You shot a cop!': Gripping audio of arrest played at Bellefeuille murder trial
Key pieces of evidence in the trial of a man who shot and killed an Ontario Provincial Police sergeant in May 2023 were played in court Friday — audio and video of Alain Bellefeuille's arrest by a constable not long after shots rang out.
#crime #law #murder #Ontario #News #Canada
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/you-shot-a-cop-gripping-audio-of-arrest-played-at-bellefeuille-murder-trial-1.7502233?cmp=rss
Quebec’s high court rejects random police stops ahead of Supreme Court hearing
Quebec's Court of Appeal has refused the province's request to allow arbitrary police traffic stops to continue until a legal challenge is heard by the Supreme Court of Canada.
#law #police #court #Quebec #Canada #Crime
https://globalnews.ca/news/11116515/quebecs-random-police-stops-courts/
Legal group apologizes after cancellation of noted Syrian Canadian speech sparks 'profound' reaction
A prominent Canadian legal association is apologizing after it cancelled a keynote speech by Syrian Canadian humanitarian advocate Tareq Hadhad, prompting sharp criticism from many of its members.
#law #politics #speech #apology #News #Canada
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/advocates-society-tareq-hadhad-apologizes-1.7502600?cmp=rss
Man accused of assaulting Saskatoon judge was wanted on earlier assault charge at time of attack
Court documents show a bench warrant was issued for Brandon Burns, 30, one week before he was accused of assaulting a federal court judge in downtown Saskatoon.
#crime #law #assault #Saskatoon #News #Canada
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/judge-assault-accused-warrant-1.7502443?cmp=rss
"From the moment he was seized, it was #unconstitutional," Judge Xinis said during the hearing. "If there isn't a document, a warrant, a statement of probable cause, then there is no basis to have seized him in the first place. That's how I'm looking at it," the judge said.
Abrego Garcia was arrested & deported last month — despite having been granted protection by an #immigration judge in 2019 that should have prevented him from being deported to #ElSalvador.
Judge Xinis ordered the #Trump admin to return Abrego Garcia to the US by 11:59PM ET on Mon, April 7. She said keeping him in El Salvador constitutes irreparable harm.
A federal judge in Maryland Friday ordered the #Trump admin to take immediate steps to return a MD man who was deported to #ElSalvador’s #CECOT mega-prison by mistake, setting up another high-stakes clash between the WH & the courts.
"This was an illegal act," US Federal District Judge Paula Xinis told #DOJ lawyers at a federal court hearing in Greenbelt, MD about the deportation of #KilmarAbregoGarcia, who lived in the US legally & had a work permit.
#law #immigration
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/04/nx-s1-5352448/judge-orders-the-trump-administration-to-return-man-who-was-mistakenly-deported-el-salvador
Noisemaker ban in the works after assault at B.C. junior hockey game leaves man seriously injured
Officials in B.C.’s West Kootenay region are looking to ban noisemakers at a local hockey arena after a Fruitvale, B.C., man suffered serious injuries in an assault police say stemmed from the use of an air horn at a junior hockey game last month.
#sports #assault #accident #law #BC #WestKootenay
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-hockey-noisemaker-ban-assault-1.7502437?cmp=rss
