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U.S. court stays extradition of Mumbai terror attacks accused Tahawwur Rana pending his appeal

U.S. Court orders stay on extradition of Pakistani-origin Canadian businessman Tahawwur Rana to India for 2008 Mumbai terror attacks. District Judge Fischer overrides Biden administration’s appeal, grants Rana's application for stay pending appeal to Ninth Circuit Court. Rana has raised serious legal questions and public interest favours him. NIA ready…

The Hindu

Risk of Physical Harm to Woman Involved in Ghislaine Maxwell Litigation May Justify Sealing Her Identity,

holds the Second Circuit, though it leaves it to the trial court to consider the facts further.

Reason

Against One-Sided Pseudonymity in Sexual Assault Cases

I thought I'd pass along amicus brief that I submitted earlier this month in Doe v. Sidar, an appeal of a case where the District Court reconsidered its earlier position in favor of pseudonymity. Here's the Summary of Argument: In deciding this case, this Court ought to be attentive to…

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Grandmother Has Right to Publish Government Documents About Investigation into Grandson's Death

The Third Circuit holds that, once the government released the documents, it couldn't then forbid the grandmother (or others) from publishing them.

Reason

A 29 Y.O. Sydney High School Teacher Was Jailed For Secretly Filming Up Female Students’ Skirts

The teacher was sentenced to jail on Wednesday, only to be released on bail hours later.

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Australian prosecutor says former Israeli principal feigned mental illness to avoid extradition

An Australian prosecutor says the former principal of an Australian Jewish school feigned mental illness in a seven-year battle to avoid extradition on child sex abuse charges

The Independent UK

George Santos's Bail Guarantors Must Be Disclosed—but the Order so Holding Is Sealed Pending Appeal

(The appeal is an appeal to the District Court, so it will likely be resolved fairly quickly.)

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British expat breaks down in Cyprus court as he recalls ending wife’s life

David Hunter became emotional as he told the District Court in Paphos ‘she wasn’t just my wife, she was my best friend’.

The Independent UK

FIFO worker Ryan Zabaznow found guilty of raping colleague at BHP mine

A former fly-in fly-out worker is found guilty of raping a colleague at a remote mine site in WA, in a case that came to the public's attention amid wide-ranging allegations of sexual assaults and harassment within the mining industry.

ABC News

FIFO worker Ryan Zabaznow denies sexually assaulting 'comatose' woman at BHP mine

A fly-in fly-out worker is on trial in WA's District Court accused of sexually assaulting a colleague at a remote mine site in the state's Pilbara region.

ABC News

Woman stabbed stranger in Perth shopping centre to 'save' family, District Court hears

A mentally ill woman knifed a complete stranger in a suburban shopping centre so she would be arrested and stopped from killing her own family, the WA District Court hears.

ABC News

Christopher John Anderson sentenced over shooting of 41 horses at Longreach

Christopher John Anderson received a suspended sentence after pleading guilty over the 2021 crime.

ABC News

Cameron Brodie-Hall granted bail despite District Court refusal a month ago

Cameron Brodie-Hall is accused of possessing documents related to "achieving mass awakening by taking down the system" and condoned successful terrorist attackers. The Supreme Court of South Australia granted bail on April 6, after it was refused the previous month by the District Court.

ABC News

Court Rejects Defendant's Request to Seal 9-Year-Old Libel Case

"By maintaining access to these records, the Court promotes the public's interest 'in ascertaining what evidence and records the District Court ... relied upon in reaching [its] decision,' and the Court provides 'the public with a more complete understanding of the judicial system, including a better perception of its fairness.'"

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Irish Mirror

Garda sergeant convicted of sexually assaulting woman appeals decision to dismiss him from force

Following his conviction Sgt Middleton was subsequently jailed for five months by the District Court judge

ABC News

Former cop Thomas Booker jailed for more than two decades for dark web drug syndicate

A former South Australian police officer turned drug boss has been sentenced to 21 years in jail for trading drugs in what a court heard was a complex business run on the dark web.

Reason

Court Rejects Idea Theft / "Hot News" Claim by Occasional Fox Guest Against Fox

Bonus: Calling someone a "nut" isn't libel.

ABC News

Alleged Kalgoorlie gold thieves 'unwitting bunnies' in 'above board' deal, court told

Lawyers for Russell Wilson Holden and Simon Leslie Gash have argued the men were unwitting and unwilling participants in the alleged theft of $1.17 million of gold bearing ore from miner FMR Investments.

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Gold theft trial hears mining executive asked boss for 'waste pile' as 'reward'

A WA mining executive tells the District Court he was "uncomfortable" transporting Doré bullion on the back seat of his car for his former boss, who he asked to let him have a pile of gold-bearing ore that had to be "worth something".

Dublin Live

Man charged with murder after death of mum of two in Dublin house fire

On Friday, George Turner, 53, of Fairview Avenue, Fairview, Dublin, was arrested following an investigation by the detective unit at Clontarf Garda Station

Irish Mirror

Man charged with murder after death of woman in her 40s in Dublin house fire

Dressed in a blue hooded top, jeans and brown shoes, he sat silently at the side of the courtroom

ABC News

Trial by Jury to be put on in District Court building as part of Adelaide Fringe festival

There will be a Trial by Jury of a different kind when South Australia's District Court building hosts a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta as part of the Adelaide Fringe.

Newslaundry

The lure of Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh

For much of the English news media, Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh is somewhat of a joke who first burst onto the scene with his viral song, Love Charger in 2014.He’s been steady fodder since with his music videos, blingy fashion sense, hairy back and five movies.The self-styled ‘messenger of god’…

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