Abortion clinic ban in Utah was challenged by lawsuits

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah law that would ban abortion clinics has been challenged in state court by abortion advocates who argue it effectively prohibits abortion in the deeply conservative state.

While abortions remain legal up to 18 weeks of pregnancy in Utah, the Planned Parenthood Association of Utah and the ACLU of Utah said in a Monday news conference that limiting abortions to licensed hospitals would dramatically reduce access to treatments, as roughly 95% of abortions in Utah are provided at clinics.

“Honestly, there are no realistic alternative locations for Utahns to continue to get this really

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Prosecutors seek to question Trump lawyer before grand jury in classified papers case | Donald Trump

Federal prosecutors involved in the criminal investigation of Donald Trump’s retention of classified documents argued to a US judge on Thursday that one of the former US president’s lawyers should answer more questions before a grand jury over objections of attorney-client privilege.

US prosecutors have been seeking to invoke the so-called crime-fraud exception that allows them to compel testimony about communications between an attorney and a client when they have evidence to suggest legal advice was used in furtherance of a crime.

In the sealed hearing before the chief US district judge for the District of Columbia Beryl Howell, prosecutors

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SC once obtained execution drugs overseas. How would shield law impact accountability?

Supporters of South Carolina’s effort to pass a law to hide the identities of companies or pharmacies willing to sell drugs for lethal injection executions are adamant complete secrecy is the only option.

The current shield law legislation making its way through the Statehouse gives no opportunity to disclose any information about manufacturers, pharmacists or compounding pharmacies that may provide lethal injection drugs into the state, even through legal discovery or under seal in litigation.

However, the department obtained drugs for lethal injection in illegitimate ways in the past.

Over a decade ago, when domestic supply of a sedative used

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Gitxaala First Nation in BC goes to court over automatic mineral rights

The nation based on BC’s northern coast filed a petition for judicial review in October 2021

The British Columbia First Nation challenging the province over an online registry it uses to automatically grant mineral rights is “very hopeful” the BC Supreme Court will side with it following a two-week hearing in Vancouver, its chief councilor said.

Linda Innes of the Gitxaala Nation told a news conference Monday that the claims process violates the government’s constitutional obligation to consult with Indigenous nations.

“In their legal argument in our case, BC has the audacity to say that giving away mineral rights in

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Trump: Ron DeSantis Would Be Working at a Law Firm “or Maybe a Pizza Hut” If Not for My Endorsement

one of Donald Trump‘s big knocks on Ron DeSantis is that he, in the ex-president’s telling, is a little shit who hasn’t shown sufficient loyalty to the man who made him. “Ron came to me in desperate shape in 2017…when I endorsed him, it was as though…a nuclear weapon went off,” Trump told his Truth Social followers in November. “When I hear [DeSantis] might run, I consider that very disloyal,” he similarly fumed of the Florida governor’s potential candidacy in January. Trump even claimed in a February interview that DeSantis was elected Florida’s governor “because of me,” adding, “You

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What is Communication & modes of Communication under the Indian Contract Act?

According to Section 2(h) of the Indian Contract Act 1872, An agreement enforceable by law is a contract. Before a contract comes into existence the promisor has to signify his willingness and a promise has to signify his assent. It, therefore, becomes necessary to explain what is meant by such signification and what should be the mode of the same.

To bring into notice the willingness or assent of the parties to enter into a contract one needs to communicate. This mode of communication can be postal or instantaneous. Section 3 of the Indian Contract Act states that communication can

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Michael Cohen Has One Word of Advice for Trump Lawyers: ‘Run!’

Amid a looming potential indictment for Donald Trump over a 2016 hush-money payment that sent his former attorney Michael Cohen to prison, Trump’s ex-fixer urged his current lawyers to get as far from their client as possible.

During an interview with MSNBC hosts Chris Hayes and Cohen, the names of several of Trump’s lawyers were mentioned, including Joe Tacopina, Alina Habba and Evan Corcoran. Tacopina has been speaking to the press about a potential indictment, which reportedly could come next week, while Habba and Corcoran are involved in the Mar-a-Lago classified investigation documents. (A federal judge on Friday ordered Corcoran

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Saint John legal clinic pairs newcomers with law students

Newcomers who live in Saint John now have a legal clinic to turn to when dealing with issues not covered by New Brunswick Legal Aid.

The Saint John Newcomers Center launched Legal Support and Advice for Racialized Newcomers last fall, in partnership with the University of New Brunswick.

Doaa Higazy, the project lead at the Saint John Newcomers Centre, said she saw the need for help, so her team applied for funding right away when they learned it had become available through the federal Department of Justice.

“For newcomers, accessing the Canadian law system is very hard,” said Higazy. “Most

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