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Texas man drops lawsuit against women who allegedly helped his ex-wife get an abortion

Texas man drops lawsuit against women who allegedly helped his ex-wife get an abortion

ALMOST two years ago, a Galveston man sued his ex-wife’s friends for the wrongful death of a fetus for allegedly helping her obtain pills to terminate her pregnancy. The first-of-its-kind lawsuit set off a panic about a potential new avenue of abortion criminalization in post-Roe v. Wade America. On Thursday, the claims were dropped with nothing to show for them. This shocking test case was filed by Jonathan Mitchell, an anti-abortion legal crusader responsible for Texas’ novel ban on abortions through private lawsuits. That gambit, commonly known as SB 8, survived a court challenge. This wrongful death suit, which demanded…
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Africa’s richest woman loses battle to hold on to assets worth over $770 million

Africa’s richest woman loses battle to hold on to assets worth over $770 million

ISABEL do Santos, one of Africa’s richest women, looks set to lose assets worth $770 million. Do Santos, one of the continent’s first female billionaires, failed in her appeal to overturn a freezing order on $778 million of her assets, as ruled by London's High Court. Dos Santos, the daughter of Angola's former president Jose Eduardo dos Santos, is being sued by Angolan telecoms operator Unitel. The worldwide freezing order on her assets was granted in December, and the Court of Appeal has now rejected her attempt to challenge this decision. The lawsuit centres around loans Unitel made to Unitel…
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Tuna bond scandal: Mozambique wins $3.billion lawsuit

Tuna bond scandal: Mozambique wins $3.billion lawsuit

MOZAMBIQUE has prevailed in a $3.1 billion lawsuit against Privinvest, an Emirati-Lebanese shipbuilder, in London's High Court. The case centred on alleged bribery related to the "tuna bond" scandal from a decade ago. Judge Robin Knowles ruled in favour of Mozambique, stating the country had been exploited by sophisticated institutions that should have known better. The judge ordered Privinvest and its late owner Iskandar Safa to pay Mozambique about $825 million, plus indemnity for $1.5 billion owed to lenders and bondholders, minus $420 million already recovered. The Royal Courts of Justice, London, UK. Photo: X(Twitter) The case involved state-backed deals…
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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ properties in L.A. and Miami raided by federal agents

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ properties in L.A. and Miami raided by federal agents

U.S. Department of Homeland Security agents have opened an investigation of hip-hop star Sean "Diddy" Combs, searching his properties in Los Angeles and the Miami area, agency officials said on Monday. The inquiry was led by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents in New York, where a lawsuit was filed against Combs by a former girlfriend in federal court in November accusing him of engaging in sex trafficking. Combs, 54, has said that he is innocent and that his accusers were seeking "a quick payday." His New York-based lawyer, Ben Brafman, did not immediately respond to Reuters' requests for comment. Television…
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Foreign-born residents file suit in Japan over alleged racial profiling

Foreign-born residents file suit in Japan over alleged racial profiling

THREE foreign-born residents of Japan filed a lawsuit against the national and local governments over alleged illegal questioning by police based on racial profiling. It is the first such lawsuit in Japan, according to the plaintiffs' lawyers, and comes amid a sharp rise in the number of foreign workers coming to the country to help stem labour shortages as its population ages and declines. It also comes amid a renewed debate over what it means to be and look Japanese after a Ukrainian-born, naturalised Japanese citizen was crowned Miss Japan last week. The three men filed the lawsuit with the Tokyo District…
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‘American Idol’ star Paula Abdul sues producer Nigel Lythgoe for sexual assault

‘American Idol’ star Paula Abdul sues producer Nigel Lythgoe for sexual assault

U.S. singer, dancer and "American Idol" star Paula Abdul filed a lawsuit accusing British television executive Nigel Lythgoe of sexually assaulting her when they worked together on two popular talent shows, according to court documents. Abdul, who rose to fame as a chart-topping singer in the late 1980s, alleged in a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Friday that Lythgoe sexually assaulted her in an elevator during the early seasons of the TV singing competition series "American Idol." Lythgoe, the producer of several hit television talent competitions, allegedly groped Abdul's breasts and genitals, among other unwanted physical contact in…
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UGANDA: TotalEnergies faces 2nd lawsuit over oil projects

UGANDA: TotalEnergies faces 2nd lawsuit over oil projects

FIVE activist groups have sued French oil major TotalEnergies for a second time over its projects in Uganda and Tanzania in a Paris civil court, they said, after an earlier fast-track attempt was dismissed in February. The French and Ugandan groups, led by Friends of the Earth France, accuse the energy company of failing to protect people and the environment from its Tilenga oil development and the $3.5 billion East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP). Their lawsuit makes use of a 2017 French "duty of vigilance" law requiring large companies to identify risks in their global operations and supply chains, and detail strategies to prevent…
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Court rules Meta can be sued in Kenya over alleged unlawful redundancies

Court rules Meta can be sued in Kenya over alleged unlawful redundancies

A Kenyan judge ruled that Facebook's parent company Meta could be sued in Kenya after 43 moderators at its Nairobi hub last month filed a lawsuit against the group and its local partner Sama for unfair termination. In response, Judge Matthews Nduma issued an interim injunction against Meta and Sama preventing them from terminating the moderators' contracts, pending a judgment on the legality of their redundancy. "The court finds that this court has jurisdiction to determine the matter of alleged unlawful and unfair termination of employment on grounds of redundancy," Nduma said on Thursday. The moderators in the petition - who are…
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Family of late basketball star Kobe Bryant awarded nearly $29 million in photos case

Family of late basketball star Kobe Bryant awarded nearly $29 million in photos case

BRAD BROOKS LOS Angeles County will pay the wife of late basketball star Kobe Bryant nearly $29 million to settle a lawsuit over allegations that sheriff officers and firefighters shared gruesome photos of the helicopter crash that killed Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter. "Today marks the successful culmination of Mrs Bryant's courageous battle to hold accountable those who engaged in this grotesque conduct," said Luis Li, attorney for Vanessa Bryant, Kobe Bryant's wife. "She fought for her husband, her daughter, and all those in the community whose deceased family were treated with similar disrespect." Li confirmed that the settlement was…
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French court to rule on landmark TotalEnergies Uganda case

French court to rule on landmark TotalEnergies Uganda case

AMERICA HERNANDEZ A French court could order oil major TotalEnergies to halt the development of an east Africa pipeline in a landmark case based on legislation that makes big companies liable for risks to the environment and human rights. The Paris civil court will rule on a lawsuit filed by Friends of the Earth France and five other French and Ugandan activist groups accusing TotalEnergies of expropriating land from more than 100,000 people without sufficient compensation and drilling on a natural park with endangered species. TotalEnergies has argued that its vigilance, compensation and relocalisation plans are fair and legal and that…
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