Wise Law's Legal Headlines for the week of December 21, 2020

Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of December 21, 2020 from Wise Law on Twitter: 

• Gaps in safeguards led to massive Desjardins security breach: privacy commissioners
  

• U.K. to Ease Rules on Blood Donations by Gay and Bisexual Men
  

• Jail guards violated use-of-force policies in fatal restraint of Soleiman Faqiri, court documents suggest
  

• SCOTUS Turns Down Bid To Revive Kansas Voter Restriction Championed By Kobach | Talking Points Memo
  

• Senators likely to propose major amendments to Canada’s assisted dying bill
  

• Attorney General William Barr resigns - CNNPolitics
  

• U.S. Attorney General William Barr resigns
  

• Pinterest Settles Gender Discrimination Suit for $22.5 Million
  

• Arrests made after over US$500K in Wayne Gretzky memorabilia stolen from his father's home in Brantford, Ont. | CTV News
  

• Britney Spears' father speaks out as she requests to remove him as conservator of her estate
  

• U.S. Supreme Court Declines to Hear Indiana's Case on Same-Sex Parents
  

• Why the US government hack is literally keeping security experts awake at night
  

• Retirement homes push Ontario for mandatory COVID-19 testing for caregivers, support workers
  

• Pornhub deletes millions of videos, but Ottawa says that’s not good enough
  

• Judge: Trump Organization must turn over documents to NY attorney general
  

• Ghislaine Maxwell seeks release from jail on a proposed $28.5 million bail package
  

• App companies can no longer charge restaurants ‘exorbitant’ delivery fees. But front-line couriers fear they’ll be the ones left hurting
  

• Ohio Judge accused of failing to follow COVID-19 recommendations is removed from 2 trials
  

• States Plan to Accuse Google of Illegal Monopoly in Online Ads
  

• French court finds 14 accomplices in 2015 Charlie Hebdo attack guilty
  

• City of Paris Fined Nearly $110,000 for Appointing Too Many Women
  

• Facebook Takes the Gloves Off in Feud With Apple
  

• Russia banned from using name, flag, anthem at Olympics, world championships through 2022
  

• In landmark decision, U.K. coroner rules air pollution contributed to nine-year-old girl's death
  

• City of Toronto cancels kids’ day camps and skating lessons that were supposed to start Monday
  

• Black children are 6 times more likely to be shot to death by police, US study finds
  

• Ontario Declares Santa Claus an Essential Service
  

• 80 inmates test positive in COVID-19 outbreak at Kingston prison, up from zero Wednesday
  

• US@Supreme Court Rejects Religious School’s Challenge to Kentucky Virus Order
  

• Ontario court hears HBC's request for review of regulations keeping stores closed | CBC News
  

• Google hit by antitrust lawsuit from nearly 40 states over alleged search monopoly - CNET
  

• Ont. homeowner fined after party that broke COVID-19 rules linked to 11 cases
  

• Judge orders release of search warrant documents in OPP ‘Ponzi’ scheme case
  

• It's 'pretty clear' Russia was behind hack, Pompeo says
  

• After legal threat, Fox airs news package debunking election fraud claims made by its own hosts
  

• A heated Oval Office meeting included talk of martial law before devolving into screaming matches among the President's advisers
  

• Zoom Executive Accused of Disrupting Calls at China’s Behest
  

• New Justices Appointed to the Ontario Court of Justice
  

• Strom v SRNA: Nurse’s Personal Social Media Posts Do Not Constitute Professional Misconduct
  

• Ontario planning to implement new provincewide restrictions beginning Christmas Eve
  
• The Ohio Family Court Judge Who Threatened a Mother With Contempt of Court for Getting Her Child a COVID-19 Test 

- Garry J. Wise, Toronto

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