Wise Law's Top 10 LawTweets for the week of April 19, 2021

Here are our Top 10 #LawTweets for the week of April 19, 2021.

- Garry J. Wise, Toronto

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Wise Law's Legal Headlines for the week of April 19, 2021

Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of April 19, 2021 from Wise Law on Twitter:

• Toronto judge was wrong to toss sex assault case because woman refused to testify via Zoom, court rules
  

• How could a serial killer prey on Toronto’s Gay Village for so long? A landmark report on Toronto police missing persons is set to be released
  

• Booze in Toronto’s public parks? One councillor says it’s a question of equity under COVID-19
  

• 'Systemic discrimination' contributed to failings in Toronto police missing-person cases, report finds
  

• Motherisk: Key events in a decades-long scandal that tore apart families in Canada
  

• Bernie Madoff, infamous Ponzi schemer, has died
  

• Top Massachusetts court vacates 90-day contempt sentence for teen who called judge B-word
  

• Court hears transgender teen’s anguish — and a father’s 11th hour regrets — over public campaign against treatment
  

• Who Leaked a Nude Image of a Canadian Lawmaker? His Colleagues Want to Know
  

• Mississauga boxing gym remains open as city pursues maximum fine
  

• Will there be a curfew in Ontario? And other things we’ll be watching for Friday
  

• Texas court tosses sentence of state’s longest-serving death row inmate
  

• Liberty University Sues Jerry Falwell Jr. for $10 Million
  

• Ontario has announced further COVID-19 restrictions. Here’s what that means for Toronto
  

• Majority of Ontario’s police services refuse to randomly stop residents despite Ford announcement
  

• Transgender teen’s father hit with ‘denunciatory’ six-month jail term for flouting BC court orders, publication bans

- Garry J. Wise, Toronto

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Wise Law's Top 10 LawTweets for the week of April 12, 2021

Here are our Top 10 #LawTweets for the week of April 12, 2021.

- Garry J. Wise, Toronto

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Wise Law's Legal Headlines for the week of April 12, 2021

Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of April 12, 2021 from Wise Law on Twitter:

• Harvey Weinstein Appeals Sex Crimes Conviction Over Accusers’ Testimony
  

• Netanyahu Corruption Trial Opens in Israel
  

• G.O.P. Governor of Arkansas Vetoes Anti-Transgender Bill
  

• New Hampshire Supreme Court court recognizes same-sex adultery as grounds for divorce
  

• Arkansas Legislators Override Veto on Anti-Transgender Law

• Toronto schools to shut down Wednesday as COVID cases rise
  

• Ontario imposing stay-at-home order, closing non-essential retail: sources
  

• Son of Fresno man who died during 2019 taco eating contest is suing event organizers for negligence.
  

• A ‘System of Espionage’ Reigned at Ikea, a French Prosecutor Charges
  

• Ontario issues stay-at-home order to 14 million residents as Covid-19 hospitalizations spike
  

• All Ontario is now under a ‘stay-at-home’ order. Here’s what that means for Toronto
  

• New trial ordered for retired Quebec judge convicted of killing his wife
  

• Matt Gaetz associate likely to strike cooperation deal with federal government, attorneys say
  

• George Floyd died of a low level of oxygen as Derek Chauvin pinned him to the street, doctor says
  

• She accused a UBC prof of sexual assault. Now he’s suing for defamation. Some fear the ‘landmark’ case could have a chilling effect
  

• 'Activities of the law enforcement officers resulted in Mr. Floyd's death,' forensic pathologist says
  

• Four women suing Deshaun Watson ordered to refile complaints with real names
  

• Supreme Court again blocks California Covid restriction on religious activities
  

• ‘You assumed I didn’t tap because I was Black’: TTC promises change over report officers stop Black and Indigenous riders far more often
  

• Utah Law Requires Biological Dads To Pay Half Of Women's Pregnancy Costs : NPR
  

• ‘Cozy with police’? Controversial deals that allow officers to stop anyone at any time on Toronto community housing property should be abolished, says anti-Black racism probe
  

- Garry J. Wise, Toronto

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Wise Law's Top 10 LawTweets for the week of April 5, 2021

Here are our Top 10 #LawTweets for the week of April 5, 2021.

- Garry J. Wise, Toronto

Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net

Wise Law's Legal Headlines for the week of April 5, 2021

Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of April 5, 2021 from Wise Law on Twitter: 

• Hillary Clinton cannot be deposed in private email lawsuit, SCOTUS affirms
  

• Judge Tosses Trump Campaign Aide Confidentiality Agreement
  

• Manslaughter charges dropped against Collingwood, Ont. man who was zip-tied and held at gunpoint in own home
  

• Minnesota Supreme Court overturns a felony rape conviction because the woman voluntarily got intoxicated
  

• Tight lockdown coming soon for Toronto, predicts member of Ontario’s science advisory table
  

• Groups representing sex-trade workers launch legal challenge of Canada's prostitution laws | CBC News
  

• Trump Is Sued by Two Police Officers Over Capitol Riot
  

• US Supreme Court hears battle over paying NCAA student-athletes
  

• Former St. Mike’s student sues Toronto Police Services Board for $1 million, alleging he was wrongfully charged
  

• Cops: Naked S.C. Man Said He Was Doing "Walk Of Shame" | The Smoking Gun
  

• An Ontario sex assault victim was just fined $2,000 for breaking a publication ban on her own identity. The case is as bad as it sounds, experts say
  

• US legal industry loses 1,400 jobs in March following big gain in February - 35,000 jobs behind where it was in March 2020
  

• Ontario's new COVID-19 cases top 3,000 as 'shutdown' goes into effect
  

• Pentagon Issues New Rules Overturning Trump’s Ban on Transgender Troops
  

• Lawyer who said disbarment would be an ‘honor’ gets his wish
  

• Biden admin wants time to decide whether to turn Trump's taxes over to House

- Garry J. Wise, Toronto

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Wise Law's Top 10 LawTweets for the week of March 29, 2021

Here are our Top 10 #LawTweets for the week of March 29, 2021.

- Garry J. Wise, Toronto

Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net

Wise Law's Legal Headlines for the week of March 29, 2021

Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of March 29, 2021 from Wise Law on Twitter: 

• Prosecutor’s DoorDash side gig leads to demotion
  

• Michael Kovrig's closed trial in China
  

• U.S. Supreme Court will consider reinstating death sentence for Boston bomber
  

• China: 30-day Cooling Off Period for Uncontested divorces
  

• Ontario government faces charter challenge over equity in its COVID-19 vaccine rollout
  

• Toronto cop docked eight days’ pay after judge finds his account of drug arrest ‘simply could not have happened’
  

• Sidney Powell lawyers argue no reasonable person would have accepted her stolen election claims as fact
  

• Judge orders Capitol rioter and Nazi sympathizer to remain in jail ahead of trial
  

• Yale prof claims she was wrongly fired after tweeting about Trump, Dershowitz, shared psychosis
  

• 85-year-old Toronto East jail inmate dies of COVID-19
  

• Referee banned from working NHL games after being caught on live mic wanting to call penalty on Predators
  

• California Becomes 39th State To Adopt Duty Of Technology Competence for lawyers
  

• US Federal appeals court: States can restrict open carry of firearms
  

• The Supreme Court is about to weigh in on Ottawa’s carbon pricing plan. Here’s what’s at stake
  

• Britney Spears' attorney files petition to remove her father from overseeing her medical decisions
  

• Roberts, Kavanaugh join with liberal justices to rule for woman shot by police while fleeing
  

• Supreme Court rules Ottawa's carbon tax is constitutional
  

• Woman's request to register business in her Indigenous language denied by B.C. government
  

• 'Un-American, sick': Biden slams state GOP's voting rights laws
  

• NY lawmakers reach deal to legalize recreational marijuana
  

• New Zealand approves paid leave after miscarriage
  

• 'Uncharted waters.' Judges are banning some Capitol riot suspects from the internet
  

• It's now a crime in Georgia to approach voters in line with food or water
  

• Dominion Voting Systems files $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News
  

• Georgia bans giving food and water to voters in line
  

• A Yale Psychiatrist’s Tweet About Dershowitz, Her Dismissal, and a Lawsuit
  

• Biden calls Georgia's voting law 'blatant attack on the Constitution'
  

• Doctor charged with murder after multiple deaths at Hawkesbury, Ont., hospital
  

• Voluntarily intoxicated rape victims aren’t ‘mentally incapacitated,’ top Minnesota state court rules
  

• Pro-Trump lawyer busted for 'bamboozling' voters into signing up for a lawsuit to overturn the election: report
  

• Larry Klayman Suspended from Practicing Law in D.C.
  

- Garry J. Wise, Toronto

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Wise Law's Top 10 LawTweets for the week of March 22, 2021

Here are our Top 10 #LawTweets for the week of March 22, 2021.

- Garry J. Wise, Toronto

Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net

Wise Law's Legal Headlines for the week of March 22, 2021

Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of March 22, 2021 from Wise Law on Twitter: 

• FBI facing allegation that its 2018 background check of Brett Kavanaugh was ‘fake’
  

• Canada expands use of AstraZeneca vaccine to seniors even as other countries pause its rollout
  

• National human rights group calls for changes to how Manitoba screens law students
  

• New York is poised to limit solitary confinement in prisons and jails to 15 consecutive days
  

• COVID-19: B.C. Supreme Court upholds provincial ban on in-person religious services
  

• White House staffers asked to resign or work remotely after revealing past marijuana use
  

• A court could decide who really owns a $1.9 million Ferrari seized at the US-Canada border
  

• Police Mishandled Black Lives Matter Protests, Reports Say
  

• Fans from outside Japan banned from attending Tokyo Olympics
  

• Judge Denies Motion to Delay Trial in Killing of George Floyd
  

• Ontario to (finally) pull the plug on fax machines in public service
  

• Sentencing for Yonge St. van attack killer delayed
  

• 'Troubling': Judge rules Burlington, Ontario couple don't always have to wear masks in their building. The condo corporation has serious concerns with the ruling
  

- Garry J. Wise, Toronto

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Wise Law's Top 10 LawTweets for the week of March 15, 2021

Here are our Top 10 #LawTweets for the week of March 15, 2021.

- Garry J. Wise, Toronto

Visit our Toronto Law Office website: www.wiselaw.net