140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of August 21, 2017

Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of August 21, 2017 from Wise Law on Twitter: 

• Judge blasts Toronto cop’s ‘false testimony’ in drug case

• James Alex Fields Jr., man accused of ramming car into Charlottesville protesters, denied bail

• Judge orders release of refugee claimant jailed ‘for no real reason’

• Trumpet teacher can toot own horn after beating Donald Trump in trademark case

• Organizers of white nationalist rally in Virginia, driver sued for $3 million

• Juror No. 77: You’d Have To Convince Me He Was Innocent Rather Than Guilty

• Texas Bathroom Bill Dies Again, Raising Republican Acrimony

• Legal Aid Ontario defunds the African Canadian Legal Clinic over allegations of financial management

• Toronto and Durham police accused of conspiring to cover up off-duty officer's alleged beating of teen

• Quebec couple seeking damages after woman delivers 13-pound baby naturally, resulting in injuries

• Settlement Reached in C.I.A. Torture Case

• Updating 'briefcase law': defence lawyers try to end warrantless smartphone searches at border - CBC

• Members of Black community speak out after African Canadian Legal Clinic defunded

• Neil Gorsuch Speech at Trump Hotel Raises Ethical Questions

• Toronto justice of the peace asks court to shut down complaint against him

• How does an inmate with mental health concerns end up in indefinite segregation? By asking for it

• Statues of SCOTUS justice who wrote Dred Scott decision are removed in Maryland

• 'Who's next?': Police investigations have some Israelis pondering Netanyahu's future

• Policing in Black and White: Killings of Blacks by Whites Are Far More Likely to Be Ruled ‘Justifiable’

• Space is the final legal frontier for the Canadian military, documents show

- Garry J. Wise, Toronto

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