140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of January 27, 2020

Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of January 27, 2020 from Wise Law on Twitter: 

• Lev Parnas asks Attorney General William Barr to recuse himself from investigation

• Trump Legal Team Asks Senate for Speedy Acquittal in Impeachment Trial

• Divorced father of three finds that splitting up can lead to going broke

• Glenn Greenwald Charged With Cybercrimes in Brazil

• Blocking off illegal pot stores with concrete slabs cost more than $350,000, Toronto says

• Grandparental Access and Custody Rights of Extended Family Members

• Ontario’s human rights watchdog made a shortlist for new commissioners. Doug Ford picked two of his own instead

• Should Ontario developers be allowed to hire and pay their own building inspectors?

• The strange tale of the paid protesters supporting Meng Wanzhou at her extradition hearing

• This year, at least six states are trying to restrict transgender kids from getting gender reassignment treatments

• Harvey Weinstein's sex assault trial is set to begin today, as he faces the possibility of life behind bars

• Rebuke: Chief Justice Roberts admonishes legal teams after feisty exchange

• Utah bans conversion therapy for LGBTQ children

• Aerosmith drummer suing his band

• ‘Lol he owes me a drink’: York Region prosecutor found guilty of fixing traffic tickets for cop boyfriend

• Brexit bill becomes law, paving the way for Britain to leave the EU next week

• A Bank Wouldn’t Take His Bias Settlement Money. So He’s Suing. - The New York Times

• Black legal clinic fears the integrity of the human rights commission has been compromised by the Ford government

• Courts scramble after appeal ruling puts dozens of Ontario cases, including murder convictions, at risk

• Tennessee governor signs bill allowing adoption agencies to reject LGBTQ applicants

• Emotional Schiff Speech Goes Viral, Delighting the Left and Enraging the Right

• Ryerson ‘has lost confidence’ in student union, drops RSU as official student government

• Neil Young is a US citizen after he says his love of weed delayed application

• Ford defends ‘phenomenal’ appointment of Toronto police officer to Human Rights Commission

• Dozens of Ontario criminal convictions may be headed for costly and lengthy new trials following appeal court ruling

• ‘No body, no parole’: How the killing of an elderly couple led to the push for a new Canadian law

- Garry J. Wise, Toronto

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