Wise Law's Legal Headlines for the week of December 7, 2020

Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of December 7, 2020 from Wise Law on Twitter: 

• US DOJ rule change would allow some executions by firing squad and electrocution
  

• Arizona and Wisconsin Certify Biden’s Wins: ‘The System Is Strong’
  

• Don't want the COVID-19 vaccine? You could lose access to normal life, says U.K. minister
  

• Justice Department releases Trump's pardon of Flynn and asks court for dismissal
  

• BlackNorth Initiative calls for ‘too white’ Order of Canada to ‘reflect the deep cultural mosaic of our country’
  

• Canada’s new $400 work-from-home tax deduction: What you need to know
  

• Captain of California Boat That Caught Fire and Killed 34 Is Indicted
  

• 'Bribery-for-pardon' scheme involving Trump White House being investigated
  

• Trump lawyer says official who defended voting machines should be shot; AG Barr also sees no manipulation
  

• Worker's Fall Through Skylight Results in $55,000 Fine for Chelmsford Building Centre
  

• U.S. Attorney General says there's no evidence of fraud that would've changed 2020 election outcome
  

• Trump Has Discussed With Advisers Pardons for His 3 Eldest Children and Giuliani
  

• Britain becomes the first country to approve the vaccine, with plans for distribution to begin next week
  

• Original Adamson Barbecue location has operated without a business licence for more than four years
  

• Second Ontario government computer specialist fired in wake of alleged $11M COVID-19 fraud
  

• Parents of 628 migrant children separated at border still have not been found, court filing says
  

• Democrats seek disciplinary investigation for Trump lawyer who called for violence against former election cybersecurity official
  

• Markham tenant who turned 12 luxury homes into rooming houses ordered to pay $36K or spend time in jail
  

• Black civil servants allege discrimination in proposed class-action lawsuit against Ottawa
  

• Landlord and Tenant Board adjudicator issues interim order that favours landlord despite potential conflict of interest
  

• U.S. Justice Department in talks with Meng Wanzhou over deal to free the Huawei executive: report
  

• Wisconsin’s Top Court Rejects Trump Lawsuit
  

• SCOTUS sides with California religious ministry against state Covid restrictions
  

• How Is Trump’s Lawyer Jenna Ellis ‘Elite Strike Force’ Material?
  

• Police in India Make First Arrest Under New Interfaith Marriage Law
  

• US House poised to pass bill decriminalizing marijuana at federal level
  

• House passes landmark cannabis bill, but legal weed isn't around the corner
  

• Courts across the country hand Trump and his allies more losses as attempts to upend election results collapse
  

• SkipTheDishes and LCBO receive backlash from small businesses after Toronto delivery partnership announcement
  

• MLB sues insurance providers, citing billions in losses due to Covid-19
  

• Donald Trump’s brutal day in court
  

• The LCBO and SkipTheDishes deal to home deliver alcohol is on ‘pause’ after criticism from locked-down small businesses and restaurateurs
  

• Doctor: Giuliani potentially exposed hundreds to virus
  

• David Crombie steps down as head of Ontario's Greenbelt Council, citing proposed new rules

- Garry J. Wise, Toronto

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