140Law: Legal Headlines for the week of June 12, 2017

Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of June 12, 2017 from Wise Law on Twitter: 

• U.S. Supreme Court Affirms North Carolina Districts Rely Too Much on Race

• Challenge to Cleveland Indians name proceeds

• iPhones to block texts while driving

• Contractor charged with leaking document about U.S. election hacking

• Four top law firms turned down requests to represent Trump

• Blocked Trump Twitter followers claim First Amendment violation

• Feds announce bill to modernize Criminal Code, purge obsolete laws

• In A First, Connecticut's Animals Get Advocates In The Courtroom - NPR

• Jail sentence for Brampton boss who owed workers $125,000

• An unconscious person can't consent to sex, Liberals confirm in Criminal Code cleanup

• ‘Just do it babe’: The harrowing messages Boston accused sent her boyfriend hours before his suicide

• Bill Cosby’s accuser testifies he gave her three blue pills before sexual assault

• Lack of 'frank disclosure' leaves ownership of stolen diamond in limbo

• Ontario asks judge to review rules around ‘carding’

• Jury may soon hear from Bill Cosby, even if he doesn’t take stand at sex assault trial

• Human Rights Tribunal orders Law Society to produce documents in racial profiling case

• Supreme Court will not hear Ezra Levant's appeal of libel judgment | rdnewsNOW

• Canada's chief justices given green light by Judicial Council to help solve court delays - The Globe and Mail

• Ontario Court of Appeal now deciding fate of Toronto's shisha bars

• Prosecution rests in Bill Cosby sex assault case after damaging, decade-old testimony heard in court | Toronto Star

• Role of Trump’s Personal Lawyer Blurs Public and Private Lines

- Garry J. Wise, Toronto

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