In Thailand, companies and people in positions of power often use libel suits to intimidate and punish activists and critics.
Tag: Suits and Litigation (Civil)
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Binance Halts Trading in Dollars on Binance.US
Banks have signaled that they will stop working with the company’s American branch, it said, after the Securities and Exchange Commission sued it this week.
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Supreme Court Gives the Voting Rights Act a Tenuous New Lease on Life
The main remaining power of the landmark 1965 law, over racial bias in political mapmaking, gets an unexpected buttressing from a court that had been weakening the law for years.
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Nashville School Shooter’s Parents to Hand Ownership of Writings to Victims
The family’s decision to relinquish legal ownership of writings left by the Nashville school shooter comes amid a fierce legal battle over whether the writings should be made public.
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Federal Monitor Overseeing Rikers Takes Aim at Head of N.Y.C. Jails
Louis A. Molina, the jails commissioner, has failed to stop rampant violence, and officials have shut down avenues of information about what happens behind bars, according to a report filed in federal court.