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View More NewsFrom In re Child of Cassie S., decided by the Maine Supreme Judicial Court yesterday, in an opinion by Chief Justice Valerie Stanfill: Cassie S. is the mother of a child with a complex medical history beginning when the child was about six months old. When the child was twenty-one months old, the mother persuaded the child’s doctor to perform an invasive procedure—a tracheotomy [I assume this should read “tracheostomy” -EV]—to attempt to cure cyanotic spells she had observed. According to the mother, the tracheostomy did not ameliorate the cyanosis, so the child’s medical providers recommended its immediate removal. The…
From Fox v. Nexstar Media Group, Inc., decided today by Judge Robert Jonker (W.D. Mich.), allowing plaintiffs’ defamation claim to go forward: These cases arise from the fallout over an internal memo that two senior news managers at WOOD‑TV—Amy Fox and Stanton Tang—either wrote or approved regarding coverage of Pride-month events. According to Fox and Tang, management initially agreed that the memo merely restated corporate policy, but after some colleagues misinterpreted the memo as being anti‑gay—and after the memo was leaked externally—management allegedly shifted its stance and planted news stories that portrayed Fox and Tang as anti‑gay. The plaintiffs contend…
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In the previous essay in this four-part series on the impact of the Second World War in Southeast Asia, I looked at the widespread violence, scarcity, and militarisation that characterised the Japanese occupation. This third essay will focus on the experiences of individual countries under the occupation and examine how local nationalist movements were cautiously co-opted by the Japanese.Japan’s Conquest Shattered European Rule in Southeast AsiaSoutheast Asia in World War II, Part One: Japanese Conquests and British DisgraceTerror and TransformationSoutheast Asia in World War II, Part Two: The Japanese Occupation and Its RepercussionsThe Japanese occupiers had an ambivalent relationship with…
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from the bribes-for-the-king dept We’ve discussed at length how Trump’s “fix” for TikTok’s problems basically involved forcing the sale of the platform to his…
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In brief The SEC has jointly filed to end its case against BitClout founder Nader Al-Naji. The decentralized social media platform founder was previously…
from the good-deals-on-cool-stuff dept Power all your Apple essentials-without the clutter. The Mag 3 Ultra Qi2 25W 3-in-1 Foldable Charger delivers fast charging for…