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☆ Jennifer Pan and her former boyfriend were both found guilty of conspiring to kill her parents. Here's where Daniel Wong is now.
  + stars: | 2024-04-12 | by ( Palmer Haasch | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
A retrial was ordered in 2023 for the first-degree murder charge, and the case currently sits with the Canadian Supreme Court. According to Toronto Life, all five of the accused faced first-degree murder, attempted murder, and conspiracy to commit murder charges. NetflixWong received the same sentence and charges as PanWong was found guilty of the same charges as Pan: first-degree murder and attempted murder. For the first-degree murder charge, he received a life sentence with no chance of parole for 25 years; for the attempted murder charge, a life sentence. If it doesn't, Wong, Pan, and the other accused will be allowed to seek parole.
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☆ Canada's top court upholds Quebec's ban on homegrown cannabis
  + stars: | 2023-04-14 | by ( Moira Warburton | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
April 14 (Reuters) - The Canadian Supreme Court ruled on Friday that Quebec's provincial ban on cannabis grown in private homes is constitutional, in a blow to cannabis advocates who said it was at odds with a federal law allowing a small number of plants to be grown for personal use. The country's top court sided with the Quebecois provincial government, who banned cannabis plants grown at home after Canada legalized weed federally in 2018. Federal law states that a limited number of plants grown at home for personal use is legal, but Quebec law bans this. He won in Quebec's Supreme Court, but that ruling was overturned by the province's court of appeals, bringing it to the Supreme Court of Canada. "We are satisfied with the judgment of the Supreme Court confirming Quebec’s full capacity to act in the matter," he said on Twitter.
☆ How Much Power Should the Courts Have?
  + stars: | 2023-04-14 | by ( Emily Bazelon | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +4 min
Many of the new constitutions gave the high courts clear authority to safeguard the rights of minorities and the democratic system. Some of the courts vigorously wielded this power to set aside majoritarian decisions that appeared to undermine democracy over the longer run. “If courts abdicate their responsibility to protect democracy, they’re not doing their job,” says Dixon, a law professor at the University of South Wales in Australia. In the 1980s, as Israel’s Jewish population became more religious and traditional, secular Israeli law professors drafted provisions for a constitution, consulting with their American peers and Aharon Barak, an Israeli Supreme Court justice. “Over the last 20 years, the Israeli Supreme Court, while issuing valuable rulings on the rights of women, L.G.B.T.Q.
☆ Canada Supreme Court justice on indefinite paid leave after he had a fight in Arizona hotel over his alleged 'creepy' behavior toward female guests while drunk
  + stars: | 2023-03-11 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | Yelena Dzhanova | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Canadian Supreme Court Justice Russell Brown is on paid leave after he got into fight while on vacation. Brown allegedly drunkenly followed guests from the hotel bar back to their rooms, per a police report. The Justice was reportedly punched twice in the face during an altercation with one guest he followed. Crump and representatives for the Supreme Court of Canada did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment. The police report continued: "To protect the women and to prevent the drunk, creepy, unwanted male from entering the hotel room uninvited Crump punched the male a few times."
☆ Parents who say their kids are addicted to Fortnite slam Epic Games with lawsuit — and research shows it's not the only game people are worried about
  + stars: | 2022-12-31 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Candy Crush and Minecraft are among other video games people are searching for addiction support for, research finds. However, the court didn't agree with the parents' claim that Epic Games deliberately made Fortnite addictive. As part of the class-action, other Fortnite players in Quebec who believe they've experienced symptoms of addiction to the game. In 2019, the World Health Organization officially classified video game addiction as a mental health disorder named "gaming disorder." These include Minecraft (2,800 monthly searches), World of Warcraft (2,620 monthly searches), League of Legends (2,130 monthly searches), and Candy Crush (1,550 monthly searches).
☆ Fortnite's creator will pay a record FTC fine over allegations it vacuumed up private data about kids playing the hit video game
  + stars: | 2022-12-19 | by ( Jake Epstein | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Epic Games, which created hit video game Fortnite, was hit with a record-breaking $520 million fine to the FTC. The FTC alleged that the company violated a decades-old act protecting children's privacy. The agency also accused Epic of tricking young Fortnite users into buying in-game currency. Meanwhile, in a separate complaint, the FTC alleged that Epic Games tricked Fortnite users into making unwanted purchases by using "illegal dark patterns." The FTC settlement comes shortly after a Canadian Supreme Court judge authorized a lawsuit earlier this month against Epic Games.
☆ Parents who say their kids won't eat or shower because they're addicted to Fortnite slam Epic Games with lawsuit
  + stars: | 2022-12-10 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
We believe the evidence will show that this case is meritless," Epic Games said in a statement. Lussier's Wednesday ruling determined the class-action suit wasn't "frivolous or manifestly ill-founded," according to Global News. However, the court didn't agree with the parents' claim that Epic Games deliberately made Fortnite addictive. Epic Games denied the validity of the suit in a statement obtained by BBC. As part of the class-action, other Fortnite players in Quebec who believe they've experienced symptoms of addiction to the game.
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