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Indigenous celebrate as a majority of Brazil's Supreme Court ruled against efforts to restrict native peoples' rights to reservations on their ancestral lands, in a win for Indigenous activists and climate campaigners. IMAGES
The UK's Supreme Court declines to hear an appeal by lawyers representing an asylum seeker who is set to be sent to Rwanda on a government deportation flight, meaning the flight can go ahead. Judge Robert Reed rules that there was no basis for the Supreme Court to take up a challenge against a Court of Appeals ruling on the issue. The first flight is set to take off from the UK for Kigali on the evening of Tuesday 14 June 2022, with the government saying the policy will deter migrants from crossing the English Channel in small boats. SOUNDBITE
Bratislava, Jun 15 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Jakub Gavlak) The Slovak Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned the acquittal of those accused of ordering and organizing the 2018 murder of investigative journalist Jan Kuciak and his girlfriend and has ordered a repeat trial.FOOTAGE OF THE COURTROOM AND THE COURT.
US Attorney General William Barr was potentially exposed to the novel coronavirus at a White House reception where attendees didn't wear masks. However, Business Insider reports Barr has refused to self-quarantine. The September 26 reception for Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett has since been identified as a possible superspreader event. That designation came after several Republican lawmakers and White House associates announced they had tested positive for coronavirus. Others present who now have COVID-19 are President Donald Trump, first lady Melania Trump, two GOP senators, and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.
Confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney-Barrett may be put on the back burner for the time being. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called for a halt of the proceedings after two Senate Judiciary Committee members tested positive for COVID-19. GOP Senators Thom Tillis and Mike Lee said Friday they had tested positive for the virus after President Trump announced his diagnosis. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell indicated the process would move forward as expected after Lee revealed his diagnosis. However, Business Insider reports McConnell has not commented since Sen. Tillis's announcement.
It's often said that bread is the 'staff of life.' And the Irish Supreme Court has determined what constitutes bread--and what doesn't. According to CNN, the court ruled Subway's hot sandwiches contain too much sugar to meet Ireland's legal definition for bread. The judgment was handed down on Tuesday in response to a Subway franchisee who had appealed for a tax refund. The bread supplied by Subway in its heated sandwiches has a sugar content of 10% of the weight of the flour included in the dough. Justice Donal O'Donnell Irish Supreme Court Under Ireland's Tax Act 1972, the sugar content should not exceed 2% of the weight of flour in the dough.
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