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Call for sanctions as homophobic chants again overshadow French soccer’s biggest game

Some PSG players were filmed using insults directed at Marseille supporters while celebrating with youngsters at the end of the match.

US sanctions Sudanese paramilitary leaders for ‘extensive rights abuses’

The State Department also pledged an additional $163 million in aid for the country, which has been at war since April.

New York AG asks for $20,000 sanctions against Trump for reviving failed legal defense

New York Attorney General Letitia James asked a state judge on Tuesday to impose $20,000 in sanctions against Donald Trump and his attorneys for rehashing legal theories that have already been rejected.

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Founders of crypto mixer arrested, sanctioned after US cracks down on Tornado Cash

Mixing services combine various digital assets, including potentially illegally obtained funds with legitimately obtained funds, so that illegal actors can obscure the origin of the stolen funds.

US expands sanctions on military-run Myanmar

Sanctions this year cover 10 people and 15 entities, all tied to the forces that seized power from the elected government of civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021.

Former FBI special agent admits to helping Putin-linked Russian oligarch evade sanctions

Charles McGonigal, the former special agent in charge of the FBI's counterintelligence division in New York, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering on behalf of a Russian metals tycoon.

Southwest sanctioned

DALLAS — A federal court in Texas sanctioned Southwest Airlines for rewording a court-ordered release to its attendants in which it said “Southwest does not discriminate against employees for their religious practices and beliefs,” which made it sound as though the court were “bequeathing Southwest a badge of honor for not discriminating.”

Armenia funnels US cars to Russia, in sanctions’ evasion

A small and poor Caucasus country, Armenia has a free trade agreement with Russia, and it is much cheaper to clear cars at customs there as compared with Russia.  

Environmentalists sue Alaska over sanctioned killing of 99 bears

Activists say that a program intended to protect a declining caribou herd in Southwestern Alaska was approved without a public comment period or proper environmental review, at the expense of 99 black and brown bears in southwestern Alaska.

Baseless, but no sanctions

CHICAGO — The Seventh Circuit, in a per curiam decision from the entire appellate court, affirmed the lower court’s decision not to issue sanctions against the man who sued Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers in a dead-on-arrival attempt to decertify the 2020 election results.

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Attorney in Kari Lake voting machine lawsuit hit with sanctions from judge

A federal judge didn’t buy Alan Dershowitz’s claims that he should be spared from sanctions given his limited role in the lawsuit, ordering him to pay more than $12,000 in attorney’s fees.

Lake v Fontes sanctions against Alan Dershowitz

A federal judge ordered attorney Alan Dershowitz to pay $12,220 in attorneys fees for his involvement in Kari Lake's 2022 voting machine lawsuit.

Sixth Circuit largely upholds sanctions against ‘Kraken’ lawyers

The appellate court reduced attorneys' fees owed to the city of Detroit and to Michigan officials, but potential disbarment still hangs over seven of nine sanctioned lawyers.

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6th_Circuit_Powell_Sanctions The Sixth Circuit largely upheld sanctions against attorneys Sidney Powell, Lin Wood and a collection of others stemming from a frivolous Michigan suit attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

Sanctions ordered for lawyers who relied on ChatGPT artificial intelligence to prepare court brief

A federal judge said the fines are meant to serve as deterrent in the era of artificial intelligence tools that are already giving way to legal fabrications.

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Sex abuse victims’ lawyer sanctioned

NEW ORLEANS — A federal court in Louisiana affirmed a bankruptcy court’s order that an attorney for alleged victims of clerical sex abuse must pay $400,000 in sanctions for leaking confidential case information about an accused Catholic priest to a journalist. No matter how noble his motivation, the attorney deliberately violated a court order, so the court must uphold the sanctions.

EU cuts Russian oil imports by 90% since passing sanctions

Following last year’s invasion of Ukraine, the European Union vowed to stop importing Russian fuel altogether by 2027.

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