Background: Bnei Sakhnin was scheduled to host Maccabi Haifa on May 16, 2022, in an Israeli Premier League football match that could have resulted in Maccabi Haifa winning the championship. Because of a disciplinary sanction, the match was moved from Bnei Sakhnin’s home stadium to HaMoshava Stadium in Petah Tikva. Police required approximately 180 qualified stewards…
Held: Justice Ofer Grosskopf denied leave to appeal without requesting a response. He stressed that interlocutory review of class-certification decisions depends principally on the proceeding’s economic consequences for the defendant, the procedural benefit of immediate review, and, in exceptional cases, obvious defects in the certification decision. Bnei Sakhnin did not establish any of those grounds. The burdens ordinarily associated with defending…
Background: Tjhin Thian Po, also known as Paulus Tannos, was arrested in Singapore in January 2025 following Indonesia’s request for his extradition over his alleged involvement in corruption connected with the e-KTP government procurement project. While remanded pending committal proceedings in the State Courts, he challenged documents underlying the extradition request, including an Indonesian-language “Surat Perintah…
Held: The High Court dismissed the application in its entirety. It held that the bail request had been brought through the wrong procedure: the High Court’s bail jurisdiction under the Criminal Procedure Code is revisionary, and an applicant must proceed by criminal revision or criminal motion rather than a civil originating application. The proceeding also was not genuinely an application for…
Background: Mackie Motors (Brechin) Limited operated Renault, Nissan and Dacia dealerships in Scotland. In November 2021, after RCI Financial Services raised money-laundering concerns, Renault and Nissan withdrew Mackie Motors’ access to systems used to order vehicles and parts and perform other dealership functions. RCI subsequently terminated its financing contracts on seven days’ notice. Mackie Motors sold…
Held: The High Court dismissed the strike-out application. Applying a broad, merits-based assessment, it held that the current action was not an abuse of process. Renault and Nissan had not been parties to the earlier claim, the claims now advanced against them had not previously been adjudicated, and there was no sufficient indication that the new proceedings constituted oppressive or unjust…
Background: In June 2025, Hamill J granted a certificate under s 45(4) of the Crime Commission Act 2012 (NSW), requiring the NSW Crime Commission to produce confidential material to the Court. After considering that material alongside the prosecution case statement, the parties’ submissions and Nirmeen Noufl’s notice under s 143 of the Criminal Procedure Act 1986…
Held: The Court held that the interests of justice required disclosure of the first witness’s confidential transcripts from 11 and 17 September 2024. It ordered that redacted copies be provided only to the DPP and delegates directly involved in the prosecution and to Noufl’s legal representatives. The defence lawyers could discuss and show the transcripts to Noufl, but could not give…
Background: Aziza Shango arrived in Canada in June 2019 with five associated applicants, whom she initially presented as her biological children. They sought refugee protection against the Democratic Republic of the Congo and submitted Congolese birth records and a declaration that identity documents had been lost. When border officials questioned inconsistencies in those records, Shango admitted…
Held: The Federal Court dismissed the application for judicial review. Justice Tsimberis held that the Refugee Appeal Division reasonably concluded that the applicants had failed to establish their identities on a balance of probabilities. Because identity and nationality are foundational to assessing a refugee claim, that failure was fatal to the claims.
Background: A jury convicted Anfernee Rondeau of aggravated sexual abuse of a minor under 18 U.S.C. §§ 1153, 2241(c), and 2246(2)(D). The prosecution alleged that Rondeau, an Indian person, intentionally touched or attempted to touch the uncovered genitalia of his girlfriend’s six-year-old daughter in Indian country. A witness testified that she found Rondeau straddling the crying…
Held: The Eighth Circuit affirmed. Viewing the record in the light most favorable to the verdict, the court held that a reasonable jury could find that Rondeau committed or attempted the charged sexual act. The eyewitness account, the child’s testimony, the forensic evidence, Rondeau’s signed statement, and his equivocal trial denial supplied sufficient evidence. Questions about witness credibility and inconsistencies were…
Background: LSL, LLC owns a 22.38-acre undeveloped parcel in Madison that fronts Long Island Sound and includes a private beachfront known as Mud Beach. Lili and John Foggle are members of LSL, LLC. Catherine Carrabba, as trustee of The Kristin Lyons Revocable Trust, owns an adjoining property where she resides with her husband, Stephen Carrabba. The…
Held: The Connecticut Appellate Court affirmed. It held that when no recorded instrument delineates or supports an easement and no absolute necessity exists, a claimant seeking an implied easement based on prior use must establish both that the grantor intended the easement at the time of severance and that the easement is reasonably necessary for the use and normal enjoyment of…
Background: Ronald Levart Hill was charged under the former version of Michigan’s ethnic-intimidation statute after allegedly threatening a rideshare driver because of her race or ethnicity. The driver reportedly pulled into a gas station and hid in a bathroom until police arrived. Hill also faced charges arising from his interaction with police and an alleged refusal…
Held: The Michigan Court of Appeals held that an instruction under former MCL 750.147b(1)(c) must require the prosecution to prove that the defendant maliciously threatened the complainant. The statute expressly imposed malice as the applicable mens rea, and the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Counterman v. Colorado did not permit the trial court to substitute recklessness. Counterman established a constitutional minimum…
Background: David M. Pyke served as dependent administrator of Stacy Lynn Fuchsman’s intestate estate. The estate’s principal assets were residential properties in Carrollton and Plano. With the probate court’s authorization, Pyke employed real-estate professionals to sell both properties, and the estate paid approved brokerage commissions totaling five percent of each sale.
Held: The Second Court of Appeals held that the probate court abused its discretion by denying Pyke a statutory commission on the estate’s qualifying cash receipts. Section 352.002(a) mandates a five percent commission on qualifying cash received or paid when an administrator has properly cared for and managed the estate, subject to the statute’s exclusions and aggregate cap. Net cash proceeds…
Background: The dispute arose from US$372,043.70 advanced to Philip Gaffney for a QVC souvenir order. His brothers, Alan and Derek Gaffney, successfully established in 2022 that the money was a short-term loan, not an investment. The High Court entered judgment against Philip Gaffney, and later appeals resulted in judgment also being entered against Teresa Gaffney. The…
Held: The Court of Appeal held that any purported appeal concerning the 2016 and 2017 loan proceedings or the judgment-mortgage proceedings could not proceed: those matters had been finally and conclusively determined, and the court had no jurisdiction to entertain a collateral challenge to their orders. The only potentially appealable matter was the strikeout of the 2018 proceedings, which had occurred…
Background: This consolidated putative class action challenges 3G Capital Inc.’s take-private acquisition of Skechers U.S.A. Inc., announced in May 2025 and closed in September 2025. The class plaintiffs allege that 3G and Skechers insiders breached fiduciary duties by undervaluing Skechers through a flawed process that provided unique benefits to purported controlling stockholders.
Held: Vice Chancellor Will granted FMI’s motion, appointing FMI as lead plaintiff. The court appointed Saxena White P.A. and Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP as co-lead counsel, with Friedman Oster & Tejtel PLLC and Julie & Holleman LLP as additional counsel. The court denied the other three leadership applications.
Background: Gersson Fleitasborrego appealed from a judgment of the Miami-Dade County Court. The Third District’s brief per curiam opinion does not identify the charge, describe the evidence, or recount the underlying proceedings.
Held: The Third District affirmed the county court without a written analysis applying the cited authorities to the facts. The disposition leaves the lower court’s judgment intact.