Background: One hundred adult Israeli citizens living in various countries petitioned for the right to vote in the election for the Twenty-Sixth Knesset. Their constitutional claim asserted that Section 5 of Basic Law: The Knesset grants every Israeli citizen aged 18 or older the right to vote without a residency condition, while Section 26 of the…
Held: The Court unanimously dismissed the petition in limine. On the administrative claims, Justice Yechiel Kasher held that the petitioners had an adequate alternative remedy: Sections 40 and 46 of the Knesset Elections Law provide a dedicated process for seeking correction from the Interior Minister and then petitioning the Administrative Affairs Court. Allowing the statutory deadlines for that process to expire…
Background: After a slaughterhouse operator filed a complaint, the French Competition Authority investigated practices in the purchasing and sale of pork cuts and processed-meat products. Two corporate groups received leniency treatment. Relying in part on a notebook prepared by an Aoste sales director and submitted with Campofrio's leniency application, the Authority found three agreements contrary to…
Held: The Court of Cassation rejected all five appeals. It held that, although adversarial procedure applies after notification of objections and governs the conduct of expert operations, the Competition Authority's rapporteur-general need not obtain the parties' agreement before commissioning an expert examination or involve them in selecting the expert or defining the assignment. The companies had been able to submit observations,…
Background: Aryn Rogers, who had hydrocephalus and depended on a ventriculoperitoneal shunt, went to an emergency room after experiencing a severe headache, vomiting, and a seizure. Dr. Matthew Moll ordered a head CT but did not consult a neurosurgeon or order a series of X-rays examining the shunt. Based on the CT interpretation and other diagnostic…
Held: The Kansas Supreme Court affirmed the defense judgment. Reading the instructions as a whole, the court held that they adequately conveyed the causation requirement and were not reasonably likely to mislead the jury. Although the standard-of-care instruction did not separately define causation, the contentions instruction stated that Dr. Moll denied being “at fault in causing or contributing to” Aryn’s death.…
Background: Del Bosque Limited, a construction project-management company, sued its former director and employee Amir Shafie, his father Farshid Shafie, Rakesh Kumar Mal and Infinite ICT Limited. DBL alleged that Amir Shafie appointed and retained Infinite as its IT contractor without properly disclosing his father’s ownership and financial interest, and that the other defendants dishonestly assisted…
Held: His Honour Judge Charman held that Amir Shafie breached his directors’ duties in connection with Infinite’s engagement, continued retention and payment, and again by procuring access to and extraction of DBL’s confidential data while suspended. The court refused relief under section 1157 of the Companies Act 2006 because the breaches were deliberate, culpable and objectively unreasonable.
Background: Idahoans United for Women and Families qualified its Reproductive Freedom and Privacy Act for Idaho’s November 3, 2026, ballot as Proposition One. After certification, the Secretary of State and Attorney General jointly prepared ballot statements explaining the effect of a yes or no vote, as Idaho Code section 34-1810(1)(b) requires.
Held: The Idaho Supreme Court granted prohibition and mandamus, holding that both statements failed to substantially comply with section 34-1810(1)(b)’s requirement of clear and concise statements of the effect of a yes or no vote. The court held that the statute permits substantive descriptions, but any such description must accurately and clearly convey the principal legal consequences of each choice.
Background: The 2026 Republican primary for Hawaiʻi State Representative District 43 ended in a 842-842 tie between Kanani Souza and Sheila Medeiros. The Chief Election Officer used a drawing involving names placed in plastic capsules and drawn from a lau hala basket to select Medeiros. Because no other party’s candidate filed for the seat, the winner…
Held: The court held that the two out-of-district ballots made the tied result unreliable. In a race with no margin, the court explained, even one improperly counted ballot could affect the outcome. Souza established by a preponderance of the evidence that the overage could change the result and that the correct result could not be determined because election officials could not…
Background: On 19 December 2025, the Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police sought urgent asset-preservation orders without notice against Yuchang Yuan and two companies, Okari Prime Pty Ltd and YFW Solutions Pty Ltd. Mr Yuan had been arrested and charged with a Commonwealth money-laundering offence involving property valued at $1 million or more. The AFP also…
Held: McGuire J held that the application could be heard urgently and ex parte. The defendants were likely already aware of the criminal investigation and the asset-freezing steps, while the banks’ discretionary freezes could be lifted with little or no notice to the AFP. Those circumstances created a real risk that the funds would be dissipated.
Background: On September 2, 2026, the director of Ohio’s Board of Professional Conduct filed a certified copy of a judgment entry showing that attorney Gregory John Vogt had been convicted of a felony. Vogt was licensed to practice law in Ohio and had a last known business address in West Chester.
Held: The Supreme Court of Ohio ordered Vogt suspended from practicing law on an interim basis, effective immediately. It also referred the matter to disciplinary counsel for investigation and commencement of disciplinary proceedings.
Background: Lisa Russell sought to run as an unaffiliated candidate for the Maryland House of Delegates in District 23. She timely submitted a nomination petition containing 1,182 signatures to the Prince George’s County Board of Elections. The county board found 370 signatures invalid, and the State Board of Elections notified Russell that she lacked the number…
Held: The Supreme Court of Maryland affirmed the circuit court’s judgment. Russell therefore may not appear on the November 3, 2026 ballot for Maryland House of Delegates District 23.
Background: The Alaska Court of Appeals clarified the mental state required for felony voter misconduct under AS 15.56.040(a)(3): the State must prove that a defendant purposely or deliberately made a false sworn statement with a consciousness of wrongdoing. Mere knowledge of what the statement says is not enough. Applying that construction, the court reversed an order…
Held: The court first rejected the Title 11 definition of “intentionally,” which applies when a person's conscious objective is to cause a specified result. The voter-misconduct provision appears in Title 15, does not describe a separate result, and applies “intentionally” to conduct: making a false affidavit, swearing falsely, or falsely affirming under an election-law oath. Title 15 expressly imports Title 11's…
Background: The Massachusetts Appeals Court has upheld the provision in the standard Massachusetts automobile policy that prevents an insured from collecting optional medical payments benefits for expenses already paid by health insurance. The ruling confirms that the Commissioner of Insurance acted within the authority granted by state law when approving the nonduplication language introduced in the…
Held: The Appeals Court affirmed. Writing for the panel, Justice Neyman concluded that General Laws chapter 175, section 113C requires automobile insurers to offer at least $5,000 in MedPay coverage but does not dictate every term of that coverage or prohibit reasonable limitations. The statute's silence about duplicate recovery did not establish a legislative command that an insured must be allowed…
Background: Justin Mathews, an executive of Interpublic Group of Companies, was struck by an underinsured vehicle while walking in a marked Brooklyn crosswalk in 2019. The crash left him quadriplegic and requiring extensive medical care. Interpublic carried a Great Northern business-auto policy and an ACE commercial umbrella policy. Great Northern accepted Mathews's claim under a drive-other-cars…
Held: The Superior Court affirmed in a precedential opinion by President Judge Emeritus Stevens. The basic umbrella insuring agreement promised to pay amounts above the retained limit that an insured became legally obligated to pay as damages because of bodily injury. Its definition of loss and its payment condition likewise presupposed liability owed by the insured or the underlying insurer to…