Background: The second applicant, an Indian national, entered Israel in 2016 on a B/1 work visa for the caregiving sector. After caring for a relative of the first applicant for several years and developing a close relationship of trust with the family, she began caring for the first applicant, who was born in 1937, was terminally…
Held: Justice Ruth Ronnen denied leave to appeal. Leave for a third-tier appeal from the Appeals Tribunal is available only in exceptional cases presenting a legal question of general importance or a risk of grave miscarriage of justice. The applicants’ proposed question had already been resolved repeatedly: section 3A(b1) establishes rigid threshold conditions, and its clear language gives the Minister of…
Background: Christine Brock, as co-trustee of a family trust, claimed a right to use Forgotten Lane across property owned by Shan and Dana Tompkins. Brock initially alleged that a 1987 certificate of survey created an express easement benefiting her two parcels. After the District Court denied the parties’ competing summary-judgment motions, it permitted Brock to amend…
Held: The Montana Supreme Court held that the Tompkins were entitled to summary judgment on Brock’s original express-easement theory because neither the 1987 survey nor any conveyance identified either Brock parcel as the dominant estate or granted Brock a right to use the corridor. The Court nevertheless affirmed the order allowing amendment because it was entered before judgment and did not…
Background: IRB-Brasil Resseguros S.A. and Community Reinsurance Corporation Limited applied under Part VII of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 for approval of a scheme transferring the business of IRB’s UK branch to Community Re. The transferring portfolio comprised historic non-life reinsurance, principally marine, aviation, property and casualty business written between 1974 and 1983. It…
Held: Mr Justice Mellor sanctioned the scheme under section 111(1) of FSMA 2000 and made ancillary orders under section 112. Applying the Court of Appeal’s guidance on Part VII transfers, he treated the central question as whether the scheme posed a real or significant, rather than fanciful or insignificant, risk of material adverse effects on policyholders or other stakeholders.
Background: Delaware enacted House Bill 451 in 2022 to prohibit most people under age 21 from purchasing, owning, possessing, or controlling firearms or ammunition other than shotguns and muzzle-loading rifles. The law exempts certain military personnel, law-enforcement officers, concealed-carry licensees, and supervised hunting, instruction, sporting, and recreational activities.
Held: The Delaware Supreme Court reversed. It declined to import the federal Second Amendment test announced in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen into Delaware constitutional law. The court held that challenges under Article I, Section 20 remain governed by Delaware’s means-end scrutiny precedent, including the intermediate-scrutiny framework applied in Doe v. Wilmington Housing Authority and Bridgeville Rifle…
Background: Carrefour Proximité France franchised its Carrefour banner to Ainaydis, while CSF supplied Ainaydis under a separate agreement. Selima and Profidis, both Carrefour-group subsidiaries, held 26% of Ainaydis’s capital.
Held: The Court of Cassation rejected both appeals. It held that necessity under Article L. 622-13, IV must be assessed by reference to the objectives of the safeguard proceeding, independently of compensation that may be owed to the contracting parties because of termination. Such compensation belongs to the distinct process for verifying and admitting claims.
Background: The parties married in 2005 and had two children. The husband, a businessman with interests in Singapore and China, was the primary breadwinner; the wife was primarily a homemaker and caregiver, although she intermittently assisted with his businesses. Interim judgment for divorce was granted in October 2023 after an approximately 18-year marriage. The children’s issues…
Held: The court identified a matrimonial pool worth $47,210,856.83. It included several businesses established during the marriage, the husband’s interests in companies in Singapore and China, debts owed to him by his companies, a property registered in the wife’s name, and certain sale proceeds. It also treated a premarital company as transformed into a matrimonial asset because both spouses had contributed…
Background: Uepa Tumaialu pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Ivan Fifita, a fellow resident of an Ōtāhuhu boarding house. On 29 June 2025, the two men were sitting and talking on the property’s deck before a brief physical confrontation began. Mr Fifita threw the first punch. During the confrontation, Mr Tumaialu stabbed him once with a…
Held: Jagose J imposed a sentence of four years and 10 months’ imprisonment. The Judge adopted a starting point of six years and six months, placing the offending within band two of the serious-violence sentencing guideline range. Although the fight was brief, mutual, and apparently initiated by Mr Fifita, the use of a knife, the fatal outcome, the victim’s vulnerability as…
Background: In the principal judgment, Luxton v Ishihara [2026] NSWSC 943, Bennett J held that the deceased’s widow, Rosalie Luxton, had not received adequate provision under his will. The deceased’s daughters from an earlier marriage were the defendants and executors. The Court ordered further provision of $1.15 million: $300,000 absolutely and $850,000 as a portable life…
Held: Bennett J adopted the defendants’ proposed orders concerning control of the fund. On sale of the North Willoughby property, $850,000 was to be paid to the defendants as executors pending its use as the fund. Any part not required to acquire accommodation must be invested by the executors in an interest-bearing Australian financial-institution account, as reasonably required by Rosalie; Rosalie…
Background: Robin F. Richards was registered as a Nebraska Democrat when she unsuccessfully ran as a write-in candidate for the Nebraska Legislature in the May 2026 primary. She later formed the Nebraska Working People Party, which was established and certified as a new political party after the primary but before the general election.
Held: Justice Stephanie F. Stacy first concluded that she had jurisdiction to review the objection. Although Richards filed under § 32-621 rather than § 32-606, § 32-607 expressly makes objections to all candidate filing forms subject to the procedures in § 32-624.
Background: The Blackburn Tunnel carries Pennsylvania State Route 268 across a former railroad line in Fairview Township, Butler County. Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad acquired the line in 1967, stopped rail service around 1998, and received federal authority in 2001 to abandon service along part of the route. It then asked the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission…
Held: Judge Fizzano Cannon, writing for the en banc Commonwealth Court, affirmed. The PUC has broad, exclusive authority over the construction, alteration, relocation, suspension, and abolition of rail-highway crossings and may allocate associated costs among concerned parties. A utility cannot unilaterally defeat that regulatory authority or transfer statutory public-safety duties through a private conveyance.
Background: Ehiremen Bennard Eriakha, a Black international doctoral student at the University of Mississippi, objected after the Department of Pharmacy Administration assigned its chair, Dr. Yi Yang, to serve as co-mentor with Dr. Yinan Huang. Eriakha also declined faculty requests for an in-person meeting and repeatedly refused to complete a mandatory “Abilities Transcript,” asserting concerns about…
Held: The Fifth Circuit held that sovereign immunity barred Eriakha’s claims against the University, his official-capacity claims against Huang, and his state-law contract claims against the defendants in their official capacities. The Ex parte Young exception permitted his federal official-capacity claims against Yang, Barnard, and Kluck to proceed past the jurisdictional inquiry because they were connected to the challenged academic sanction,…
Background: Jeffrey Donelle Hampton went to an apartment complex to retrieve his six-year-old son after the child’s mother reported that her boyfriend, Michael Hawkins, had threatened him. Hampton, a convicted felon, brought a .380-caliber pistol. Gunfire was exchanged between Hampton and Hawkins, and bullets struck neighboring residences and vehicles. Hawkins was fatally wounded by a 9mm…
Held: The Court of Appeals affirmed, holding that the circuit court did not abuse its discretion. The jury’s acquittals did not logically require a finding that Hampton acted in self-defense or that he did not help instigate the shootout. Because the jury returned general verdicts, the sentencing court could not know whether jurors accepted Hampton’s defense, found an element unproved, or…