Background: The defendant was charged with national-security and property offenses arising from alleged work for two operatives whom he knew were foreign agents acting for Iran. According to the indictment, he approached one operative through Telegram seeking work and agreed to perform assignments after being offered payment in cryptocurrency. He allegedly photographed and filmed locations in…
Held: President Yitzhak Amit dismissed the appeal. Although the mitigating circumstances caused the Court to hesitate, the seriousness of the alleged offenses and the defendant’s central role—including initiating contact with a foreign agent and attempting to recruit others—meant that the proposed private placement did not sufficiently address his dangerousness.
Background: A medical center operated by the Federation of National Public Service Personnel Mutual Aid Associations used a publicly advertised proposal competition to select an operator for an on-site dispensing pharmacy. Under the competition rules, applicants submitted proposals addressing eight subjects, including experience, pharmacy design and operations, emergency preparedness, financial planning, rent, and additional proposals. Seven…
Held: The Supreme Court unanimously reversed. It held that when an authorized body lawfully adopts a method for selecting a contracting party under governing law or internal rules, that method falls within Article 96-6(1) if it has the substantive character of competitive bidding. The inquiry turns on substance rather than the label attached to the selection procedure.
Background: Michael Lee was the sole director and shareholder of Result Strata Management Pty Ltd, which operated a strata-management business. Lee held an individual strata-management licence, and the company held a corporate licence. After an earlier suspension imposed in October 2024 was withdrawn because the decision-maker lacked authority to exercise the relevant statutory power, an Acting…
Held: Elkaim AJ dismissed the company’s proceedings because Lee could not pursue them on behalf of the company after liquidation without the liquidator’s consent. The Court also dismissed Lee’s proceedings. Although the original action had begun within three months of the warrant, the warrant was not challenged until August 2025, outside the time prescribed by UCPR r 59.10. Lee never sought…
Background: The father sought an order under the 1980 Hague Convention requiring the return to Ukraine of C, a six-year-old boy whom the mother removed in May 2025. The mother accepted that C had been habitually resident in Ukraine, that the father was exercising custody rights, and that the removal was wrongful under Article 3.
Held: Mr Justice MacDonald dismissed the return application. Taken at their highest, the domestic-abuse allegations established a grave risk of physical or psychological harm, but Ukrainian law provided sufficiently effective protective mechanisms, including restraining and emergency protection orders, to address that risk. The mother’s mental health, considered separately, did not establish an intolerable situation for C; the court considered it likely…
Background: Rippling sued Keith O’Brien and Deel in Ireland following an alleged attempt to frustrate a High Court disclosure order made against Mr O’Brien in March 2025. Rippling alleged that Deel joined a scheme to obstruct the order, create a false narrative about the proceedings, and procure defamatory statements. It did not seek relief in the…
Held: Mr Justice Sanfey held that events before 14 March 2025 were not issues for discovery purposes. Although Deel had denied allegations concerning the alleged covert conduct, Rippling had made clear that it did not rely on those matters to establish its Irish claim. A bare denial did not convert matters that the plaintiff did not need to prove into pleaded…
Background: Kandace Edwards was arrested in Randolph County, Alabama, for allegedly forging a $75 check. Under the county’s then-existing bail schedule, she could obtain immediate release only by posting a predetermined $7,500 bond. Edwards, who was pregnant and unable to afford the bond, filed a putative class action alleging that the county’s practices violated due process…
Held: The Eleventh Circuit held that the county’s mid-litigation policy change did not moot the claims dismissed on that ground. Schultz did not create a broad rule limiting every challenge after a bail-policy change to a facial attack on the operative policy. Unlike Schultz, this case involved a certified class and arose before development of a full factual record concerning how…
Background: Dentist Abbas Mohammadi, Columbia Dental, P.C., and Columbia Oral Maxillofacial Imaging, LLC, settled disputed federal and state False Claims Act allegations concerning Medicaid billing and the use of uncertified dental assistants. The settlement required a $300,000 payment but stated that it was a compromise of disputed claims and was neither an admission of liability by…
Held: The Appellate Court affirmed. Although qualified immunity generally does not implicate subject-matter jurisdiction and ordinarily should not be raised through a motion to dismiss, the plaintiffs waived their objection to that procedural vehicle by failing to raise it in the trial court. The trial court therefore could decide the qualified-immunity defense on its merits.
Background: The claimants were passengers injured in a collision between two vehicles, each covered by compulsory motor-vehicle liability insurance. After written claims to the insurers produced no recovery and mediation failed, the claimants sued for permanent-disability compensation, temporary-incapacity compensation, and caregiver expenses. They later increased the amounts sought.
Held: The Third Civil Chamber rejected both appeals on the merits under Article 353(1)(b)(1) of the Code of Civil Procedure, concluding that the trial judgment was lawful in procedure and substance. The claimants had submitted written pre-suit applications containing documents that could reasonably be assembled within the available time. Because the insurers did not notify them of missing documents specified in…
Background: The Court jointly considered 20 applications arising from civil and criminal proceedings conducted by courts operating in Crimea after the extension of Russian legislation to the peninsula in March 2014. The proceedings concerned matters including property, employment, debts, company and enforcement disputes, as well as criminal convictions and penalties.
Held: The Court unanimously found a violation of Article 6 § 1. It reiterated its prior holding that extending Russian law to Crimea was contrary to the Convention, interpreted in light of international humanitarian law, and that Russian law as applied there could not be regarded as “law” for Convention purposes. Consequently, the judicial system operating in Crimea after March 2014…
Background: Janell Ann Flores appealed from a judgment of the Circuit Court for Escambia County, where Judge Linda L. Nobles presided.
Held: The First District Court of Appeal affirmed the circuit court’s judgment.
Background: Arieh Abu Amar and his minor brother were charged with unlawful possession of a weapon and obstruction of justice. The indictment alleged that another brother gave them a Glock 19 pistol so that law-enforcement authorities would not find it and evidence would be concealed. The defendants allegedly possessed the pistol, a compatible magazine, and six…
Held: Justice Yehiel Kasher denied leave to appeal. The Court reiterated that a third-level detention appeal is permitted only in exceptional cases presenting a legal question of general importance or where denial would cause a grave miscarriage of justice. Abu Amar’s application met neither standard.
Background: Weimin Yang was defending separate litigation brought by her former de facto partner, Mr Li, concerning his asserted equitable interest in property registered in her name. After two unsuccessful applications to remove Mr Li’s caveat, Ms Yang commenced this proceeding against three solicitors, one barrister and two incorporated legal practices that had acted for Mr…
Held: Sullivan J struck out the claim and statement of claim in their entirety under the Court’s inherent jurisdiction and rules 16(i) and 171 of the Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 1999 (Qld). The pleading disclosed no tenable cause of action: lawyers acting for an opposing party did not owe Ms Yang a duty of care or fiduciary duty in the pleaded…