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The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled in a 5-4 decision that when condom use is a condition for sexual intercourse and it is not used, the person concerned could be guilty of sexual assault. The facts of the case date back to 2017, when the complainant agreed to have sex with Ross Kirkpatrick, the accused, [...]

The Supreme Court of Canada Friday unanimously ruled that a life sentence without any chance of parole is unconstitutional under Section 12 of the nation’s charter. In Canada, anyone serving a life sentence for first-degree murder is automatically ineligible for parole for 25 years. Criminal Code Section 745.51, passed in 2011, allowed justices to give consecutive [...]

The Canadian government Thursday announced that it is lifting the three-month blood donor deferral period for men who are sexually active with other men. Under the current blood donation regulations, gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (gbMSM) have to wait for a three-month period since their last sexual contact with another [...]

Paramount Global and former chairman-CEO Leslie Moonves Friday settled with CBS Corporation shareholders and agreed to pay $14.75 million in a class action case related to sexual misconduct claims against #MeToo movement comments by Moonves. CBS shareholders initiated the class action in 2018 regarding: aterially false and misleading statements and/or omissions regarding the Company’s policies [...]

I was 20 years old when I got my first radio job, at KNX Newsradio in Los Angeles, as a runner. A very low-level job, but incredibly exciting, as I got to see the inner workings of one of L.A.’s most powerful AM stations. I went into journalism to try to change the world.  After [...]

The US Supreme Court declined to review Monday the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling that overturned entertainer Bill Cosby’s sexual assault conviction. In 2005, former Temple University employee Andrea Constand alleged that Cosby had sexually assaulted and drugged her. The case was settled, and District Attorney Bruce Castor declined to press criminal charges. However, in 2015, Castor’s successor [...]

A group, including a pair of Republican candidates for office, Monday submitted an emergency application for a writ of injunction, asking the Supreme Court to stop the implementation of a new congressional map in Pennsylvania. The application was submitted just a few weeks after the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ordered state election officials to implement [...]

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court adopted Wednesday the state’s new congressional map for the US House of Representatives, breaking a partisan deadlock. The court selected a map submitted by Pennsylvania voters. The map adheres to the prescribed goals of Pennsylvania’s redistricting process and reorganizes the previous 18 congressional districts into the newly reapportioned 17. Traditionally, the [...]

The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania Friday declared unconstitutional Pennsylvania’s “no-excuse mail-in voting law,” which permits voters to cast their ballots by mail without providing an excuse for their absence. Doug McLinko filed suit against Pennsylvania’s Acting Secretary Veronica Degraffenreid, seeking an order declaring that Article XIII-D of the Pennsylvania Election Code violates the Pennsylvania Constitution. [...]

The January 6th Capitol attack, while having lasted some eight hours, did not end on the day in question. The effects of this attack have been felt into 2021 and will continue, most likely, for years to come. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has arrested over 700 persons for a variety of crimes, including [...]