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Indian authorities registered a formal complaint—known as a first information report (FIR)—against an election engagement movement led by India’s main opposition party and its organizer, according to the Press Trust of India’s police sources. The Thursday FIR alleged that the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra movement and its organizer, K B Byju, deviated from the march’s [...]

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The Lok Sabha privilege committee, responsible for investigating breaches of privilege in the lower house of India’s Parliament, adopted on Friday a resolution to lift the suspension imposed on three opposition members during the ongoing winter session, according to reports from local news sources. The suspension was originally enforced on the members over charges of [...]

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The Turkish Competition Board announced on Wednesday that it decided to fine Meta Platforms Inc. 4.8 million lira ($160,000) a day for failing to provide sufficient documentation as part of a previous antitrust investigation in 2022. On January 11, 2021, the Turkish Competition Board opened an investigation against Meta Platforms Inc. (formerly Facebook Inc.), Meta Platforms [...]

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The Washington Supreme Court ruled Thursday that civil immigration detainees employed in private facilities must be treated as legal employees and are thus entitled to the minimum wage stipulated by the state. The case, Ugochukwu Goodluck Nwauzor, et al v. The GEO Group, Inc., scrutinized the compensation practices of the GEO Group, a Florida-based private [...]

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India’s lower house of Parliament, the Lok Sabha, granted approval to the Chief Election Commissioner and Other Election Commissioners (Appointment, Conditions of Service, and Term of Office) Bill, 2023 on Thursday. This legislative initiative represents an overhaul of the selection process and service conditions governing the chief election commissioner (CEC) and election commissioners (ECs), replacing [...]

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The US Supreme Court refused to block Illinois’ assault weapon and high-capacity magazine ban on Thursday. This decision comes after the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit allowed the ban to go into effect in November. In a one-page order the Supreme Court stated, “The application for a writ of injunction pending certiorari [...]

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A US jury decided Monday that Google’s current app store policies violate Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act as well as the California Cartwright Act. Sometime next year, there will be a separate judicial process to determine the penalty that Google will suffer as a result of the jury’s Monday decision. Epic Games, [...]

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A judge in Nairobi, Kenya ruled on Thursday that Meta Platforms, Inc., the parent company of social media sites like Facebook, is not in contempt of court for failure to pay dozens of content moderators that a contractor had laid off, according to Kenyan news source People Daily. Justice Mathews Nduma Nderi of the Employment [...]

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In September 2023, the US Department of Labor (DOL) launched investigations into possible child labor violations by meat and chicken processors Perdue Farms and Tyson Foods. The investigation, which is to determine whether migrant children are working inside slaughterhouses owned by the poultry-processing giants, follows a New York Times magazine report of minors working at the facilities [...]

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