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...The appeals court handed down a unanimous ruling this month that barred Trump from using presidential immunity as a shield against the DoJ indictment....
...The odds are now in Trump’s favour, after the US Supreme Court on Wednesday determined it would hear his appeal over claims that presidential immunity shields him from the Department of Justice’s indictment...
...online and offline crimes all over the world — it may be fraud, it may be gun sales, drugs sales, people sales even,” says David Maimon, professor in the department of criminal justice and criminology at Georgia...
...Georgia Whitaker, climate campaigner at Greenpeace, said the tax “contains more loopholes than a block of swiss cheese”....
...Pence had challenged the subpoena, according to media reports, arguing he should be given immunity from testifying under the constitution’s “speech or debate” clause, which can shield lawmakers from having...
...It is still unclear when he might face trial in the federal case on the election charges brought this week, or in a likely prosecution on similar charges expected in Georgia....
...Long lines of cars formed at Russia’s land borders with Georgia, Finland, Kazakhstan and Mongolia, prompting some people to attempt to cross on bicycles or buy places in the line on social media....
...The ruling follows public criticism of bankruptcy schemes used by companies to shield themselves from liability and proposals by politicians to outlaw them....
...in Georgia during a run-off contest set for early December....
...A few relatives had taken what we felt were rather extreme positions on Covid-19, so our shields were up....
...Georgia’s 2020 election results certification Fani Willis, the district attorney for Fulton County in Georgia, has been investigating the actions of Trump and his allies in the aftermath of the 2020 elections...
...On Wednesday Georgia’s president told the Financial Times that the EU needed to speed up its membership process to shield the country from possible Russian aggression, noting that the EU’s lack of clarity...
...Timothy Lytton, a professor at the Georgia State University College of Law in Atlanta and an expert on health and safety regulations, said that if the appellate court sides with the state of New York, the...
...Several companies facing asbestos-related claims, including Georgia-Pacific, a US unit of France-based Saint-Gobain and Trane Technologies, have deployed the same “Texas two-step” bankruptcy scheme as J&...
...If a global settlement is agreed, the company benefits from a shield against all future personal injury claims linked to the defective product or drug....
...claims. 3M is following in the footsteps of healthcare group Johnson & Johnson, which last year utilised a similar but slightly different bankruptcy scheme, known as the “Texas two-step”, in a bid to shield...
...Powell instead said the Fed would be “humble and nimble” as it looks to “move steadily away from” the ultra-easy monetary policy it put in place in early 2020 to shield the economy from the Covid-19 shock...
...It created a new company, called LTL Management, to hold these liabilities and filed for bankruptcy to shield itself from the claims....
...Now she relies on middlemen in countries such as Georgia and Kazakhstan to order and receive western branded items and calls herself the “sanctions fairy”....
...In deploying the Texas two-step, J&J followed the examples set by Koch Industries’ Georgia Pacific, the first to deploy the mechanism in 2017; Trane Technologies; and a US unit of France-based Saint-Gobain...
...They have used the scheme to shield their main businesses from legal claims linked to asbestos claims....
...Koch Industries’ Georgia-Pacific is using a similar manoeuvre to try to limit its liabilities against asbestos claims....
...Almost all European airspace is closed to Russian aircraft so people are flying to places like Israel, Turkey and Georgia. Flights to these places have been sold out for days....
...More recently the term has entered the corporate lexicon as a bankruptcy manoeuvre deployed by companies seeking to shield themselves from personal injury claims....
...It also set the stage for a White House effort to tout the benefits of the plan across the country, with Biden already scheduling a visit to Atlanta, Georgia, next week to discuss its impact....
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