California governor Gavin Newsom made a bold attempt today to eliminate sales of new gas-guzzling cars and trucks, marking a critical step in the state’s quest to become carbon neutral by 2045. But the effort to clean up the state’s largest source of climate emissions is almost certain to face serious legal challenges, particularly if…...
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Nikola v. Tesla — Tesla says Nikola failed to acknowledge the origins of its 2016 truck design. Timothy B. Lee - Sep 24, 2020 9:37 pm UTC Nikola Chairman Trevor Milton unveils the Nikola One truck in December 2016. A sketch of Adriano Mudri's Road Runner design. An image of Mudri's design included in Tesla's…...
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British prosecutors have begun a move to confiscate $39.3m from Bhadresh Gohil, a London lawyer, who assisted James Ibori to loot and launder funds from Nigeria.Ibori, ex-governor of Delta State, was convicted in 2010 in the United Kingdom for money-laundering. Gohil was also convicted in 2010 of 13 counts of money-laundering and other offences linked…...
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JOHANNESBURG - Embattled Gauteng Health MEC Bandile Masuku has threatened legal action against the DA’s Jack Bloom. This comes after the DA Gauteng health spokesperson published a statement, accusing Masuku’s department of spending almost R500,000 on each COVID-19 patient admitted at the Nasrec field hospital. Bloom says this is another reason why Masuku should be fired…...
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India has said that Pakistan has no legal basis to convert Pakistan occupied Kashmir's Gilgit-Baltistan region as its 5th province and the action will be "void ab initio". Ministry of external affairs spokesperson Anurag Srivastava in response to a WION question said, “Any action by Pakistan to alter the status of the militarily occupied so-called…...
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California governor Gavin Newsom made a bold attempt today to eliminate sales of new gas-guzzling cars and trucks, marking a critical step in the state’s quest to become carbon neutral by 2045. But the effort to clean up the state’s largest source of climate emissions is almost certain to face serious legal challenges, particularly if…...
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Two persons, Motunrayo Olasebikan and Abideen Adefisayo Tijani have been arraigned before Justice Ladiran Akintola of the Oyo State High Court in Ibadan for alleged involvement in a visa scam.The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is prosecuting the suspects on a seven-count charge of conspiracy, forgery and uttering.This was disclosed in a statement issued…...
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) has arraigned a former director of Physical Planning, Pius Ezeokafor, in the department of architecture, Federal Polytechnic, Oko, in Anambra State, for alleged fraud and false pretence and gratification to the tune of N27 million. In a statement signed by the EFCC spokesperson, Wilson Uwajuren on Tuesday, the…...
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Scam text messages claiming to be from crucial government services will be blocked on Telstra's network under a new pilot program.The telecommunications giant will work with the federal government's Australian Cyber Security Centre and Services Australia to stamp out dodgy texts.Messages purporting to be from Centrelink or MyGov with malicious links or requests for personal…...
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