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5 votes
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Why US cities are banning new fast food drive-throughs
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Set to rights – Iceland's new Gender Autonomy Act
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Denmark will fast-track legislation to strip foreign fighters of Danish citizenship
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California is banning the tiny bottles of shampoo in hotels
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Europe's top court has upheld the strict protection that EU law offers to Finnish wolves and other species
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Shame on those who defend the "loving smack": it's just plain violence against children
19 votes -
Transgender man who gave birth must be registered as "mother" on the birth certificate
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US Supreme Court term to begin with blockbuster question: Is it legal to fire someone for being gay or transgender?
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According to leaked emails from Natalia Veselnitskaya, Russia’s disinformation campaign may have broken U.S. law and exposed details of a witness who later fell from a window
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Jews and Muslims in Sweden outraged over call to ban male circumcision
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Doctors working for the Department for Work and Pensions must respect a service user's pronoun choice
This is a bit complicated. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is the government department that pays social security benefits in the UK. There are a range of benefits. Some of these...
This is a bit complicated.
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is the government department that pays social security benefits in the UK. There are a range of benefits. Some of these benefits are for people who cannot work because of disability. In order to qualify for some of these disability benefits you need to have a medical assessment with an "independent" doctor. This doctor is independent from the patient. They're employed by companies who are paid by the DWP, so there's supposed to be some kind of arm's length arrangement there.
A doctor was employed by one of these companies to do this assessment work for the DWP. He was a committed Christian. He held that he would not be able to refer to people by anything other than the gender they were assigned at birth.
The DWP is clear: you must respect a person's choice of pronouns.
The General Medical Council (the registrant body for doctors in England) is also clear: you must not impose your personal views upon your patients, especially if it's going to cause distress.
This doctor was spoken to about his beliefs. He declined to change his stance. He lost his job. He took his employer to employment tribunal for unfair dismissal based on discrimination against his protected characteristic: his religious views.
He lost his case.
Here's the legal document: https://christianconcern.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/CC-Resource-Judgment-Mackereth-DWP-Others-ET-191002.pdf
It's pretty long! 42 pages! The last pages give a summary.
You'll notice the URL. He was supported by the Christian Legal Centre. I won't say anything about them, but I'll link this page which gives some useful information: https://nearlylegal.co.uk/2018/04/on-the-naughty-step-the-questionable-ethics-of-the-christian-legal-centre/
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Stamos on legal issues for US tech companies sharing with foreign governments
@alexstamos: It's really early on a Sunday, so while I sip my coffee I'm also going to try to clear up a lot of confusion about the CLOUD Act created by poor reporting by The Times (of London) and Bloomberg. Here is the original, incorrect story: https://t.co/1l8tgH1r4s
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'Ban kids from loot box gambling in games,' MPs say
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French court says Valve must allow Steam users to resell games
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Indonesia moving to ban sex outside marriage
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“This has to end. We cannot say it any clearer.” A guide to the decades-long familial dispute over John Steinbeck’s estate.
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New York City's council proposes repealing the city’s ban on conversion therapy in order to thwart a potential Supreme Court battle
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Denmark frees thirty-two inmates over flaws in phone geolocation evidence – two-month moratorium on the use of mobile phone records
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California legislators approved a landmark bill on Tuesday that requires companies like Uber and Lyft to treat contract workers as employees
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Childlike sex dolls are a violation of Norwegian law, the Supreme Court has ruled in a landmark test case
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Sacklers would give up ownership of Purdue Pharma under settlement proposal
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93% of British Columbians want to scrap changing clocks for daylight time, survey says
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The State of California is getting closer to adopting the Fair Pay to Play Act, a law that would end NCAA amateurism as we know it
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Web scraping doesn’t violate anti-hacking law, appeals court rules
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Norway issues rightwing terror warning for year ahead
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How a federal court ruling on Boise’s homeless camping ban has rippled across the West
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Britain's parliament approves law seeking to block October no-deal Brexit
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Denmark to ban all PFAS in paper and board food packaging
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For the formerly incarcerated, occupational licensing laws can be legal prisons
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Philippines Supreme Court thumbs down same-sex marriage petition
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Finland under pressure to criminalise lack of consent in rape laws
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Area 51 Raid: What would happen, legally speaking?
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Australian government releases "exposure draft" of religious discrimination bill
A news article: New protections for Folau-like cases in draft religious discrimination bill A radio interview with the Attorney-General: Federal Government unveils religious discrimination...
A news article: New protections for Folau-like cases in draft religious discrimination bill
A radio interview with the Attorney-General: Federal Government unveils religious discrimination legislation on Radio National
Some legal analysis: The government has released its draft religious discrimination bill. How will it work?
A Christian response: Religious discrimination bill draft released
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Flaws in cellphone evidence prompt review of 10,000 verdicts in Denmark
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Most people know prisoners can marry. Few remember the co-ed prison, the impromptu courthouse wedding and the Supreme Court ruling that allows them to do so.
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I was skeptical of unions. Then I joined one.
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The story of Sealand, a “micronation” on an eerie metal platform, tells us plenty about libertarianism, national sovereignty, and the lawlessness of the ocean
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Hungary’s far-right government vilifies Finland over rule of law inquiry
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An armed man who caused panic at a Walmart in Missouri says it was a 'social experiment'
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California man charged with murder even though he didn’t fire a shot
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Cigarette butts are toxic plastic pollution. Should they be banned?
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Meet Thomas Cullen, the Trump-appointed US Attorney who's putting white supremacists in jail using an anti-riot statute passed in the 1960s to rein in leftist Vietnam War protesters
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'Something needs to be done': A conversation about guns and race in America
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Lawyer argues that Humanists — who believe in good without a God — get short shrift in Nevada prisons
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Eskilstuna in Sweden launches controversial £21 begging permit
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New Zealand Abortion law to change in sweeping reform: "Abortion should be treated as a health issue"
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Bendigo mother becomes the first Victorian to use Voluntary Assisted Dying law
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Rammstein members kiss onstage in Russia to protest anti-LGBTQ laws
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Iceland cuts teen drinking with curfews and youth centers
8 votes