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Appeal Court Says Divorce Based on Mental Cruelty is Stigmatizing

This week the Ontario Court of Appeal considered a divorce appeal where a judge in a pretrial conference granted a divorce based on each spouses’ allegations of mental cruelty against the other. In Baraz v. Vorobyev, 2019 ONCA 90 the … Continue reading

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Julianne Hing in The Nation: "For Trump, Cruelty is the Point"

Julianne Hing writes in The Nation about the Trump Administration's immigration policies, and sums those policies up in the following title phrase: "For Trump, Cruelty is the Point." Hing writes about the Administration's practice of separating parents from children at… … Continue reading

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Senate approves ban on animal cruelty videos

[JURIST] The US Senate [official website] unanimously approved a bill [text, PDF] Friday banning animal cruelty or “crush” videos. The House of Representatives [official website] approved the same ban [JURIST report] on Monday, and the provision is now being forward … Continue reading

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