Donald Trump may soon face deposition in rape defamation case
24 Feb, 2021 07:39 AM
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Former President Donald Trump gestures to the crowd as he arrives to speak at a campaign rally at Williams Arena in North Carolina. Photo / AP
Former President Donald Trump gestures to the crowd as he arrives to speak at a campaign rally at Williams Arena in North Carolina. Photo / AP
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Donald Trump faces a defamation case brought against him by American writer E Jean Carroll relating to her accusation that the former President raped her in the mid 1990s.
Carroll, an author and former magazine columnist for Elle claims the rape occurred in a New York department store fitting room.
NYC Health + Hospitals to Receive National Kidney Foundation s Kopple Award
Youngest recipient to be honored at 2021 Spring Clinical Meetings for his significant contributions to renal nutrition
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NEW YORK, Feb. 24, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Each year the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) considers the work of hundreds of specialists in the field of nephrology and selects among them those who most exemplify the relentless efforts of NKF to enhance the lives of patients through action, education, and accelerating change.
National Kidney Foundation to honor Shivam Joshi, MD, a nephrologist, internist, and plant-based physician, who practices at NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue in New York City. Dr. Joshi will receive the Joel D. Kopple Award for his work in the field of renal nutrition. This award has been given annually at NKF’s Spring Clinical Meetings in the name of Dr. Joel D. Kopple since 2002 to the physician who has made a
While Judge Nathan found no evidence that prosecutors intentionally withheld evidence from lawyers representing an Iranian banker, Ali Sadr Hashemi Nejad, she said they made a “deliberate attempt to obscure” the truth and attempted to “bury” a key document that might have helped the defense.
The mistakes were serious enough that even after winning a conviction, prosecutors dropped all charges against Sadr.
The documents unsealed Monday provide a detailed look at how the case against Sadr began to unravel in the span of a few, turbulent hours last March as the trial was nearing completion.
On a Friday night, a bank record surfaced that the line prosecutor, Assistant U.S. Attorney Jane Kim, wanted to introduce as evidence. But she realized she hadn’t yet shared it with Sadr’s attorneys, a potential violation of rules intended to ensure a fair trial.
The digitisation of South Africa’s social grant payment system was sold as promising to expand financial inclusion, but monopolisation by a single private company mutated it into a system of exploitation, according to the national director of the Black Sash, Lynette Maart. And the company, Net1, might not be done in the “social grant space” just yet, warned the Black Sash’s national advocacy manager, Hoodah Abrahams-Fayker.
Maart and Abrahams-Fayker were speaking during a webinar titled “Locked in! How South Africa came to rely on a digital social security payment monopolist”.
The webinar is part of a series, “Transformer States: A Conversation Series on Digital Government and Human Rights” organised by the Digital Welfare State and Human Rights Project. It is based at the New York University School of Law. Members of the project interview key people about a specific case study of digital government.