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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 374

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Tom Cruise poses for the media during the 'Top Gun Maverick' UK premiere at a central London cinema, on Thursday, May 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)
April 9, 2024, 4:46 pm
LA court rules ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ didn’t infringe Israeli writer’s copyright
Lawyer for Ehud Yonay’s widow and son will appeal district judge’s decision in case accusing Paramount Pictures of pilfering from 1983 piece on US Navy fighter pilot school
By Jonathan Stempel
Close-up of a ornate cross found in the Guelph Treasure (photo credit: CC BY Wikipedia)
August 30, 2022, 4:22 pm
US court dismisses $200m Nazi-treasure dispute, filed by heirs of Jewish art dealers
Similar lawsuit over Guelph Treasure, medieval trove of Christian artifacts, was thrown out in Germany, where court rejected claims that 1935 sale was forced and below market value
By Kristen Grieshaber
A protester stands outside Beth Israel Congregation in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 2020, flanked by anti-Israel and antisemitic signs. (Alex Sherman/Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
February 2, 2022, 12:55 am
Congregants forced to pay legal fees of ‘antisemitic’ protesters outside synagogue
Judge rules that lawsuit against rallies denouncing ‘Jewish power’ outside Michigan synagogue for 18 years was ‘frivolous,’ week after appeal sent to Supreme Court
By Andrew Lapin
Steven Donziger, in 2018. (video screenshot)
October 1, 2021, 11:16 pm
Lawyer who fought Chevron gets 6-month sentence for contempt
Jewish Steven Donziger, under house arrest for the past 2 years, faces prison for violating federal judge’s orders related to his battle against the energy giant
By AP and Sue Surkes
Lawyer Steven Donziger, right, speaks to Huaorani women during the first day of the trial against Chevron-Texaco, in Lago Agrio, on October 21, 2003. A decade after Texaco pulled out of the Amazon jungle, the US petroleum giant went on trial in a lawsuit filed on behalf of 30,000 poor Ecuadoreans who say the company's 20 years of drilling poisoned their homeland. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
October 1, 2021, 2:28 am
UN group blasts ‘staggering’ bias of judge against lawyer fighting Chevron
Working Group on Arbitrary Detention calls for release of Steven Donziger, under house arrest since August 6, 2019, and due to be sentenced Friday for criminal contempt
By Sue Surkes
Eyal Yifrah, 19, Gilad Shaer, 16, and Naftali Fraenkel, 16, the three Israeli teenagers who were kidnapped on June 12, 2014 and whose bodies were found on June 30, 2014. (IDF/AP)
August 30, 2020, 3:50 pm
Families of 3 teens murdered in 2014 sue Hamas for over NIS 500 million
Relatives of Naftali Fraenkel, Gil-ad Shaar and Eyal Yifrach say they are bringing the action to block the transfer of cash from the Palestinian Authority to the terror group
By ToI Staff
Federal Judge Jack Weinstein speaks with reporters after visiting the Louis Armstrong housing projects in Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, New York, March 4, 2011. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)
February 13, 2020, 7:06 pm
Longest-serving US federal judge Jack Weinstein retires at 98
Jewish jurist, who was appointed by LBJ, served on the bench for nearly 53 years; was known for favoring lighter sentences, rehabilitation
By AP
Illustrative: A white supremacist carrying a Nazi flag into Emancipation Park in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 12, 2017. (AP/Steve Helber/File)
January 12, 2020, 8:43 am
Charlottesville rally organizer released, but may face criminal contempt charges
White nationalist Elliott Kline jailed after he was accused of failing repeatedly to turn over records demanded by plaintiffs in civil lawsuit
By Denise Lavoie
Beth Israel Congregation in Ann Arbor, Michigan, has been the site of a weekly anti-Israel protest since 2003. (WIkimedia Commons via JTA)
December 25, 2019, 12:35 am
Lawsuit seeks to halt weekly anti-Israel protest in front of Michigan synagogue
Beth Israel Congregation member sues demonstrators and city of Ann Arbor, claiming protests amount to anti-Semitic hate speech
By Marcy Oster
Jeffrey Epstein in New York City in 2005. (Neil Rasmus/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images/via JTA)
August 29, 2019, 11:23 pm
Judge ends case against Epstein, with a nod to the accusers
In ruling, which comes after US financier killed himself in prison, judge incorporates transcript of hearing in which the victims detailed allegations of sexual abuse
By Larry Neumeister
Racheli Fraenkel, mother of Jewish teenager Naftali Fraenkel who was kidnapped and murdered by Hamas terrorists in June 2014, on December 18, 2014. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
July 3, 2018, 1:30 pm
US judge says murdered Israeli teen’s family ‘took risk by living in West Bank’
Appeals court orders judge to reconsider her ruling on petition by Naftali Fraenkel’s parents to sue Iran, Syria for compensation for 2014 Hamas-linked murder of son
By Sue Surkes
Screen capture from video showing a detail from Pablo Picasso's painting 'The Actor.' (YouTube)
February 8, 2018, 6:34 pm
Judge says the Met can keep Picasso sold by Jew fleeing the Nazis
Court finds that family of late German businessman Paul Leffmann failed to show he disposed of masterpiece ‘The Actor’ under duress as he escaped to Switzerland
By JTA
US President Donald Trump speaking to the media, on October 25, 2017, prior to departing on Marine One from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC. (AFP PHOTO /SAUL LOEB)
October 30, 2017, 11:27 pm
US court blocks Trump’s military transgender ban
Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly does uphold a block on the Pentagon paying for sex-change procedures
By AFP
A medieval cross, part of the Welfenschatz, is displayed at the Bode Museum in Berlin. The heirs of several Nazi-era Jewish art dealers have spent nearly a decade trying to persuade German officials to return the collection of medieval relics valued at more than $250 million (AP/Markus Schreiber)
April 6, 2017, 3:10 pm
US court ruling could bring more suits over Nazi-looted art
Judge’s decision that forced sale of Guelph Treasure was part of genocide and violated international law will likely move cases out of ‘obstacle-ridden’ Germany
By SAM HANANEL
US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with members of Congress in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 17, 2017. (AFP/Saul Loeb)
March 17, 2017, 11:45 pm
Trump administration appeals block of revised travel ban
Justice Department disputes courts’ assertions that new directive discriminates against Muslims
By AFP
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