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• April 26, 2024

  4 Goals For Gov'ts To Pursue In The UN Tax Convention

  The United Nations' framework convention on international tax cooperation should resolve digital taxation, incorporate tax transparency conventions, seek consensus on tax allocation issues but adopt best practices by simple majority, and help fund development goals, officials and experts told Law360 as governments began negotiations Friday.

• April 26, 2024

  Mass. Justices Dash Deported Man's Hope For Remote Retrial

  Massachusetts' high court ruled Friday that a man deported to the Dominican Republic cannot appear remotely for his retrial on charges that the justices previously vacated, citing court rules.

• April 24, 2024

  Broken Promises Land Ga. Prison Officials In Contempt

  A Georgia federal judge has slapped the state's prison officials with a contempt ruling imposing fines and appointing an independent monitor after finding the state Department of Corrections has for years flouted the terms of a settlement over its treatment of prisoners in its most punitive unit.

• April 23, 2024

  NC Felony Voting Law Struck Down As Unconstitutional

  A North Carolina federal judge has struck down the state's 147-year-old law making it a crime for convicted felons to vote, finding that the statute disproportionately targets Black voters and had been inconsistently enforced in violation of the U.S. Constitution.

• April 19, 2024

  Wrongful Detention Suit Illustrates Pitfalls Of ICE Lockups

  A Salvadoran woman's recent lawsuit alleging immigration authorities locked her up for months despite her protected status highlights how authorized immigrants, and sometimes even U.S. citizens, can wind up being wrongfully detained, and how, with no right to counsel in immigration proceedings, it can prove difficult to free them.

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