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Nagpur: A 24-year-old rape survivor performed an abortion on herself, including snapping the umbilical cord, guided by YouTube videos, at her residence in North Nagpur. The woman was alone at home as her family had gone to Mumbai when she delivered the stillborn fetus in the seventh month of pregnancy. The fetus was buried by her paramour, who is already married with a son from his second wife. In her statement to the police, the rape victim said her paramour had forced himself upon her on more than 50 occasions since 2016 at different places. The paramour, Sohail Wahab Khan, is now in custody of Yashodhara Nagar police station after being arrested on charges of rape on Thursday. When she became pregnant, the woman was forced to abort by Khan, a driver, citing his inability to marry her immediately as he was already married with a son. Police said the woman was told by Khan to follow the steps shown in the YouTube video to detach the fetus from the body by cutting the cord. The woman is learnt to have risked her life by cutting the cord with whatever equipment she could manage in her home and kitchen. Though…

John Erikson (Boulder County Sheriff’s Office) A Lafayette man accused of posting child pornography on Tumblr has accepted a plea deal in his case. John Joseph Erikson, 40, pleaded guilty in Boulder district court Friday to sexual exploitation of a child, a Class 5 felony. As part of the plea deal, attorneys said Erikson will be sentenced to sex offender intensive supervised probation, with the length of the probationary sentence to be determined by a judge. While he will not serve any prison time, the judge will have the option of imposing a punitive jail sanction. Erikson, who remains free on bond, is set for sentencing on Dec. 10. According to an arrest affidavit, in June 2020 a detective with the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office was assigned a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. The tip indicated Tumblr reported a user had uploaded images containing possible child pornography to the site in April 2020. A detective determined there were 28 images associated with the account that appeared to be from a known Ukranian child pornography magazine. The account’s internet protocol address, or IP address, was traced back to Erikson’s house in Lafayette, according to the affidavit.…

Sep. 24—A Lafayette man accused of posting child pornography on Tumblr has accepted a plea deal in his case.John Joseph Erikson, 40, pleaded guilty in Boulder district court Friday to sexual exploitation of a child, a Class 5 felony.As part of the plea deal, attorneys said Erikson will be sentenced to sex offender intensive supervised probation, with the length of the probationary sentence to be determined by a judge.While he will not serve any prison time, the judge will have the option of imposing a punitive jail sanction.Erikson, who remains free on bond, is set for sentencing on Dec. 10.According to an arrest affidavit, in June 2020 a detective with the Boulder County Sheriff's Office was assigned a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.The tip indicated Tumblr reported a user had uploaded images containing possible child pornography to the site in April 2020. A detective determined there were 28 images associated with the account that appeared to be from a known Ukranian child pornography magazine.The account's internet protocol address, or IP address, was traced back to Erikson's house in Lafayette, according to the affidavit.Then in October, another user then tried to upload more images to Tumblr,…

by Wendy Davis  @wendyndavis, 8 hours ago A federal appellate panel has taken the extremely rare step of issuing a third opinion in a lawsuit brought by “former homosexual” James Domen against Vimeo over its decision to remove his videos.The new opinion, like the prior two rulings, sided with the online video platform. But in the latest decision, issued Friday, the judges sidestepped what has become a controversial and politically charged question: Whether Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act protects web services like Vimeo from discrimination claims rooted in content-moderation decisions.Instead, the appellate judges said for the first time that they didn't need to rule on questions about Section 230 because Domen's complaint didn't have the kind of factual allegations that would prove intentional discrimination by Vimeo.“Because appellants’ complaint fails to plausibly plead a claim for discrimination under the state statutes there is no need to consider Vimeo’s defense that such claims are pre-empted under Section 230,” the judges wrote.advertisementadvertisementIn their prior two decisions, the judges agreed with Vimeo that Section 230 shielded it from Domen's lawsuit.Section 230, which dates to 1996, broadly immunizes web publishers from liability for users' posts, including ones that are defamatory.The law also protects…

By Al Barbarino (September 24, 2021, 5:35 PM EDT) -- Robinhood Markets Inc. has hired an ex-counsel with Ripple and Blockchain.com as the new chief compliance officer of its cryptocurrency trading unit, while an ex-J.P. Morgan attorney landed at a New York-based private equity firm and Swedbank launched a search to replace its retiring compliance chief. Benjamin Melnicki is the new CCO of Robinhood Crypto LLC, a Robinhood spokesperson confirmed on Friday. He joins from Grayscale Investments LLC, one of the largest digital asset investment managers, where he was chief compliance officer since joining the firm in January, according to his LinkedIn profile.He replaces Scott Hershorin, who according to his LinkedIn profile... Stay ahead of the curve In the legal profession, information is the key to success. You have to know what’s happening with clients, competitors, practice areas, and industries. Law360 provides the intelligence you need to remain an expert and beat the competition. Access to case data within articles (numbers, filings, courts, nature of suit, and more.) Access to attached documents such as briefs, petitions, complaints, decisions, motions, etc. Create custom alerts for specific article and case topics and so much more! TRY LAW360 FREE FOR SEVEN DAYS

By Emily Sides · September 24, 2021, 4:04 PM EDT Four judges and an Allstate Insurance Co. attorney are among the nine nominees for three vacancies in Georgia's circuit courts, including two judicial openings that were created by a 2020 state law.... Want to continue reading? Take a 7 Day FREE Trial Unlock these benefits today when you sign-up for a FREE 7-day trial: Gain a competitive edge with exclusive data visualization tools to tailor to your practice Stay informed with daily newsletters and custom alerts across 14+ coverage areas relevant to you Streamline your business of law needs with integrated news and research in a single destination Already have an account? Sign In Now

Rural Virginia county plugs into Facebook’s long-haul fiber By Susan MillerSep 24, 2021 Approximately 6,000 households in rural Grayson County, Va., will soon have access to broadband services thanks to a partnership between Facebook, Appalachian Power and Virginia-based internet service provider GigaBeam Networks. The mountain community currently is the least-connected county in the commonwealth, with 57% of residents having little or no access to online telehealth, education and business services, according to Grayson County Administrator Bill Shepley. The backbone of the fiber-to-the-home and wireless internet service will be built on long-haul fiber routes Facebook is constructing to connect its Virginia, Ohio and North Carolina data centers.  “We brought our own long-haul network, allowing vastly increased access to backhaul,” Facebook said in a Sept 23 blog post.  The company also provided engineering, construction and technical assistance for the project. “Our involvement in this project helped define standards between Appalachian Power and GigaBeam Networks, allowing for the faster finalization of network design and enabling everyone to start building sooner,” the company said.  » Read More

McLEOD REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER 24 SEPTEMBER 2021 McLeod Health is pleased to share its new McLeod Cancer Commercial “Celebrating HOPE” and videos from the 2021 An Evening of HopeCancer Benefit featuring our patients and cancer teams. Click the links below to watch these inspiring stories of hope. Celebrating HOPE Commercial https://vimeo.com/612912467 Survivors Lynn Harrelson and Willie Vereen https://vimeo.com/613769454 Survivors Ginger Godfree and Johnny Echols https://vimeo.com/613773722 Survivor April Munn https://vimeo.com/613778241 The HOPE Fund featuring Audrey Gilbert https://vimeo.com/613781637

WORCESTER — There's a legend about Breen's Cafe that goes something like this: In 1938, when Cambridge Street flooded, a man in a canoe paddled in the front door, poured himself a draft beer, then paddled out the back.If such a flood were to happen today, the paddler might be more likely to grab a steak and cheese, especially if he's spent anytime perusing posts on the 23,000-member Facebook group Worcester Eats, the stories, discussions and reviews on local eateries administered by the Telegram & Gazette.The only problem is, these days there might not be any steak and cheese left.All it took was was one slightly negative Facebook comment from a female diner, surprised that a place with a sign reading "cafe" would actually be a neighborhood bar, for hundreds of Breen's devotees to get as feisty as Carla Tortelli might if someone got out of hand at Cheers.Peggy Hanigosky posted on Sept. 12 to the Worcester Eats page after going to Breen's,  » Read More

by Wendy Davis  @wendyndavis, Yesterday Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan suggested this week that she plans to devote more resources to the “root causes” of unlawful activity than to prosecuting small-time violators.“We need to orient our enforcement efforts around targeting root causes rather than looking at one-off effects,” she said this week in a memo distributed to the other commissioners and staff. “This means focusing on structural incentives that enable unlawful conduct -- be it certain conflicts of interest, business models, or structural dominance -- as well as looking upstream at the firms that are enabling and profiting from this conduct.”She added that a focus on root causes “can avoid a whack-a-mole approach that imposes significant enforcement burden with few long-term benefits.”She also said the FTC must address “rampant consolidation and the dominance that it has enabled across markets,” with a focus on the largest companies.advertisementadvertisement“We need to be intentional in how we direct our resources,” the memo states. “Growing evidence suggests that market power now looks to be an increasingly systemic problem across the economy, so we should generally focus our resources on the most significant actors, where our enforcement actions can have the greatest impact on the…