The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Tuesday November 23rd, 2021
A Divided America by Dr. Habib Siddiqui
The Rittenhouse ‘not guilty’ verdict once again showed how divided America is today. Justice is not, or so it seems, color-blind in this land of Abraham Lincoln. The five felony counts against Kyle Rittenhouse stemmed from the 2020 shootings that left Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber dead, and seriously wounding Gaige Grosskreutz during chaotic protests against racial injustice in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Rittenhouse was 17 when he traveled to Kenosha from Illinois amid disturbances in the city and carried an AR-style semiautomatic rifle on the streets of Kenosha and opened fire on demonstrators after a white police officer shot Jacob Blake, who is Black, in the back. Anthony Huber was shot in the chest trying to disarm Rittenhouse and stop his shooting spree.
In Kenosha, shouting matches flared on the courthouse steps between supporters of opposing sides, exemplifying a divided America. About 200 protesters in Portland, Oregon, broke windows and threw objects at police on Friday night as reaction poured in after the verdict was read.
Many experts argue that the verdict could have been different with a different jury and/or a different judge. All but one of the jurors were white.
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Firefly Dreams #poem by Bohdan Yuri
“Fireflies whisper dreams
In the forest without noise,
And the night birds swoop
From shadow stations.”
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Contract law for dummies by Joseph Gatt
Contract law tends to be the most frustrating subjects to study in law school. Often because professors teach it in complicated ways, use all sorts of jargon, and choose the most boring examples and case studies in the world.
So here’s the challenge: I’ll make contract law fun!
Contract law is in fact simple. It involves three things:
Parties (could be individuals or companies or organizations)
The environment it creates (that’s what a contract basically does, it creates an environment where the individuals or parties have obligations towards each other, the obligations could be to pay people, to sell things to people, to stop doing things to people, to help people and so on).
And, third thing, the jurisdiction (which government, which court system is the contract under? Is it under US law or French law? If so, which jurisdiction oversees the contract? Is it the local district court? The state court? The federal court? Specialized courts?).
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Ephemera 21#28 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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