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  The Federal High Court, Abuja Judicial Division, will in October hear the N30bn suit lodged by the Advertising Regulatory Council of Nigeria against Meta Platforms Incorporated (owners of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp platforms) and its agent AT3 Resources Limited. The Director-General of ARCON, Olalekan Fadolapo, made the disclosure during an exclusive interview with 𝗖𝗢𝗥𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗣𝗢𝗡𝗗𝗔𝗡𝗧.  ARCON is seeking a declaration among others that the continued publication and exposure of various advertisements directed at the Nigerian market through Facebook and Instagram platforms by Meta Platforms Incorporated, without ensuring the same is vetted and approved before exposure is illegal, unlawful and a violation of the extant advertising Law in Nigeria. According to the apex regulatory body for advertising in the country, Meta Platforms Incorporated’s continued exposure of unvetted adverts had led to a loss of revenue to the Federal Government.Fadolapo, while speaking with 𝗡𝗘𝗪𝗦

The court's unsigned order keeps previously undisclosed details from Mueller's probe away from legislators for now. Mueller, checks pages in the report as he testifies before the House Judiciary Committee hearing on his report on Russian election interference The United States Supreme Court on Wednesday temporarily prevented the House of Representatives from obtaining secret grand jury testimony from former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation. The court's unsigned order keeps previously undisclosed details from the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election out of the hands of Democratic legislators for now. The federal appeals court in Washington ruled in March that the documents should be turned over because the House Judiciary Committee's need for the material in its investigation of President Donald Trump outweighed the Justice Department's interests in keeping the testimony s

Ruling could pave the way for potentially hundreds of defendants found guilty by divided juries to receive new trials. The Supreme Court of the United States in Washington, DC  The United States Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the constitutional guarantee of trial by jury requires a unanimous verdict in serious crimes, siding with a Louisiana man convicted of murder and paving the way for potentially hundreds of defendants found guilty by divided juries to receive new trials. Only two of the 50 states, Louisiana and Oregon, have permitted non-unanimous verdicts. Writing for the court in the 6-3 ruling, conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch noted that the non-unanimous verdict requirement in both states traced back to past racist policies intended to reduce the power of non-white jurors to influence the outcome of trials. The ruling, overturning a 1972 Supreme Court precedent, means that Evangelisto Ramos, who was convicted by a 12-member