German legislation requires retail shops to shut on Sundays and Christian holidays to present workers a time without work. Grocery store chain Tegut has solved this downside by absolutely automating its shops, with Sunday gross sales accounting for 25% to 30% of its gross sales. However the courtroom dominated that supermarkets should additionally give the robots a time without work on Sundays. A retailer staff union has filed a lawsuit to pressure the shops to shut, saying it fears the corporate’s success may erode help for the state’s blue legal guidelines.
An inner investigation discovered that 4 Connecticut law enforcement officials logged tons of of pretend tickets in 2018 to look extra environment friendly. Investigators discovered the officers’ conduct may have constituted a felony, however they didn’t notify prosecutors. Chief State’s Legal professional Patrick Griffin opened a prison investigation in late 2022 after studying in regards to the investigation from reporters, however the officers is not going to face expenses as a result of the statute of limitations has expired. Two of the troopers have been discharged with out penalty and every obtained a pension of almost $70,000 per yr; the opposite two got short-term responsibility earlier than being transferred to new items.
When federal brokers arrested Penny McCarthy at gunpoint outdoors her Phoenix dwelling, they insisted she was Carole Anne Rozak, a 1999 assassin in Oklahoma Metropolis. Homer Homer is a fugitive wished for a probation violation. The U.S. Marshals Service stated McCarthy’s fingerprints matched Rozak’s, however they later admitted there was a mismatch and blamed the misidentification on a pc glitch. A decide dropped all expenses in opposition to McCarthy.
Police Scotland obtained 1000’s of complaints within the first days after the nation’s new hate crime legal guidelines got here into pressure. Former Scotland first minister Humza Youssef stated a “small proportion” of the numerous complaints have been “turning into precise investigations” however workers have been working time beyond regulation to clear them up. Youssef, who helps the legislation, stated even when complaints begin to lower sooner or later, it’s going to take “weeks or months” and value “tons of of 1000’s of kilos” to cope with the backlog.
An Iranian courtroom has sentenced rapper Toumaj Salehi to loss of life after discovering him responsible of “corruption of the planet.” Salehi has been arrested a number of occasions for his songs criticizing authorities misconduct and suppression of dissent.
The Chechen Minister of Tradition requires that the tempo of all music (vocal or instrumental) throughout the nation be saved between 80 and 116 beats per minute to protect “the Chechen mentality and musical rhythm” and “the cultural heritage of the Chechen individuals.” Following the backlash, Chechen chief Ramzan Kadyrov stated the calls for have been simply “options”.
In Italy, the Milan metropolis council is contemplating a legislation that might ban the sale of ice cream, pizza and different takeaway meals and drinks after 12:30 pm on weekdays and 1:30 am on weekends and holidays. The transfer is aimed toward lowering the noise attributable to individuals gathering on the streets. The legislation is especially unpopular amongst ice cream retailers, who’ve lengthy offered ice cream late at night time.
Justin Champlin, the previous chief deputy tax assessor for Ascension Parish, Louisiana, was arrested on two counts every of damaging public information, pc tampering and misconduct in workplace. Police stated Champlin illegally lowered his property evaluation on two separate events to decrease his tax legal responsibility. Champion was fired in early April following an inner audit.
