/ 08 August 2022

Some legal updates…

Image source: AAP
Image source: AAP

BACK TO BILO FOR GOOD – Priya, Nades, Kopika and Tharnicaa Murugappan have been granted permanent visas by Immigration Minister Andrew Giles. Their citizenship applications are now pending. The decision ends their decade-long legal fight to stay in Australia. #SquizShortcut

JURY PUNISHES MISINFORMATION PEDDLER – Alex Jones, the head of conspiratorial media outlet Infowars, has been hit with US$45.2 million in punitive damages in a lawsuit filed by one of the parents of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. The judge is yet to confirm the final amount.

A LEGAL HOUSE OF CARDS – Actor Kevin Spacey has been ordered to pay the production company behind the hit Netflix show US$31 million. Spacey was dismissed from the production in 2017 over allegations of misconduct, and cutting him out cost them millions. He also faces a criminal trial in London next year over claims he assaulted 3 men between 2005 and 2013.

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