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151 entries in 'Legal Interview' |
2025/03/21
Turkish court orders key Erdogan rival jailed pending trial on corruption charges
2025/03/16
Under threat from Trump, Columbia University agrees to policy changes
2025/01/24
New report outlines risks of artificial intelligence in early stages
2025/01/13
Americans’ trust in nation’s court system hits record low, survey finds
2025/01/09
Trump asks the Supreme Court to block sentencing in his hush money case
2024/12/19
Amazon workers strike at multiple facilities as Teamsters seek labor contract
2024/12/08
US inflation ticked up last month as some price pressures remain persistent
2024/12/04
Court seems reluctant to block state bans on medical treatments for minors
2024/11/11
North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein is elected as the state’s governor
2024/10/15
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs to stay in jail while appeals court takes up bail fight
2024/09/21
Mexican cartel leader’s son convicted of violent role in drug trafficking plot
2024/09/11
Google faces new antitrust trial after ruling declaring search engine a monopoly
2024/07/28
Biden unveils a proposal to establish term limits for the Supreme Court
2024/06/07
Three Americans in alleged coup attempt appear in Congo military court
2024/05/10
Appeals court upholds Steve Bannon’s contempt of Congress conviction
2024/05/06
Chad holds presidential election after years of military rule
2024/05/03
Trump faces prospect of additional sanctions for violating gag order
2024/05/01
Retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy has memoir coming
2024/04/22
Supreme Court will weigh banning homeless people from sleeping outside
2024/03/08
China’s top court, prosecutors report surging cyberscams
2024/03/01
Supreme Court casts doubt on GOP-led states’ efforts to regulate social media
2024/02/19
Ken Paxton petitions to stop Dallas woman from getting an abortion
2024/02/15
Attorney Jenna Ellis pleads guilty in Georgia election interference case
2024/01/04
Trump asks US Supreme Court to overturn Colorado ruling
2023/12/07
Mexico’s Supreme Court lifts 2022 ban on bullfighting
2023/11/02
Donald Trump Jr. takes the witness stand in fraud trial
2023/10/15
Court upholds judge’s finding that Tesla acquisition of Solar City was fair
2023/08/07
Russian court imposes 3- to 6-year sentences for distributing tainted drinks
2023/07/17
Diversify or die: San Francisco’s downtown is a wake-up call for other cities
2023/06/24
Yale student who reported rape can be sued for defamation
2023/04/07
Court rules documents in Sanford case must be unsealed
2023/01/05
South Carolina Supreme Court strikes down state abortion ban
2022/11/15
Man granted new trial in 2006 triple murder freed after plea
2022/11/07
Jackson, in dissent, issues first Supreme Court opinion
2022/10/20
Ohio governor’s race split by pandemic, abortion, gun rights
2022/10/06
W.Va. Supreme Court hears arguments in school voucher case
2022/09/19
Iran faces US in international court over asset seizure
2022/08/14
Appeals court puts Georgia PSC elections back on ballot
2022/08/02
Family loses Supreme Court bid to extend boy’s life support
2022/04/04
Mexico high court OKs preference for state power plants
2021/06/11
Court: Local Wisconsin heath departments can’t close schools
2021/05/19
Brazil police probe environment minister over timber exports
2021/04/23
COVID-19 concerns raised at St. Louis death penalty trial
2021/03/15
Man gets 5 years in prison for arson at Savannah city office
2020/12/08
Raimondo makes historic nomination to state Supreme Court
2020/11/21
Court: Tennessee can enforce Down syndrome abortion ban
2020/11/10
GOP tries again to get high court to ax health care law
2020/10/29
Supreme Court leaves NC absentee ballot deadline at Nov. 12
2020/10/27
High court won’t extend Wisconsin’s absentee ballot deadline
2020/10/11
Supreme Court pick Barrett draws on faith, family for Senate
2020/10/05
High Court Won't Take up Ex-Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis' Case
2020/09/26
Court allows public nuisance suits against 3 Alabama casinos
2020/09/23
Senate GOP plans vote on Trump’s court pick before election
2020/09/17
Flowers, homemade signs by high court in Ginsburg tribute
2020/09/16
'Hotel Rwanda' hero charged with terrorism in Rwanda court
2020/09/14
Court: Trump can end temporary legal status for 4 countries
2020/08/27
Thai court issues new arrest warrant for Red Bull scion
2020/08/15
Arizona landlords ask high court to invalidate eviction ban
2020/06/27
Appeals court orders dismissal of Michael Flynn prosecution
2020/06/15
Court rejects Trump bid to end young immigrants’ protections
2020/06/02
Court to hear arguments on Dayton gunman's school records
2020/05/11
Catholic schools, ex-teachers clash in Supreme Court case
2020/05/09
Blind justice: No visual cues in high court phone cases
2020/03/19
Court affirms conviction in hot-grease injuries to wife
2020/03/16
Court approves PG&E’s $23B bankruptcy financing package
2020/02/14
UK parents lose court appeal to keep baby on life support
2020/01/14
Court reverses $35M verdict against Jehovah’s Witnesses
2020/01/01
Cyprus court finds 19 year-old British woman guilty
2019/11/05
Supreme Court considering whether Trump must open tax returns
2019/09/23
Bulgarian court to eye revoking parole for Australian man
2019/07/20
High court rejects appeal of killer of 4 people in Omaha
2019/07/11
Court to Trump: Blocking Twitter critics is unconstitutional
2019/07/08
Fines, jail, probation, debt: Court policies punish the poor
2019/07/05
Court reviews judge who told woman to 'close your legs'
2019/04/27
Kansas court bolsters abortion rights, blocks ban
2019/04/01
Loughlin, Huffman due in court in college admissions scam
2019/03/13
Detained Saudi women's rights activists brought to court
2019/03/11
Governor says 'no executions' without court-backed drugs
2019/02/06
High court upholds texting suicide manslaughter conviction
2019/02/04
Appellate judge announces run for Supreme Court seat
2019/02/01
Federal court supports man's innocence claim in 1976 death
2019/01/12
California fight on Trump birth control rules goes to court
2019/01/08
Russian court says bobsledder can keep Olympic titles
2018/12/22
A Colorado man of missing Colorado woman in court
2018/12/16
Human rights court rules against Greece in Sharia law case
2018/12/09
Defamation lawsuit against activist continues in state court
2018/12/07
Man accused of killing tourist appears in New Zealand court
2018/12/01
Sri Lanka court orders prime minister to refrain from duties
2018/11/24
Russian court challenges International Olympic Committee
2018/11/21
Court: Reds exempt from tax on promotional bobbleheads
2018/11/16
Lawyer for WikiLeaks’ Assange says he would fight charges
2018/11/14
European court: Russia's arrests of Navalny were political
2018/11/07
Ginsburg, 85, hospitalized after fracturing 3 ribs in fall
2018/11/02
Supreme Court agrees to hear Maryland cross memorial case
2018/10/23
Virginia top court to hear 'unrestorably incompetent' case
2018/10/13
New campaign seeks support for expanded Supreme Court
2018/09/17
Sotomayor tells kids: Reading helped me reach Supreme Court
2018/09/13
EU backs ICC after US questions court's legitimacy
2018/08/26
Cities vying for 2020 convention court Democrats in Chicago
2018/07/14
Suspect in 1988 killing of Indiana girl, 8, appears in court
2018/06/18
Court makes no ruling in resolving partisan redistricting cases
2018/06/07
Detroit-area couple in court over control of frozen embryos
2018/04/14
Supreme Court again refuses to hear Blagojevich appeal
2018/04/07
Ohio court to decide if ex-player can sue over concussions
2018/04/02
Court: Government can't block immigrant teens from abortion
2018/03/23
Arkansas wants court to dissolve stay for death row prisoner
2018/01/21
Supreme Court: Water rule suits should begin in trial courts
2017/12/28
Ohio court indefinitely suspends law license of ex-judge
2017/12/21
Court convicts British woman of smuggling powerful painkillers
2017/11/16
German Court: Kuwait Airways Can Refuse Israeli Passengers
2017/11/15
Free Speech Is Starting to Dominate the US Supreme Court's Agenda
2017/11/12
Feds head to court to seek dismissal of Twin Metals lawsuit
2017/06/28
Case of gay couple's wedding cake heads to Supreme Court
2017/06/25
Supreme Court limits ability to strip citizenship
2017/06/19
Court: 'JudgeCutie' nickname doesn't ruffle judicial dignity
2017/06/04
Court sides with towns over utilities in tax dispute
2017/06/02
Trump admin asks Supreme Court to restore travel ban
2017/05/17
Court likely to question if Trump's travel ban discriminates
2017/05/08
Trump tabs Minnesota Justice Stras for federal appeals court
2017/03/05
Oklahoma tribe sues oil companies in tribal court over quake
2017/02/23
Court: Florida Docs Allowed to Ask Patients About Guns
2016/11/18
Supreme Court stays execution of Alabama inmate
2016/11/01
Supreme Court won't hear challenge to FBI fitness test
2016/10/16
Court hearing on potential Ontario ban of Indians name, logo
2016/10/14
Rights group criticizes Polish law of weakening top court
2016/10/12
Iraq's federal court rules against prime minister's reforms
2016/10/02
Appeals court rules against Kansas in voting rights case
2016/09/12
Court rejects challenge to Michigan's emergency manager law
2016/07/06
Court orders release of Chicago police disciplinary records
2016/07/05
Obama rebukes Poland over paralysis of constitutional court
2016/06/14
Court upholds net neutrality rules on equal internet access
2016/05/04
High court seems poised to overturn McDonnell conviction
2016/02/06
NY court agrees to rehear Ex-Goldman board member's appeal
2015/12/22
ACLU to appeal court ruling in Missouri drug testing case
2015/09/01
Burkina Faso court rejects candidate of former ruling party
2015/08/07
Court: Lawsuit over Arkansas killing by cop may proceed
2015/07/18
Court Halts Execution Of Tyler Woman's Killer
2015/07/09
Appeals court upholds parts of Arizona ethnic studies ban
2015/07/03
Oklahoma court to look at blocking Tulsa grand jury probe
2013/03/24
Court considers Calif. prison mental health care
2012/12/20
Bernard Madoff brother to face victims in NY court
2012/08/31
Ohio man pleads not guilty to Pitt threat charges
2012/01/08
Justices criticize EPA's dealings with homeowners
2011/11/04
Court tosses $43M award against Ford in crash case
2011/10/24
Scott+Scott LLP Announces Securities Class Action Lawsuit
2011/05/25
"The Death and Life of American Journalism" by Robert Mc Chesney
2010/09/22
Penny Stock Risks – Caveat Emptor
2008/12/17
Ill. gov's legal woes worsen as fundraisers defect
2008/10/29
DA: Criminal charges possible in boy's Uzi death
2008/03/06
High Profile Local Law Firms Merge
2008/03/05
Civil Rights & the Hawthorne Police Dept & The LAPD
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Turkish court orders key Erdogan rival jailed pending trial on corruption charges
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2025/03/21 05:57
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A court formally arrested the mayor of Istanbul, a key rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on Sunday and ordered him jailed pending the outcome of a trial on corruption charges.
Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu was detained following a raid on his residence earlier this week, sparking the largest wave of street demonstrations in Turkey in more than a decade. It also deepened concerns over democracy and rule of law in Turkey.
His imprisonment is widely regarded as a political move to remove a major contender from the next presidential race, currently scheduled for 2028. Government officials reject the accusations and insist that Turkey’s courts operate independently.
The prosecutor’s office said the court decided to jail Imamoglu on suspicion of running a criminal organization, accepting bribes, extortion, illegally recording personal data and bid-rigging. A request for him to be imprisoned on terror-related charges was rejected although he still faces prosecution. Following the court’s ruling, Imamoglu was transferred to Silivri prison, west of Istanbul.
The Interior Ministry later announced that Imamoglu had been suspended from duty as a “temporary measure.” The municipality had previously appointed an acting mayor from its governing council.
Alongside Imamoglu, 47 other people were also jailed pending trial, including a key aide and two district mayors from Istanbul, one of whom was replaced with a government appointee. A further 44 suspects were released under judicial control.
Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said Sunday that 323 people were detained the previous evening over disturbances at protests.
Largely peaceful protests across Turkey have seen hundreds of thousands come out in support of Imamoglu. However, there has been some violence, with police deploying water cannons, tear gas, pepper spray and firing plastic pellets at protesters in Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir, some of whom hurled stones, fireworks and other missiles at riot police.
The formal arrest came as more than 1.5 million members of the opposition Republican People’s Party, or CHP, began holding a primary presidential election to endorse Imamoglu, the sole candidate.
The party has also set up symbolic ballot boxes nationwide to allow people who are not party members to express their support for the mayor. Large crowds gathered early Sunday to cast a “solidarity ballot.”
“This is no longer just a problem of the Republican People’s Party, but a problem of Turkish democracy,” Fusun Erben, 69, said at a polling station in Istanbul’s Kadikoy district. “We do not accept our rights being so easily usurped. We will fight until the end.”
Speaking at a polling station in Bodrum, western Turkey, engineer Mehmet Dayanc, 38, said he feared that “in the end we’ll be like Russia, a country without an opposition, where only a single man participates in elections.”
In a message posted on social media, Imamoglu called on people to show “their struggle for democracy and justice to the entire world” at the ballot box. He warned Erdogan that he would be defeated by “our righteousness, our courage, our humility, our smiling face.”
“Honestly, we are embarrassed in the name of our legal system,” Ankara Mayor Mansur Yavas, a fellow member of Imamoglu’s CHP, told reporters after casting his vote, criticizing the lack of confidentiality in the proceedings.
CHP leader Ozgur Ozel said Imamoglu’s imprisonment was reminiscent of “Italian mafia methods.” Speaking at Istanbul City Hall, he added: “Imamoglu is on the one hand in prison and on the other hand on the way to the presidency.”
The Council of Europe, which focuses on promoting human rights and democracy, slammed the decision and demanded Imamoglu’s immediate release.
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Under threat from Trump, Columbia University agrees to policy changes
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2025/03/16 05:59
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Under threat from the Trump administration, Columbia University agreed to implement a host of policy changes Friday, including overhauling its rules for protests and conducting an immediate review of its Middle Eastern studies department.
The changes, detailed in a letter sent by the university’s interim president, Katrina Armstrong, came one week after the Trump administration ordered the Ivy League school to enact those and other reforms or lose all federal funding, an ultimatum widely criticized in academia as an attack on academic freedom.
In her letter, Armstrong said the university would immediately appoint a senior vice provost to conduct a thorough review of the portfolio of its regional studies programs, “starting immediately with the Middle East.”
Columbia will also revamp its long-standing disciplinary process and bar protests inside academic buildings. Students will not be permitted to wear face masks on campus “for the purposes of concealing one’s identity.” An exception would be made for people wearing them for health reasons.
In an effort to expand “intellectual diversity” within the university, Columbia will also appoint new faculty members to its Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies department. It will also adopt a new definition of antisemitism and expand programming in its Tel Aviv Center, a research hub based in Israel.
The policy changes were largely in line with demands made on the university by the Trump administration, which pulled $400 million in research grants and other federal funding, and had threatened to cut more, over the university’s handling of protests against Israel’s military campaign in Gaza.
The White House has labeled the protests antisemitic, a label rejected by those who participated in the student-led demonstrations.
A message seeking comment was left with a spokesperson for the Education Department. As a “precondition” for restoring funding, federal officials demanded that the university to place its Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies Department under “academic receivership for a minimum of five years.”
They also told the university to ban masks on campus, adopt a new definition of antisemitism, abolish its current process for disciplining students and deliver a plan to ”reform undergraduate admissions, international recruiting, and graduate admissions practices.”
Historians had described the order as an unprecedented intrusion on university rights long treated by the Supreme Court as an extension of the First Amendment.
On Friday, freedom of speech advocates immediately decried Columbia’s decision to acquiesce. |
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New report outlines risks of artificial intelligence in early stages
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2025/01/24 08:03
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Advanced artificial intelligence systems have the potential to create extreme new risks, such as fueling widespread job losses, enabling terrorism or running amok, experts said in a first-of-its-kind international report Wednesday cataloging the range of dangers posed by the technology.
The International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI is being released ahead of a major AI summit in Paris next month. The paper is backed by 30 countries including the U.S. and China, marking rare cooperation between the two countries as they battle over AI supremacy, highlighted by Chinese startup DeepSeek stunning the world this week with its budget chatbot in spite of U.S. export controls on advanced chips to the country.
The report by a group of independent experts is a “synthesis” of existing research intended to help guide officials working on drawing up guardrails for the rapidly advancing technology, Yoshua Bengio, a prominent AI scientist who led the study, told the Associated Press in an interview.
“The stakes are high,” the report says, noting that while a few years ago the best AI systems could barely spit out a coherent paragraph, now they can write computer programs, generate realistic images and hold extended conversations.
While some AI harms are already widely known, such as deepfakes, scams and biased results, the report said that “as general-purpose AI becomes more capable, evidence of additional risks is gradually emerging” and risk management techniques are only in their early stages.
It comes amid warnings this week about artificial intelligence from the Vatican and the group behind the Doomsday Clock.
The report focuses on general purpose AI, typified by chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT used to carry out many different kinds of tasks. The risks fall into three categories: malicious use, malfunctions and widespread “systemic” risks.
Bengio, who with two other AI pioneers won computer science’s top prize in 2019, said the 100 experts who came together on the report don’t all agree on what to expect from AI in the future. Among the biggest disagreements within the AI research community is the timing of when the fast-developing technology will surpass human capabilities across a variety of tasks and what that will mean.
“They disagree also about the scenarios,” Bengio said. “Of course, nobody has a crystal ball. Some scenarios are very beneficial. Some are terrifying. I think it’s really important for policymakers and the public to take stock of that uncertainty.”
Researchers delved into the details surrounding possible dangers. AI makes it easier, for example, to learn how to create biological or chemical weapons because AI models can provide step by step plans. But it’s “unclear how well they capture the practical challenges” of weaponizing and delivering the agents, it said. |
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Americans’ trust in nation’s court system hits record low, survey finds
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2025/01/13 09:34
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At a time of heightened political division, Americans’ confidence in their country’s judicial system and courts dropped to a record low of 35% this year, according to a new Gallup poll.
The United States saw a sharp drop of 24 percentage points over the last four years, setting the country apart from other wealthy nations where most people on average still express trust in their systems.
The results come after a tumultuous period that included the overturning of the nationwide right to abortion, the indictment of former President Donald Trump and the subsequent withdrawal of federal charges, and his attacks on the integrity of the judicial system.
The drop wasn’t limited to one end of the political spectrum. Confidence dropped among people who disapproved of the country’s leadership during Joe Biden’s presidency and among those who approved, according to Gallup. The respondents weren’t asked about their party affiliations.
It’s become normal for people who disapprove of the country’s leadership to also lose at least some confidence in the court system. Still, the 17-point drop recorded among that group under Biden was precipitous, and the cases filed against Trump were likely factors, Gallup said.
Among those who did approve of the country’s leadership, there was an 18-point decline between 2023 and 2024, possibly reflecting dissatisfaction with court rulings favoring Trump, Gallup found. Confidence in the judicial system had been above 60% among that group during the first three years of Biden’s presidency but nosedived this year.
Trump had faced four criminal indictments this year, but only a hush-money case in New York ended with a trial and conviction before he won the presidential race.
Since then, special counsel Jack Smith has ended his two federal cases, which pertained to Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss and allegations that he hoarded classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. A separate state election interference case in Fulton County, Georgia, is largely on hold. Trump denies wrongdoing in all.
Other Gallup findings have shown that Democrats’ confidence in the Supreme Court dropped by 25 points between 2021 and 2022, the year the justices overturned constitutional protections for abortion. Their trust climbed a bit, to 34%, in 2023, but dropped again to 24% in 2024. The change comes after a Supreme Court opinion that Trump and other former presidents have broad immunity from criminal prosecution.
Trust in the court among Republicans, by contrast, reached 71% in 2024.
The judicial system more broadly also lost public confidence more quickly than many other U.S. institutions over the last four years. Confidence in the federal government, for example, also declined to 26%. That was a 20-point drop ? not as steep as the decline in confidence in the courts.
The trust drop is also steep compared with other countries around the world. Only a handful of other countries have seen larger drops during a four-year period. They include a 46-point drop in Myanmar during the period that overlapped the return of military rule in 2021, a 35-point drop in Venezuela amid deep economic and political turmoil from 2012 to 2016 and a 28-point drop in Syria in the runup and early years of its civil war.
The survey was based on telephone interviews with a random sample of 1,000 U.S. adults between June 28 and August 1.
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Trump asks the Supreme Court to block sentencing in his hush money case
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2025/01/09 07:54
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President-elect Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to call off Friday’s sentencing in his hush money case in New York.
Trump’s lawyers turned to the nation’s highest court on Wednesday after New York courts refused to postpone the sentencing by Judge Juan M. Merchan, who presided over Trump’s trial and conviction last May on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. Trump has denied wrongdoing.
The justices asked for a response from prosecutors by Thursday morning. Trump’s team sought an immediate stay of the scheduled sentencing, saying it would wrongly restrict him as he prepares to take office. While Merchan has indicated he will not impose jail time, fines or probation, Trump’s lawyers argued a felony conviction would still have intolerable side effects.
The sentencing should be delayed as he appeals the conviction to “prevent grave injustice and harm to the institution of the Presidency and the operations of the federal government,” they argued.
The emergency motion is from lawyers John Sauer, Trump’s pick for solicitor general, who represents the government before the high court, and Todd Blanche, in line to be the second-ranking official at the Justice Department.
They also pointed to the Supreme Court ruling giving Trump and other presidents broad immunity from prosecutions over their actions in office, saying it supports their argument that his New York conviction should be overturned.
Their filing said the New York trial court “lacks authority to impose sentence and judgment on President Trump — or conduct any further criminal proceedings against him— until the resolution of his underlying appeal raising substantial claims of Presidential immunity, including by review in this Court if necessary.”
The Republican president-elect’s spokesman, Steven Cheung, called for the case to be dismissed in a statement. Trump simultaneously filed an emergency appeal in front of New York’s highest court.
The Manhattan district attorney’s office, meanwhile, said it will respond in court papers. Trump’s convictions arose from what prosecutors said was an attempt to cover up a $130,000 hush money payment to porn actor Stormy Daniels just before the 2016 presidential election.
Daniels claims she had a sexual encounter with Trump in 2006. He denies it.
The Supreme Court’s immunity opinion came in a separate election interference case against him, but Trump’s lawyers say it means some of the evidence used against him in his hush money trial should have been shielded by presidential immunity. That includes testimony from some White House aides and social media posts made while he was in office.
Merchan has disagreed, finding they would qualify as personal business. The Supreme Court’s immunity decision was largely about official acts of presidents while in office.
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