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BBC News
4 days ago
- BBC News
Bradford woman fined for noise nuisance
A woman who "drove her neighbour up the wall" by playing music through the night has been ordered to pay more than £1, Magistrates' Court heard how Ibolya Tamas's neighbour would have to put up with amplified music being played repeatedly, sometimes until 06: actions breached an earlier abatement notice by the council, designed to stop the problem for neighbours in the Undercliffe Lane failed to attend the court hearing but was found guilty and ordered to pay £1,762 in court costs and fines. Waseem Raja, prosecuting the case on behalf of Bradford Council, said 44-year-old Tamas was handed a noise abatement notice in October 2024. According to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, it banned her from the "playing of loud amplified music at the said property at such levels as to cause a statutory nuisance at another property that was within the vicinity of your property".Despite the order, the loud music continued. 'Nuisance' The court was told that her neighbour had been given an app that could be used to record noise several days in February 2025, the app logged music being played at unsociable Raja said: "This gives you a flavour of the nuisance. It must have been driving her neighbour up the wall."It is bad enough to hear music at that time, but we are talking about loud, amplified music."He said the neighbour's sleep was constantly disrupted by the music, and the issue had impacted almost every aspect of his to the fact that Tamas had not attended court, he said: "She isn't even here today, so we can discuss the issue with her."The council decided to prosecute Tamas for failing to comply with an abatement notice, and various items capable of playing loud music, including multiple televisions, amplifiers and a keyboard, were seized from the Raja said the case followed a "prolonged investigation" by the local authority, which had cost the taxpayer at least £1, some deliberation, magistrates fined Tamas £220, ordered her to pay an £88 surcharge and awarded the full £1,354 costs to the council at Wednesday's hearing. Listen to highlights from West Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North.
Wall Street Journal
6 days ago
- Politics
- Wall Street Journal
Judge Says Abrego Garcia Must Be Returned to Maryland After Release From Jail
A federal judge ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the mistakenly deported man at the center of a fierce legal battle, to be sent to Maryland after being released from jail in Tennessee, and placed guardrails on attempts by the Trump administration to deport him again. U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis said the government must give the 29-year-old Salvadoran native 72 hours notice before attempting to deport him to another country. Earlier this year he was deported to El Salvador in violation of a court order barring him from being sent back to his home country.
Daily Mail
6 days ago
- Daily Mail
One of Sydney's worst hoarders is issued with a stunning ultimatum after refusing to clean up his piles of junk
A Sydney man has been threatened with jail after failing to clean up an illegal waste dump on his property. Saviour Camilleri has been pursued by Fairfield City Council since 2006 for hoarding at two properties in Horsley Park, about 39km from CBD. He was given 'one final chance' on on Thursday to clear the waste or face a $45,000 fine for being in contempt of court. Mr Camilleri was found to have hoarded numerous items including building materials, trucks, scrap metal, shopping trolleys, baths and sinks. He was ordered to remove the items by Justice John Robson in the NSW Land and Environment Court, but was told he can keep one working tractor. Fairfield City Council began investigating Mr Camilleri after neighbours began noticing the pile up of rubbish in 2004. The council first took him to court in 2016 over 'unlawful storage of waste' and breaching planning laws. He faced subsequent court appearances after ignoring court orders to clean up the waste. On Thursday, Mr Robson found Mr Camilleri guilty of contempt for 'disobeying or otherwise failing to comply' with court orders from November 2022 relating to his Burley Road property, reported Sydney Morning Herald. He was handed a $45,000 fine, but told the payment would be suspended if he safely removed several waste materials, disposing of them at the correct facility and sharing the receipts with the council. Fairfield City Council had been looking for a suspended prison sentence following Mr Camilleri's previous guilty pleas over his other land. The council argued Mr Camilleri 'taken no steps towards complying with the court orders' and 'it was likely' he would reoffend. It was also argued a jail sentence could be suspended in order to provide Mr Camilleri with 'one final chance' to clean up the Horsley Park property. At the latest hearing, on April 4, Mr Camilleri represented himself with help from his partner Diane Borg. Mr Camilleri told the court he wanted to 'carry on' with his life, had lost work and 'was kind of broke'. However, he also accepted he had 'disobeyed' earlier court orders. Mr Camilleri disagreed with the council over the waste material on his land, arguing he needed 'gates and fencing stuff' for animals on his land. The judge said Mr Camilleri's breach of court orders involved 'deliberate defiance', but stated a prison sentence was a 'last resort'. Mr Camilleri was ordered to remove the 'waste materials' by August 14. If he fails to do so, the council will have the authority to enter the property from the following day to begin the clean-up operation within three months. Fairfield City Council would then send Mr Camilleri the bill.
Fox News
22-07-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
Federal judge greenlights push to hold Trump admin in contempt
BALTIMORE— – A federal judge in Baltimore cleared the way for potential contempt proceedings to be brought against the Trump administration on Tuesday after it failed to comply with a court order requiring it to return a deported Venezuelan migrant from El Salvador back to U.S. soil. The update from U.S. District Judge Stephanie Gallagher capped an extraordinary court hearing centered on the status and location of "Cristian," a 20-year-old Venezuelan migrant who was deported to El Salvador's CECOT maximum-security prison in March, as part of the Trump administration's early wave of Alien Enemies Act deportation flights. Gallagher told Cristian's lawyers on Tuesday that the flurry of recent updates in the case could allow plaintiffs to potentially move on sanctions or possible contempt proceedings against the Trump administration, though she stressed she was not opining on whether the effort would be successful. "I don't disagree that you have proffered a basis under which you could potentially seek some sort of sanctions or contempt" against the administration, Gallagher said. "I'm certainly not ruling on that – or offering any opinion whether that effort would succeed – but it sounds to me that you have proffered a basis on which you believe such a motion could possibly be forthcoming." FEDERAL JUDGE EXTENDS ARGUMENTS IN ABREGO GARCIA CASE, SLAMS ICE WITNESS WHO 'KNEW NOTHING' She also stressed that, despite the procedural changes before the court, it does not mean they are "abandoning ship" in efforts to secure Cristian's return to the U.S., though she acknowledged the situation on the ground had shifted significantly. Gallagher, a Trump appointee, had ruled in April that Cristian's deportation violated a settlement agreement that the Department of Homeland Security struck last year with a group of young asylum seekers. Under the 2024 deal, DHS agreed not to deport members of that class until their asylum claims could be fully adjudicated by a U.S. court. The hearing sharply underscored the fast-changing fact pattern underpinning Cristian's custodial status. Days earlier, Cristian was deported from CECOT, in El Salvador, to his home country of Venezuela. Gallagher said Tuesday that the new situation has put the court "in a different posture" compared to its position just one week ago. Lawyers for Cristian argued the move, which they had no prior notice of, should be grounds to move on holding the Trump administration in criminal contempt. The judge, for her part, did not rule it out. In Gallagher's ruling four months ago, she determined that Cristian's removal was a "breach of contract" due to the settlement terms of the 2024 DHS deal. She then ordered the Trump administration to facilitate his return to the U.S. But as Tuesday's hearing made clear, Daniel Lozano-Camargo, or the migrant referred to in court documents as "Cristian," is not on his way to the U.S. from CECOT. In fact, Justice Department lawyers confirmed Tuesday that he was deported from CECOT back to his home country of Venezuela on Friday along with 251 other Venezuelan migrants, whom the Trump administration deported from the U.S. to El Salvador in March under the auspices of a wartime immigration law used just three times previously in U.S. history. Their return to Venezuela was part of a prisoner swap made in order to secure the release of 10 Americans detained in that country, and was confirmed later Friday by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio. It has also raised profound concerns about the status of the hundreds of Venezuelan migrants sent from CECOT to their country of origin. Little is known about the individuals deported to CECOT earlier this year, and it is unclear if, or how many, migrants in question had been given "withholding of removal" orders from the U.S. blocking their return to Venezuela. Cristian's lawyer, Kevin DeJong, on Tuesday upbraided the Trump administration for its "blatant disregard" for Gallagher's order, and described his inclusion in the prisoner swap as an "egregious violation" of the April order. FEDERAL JUDGE JAMES BOASBERG FINDS PROBABLE CAUSE TO HOLD TRUMP IN CONTEMPT OVER DEPORTATION FLIGHTS The Trump administration, plaintiffs said Tuesday, "sent [Cristian] to Venezuela, the country he is seeking asylum from," without providing any notice to the court or to his legal team until after he was on the ground. DeJong argued that the exchange appears to have been in the works for several weeks, which he said suggests that the Trump administration took "active, purposeful steps to deport [Cristian] to the country from which he actively fears persecution." "There have been recurring violations" from the administration, DeJong said, and "blatant disregard for the [DHS] settlement agreement, for the court's orders, and the court's orders to file status reports." "I do not say this lightly – and it's a weighty issue to consider – but given the history of violations here," DeJong said, they believe that "criminal contempt should be on the table." Gallagher did not disagree. She told the plaintiffs that they seem to have proffered a basis under which they "could potentially seek some sort of sanctions or contempt" against the Trump administration, though she stressed she was not opining on whether the effort would succeed. She also noted that the update does not mean the court is "abandoning ship" on its efforts to secure Cristian's return to the U.S., though she acknowledged the situation on the ground had shifted significantly. After a short recess, lawyers for Cristian told Gallagher they would file appropriate sanctions-related measures within the next 10 days. In the interim, Gallagher said she will still require the Trump administration to file weekly status reports on Cristian's status in Venezuela. She also sparred with Justice Department attorney Ruth Ann Mueller in a remarkable exchange, after Mueller argued that any ongoing discovery as to Cristian's status in Venezuela is "outside the scope" of the relief the court has been afforded, since the relief sought "has already been provided." They argued the case should be dismissed since the matter is now moot, which Gallagher strongly refuted. Gallagher then asked how the Trump administration's filings to date answer the court's question of whether it complied with her order to request the Salvadorian government return Cristian to the U.S. or to help "facilitate his return." DOJ argued that question is moot also, since Cristian is in Venezuelan custody now. "No, that doesn't comply with my order," Gallagher sharply objected. "That doesn't answer the question." The case bears many similarities to the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadorian migrant wrongfully deported to El Salvador in March and ordered by a federal judge to be returned to the U.S. Like Abrego Garcia, Cristian remained in El Salvador for months, despite a court order demanding his return, and requiring the administration to file regular updates to his status in order to determine compliance with the order. But Tuesday's motions hearing – and the blitz of court filings submitted to Gallagher in recent days – underscored the very different situation that has played out instead. "Cristian was a pawn in this plan," DeJohg said on Tuesday, noting that the government took "active purposeful steps to deport him" despite the court order, and with apparent prior knowledge. "They could have included him" on the flight back to the U.S. with Abrego Garcia, he argued. Instead, DeJong said, the "only reasonable inference we see is that the government attorneys willfully disregarded" the court. Gallagher in May declined to grant the Trump administration's request for her to lift her order requiring them to return Cristian. She stressed that her order has nothing to do with the strength of his asylum request, in a nod to two apparent low-level drug offenses and a conviction as recently as January. Rather, she said, it is about allowing him the process under the law, and under the settlement struck with DHS. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP She said then that it is not a case of whether Lozano-Camargo will eventually receive asylum – it's a question of process. The DHS settlement agreement "requires him to be here and have his hearing," she said then.
CTV News
22-07-2025
- CTV News
Driver whose licence was suspended by court order Monday morning caught on Hwy. 417 that afternoon
OPP say the driver of this vehicle thought he could drive home despite receiving a court-orderd driving suspension earlier in the day. July 21, 2025. (OPP/X)
