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A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit rejected a challenge Thursday from tobacco companies that alleged a bill requiring graphic imagery on cigarette packaging and advertisements was a violation of the First Amendment to the US Constitution. The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (TCA) was enacted by [...]

The US Supreme Court ruled Friday that public officials can be sued for blocking users on social media if the official posts about state matters and is authorized to speak for the state. The court decided that blocking users only qualifies as “state action” under 42 U.S.C § 1983, which authorizes lawsuits against public officials [...]

Julian Assange is among the most polarizing public figures of the 21st century thus far. In the nearly two decades since he established WikiLeaks, a website that gained infamy in the aughts for its release of millions of classified documents and related analyses, Assange has galvanized free speech advocates, incensed national security stalwarts, and fostered [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) raised concerns Tuesday about the draft Cybercrime Treaty of the United Nations over possible human rights violations. A UN Committee released the latest draft of the Treaty on September 1, 2023. HRW, along with over 100 groups globally, expressed concern about the draft global cybercrime treaty being negotiated at the UN in [...]

The Hong Kong Eastern Magistrates’ Courts imposed a two-month prison sentence, with a suspension of two years, on Monday on a defendant who earlier pleaded guilty to engaging in illegal conduct to incite another person to cast an invalid vote by activity in public, violating section 27A of the Elections (Corrupt and Illegal Conduct) Ordinance. [...]

The President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko assented on Wednesday to comprehensive amendments to the law “On the President of the Republic of Belarus,” which tightened the requirements for a presidential candidate within the country. Under the amended law, only a person aged 40 years or older, who is a citizen of the Republic of Belarus by [...]

Indian law students are reporting for JURIST on law-related developments in and affecting India. Samar Veer is JURIST’s Dispatches Managing Editor and a law student at National Law University, Delhi.  After several decades of being a dead letter, the Parliament of India has passed a long-debated bill that reserves a specific portion of seats for [...]

The US Supreme Court granted certiorari to hear United States v. Erlinger on Monday to decide if the US Constitution places a requirement under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) for “a jury trial and proof beyond a reasonable doubt to find that a defendant’s prior convictions were ‘committed on occasions different from one another.'” United [...]

The US Supreme Court heard arguments in the cases O’Connor-Ratcliff v. Garnier and Lindke v. Freed on Tuesday regarding whether public officials blocking constituents on personal social media accounts used for some public purposes amounts to state action under the First Amendment of the US Constitution. O’Connor-Ratcliff began in 2014 when two school board members [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled Thursday to allow Tennessee and Kentucky to enforce bans on gender-affirming care for minors. In a 2-1 vote, the court dismissed a challenge brought by families of transgender minors, holding that the bans did not discriminate on the basis of sex. The bans at issue, [...]