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The European Union Court of Justice ruled Thursday that a 2021 Austrian law regulating communications platforms cannot be binding on companies based in a different country. The Supreme Administrative Court of the Republic of Austria (Verwaltungsgerichtshof) requested a preliminary ruling from the EU court to clarify whether the law, which attempted to impose obligations on [...]

Law students from the European Union are reporting for JURIST on law-related events in and affecting the European Union and its member states. Ciara Dinneny is JURIST’s European Bureau Chief and a trainee solicitor with the Law Society of Ireland. She files this dispatch from Dublin.   Last week leaders of the G7 – the intergovernmental [...]

The US government announced on Monday that it will settle a 2018 class-action lawsuit that challenged the Trump administration’s family separation practice at the US-Mexico border. The parties filed a joint petition asking the court to approve the settlement. The proposed settlement would create a process to reunify families who were separated. Additionally, the government [...]

On Thursday, Japan witnessed its first labor strike in six decades. The catalyst for this strike was the sale of the Seibu department store, a subsidiary of the Japanese retail giant Seven & i, to the US-based Fortress Investment Group. Workers’ concerns primarily revolve around the possibility of job cuts and the need for assurances [...]

A federal judge in California struck down a Biden administration asylum policy on Tuesday that created a “rebuttable presumption of asylum ineligibility” if someone seeking asylum in the US has did not first seek out a lawful, safe and orderly path to the US. The ruling found that the rule, which was set to take effect [...]

The US Supreme Court ruled Friday in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis that a Colorado-based web designer cannot be compelled to create wedding websites for LGBTQ+ couples, despite the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act (CADA) which protects LGBTQ+ people from discrimination in public accommodations. The Court determined that forcing the designer to comply with CADA would violate [...]

Judge John Dorsey of the United States Bankruptcy Court District of Delaware rejected in part and ruled in favor in part of a motion Friday by bankrupt cryptocurrency trading company FTX’s debtors and the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors requesting the company’s customer list stay private. Dorsey ruled individual customer names would remain permanently sealed [...]

Indian law students are reporting for JURIST on law-related developments in and affecting India. This dispatch is from Soumyabrata Chakraborty, a second-year law student at Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar, Gujarat.   On May 18, the Supreme Court of India (SCI) pronounced its judgement in the case of Animal Welfare Board of India v. Union of [...]

Law students from the European Union are reporting for JURIST on law-related events in and affecting the European Union and its member states. Tara O’Sullivan is a law student at Maastricht University. She files this dispatch from Maastricht, Netherlands. The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) has issued an Opinion on two legislative proposals from the [...]

Law students from the European Union are reporting for JURIST on law-related events in and affecting the European Union and its member states. Ciara Dinneny is JURIST’s Chief European Correspondent and a trainee with the Law Society of Ireland. She files this dispatch from Dublin.   Earlier this month, the European Union and the UK [...]