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The past decades have seen a growing interest in, and utilisation of, outer space. Ease of access to space has increased alongside the rise of more affordable and small-scale technologies, and as a consequence space has become a congested and competitive environment. This has resulted in an increase in the number of nations with space [...]

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JURIST is launching a new series of dispatches from major US states written by JURIST correspondents “on the ground” in those jurisdictions. JURIST Operations Director Ram Eachambadi files this report from Los Angeles. Less than a month after his recall victory, a re-energized Governor Gavin Newsom has gone on the offensive, signing numerous bills and [...]

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The US Supreme Court released an order on Wednesday granting the Biden administration’s request to remove oral arguments for challenges on now-defunct Trump administration immigration policies. The Supreme Court’s order separately granted a writ of certiorari in a natural-gas pipeline case. The removed cases, Mayorkas v. Innovation Law Lab and Biden v. Sierra Club, are [...]

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Introduction A legal personality or a juristic personality is an entity other than a natural being which the law deems capable of holding such rights and duties which are normally accorded to human beings exclusively. The rights accorded can range from a few legal rights which the according authority conceives to be cardinal to the [...]

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The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Tuesday that the Greenwood Village Police Department acted lawfully when they destroyed Leo Lech’s home. The police pursued a suspected criminal, Robert Seacat, to Lech’s house, where they entered into a 19-hour standoff with the police that left the home uninhabitable. The police used increasingly aggressive tactics [...]

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On Monday, the Supreme Court of the United States decided that the Atomic Energy Act (AEA) does not preempt Virginia Law from prohibiting the mining of Uranium. The Supreme Court, in a 6-to-3 plurality judgment, sided with the State of Virginia’s right to regulate the Uranium industry. “But both courts found missing from the AEA [...]

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