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Marissa Zupancic is JURIST’s Washington DC Correspondent, a JURIST Senior Editor and a 3L at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. She’s stationed in Washington during her Semester in DC.  US Senators Peter Welch (D-VT) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) hosted a panel discussion earlier this month highlighting new bipartisan legislation to address pharmaceutical drug [...]

Greek police officers clashed with protestors waving wooden poles with red flags at demonstrations that took place Thursday night decrying Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ bill that would grant licenses to foreign universities to operate within the nation. Videos appear to show that police later utilized tear gas against the protestors after several of their officers [...]

Since 2014, Ukraine has taken decisive steps toward combating corruption. This has included the adoption of anti-corruption legislation and the establishment of anti-corruption bodies that operate in accordance with international standards. Furthermore, there has been a concerted effort to identify and address the root causes of corruption in Ukraine. Notably, the presence of an oligarchy [...]

A series of documents from US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) officials published on Friday made public the agency’s recommendation that cannabis be reclassified to Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act, which would allow cannabis to be prescribed by medical professionals. The grounds for the rescheduling recommendation, said officials in a formal [...]

State police filed a criminal complaint on Friday against two editors and the managing director of the Hindi daily Prabhat Khabar, alleging forgery and the printing of defamatory material. The complaint follows threatening calls to one of them over the paper’s coverage of the liquor mafia and scams. The complaint against Chief Editor Ashutosh Chaturvedi, [...]

Indian President Droupadi Murmu assented Thursday to a bill intended to oversee the appointment, terms of service and duration of office for the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) and Election Commissioners (ECs). The bill has raised concerns about potential government dominance in the process, potentially risking the Election Commission’s independence. The Chief Election Commissioner and Other [...]

A US jury decided Monday that Google’s current app store policies violate Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act as well as the California Cartwright Act. Sometime next year, there will be a separate judicial process to determine the penalty that Google will suffer as a result of the jury’s Monday decision. Epic Games, [...]

US prosecutors indicted Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) on Thursday for acting as a foreign agent of the Egyptian government. These charges are in addition to previous charges of bribery against Menendez and are related to the same incidents. The indictment alleges that Menendez accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of bribes from Egyptian businessmen [...]

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and 17 states sued Amazon on Tuesday for anticompetitive conduct that, they claim, has helped it maintain its “monopoly power” in the online superstore market and the online marketplace services market. The federal and state governments are asking that the US District Court for the Western District of Washington [...]

US prosecutors unveiled an indictment against Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ), his wife and three businessmen on Friday, accusing the senator of using his position to aid three businessmen in financial and pending criminal matters, as well as assisting the government of Egypt, in exchange for bribes. Menendez denied the accusations soon after the indictment’s release. [...]