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The US House of Representatives Thursday passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which sets appropriations for the defense budget for fiscal year 2023. In total, the 3,854-page NDAA authorizes $857.9 billion in expenditures. Controversially, the bill would lift the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for members of the armed services. The Biden administration implemented the mandate [...]

Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. Here, a Staff Correspondent for JURIST in Kabul reports on the inadequacy of current international aid to address the country’s dire economic situation and growing impoverishment. For privacy and security reasons, we are withholding our Correspondent’s [...]

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Wednesday released its interim election observation report on the US midterm elections. The report, released approximately two weeks before the November 8 election, expressed concerns about “intensely divisive” rhetoric, threats to election administrators, lack of trust in media and other issues. One of the key themes [...]

JURIST law student staffers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law are filing dispatches on various aspects of the November 2022 midterm elections in Pennsylvania. Here, Pitt Law 2L David DeNotaris reports on campaign financing and the race between Mehmet Oz and John Fetterman for one of the two Pennsylvania seats in the closely-divided [...]

Muhammad Rayhan Ahmed is JURIST’s Bangladesh correspondent and a law student at the University of Dhaka. This is his inaugural report.  “No one believed. They listened at his heart. Little—less—nothing!—and that ended it. No more to build on there. And they, since they Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs.” These lines are [...]

US President Joe Biden Tuesday signed the CHIPS Act of 2022, which provides $52 billion to boost the US domestic semiconductor industry. The act authorizes the expenditure of more than $200 billion to promote domestic semiconductor production. However, only $52 billion is immediately appropriated as a result of Biden signing the bill. The act also [...]

Indian law students and young lawyers are reporting for JURIST on national and international developments in and affecting their country. This dispatch is from Vedika Kakar, a fourth-year law student at Jindal Global Law School in Sonipat. Last wek India’s Air Force began ushering in new members under a controversial recruitment program that aims to [...]

California Superior Court Judge Maureen Duffy-Lewis Friday entered a verdict to enjoin California’s Senate Bill 826 (SB 826) after finding that the law violated Article I, Section 7 of the California Constitution. The law, enacted in October, 2018, requires publicly held corporations in California to have one or more female directors for boards with four or [...]

Russia’s Justice Ministry Friday designated popular activist Vladimir Kara-Murza as a “foreign agent,” which means he will have to file elaborate financial disclosures and add a disclaimer to all his public messages on social media or otherwise. Kara-Murza, 40, is a prominent Russian dissident, political activist, writer, and democrat spokesperson. He has been lauded abroad [...]

An energy company was sentenced Tuesday in Cheyenne, Wyoming, for multiple violations of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA). ESI Energy Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources LLC, which is owned by NextEra Energy Inc. ESI owns many companies that run wind energy generation facilities throughout the US, including in Wyoming and [...]