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The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Friday partially reinstated 2023 laws in Hawaii and California banning the carry of firearms in certain “sensitive places.” After the laws’ passage, the “sensitive place” designations were challenged as violating the US Constitution’s Second Amendment, which establishes the right to keep and bear arms. US district [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) accused Lebanon and Cyprus of violating the human rights of Syrian refugees with indirect financial support from the European Union (EU) in a report released Wednesday. HRW detailed how both countries intercepted and forcibly returned refugees to Syria in a coordinated effort to prevent them from seeking asylum in Europe. According [...]

Hungary on Tuesday missed the first deadline to pay a €200 million European Court of Justice (ECJ) fine imposed in the case Commission v. Hungary in 2020. The fine was levied by the ECJ over Hungary’s failure to comply with EU asylum regulations. In response to the missed deadline, the European Commission issued a second [...]

The author, Zakra Noor, is a lawyer and recent graduate of Bahria University, located in Islamabad, Pakistan. Globally, thousands and millions of people flee their homes due to persecution, conflict, national disputes, political instability and other threats, seeking refuge in other countries. Understanding how different countries protect the rights of these refugees is essential in [...]

Israel’s parliament, the Knesset Plenum, passed the European Union (EU) import reform in a second and third reading on Monday. In the vote, 22 members of the Knesset voted to approve the bills without opposing votes or abstentions. The bill, which sailed through the Ministerial Committee on Fighting the Cost of Living, aims to remove [...]

Germany’s ruling coalition and conservative opposition reached an agreement on a new proposal on Tuesday to safeguard the Federal Constitutional Court, the highest court in Germany, by introducing changes to the Basic Law. These reforms would shield the court from potential interference from extremist or authoritarian actors. According to Marco Buschmann, Germany’s Minister of Justice, [...]

The Supreme Court of South Korea ruled on Thursday in favor of a same-sex couple concerning the recognition of their union. The plaintiff’s same-sex partner, who had become an employed subscriber in 2016, submitted a notification of the plaintiff’s eligibility for dependent status in the National Health Insurance system. Attached was a personal guarantor’s certificate [...]

The General Court of the European Union (GC) on Wednesday ruled that ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, qualifies as a gatekeeper under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which subjects the company to stricter regulations aimed at ensuring fair competition and user rights. The Commission assigned ByteDance gatekeeper status in September 2023 under the DMA. Gatekeeper status [...]

Law students and young lawyers in Afghanistan are reporting for JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. For privacy and security reasons, we are withholding the name of  our correspondent filing this dispatch.   The Taliban government’s recent enactment of the first-ever law governing Foreign Exchange Dealers (FXDs) and Money Service Providers (MSPs) in [...]

The Second Liquidator Court for Criminal Cases of Panama’s First Judicial Circuit acquitted Friday all defendants in the “Panama Papers” and “Operation Car Wash” cases. This landmark legal process involved 28 individuals in the “Panama Papers” case, stemming from the leaked documents of the now-defunct Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca & Co., and 31 people [...]