LEGAL NEWS & COMMENTARY

Human Rights Watch (HRW) denounced the Chinese government on Wednesday for intimidating individuals seeking reparation for abuses linked to the government’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. The human rights group alleged that the government has instituted a campaign of harassment against citizens demanding that the government take responsibility for misconduct related to the virus. The [...]

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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized a rule Tuesday that limits the use of scientific research that does not make public all data collected from the study. The new regulation, titled Strengthening Transparency in Pivotal Science Underlying Significant Regulatory Actions and Influential Scientific Information, does not automatically disallow the use of any data from [...]

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The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Monday that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s restrictions on the number of attendees at religious gatherings were likely to be a violation of the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment. The Court enjoined the state from enforcing these limits, put in place to address [...]

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Rights organizations decried the four year prison sentence handed down to Zhang Zhan, a citizen-journalist, by a Chinese court on Monday. She was found guilty of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble,” charges sometimes used by authorities to quell dissent. Zhang, a 37-year-old former lawyer, had reported on the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan beginning in February. [...]

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New York State Department of Health officials announced on Saturday that they would launch a criminal investigation into a network of health clinics. The investigation is based on speculation that the provider, ParCare Community Health Network, violated the state’s guidelines in obtaining the COVID-19 vaccine and distributing it to members of the public. According to [...]

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