New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced Monday that New Zealand will lift almost all COVID-19 restrictions on Tuesday. New Zealand has no active cases currently, and no one has tested positive in the past 17 days. Further, no one has been hospitalized for COVID-19 in 12 days. It has been 40 days since the [...]

The US Supreme Court granted certiorari Monday in Niz-Chavez v. Barr to consider the type of notice the government must provide to trigger the “stop-time rule.” Essentially, immigrants who have a continuous physical presence in the US for a certain amount of time may be eligible for relief from removal. However, the government is able [...]

A Burundi court on Friday rejected the appeal of four journalists convicted of undermining state security. In October 2019 Burundi police arrested four Iwacu journalists: Christine Kamikazi, Agnès Ndirubusa, Egide Harerimana and Térence Mpozenzi. Each journalist is facing a fine of $530 and two years and six months imprisonment. Their driver, arrested with them, was [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday blocked the White House’s 30-day suspension of reporter Brian Karem’s press pass for a heated exchange with Sebastian Gorka, another reporter. The three-judge panel unanimously ruled that Karem would likely succeed on his due process claim because he did not have fair [...]

The Burundi constitutional court on Thursday upheld the presidential election of retired general Evariste Ndayishimiye. The controversial election occurred in May and marked the country’s first competitive presidential election since 1993. According to voter results, Ndayishimiye won the election with 69 percent of the votes. However, Agathon Rwasa, who supposedly won 24 percent of the [...]

Members of the Minneapolis City Council announced Sunday that a veto-proof majority of the Council is committed to dismantling the current system of policing in Minneapolis. The announcement at a rally in Powderhorn Park came following several days of protests after George Floyd was killed by a Minneapolis police officer. Minneapolis City Council President Lisa [...]

The Law firm of Dorsey and Whitney announced Tuesday that it would be ending its long-standing relationship with the Minneapolis City Attorney’s Office. For more than forty years the firm had assisted the city with prosecuting misdemeanor cases. However, in the wake of the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers, [...]

Eighteen states and the District of Columbia filed suit against the U.S. Department of Education and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos over the new, finalized Title IX rule Thursday. Seventeen states and D.C. jointly filed in a D.C. federal court, while New York filed separately in the Southern District of New York. Both cases allege [...]

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals vacated an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule that exempts importers from reporting products with mercury-containing components. The court concluded that such an exception works against the Toxic Substances Control Act, 15 U.S.C. § 2607(b)(10), which requires manufacturers to report products that contain mercury. The court was concerned that by [...]

A federal judge for the district of Colorado issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) against the Denver Police Department (DPD) on Friday. The TRO was issued in response to a complaint filed by four Denver residents on Thursday. The four have participated in protests in Denver following the May 25 death of George Floyd in [...]