A group of Arizona plaintiffs filed a lawsuit in federal court on Tuesday seeking to block implementation of two provisions of an abortion law set to go into effect in September. The suit was filed by the Center for Reproductive Rights and the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of two physicians who provide abortion [...]

JURIST EXCLUSIVE – Law students in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban on Sunday. Here, a law student in Kabul offers his latest observations and perspective. For privacy and security reasons we are withholding his name and institutional affiliation. The text has been [...]

Indiana Court of Appeals sided with Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb on Tuesday allowing him to withdraw the state from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (“CARES”) Act benefits program. The CARES Act includes three voluntary federal unemployment programs that increase benefits, extend benefit duration, and award benefits to ineligible participants. In May, Governor Holcomb [...]

The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that the University of South Carolina (USC) has the right to require students to wear masks on campus to prevent the spread of COVID-19, and the requirement is effective immediately. In July, USC ordered a mask mandate for all students, faculty, and staff. South Carolina Attorney General [...]

The Court of Bosnia-Herzegovina on Monday convicted former police officer and soldier, Rade Garic, and sentenced him to 20 years in prison for war crimes committed between 1992 and 1995. Sentenced under the first instance verdict, Garic was found guilty of several murders committed in Vlaswenica and Srebrenica in 1992 and 1995, respectively. The court [...]

India Staff Correspondent Sambhav Sharma says that while Wednesday’s recommendation of three women judges for elevation to the India Supreme Court may be a step in the right direction for the 25-member bench, it barely scratches the surface of gender inequality in the institution and the country.  He files this for JURIST from New Delhi. [...]

A group of Rutgers students filed a lawsuit against the New Jersey university’s vaccine mandate on Monday. The group of 18 students is represented by Children’s Health Defense (CHD), an activist group founded by Robert F. Kennedy. The organization largely campaigns against the use of certain vaccines, pesticides, and various chemicals used in foods and [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday urged UN human rights experts to lead independent investigations into enforced disappearances by security officers in Bangladesh. HRW’s report, “‘Where No Sun Can Enter’: A Decade of Enforced Disappearances in Bangladesh,” urged top UN officials, donors, and trade partners, to step up measures to hold senior Bangladesh security forces [...]

JURIST EXCLUSIVE – Law students in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban on Sunday. Here, a law student in Kabul offers his latest observations and perspective. For privacy and security reasons we are withholding his name and institutional affiliation. The text has been [...]

The Delhi High Court on Friday directed the central government’s counsel to take instructions for the government’s stand on a petition alleging large-scale data breaches on four e-commerce platforms. The petition was filed by Yarlagadda Kiran Chandra, General Secretary of the Free Software Movement of India (FSMI), a national coalition of sixteen regional and sectoral free [...]