JURIST EXCLUSIVE – Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban. Here, a lawyer in Kabul offers his observations and perspective on recent developments in Taliban university policy. For privacy and security reasons we are withholding our correspondent’s name and [...]
The US Supreme Court issued two unsigned orders Monday regarding qualified immunity for police officers. The first of the unsigned orders involves Rivas-Villegas v. Cortesluna, a case based on an incident in 2016. Daniel Rivas-Villegas is a police officer who responded to a 911 call from a 12-year-old girl reporting that she, her sibling, and [...]
The Supreme Court added two new cases Monday involving Native Americans to its docket this term. The first case is Denezpi v. United States, which asks the Court to consider an issue regarding the double jeopardy clause of the Fifth Amendment. In 2017 Merle Denezpi, a member of the Navajo Nation, pleaded guilty to an assault [...]
Representing the Biden administration, the US Justice Department Monday formally requested that the Supreme Court vacate the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals’ stay of a preliminary injunction of the controversial Texas abortion law SB 8. The DOJ’s application to the Supreme Court calls the Fifth Circuit’s decision to stay the injunction “unjustified” and decries “Texas’s [...]
The Biden administration launched a plan Monday to combat per- and polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS) substances. The plan was implemented after recommendations made by EPA Administrator Michael Regan, satisfying recent calls for regulation standards. According to the EPA, PFAS are a potentially harmful group of manufactured chemicals. There are thousands of different PFAS, and they can be [...]
The Joint Standing Committee on Nothern Australia Monday published its final report on the destruction of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural sites. The nearly 350-page report, titled A Way Forward, calls for a new legislative framwork to protect Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural heritage. The Australian Senate ordered the inquiry on June 11, [...]
JURIST EXCLUSIVE – Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban. Here, a lawyer in Kabul offers his observations and perspective on the implications of the Taliban’s use of Pashtu (sometimes rendered as Pashto) as an official language instead of [...]
JURIST EXCLUSIVE – Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban. Here, a lawyer in Kabul offers his observations and perspective on factory closures in the country since the Taliban took power and the economic implications of that. For privacy [...]
The French Council of State (Conseil d’Etat) ordered the government Friday to repair the environmental damages caused by the state’s failure to meet greenhouse gas reduction targets. The ruling also ordered the Prime Minister to take immediate action to prevent further aggravation of damage. The court gave a deadline of December 31, 2022, for damage compensation. [...]
Kamalakhya Dey Purkayastha, a member of the Assam legislative assembly, wrote a letter Sunday seeking intervention by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) following a series of violent attacks on the Hindu minorities in Bangladesh during the festival of Durga Puja. Purkayastha is the regional working president of India’s leading opposition party, the Indian [...]
