The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ordered Poland on Wednesday to pay 1,000,000 euros per day until Poland complies with the obligations arising from its July 14 Order, which held that the disciplinary regime for judges in Poland was not compatible with EU law. The court had further asked Poland to suspend [...]

The Supreme Court of India on Wednesday ordered an independent expert committee to investigate the widespread allegations around the use of Pegasus spyware to carry out surveillance on politicians, judges, journalists and activists in the country. The Pegasus spyware scandal was first unveiled in July by media companies who obtained access to a list of [...]

The High Court of South Africa dismissed on Tuesday former president Jacob Zuma’s plea to remove the prosecutor from his corruption case. Zuma has been accused of soliciting bribes from arms dealers in the 1990s, in addition to leaking private medical records being used in his corruption case to the media. The former president has [...]

The Amsterdam Court of Appeal ruled on Tuesday that a collection of ancient Crimean artifacts should be returned to Ukraine, previously kept in the Russian-annexed peninsula. Upholding the decision of the lower court, Judge Pauling Hofmeijer-Rutten found that the Allard Pierson Museum (APC) in Amsterdam had to hand over the artifacts to Ukraine. The pieces [...]

San Francisco passed an ordinance on Tuesday to allow the city government to request information regarding the gender identity and sexual orientation of employees and candidates for job openings. The city government’s human resources department can request the information through anonymous surveys from job applicants and current employees through surveys that collect data on a [...]

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has adopted an order ending China Telecom (Americas) Corporation’s ability to operate in the United States. The FCC directed China Telecom to discontinue any domestic or international services that it provides within sixty days of the Tuesday order pursuant to Section 214 of the Communications Act of 1934. In December [...]

A New York state judge on Tuesday denied a request for a preliminary injunction of New York City’s vaccine mandate for city employees. Under the new mandate, city employees must prove their vaccination status by October 29, 2021. A weekly COVID-19 testing option is available “only if an employer has granted an employee a reasonable [...]

The National Assembly of Cambodia unanimously passed amendments to its constitution on Monday to prohibit the country’s leaders from being citizens of other jurisdictions. The constitutional amendments are designed to “determine the sole Khmer nationality for the President of the National Assembly, the President of the Senate, the Prime Minister and the President of the [...]

President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi announced on Monday via his social media accounts that a state of emergency decree, which has been renewed every three months since 2017, will finally be lifted. Since its original implementation in April 2017, the current state of emergency has granted security forces wide discretionary powers to quash political dissidence and suspend constitutionally [...]

The US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National Marine Fisheries Service proposed Tuesday to rescind two rules enacted during the Trump administration concerning designation of critical habitats. The proposal is part of a concerted effort by the Biden administration to rewrite rules that undermine environmental protection in favor of industry interests. The first [...]