The Supreme Court granted certiorari in Morgan, Robyn v. Sundance, Inc. in an order list released Monday. The case concerns arbitration clause waivers in contract disputes. Robyn Morgan sued Sundance in September 2018 for alleged failure to pay her overtime wages. According to the contract between Morgan and Sundance, Sundance could have compelled arbitration. However, [...]
A UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) climate agreement was reached Saturday in Glasgow after negotiations were extended an extra day. The agreement was adopted after nearly 200 countries met in Scotland. However, UN Secretary-General António Guterres says the compromise deal is not enough. Going into COP26, there were high hopes that the meeting would result [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a lawsuit against Uber alleging that the company has overcharged passengers with disabilities. Uber Technologies charges “wait time” fees if drivers must wait more than two minutes, resulting in fees for passengers who need more time to enter the car owing to their disability. As per the [...]
A New York State court in Manhattan held Friday that the Trump Organization does not need to pay millions of dollars in legal bills to Trump’s former fixer and attorney, Michael Cohen. In March 2019, Cohen filed a lawsuit against the Trump Organization, claiming that the Organization owed him at least $1.9 million in legal fees [...]
The European Commission voted Friday to refer Romania back to the Court of Justice of the European Union, alleging that Romania had failed to fully comply with a 2018 Court of Justice judgment ordering Romania to fulfill its obligations under the Landfill Directive. The Commission has stated that Romania may face penalties for the time elapsed from [...]
India Staff Correspondent Sambhav Sharma and India Chief Correspondent Neelabh Bist offer their perspective on an action in the Supreme Court of India calling on the Indian government to immediately address severe air quality problems in the country’s National Capital Region. They file this for JURIST from New Delhi. Every year the period around the [...]
JURIST EXCLUSIVE – Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. Here, a Staff Correspondent for JURIST in Kabul offers his observations on new hiring criteria recently announced by the new Taliban-led Ministry of Justice. For privacy and security reasons we are withholding his [...]
A new report published Saturday by the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) described extensive human rights and war crimes violations allegedly committed in July and August this year in the regions of Amhara and Afar in connection to the ongoing Tigray crisis. The report was based on investigations conducted between August 28, 2021 and September [...]
The General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) Friday condemned President Daniel Ortega’s electoral victory and adopted a resolution criticizing Nicaragua’s presidential election. 25 countries voted in favor of the resolution, seven abstained, and only Nicaragua voted against it. On November 7, Ortega won Nicaragua’s presidential election with over 75% of the votes. [...]
The US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Friday upheld its November 6 decision to temporarily stop the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for private businesses. The mandate, known as the Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) on Vaccination and Testing was published last Saturday by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). The ETS challenge was filed by [...]
