Tesla shareholders Friday requested that a US district court block Elon Musk from his “public campaign to present a contradictory and false narrative” regarding Musk’s 2018 tweets about taking the company private. This request comes as part of an ongoing lawsuit the shareholders filed against Tesla and Musk. On April 1, US District Court Judge [...]

Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. Here, a female Afghan law student reports on the growing number and severity of Taliban restrictions on women since August 2021. For privacy and security reasons, we are withholding our correspondent’s name. The text has only [...]

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Friday said that the UK’s plan to export its asylum obligations by transferring asylum seekers and refugees to Rwanda for asylum processing is a violation of international law. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson Thursday announced that under the UK and Rwanda’s new migration and economic development partnership, “nyone [...]

The Moscow Times (MT) and Radio France Internationale (RFI) Friday reported that the Russian communications watchdog Roskomnadzor has blocked access to their websites. MT said that its Russian-language service has been blocked by the communications regulator based on a request by the Prosecutor General’s office. Roskomnadzor’s universal restriction check service confirms that the MT site’s [...]

The family of a Black man killed last week by Michigan police demanded Thursday that criminal charges be filed. Twenty-six-year-old Patrick Lyoya was stopped Monday, April 4, by Michigan police for an improper license plate. Grand Rapids police released striking dashcam video footage capturing the two-minute and 40-second interaction, which begins with the officer walking [...]

The US Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second District Thursday upheld the dismissal of former congressman Devin Nunes’ lawsuit against CNN for defamation and civil conspiracy in a 2-1 decision. The case began while Nunes was still a member of the US House of Representatives, representing California’s 22nd Congressional District. Nunes sued CNN for [...]

Australia Thursday imposed financial sanctions on 14 Russian state-owned enterprises. These targeted sanctions are aimed at entities of “strategic and economic importance” to Russia.  The sanctions have been imposed on electronic company Ruselectronics, transportation company Russian Railways, transportation company Kamaz, shipping company SEVMASH, and shipping company United Shipbuilding Corporation. Australia imposed the sanctions on these state-owned [...]

Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union filed separate lawsuits Thursday to block a Kentucky law that effectively bans abortion in the state. The organizations filed their lawsuits a day after the Republican-led state legislature overrode Democratic Governor Andy Beshear’s veto of House Bill 3. Because of the numerous requirements enacted by the bill, [...]

ABN Amro, the third-largest Dutch bank, issued an apology Wednesday for its predecessors’ involvement in the Atlantic slave trade during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The bank worked with the International Institute of Social History to investigate the histories of two of the bank’s predecessors, Hope & Co. and Mees & Zoonen. Researchers with the [...]

The US Department of Commerce Thursday announced that it had publicly identified seven aircraft operated by Belarus in likely violation of US export controls. The department said that anyone who services these planes anywhere will require authorization from the department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS). Otherwise, that individual risks violating the Export Administration Regulations [...]