Former Madagascar President Marc Ravalomanana told Reuters on Saturday that he was injured during a rally against the incumbent president Andry Rajoelina’s re-election bid. Ravalomanana posted a photo of the bleeding injury on his left leg on Facebook. The injury is said to have happened when police used tear gas to disperse his supporters during [...]

Governor Gavin Newsom of California vetoed anti-caste discrimination bill SB 403 Saturday amidst an increase in anti-caste discrimination laws and ordinances in the US. SB 403 would have outlawed discrimination based on “ancestry” and “caste.”  The bill defined ancestry as “lineal descent, heritage, parentage, caste, or any inherited social status,” and caste as “an individual’s [...]

Israel’s Security Cabinet declared a state of war on Sunday. The Israeli Prime Minister’s (PM) office made the declaration public, stating that the war “was imposed on the State of Israel through a murderous terrorist attack from the Gaza Strip.” Article 40 of the Basic Laws of Israel: The Government (2001) allowed the declaration to [...]

Sharareh Abdolhoseinzadeh is a law student and a PhD in Political Sociology. She files this from Tehran.  On Friday, the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to an imprisoned Iranian woman, Narges Mohammadi, a political and civil activist who has been in prison for many years. In selecting her, the Nobel Committee emphasized her connection [...]

A federal judge allowed Oklahoma’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors to take effect on Thursday. In his opinion, Judge John Heil, III stated that the plaintiffs asking for injunctive relief “failed to show a likelihood of success on the merits” of their multiple constitutional claims. The plaintiffs challenged the law, SB 613, on several [...]

Israeli law students are reporting for JURIST on law-related developments in and affecting Israel. This dispatch is from Tamar Silam, a law student in the Buchmann Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University.   Imagine waking up to a morning marred by ceaseless blaring sirens. Yesterday morning at 6:30 AM, the ominous echoes of rocket [...]

On Friday, New Mexico District Judge Fred T. Van Soelen rejected a Republican challenge to the state’s congressional map that argued the map favors Democratic candidates. The case was in the New Mexico County of Lea Fifth Judicial District Court. Soelen concluded that the congressional map does not violate Article II, Section 18 of the [...]

Sharon Basch is an Israeli American who lived in Israel before starting her JD at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where she is currently a 2L.  As of early Sunday morning, Israel has confirmed over 600 deaths, 2,000+ injured, an estimated 100+ kidnapped, and hundreds more missing following Saturday’s surprise attack by Hamas. [...]

Israeli law students are reporting for JURIST on law-related developments in and affecting Israel. This dispatch is from Mayan Lawent, a law student in the Buchmann Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University and a JURIST Staff Correspondent in Israel.  Today, Saturday the 7th of October, was the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah, a day [...]

Over 100 Israeli civilians were killed Saturday after Hamas fired rockets into Israel and scores of Hamas militants entered Israeli territory from Gaza, according to Israeli officials. The Palestinian Ministry of Health also reported that 198 Palestinians were killed after Israel conducted airstrikes on Gaza in response to the incursions. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) [...]