A US federal appeals court on Wednesday granted the US government’s motion for a stay pending appeal of a district court’s order that federal agencies and executive departments reinstate fired probationary federal workers and refrain from firing any additional federal workers without proper notice. The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the government met [...]

The US House of Representatives approved a bill on Wednesday that would restrict district court judges from issuing nationwide injunctive relief orders to block President Donald Trump’s executive orders from taking effect. Section 1370(a) of the “No Rogue Rulings Act of 2025” (NORRA) states that “no United States district court shall issue any order providing [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Thursday that most countries are failing to meet their human rights obligations by not allocating sufficient public funding to ensure the right to health. The World Health Organization (WHO) recently published its Global Health Expenditure Database (GHED), which offers data on healthcare spending across 194 countries and territories since 2022. [...]

Amnesty International released a report on Thursday detailing prevalent gender-based and sexual violence against women and girls in Sudan by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), indicating probable war crimes and crimes against humanity. The report, titled “They Raped All of Us,” shared the story of 30 women and girls who were raped from April 15, [...]

US President Donald Trump’s administration targeted Houston-based law firm Susman Godfrey LLP in an executive order Wednesday, zeroing in on the firm’s previous defamation litigation related to the 2020 US election, as well as its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs. The administration has targeted other large law firms over similar programs, deeming them “unlawful [...]

The correspondent filing this dispatch is a law student at Maharashtra National Law University in Mumbai who must remain anonymous. On Tuesday, a two-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India (SCI) delivered its judgement in State of Tamil Nadu v. R.N. Ravi (R.N. Ravi), setting yet another precedent in a line of cases limiting [...]

A group of 67 former lawyers of major corporations including Microsoft, Eli Lilly and Intel submitted a brief on Tuesday denouncing US President Donald Trump’s use of executive orders to target big law firms. The brief was filed in support of the law firm Perkins Coie LLP, which sued the Trump administration after being targeted [...]

A coalition of 19 attorneys general filed a 31-page amicus brief with the US Supreme Court on Wednesday, claiming a Maryland county’s policy of incorporating LGBTQ-inclusive books into their curriculum with no opt-out option for parents does not violate the US Constitution. The amicus brief asserted that the use of LGBTQ-inclusive books in the school [...]

The US Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announced on Thursday that a federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment charging prisoner Ishmael Petty with first-degree murder and murder by a federal prisoner, both of which are punishable by death. The office discussed Petty’s criminal history in a press release, stating: “Petty has been [...]

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Thursday cited concerns over Radio Free Asia’s (RFA) suspension of its shortwave radio broadcast in languages Mandarin, Tibetan, and Lao following President Donald Trump’s March executive order cancelling federal funding to US Agency for Global Media (USAGM). RSF Director General Thibaut Bruttin urged the US Congress and larger international community [...]