A divided New York state appeals court on Thursday unanimously struck down a nearly half-billion-dollar financial penalty against US President Donald Trump as unconstitutionally excessive, while issuing a fractured ruling on the underlying fraud allegations that produced no clear majority. The five-justice panel of the Appellate Division’s First Judicial Department vacated the entire $464.6 million [...]

US immigration officers must now weigh applicants’ support for “anti-American ideologies and activities” when deciding whether to grant certain immigration benefits, under new policy guidance released Tuesday by US Citizenship and Immigration Services. The updated policy, effective immediately, instructs officers to assign “overwhelmingly negative” weight to cases where applicants have “endorsed, promoted, supported, or otherwise [...]

Newsmax has agreed to pay $67 million to settle a defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems over false claims about the 2020 election, the conservative cable network announced Monday. Dominion was one of several voting machine and election technology companies that helped facilitate voting in 2020, a year when in-person voting was limited by [...]

The correspondent filing this dispatch is a law student in Mumbai who must remain anonymous. On Monday, the Indian Parliament’s monsoon session was disrupted once again as opposition parties took to the streets of New Delhi in protest. The session had so far been marred by Vice President Jagdeep Dhankar’s resignation, multiple adjournments, and a [...]

The District of Columbia filed a lawsuit Friday challenging President Donald Trump’s emergency order placing the city’s police department under federal control. Four days earlier, the Trump administration declared a crime emergency in the nation’s capital, and announced the DC police force would be placed under federal control. Trump invoked his emergency powers Monday under [...]

Edited by Alanah Vargas | JURIST Staff, US Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights guarantees everyone the right to freedom of opinion and expression, including the freedom to seek, receive, and impart information through any media without interference. This global dispatch, contributed by correspondents around the world, examines key challenges and developments [...]

President Donald Trump issued an executive order Monday placing Washington DC’s police force under federal control, invoking emergency powers that face potential constitutional challenges over scope, duration and procedural safeguards. The order cites Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, which grants the president authority over local police during “special conditions of [...]

The correspondent filing this dispatch is a law student in Mumbai who must remain anonymous. On Friday, the Supreme Court of India (SCI) declined to hear a petition seeking to apply the country’s workplace sexual harassment law—called the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition, and Redressal) Act, 2013 or the POSH Act—to political [...]

Amid worsening famine conditions in Gaza, the UK on Tuesday threatened to recognize Palestinian statehood at the United Nations in September unless Israel agrees to a ceasefire and to take immediate steps to allow unhindered aid shipments into the territory. The ultimatum is diplomatically significant as the international community grapples with how to approach the [...]

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday granted President Donald Trump’s request to stay a lower court order that would have prevented him from firing three Democratic members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission without cause. The order allows Trump to immediately terminate commissioners Mary Boyle, Alexander Hoehn-Saric, and Richard Trumka Jr., whom he removed in [...]