The Fifth Circuit granted on Tuesday the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) request to voluntarily dismiss an appeal without determining whether the case was moot. Terkel v. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stemmed from the CDC’s national eviction moratorium, which temporarily prohibited landlords from evicting tenants amid the COVID-19 pandemic. After a [...]
A Russian Court on Thursday imposed one year of restrictions on ophthalmologist Dr Anastasia Vasileya. The sanctions restrict her movements and require monthly mandatory checks with the Russian state supervisor. She is also disallowed from leaving Moscow or attending mass events such as protests or concerts. She was first introduced into the limelight after treating Opposition [...]
Egypt’s public prosecution office announced Sunday that it had arrested three people in connection with the dumping of thousands of COVID-19 vaccines along a water channel. More than 18,000 vaccine packages, originally bound for the city of Minya, south of Cairo, went missing. An additional 5,000 packages were lost because they had been stored at the [...]
The Supreme Court of India Monday approved a government plan to compensate families of deceased COVID-19 victims. The program provides 50,000 rupees per family death. 50,000 rupees coverts to almost $670 for the nearly 450,000 deaths—representing a substantial cost for the Indian government. However, the number of deaths will increase further. The pandemic continues to [...]
US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Friday turned down an emergency appeal to block a New York City COVID-19 vaccine mandate for public school teachers. The case concerns an executive order issued by Mayor Bill de Blasio on August 23 mandating that all public school employees get vaccinated by October 1 or be placed [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit by landlords challenging part of New York’s eviction moratorium statute. In December 2020, New York passed the COVID-19 Emergency Eviction and Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2020 to prevent evictions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Five landlords and a real estate industry trade group in [...]
A panel of three judges from the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit lifted Monday a temporary injunction that halted a New York City mandate requiring all teachers to receive a COVID-19 vaccination. A preliminary injunction on the mandate was denied on Thursday, but a temporary injunction pending expedited review by the three [...]
The US District Court for the District of Columbia issued Thursday a preliminary injunction blocking the Biden administration from using Title 42 public health protections to expel migrant families at the border. Title 42 allows US Border Patrol and Customs to prohibit individuals who potentially pose a health risk from entering the country. Both the [...]
Ian Profiri is JURIST’s Staff Correspondent for Canada. He files this dispatch from Calgary. Late Wednesday evening, the Alberta government surprised Albertans by declaring a State of Public Health Emergency in a purported effort to protect what has become a fragile healthcare system in the wake of the fourth wave of Covid-19. At approximately 10pm [...]
Minnesota Judge Thomas Gillian denied concerned parents’ request on Tuesday to force all public schools within the state to mandate masks. Parents Advocating for Safe Schools (PASS), an association of Minnesota parents, filed suit against the state of Minnesota and Governor Timothy Walz, asking the court to order Walz to impose a statewide mask requirement [...]
