The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday in a 6-3 ruling held that Alaska Native Corporations (ANCs) are eligible to receive some of the $8 billion made available to Native American tribes by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. ANCs are companies created by Congress in 1971 and owned by Alaska Natives. In [...]
A federal judge has granted a preliminary injunction blocking the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from enforcing its no-sail order for cruises. This gives the state of Florida a head start in its lawsuit against the federal government. The federal government had shut down all cruises in March 2020 amid the COVID-19 [...]
Canada announced the first phase of easing of border restrictions on Monday, as a result of the successful rollout of COVID-19 vaccinations in Canadian provinces. Beginning July 5, eligible, fully vaccinated travelers will no longer have to quarantine in a government-designated hotel. But eligible travelers currently only include Canadian citizens, permanent residents and those falling [...]
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed executive orders (here and here) on Friday to lift emergency restrictions aimed at preventing the spread of COVID-19. As of June 15, restrictions including such as physical distancing and capacity limits will be lifted as cases and deaths from coronavirus continue to decrease. Of the 58 Californian executive orders related [...]
The European Parliament urged the EU’s executive branch, the European Commission, Thursday to support waiver for patents surrounding COVID-19 vaccines. The proposal, submitted to the World Trade Organization (WTO), demands that COVID-19 vaccine patents be exempt from provisions in the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) requirement protecting patent rights, essentially removing IP [...]
US President Joe Biden and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson signed an amended version of the Atlantic Charter on Thursday during the G7 summit in Cornwall, England. The original Atlantic Charter was a post-war declaration signed by former US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and former UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill in 1941 following the Declaration [...]
Legal education in India has frequently come under fire for insisting on academic rigor and meritocracy without duly acknowledging the impact that cut-throat competition can have on the mental health and physical wellbeing of undergraduate students. The clamor grows harder with every year as more law students in India’s top universities come from diverse social [...]
On Friday, US President Joe Biden signed an executive order establishing the White House Initiative on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (AA and NHPI) and the President’s Advisory Commission on AA and NHPI. In recent months, hate crimes against Asian-Americans have increased due to the xenophobic rhetoric that blames Asians for the spread [...]
JURIST EXCLUSIVE – The Indian legal profession is feeling the impact of India’s second wave of COVID-19 as some lawyers fall sick and die, others are quarantined for extended periods, and the court system on which Indian management of the pandemic so much relies thanks to the judiciary’s guardianship of the “right to life” under [...]
A US federal judge issued a preliminary ruling Tuesday in favor of a white male restaurateur who claimed he had been discriminated against in connection to his application for some of the nearly $29 billion in relief offered by the Biden administration. Philip Greer, the owner of a cafe in Texas, wanted to apply to [...]
