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A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on Tuesday issued a preliminary injunction preventing the US Department of Labor from requiring government contractors and federal grant recipients to certify that they do not operate any diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs that violate any federal anti-discrimination laws. Executive Order [...]

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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 [...]

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Darina Boykova // JURIST

Last week, after a six-hour drive, I arrived in Charlevoix, Quebec, where G7 Foreign Ministers met from March 12 to 14. Hosted by Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Mélanie Joly, the meeting was attended by the foreign ministers of the UK, Germany, the US, Italy, Japan and the European Union (EU). When I arrived at [...]

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The correspondent filing this dispatch is a law student at Maharashtra National Law University in Mumbai who must remain anonymous. India’s Lok Sabha, or House of the People, is currently in the midst of its Budget Session, with parliamentarians convening to discuss and deliberate policy matters cutting across party lines. Last Tuesday, the government introduced [...]

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Pitasanna Shanmugathas is a 2L Single JD student at the University of Windsor Faculty of Law in Ontario. As President Trump’s Canadian tariffs take effect, students in the University of Windsor and Detroit Mercy Law School’s Dual JD program find themselves unexpectedly on the front lines of international trade policy. Trump’s controversial executive order, imposing [...]

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Chloe Miracle-Rutledge is a JURIST Supreme Court Correspondent and a 2L at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC. On Wednesday morning, I walked up to an unusually quiet Supreme Court building to attend oral arguments for Ames v. Department of Ohio Youth Services, a case in which the Court has been asked to clarify [...]

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Sharon Basch is a 3L at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law filing occasional dispatches from Washington DC this semester.  I made my way to the US Supreme Court press box for JURIST Monday morning to listen to oral arguments in Gutierrez v. Saenz, a case that could reshape the landscape of DNA testing [...]

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Pitasanna Shanmugathas is a law student at the University of Windsor and a graduate of the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs.  Montreal-based author and activist Yves Engler turned himself in to Montreal police for arrest at 9:30 am Thursday on multiple charges, initially for social media posts about the Israel-Gaza conflict and subsequently [...]

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Daniel Kim, Tyler Li, Drew Meetze and Christine Yang are law students at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law. They filed this joint dispatch for JURIST from Ottawa.  We attended the courtroom at the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) in Ottawa last Tuesday and Wednesday to hear oral arguments in Ahluwalia v Ahluwalia. Cases [...]

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Sharon Basch is a 3L at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law filing occasional dispatches from Washington DC this semester.  From the moment Donald Trump took office on January 20, one of his key goals has been to reduce the size of the US federal government, a vision he articulated frequently during his campaign. [...]

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