The US Supreme Court granted review Monday in one case involving the “favorable termination” rule associated with Section 1983 actions. The court also rejected a final challenge to the 2020 election. The court granted review in Thompson v. Clark, a Section 1983 case on appeal from the Second Circuit. In the 1994 case Heck v. [...]

The US Supreme Court ruled 8-1 Monday in Uzuegbunam v. Preczewski in favor of a former Georgia college student in a campus free speech case. In 2016, Chike Uzuegbunam, an Evangelical Christian, attempted to express and share his faith on the Georgia Gwinnett College Campus by standing near the campus library and passing out literature. [...]

JURIST EXCLUSIVE – Myanmar security forces surrounded and cut off hundreds of student protesters in the Sanchaung Township district of Yangon Monday, provoking solidarity demonstrations across the country and prompting Western embassies and the UN Mission in Myanmar to issue urgent and rare calls for de-escalation of the situation and appeals for restraint. The student [...]

All Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) cardholders are required to take special permission from the central government if they want to be involved in any missionary, ‘Tabligh’ or journalistic activities, according to a notification issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs on Friday. OCI is a form of permanent residency available to people of Indian [...]

Supporters of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko on Friday clashed with Senegalese police when they attempted to gather to protest his arrest for “disturbing public order and participating in an unauthorized demonstration.” Sonko was charged for disturbing the public order on March 3 following his refusal to take another route to the courthouse in Dakar to [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged the government of the Philippines to investigate “the use of lethal force” in police raids on Sunday. Nine activists died in the raids, and another six were arrested. Local activist groups report that the police executed search warrants issued by Jose Lorenzo de la Rosa, the judge who presides over [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Friday denied a request for an emergency injunction seeking to stop the transfer of sacred Western Apache land to a private copper mining company. However, the land transfer is halted indefinitely pending the government’s release of a new final environmental impact survey (FEIS). Oak Flat, [...]

Judge Rudolph Contreras of the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Friday dismissed a lawsuit from Nevada, Illinois and Virginia that sought government recognition of Virginia’s vote to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). Contreras ruled that the deadline to pass the amendment had passed. The ERA was first proposed in 1972 [...]

A public referendum in Switzerland Sunday came out in favor of banning face coverings in public. Swiss voters voted in two other referendums at the ballot box, voting against the introduction of electronic identification services and voting in favor of a free trade agreement with Indonesia. In all, 1,427,626 people, 51.2 percent of voters, voted [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled Friday that Missouri’s requirements for parents to opt out of their children being vaccinated to attend school do not violate their rights to religious freedom. In Missouri, children must be properly vaccinated and submit their vaccination records before they can attend school. However, there are [...]