The UK Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) Wednesday announced the provisional findings of its investigation regarding Microsoft’s intended $68.7 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard. The sale could increase Microsoft’s market share of cloud gaming, and Microsoft products already account for an estimated 60 to 70 percent of the global cloud gaming market. The CMA concluded [...]

The Attorney General of Texas Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration over federal guidance informing pharmacies that refusing to fill prescriptions for abortion medication breaks federal civil rights law. The complaint argues that the guidance was procedurally invalid and violates federal law, saying “the question of abortion is up to the people’s elected [...]

James Joseph is a UK staff correspondent for JURIST. Building on JURIST coverage dating back to September, the Criminal Bar Association’s Spokesperson has spoken directly with me to release further information on Saturday’s announcement in relation to the increase of prosecution fees to match those of defence advocates. The full details are below: Kirsty Brimelow [...]

Amnesty International Tuesday called on on the government of India to immediately halt the demolition of homes in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. Amnesty International believes the demolitions, which began Saturday, are “an extension of the brutal human rights violations the region of Jammu and Kashmir, the only Muslim majority region of India, has [...]

The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania Tuesday declared that the state’s public education system is unconstitutional due to its inequitable and inadequate funding across districts. In 2014, six Pennsylvania school districts, along with a collection of parents and advocacy organizations, filed a lawsuit against the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE), the Governor and a variety of [...]

Anjana Meza is a JURIST Staff Correspondent in Lima, and a law student in the Facultad de Derecho, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. January was a difficult month for all Peruvians. Once Dina Boluarte was sworn in as president of Peru in December 2022, protests did not take long to appear. With the new year, we [...]

The UN Development Programme Tuesday reported that unemployment plays a key role in pushing people to join extremist groups in the Southern Sahara. The report indicates a 92 percent increase in the number of volunteer recruits pushed to such groups due to lack of jobs since the last such study conducted in 2017. The report [...]

The Hong Kong Final Court of Appeal Monday ruled that policies requiring transgender men to undergo full sex re-assignment surgery (SRS) to alter gender markers on their Hong Kong ID cards are unconstitutional and quashed the decisions of previous courts. After hearing the submissions from both sides in January, the court held that the Commissioner [...]

UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk Tuesday called on Mali to reverse its expulsion of Guillaume Ngefa-Atondoko Andali, head of the UN peacekeeping mission in Mali (MINUSMA). Mali’s government declared Andali persona non grata on Sunday, but the UN confirmed that he was already outside Mali at the time. Andali’s expulsion from the country is [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Monday affirmed two consolidated cases upholding New York rent stabilization laws. In both cases, 74 Pinehurst LLC v. State of New York and Community Housing Improvement Program v. City of New York, landlords of various properties in New York sued, alleging that the state’s rent stabilization [...]