Come November 8, Vermont residents will have the opportunity to amend their state constitution and abolish slavery and indentured servitude for good. To be clear, Vermont does not currently allow either in any form, but there is antiquated language in the state constitution that allows for certain exceptions. In the Founding Era, numerous other states [...]

CVS Health Co. (CVS) and Walgreens Co. (Walgreens), a subsidiary of its parent company Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc., Wednesday, announced that each company reached a preliminary settlement deal totaling approximately $10 billion in order to end thousands of lawsuits related to ongoing opioid-related litigation. As part of its settlement, beginning in 2023, CVS will pay a total [...]

Reproductive rights protesters Wednesday interrupted oral arguments at the US Supreme Court. As the court heard oral arguments in the case of Bittner v. United States, three protesters stood up in the chamber and spoke out against the court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. In Dobbs, the Court struck down Roe v. [...]

His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) has found evidence of misconduct and misogyny across police forces in England and Wales, according to a Wednesday report. HMICFRS aimed to assess current vetting and counter-corruption capacity and capability in policing across England and Wales. The report also included details on the forces’ [...]

The Biden administration Wednesday announced that the US is working to remove Iran from the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). US Vice President Kamala Harris stated that Iran is “unfit to serve” on the commission due to the denial of women’s rights and “brutal crackdown” on its own people. Harris said, “The [...]

Law students from the European Union are reporting for JURIST on law-related events in and affecting the EU and its member states. Here Luisa Gambs, a German law student at the University of Augsburg doing her LL.M. this year at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, offers her perspective on the upcoming US midterms. [...]

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court Tuesday ordered Pennsylvania county boards of elections to refrain from counting, segregate and preserve any mail-in ballots contained in undated or incorrectly dated envelopes. The court is split on whether failing to count these votes would violate the Materiality Provision of the Civil Rights Act. The Materiality Provision prohibits disenfranchising voters [...]

The Department of Education’s new Title IX regulations would rollback due process rights for students and faculty, claims a report published Tuesday by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE). The new regulations, announced on the 50th anniversary of Title IX on June 23, would reverse Trump-era changes in the civil rights law. The [...]

Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson Tuesday sued the grocery store chains Albertsons and Kroger for violating the Washington Consumer Protection Act (CPA). The case is filed in the Washington King County Superior Court. On October 14, Albertsons and Kroger agreed to merge. Albertsons said it will issue a $4 billion “Special Cash Dividend” to its [...]

The US Supreme Court Tuesday released a short, two-paragraph order stating they would not block a subpoena from a Georgia grand jury requiring US Senator Lindsey Graham (R-GA) to testify about his actions in the aftermath of the 2020 election. Previously, Justice Clarence Thomas put a temporary hold on the subpoena without explanation. The order [...]