Ukrainian Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova Monday announced the seizure of Russian oligarch Mikhail Fridman’s assets worth 12.4 billion hryvnia (approximately 420 million USD). The Prosecutor General’s investigation found that “hese were in the accounts of bank… which is one of the ten largest financial institutions and included in the systemically important banks of Ukraine. Its [...]
A lawsuit filed Monday in the New York Supreme Court seeks the immediate invalidation of New York State Assembly voting district lines. The petitioners in the complaint are New York gubernatorial candidate Paul Nichols, former New York State Senate Candidate Gary Greenberg, and the President of New York Young Republican Club Gavin Wax. On April [...]
Guinea-Bissau’s president, Umaro Sissoco Embalo, Monday dissolved the country’s parliament, the National Popular Assembly. In a video Embalo released after the decision, he accused the Assembly of covering up members’ corruption as well as embezzling government funds. He also cited “persistent and insurmountable differences” between the executive branch and parliament, stymying progress in the country. [...]
US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Robert Califf Monday announced the agency will investigate the delay in dispatching investigators to the Abbott Nutrition infant formula plant in Michigan. This as Abbott Monday announced a plan to restart the Michigan plant in two weeks, in accordance with an FDA consent decree. The FDA and the [...]
The Biden administration Monday announced a partial lift on Cuban sanctions. The move is intended to expand channels of communication, travel and economic support between the US and Cuba. Under the Trump administration, the US took a hard-line stance against Cuba. US travel to Cuba was restricted and Cuban commercial businesses were sanctioned by both [...]
The US Supreme Court Monday granted both Jones v. Hendrix and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) v. Cochran certiorari based on their petitions. Both of these cases were added to the 2022-2023 docket. Jones v. Hendrix is an Eighth Circuit habeas corpus case about 28 US Code § 2255. Under § 2255, federal inmates can collaterally challenge [...]
The US Supreme Court Monday held in a 5-4 opinion written by Justice Amy Coney Barrett “ederal courts lack jurisdiction to review facts found as part of any judgment relating to the granting of discretionary relief in immigration proceedings enumerated under 8 US Code § 1252(a)(2)(B)(i).” In Patel v. Garland, the plaintiff and his wife [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit Monday vacated a preliminary injunction because it is now moot due to “the current conditions differ vastly from those prevailing when the district court addressed it.” The preliminary injunction “completely barred” the enforcement of Iowa Code § 280.31, which prohibits Iowa schools from requiring students or staff [...]
Lauren Ban is a rising 2L at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and JURIST’s US Bureau Chief. Pennsylvania is less than 24 hours out from primary elections—and there are some major issues on the line right here on JURIST’s doorstep that have attracted national and even international attention. Pennsylvania primaries are a complicated [...]
Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. Here, a female Afghan law student expresses her disgust at growing Taliban restrictions on women, most recently severe rules on the wearing of full hijabs in public. For privacy and security reasons, we are withholding our [...]
