Law students and young lawyers in Ukraine are filing for JURIST on the latest developments in that country as it defends itself against Russian invasion. Here, Ukrainian lawyer and University of Pittsburgh LLM graduate Taras Shablii reports from Kyiv.  The night was difficult for our army, but they managed to stop the enemy on all [...]

The Supreme Court of India dismissed a petition Friday seeking the deployment of central forces, including paramilitary forces, in the upcoming local elections in West Bengal state, alleging apprehensions of large-scale violence and electoral fraud. Two leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), an opposition party in the state, filed this petition against the decision [...]

In response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the US, the UK, and the EU Friday placed sanctions on Russia President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. The US Treasury announced the sanctions just one day after it targeted the Russian financial system’s core infrastructure by sanctioning Russia’s largest financial institutions, restricting its ability to [...]

The Russian Federation Friday vetoed a UN Security Council (UNSC) vote to adopt a draft resolution that would end the crisis in Ukraine. The draft was submitted by Albania and the US, and garnered eleven yes votes, with abstentions from China, India, and the UAE. The draft would have deplored the Russian Federation’s invasion of [...]

US President Joe Biden nominated Judge Ketanji Jackson of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit as an associate justice to the Supreme Court on Friday. If her nomination is confirmed by the Senate, Jackson would be the first black woman to serve as a justice of the highest court of [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Thursday allowed the registration of the trademark “Trump Too Small,” finding that the US Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) refusal to register the trademark violated the applicant’s First Amendment right to freedom of speech. The applicant, Steve Elster, had applied to register the trademark with [...]

The Idaho House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday that would provide confidentiality to suppliers and manufacturers of lethal injection drugs. House Bill 658 is intended to provide “legal protection from discovery or disclosure for certain persons and entities to carry out the death penalty.” The bill would provide confidentiality to any individual or entity [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ), along with Attorneys General in Minnesota and New York, filed a suit Thursday before the US District Court for the District of Columbia against a proposed $13 billion transaction between UnitedHealth Group, which owns the largest health insurer in the country, and Change, a leading healthcare technology company providing [...]

The Department of Justice (DOJ) Thursday filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against the Unified Judicial System (UJS) of Pennsylvania, alleging that the UJS has violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The DOJ sent a letter to the UJS earlier in the month, notifying the UJS [...]

Lithuania declared a state of emergency Thursday, in response to the “large military forces massed in Russia and Belarus,” hours after the invasion of Russia against Ukraine. Lithuania President Gitanas Nausėda announced that parliament has unanimously approved the state of emergency that will last for two weeks. He stated that there is a risk to [...]