The US House of Representatives on Wednesday passed the Reinforcing Nicaragua’s Adherence to Conditions for Electoral Reform (RENACER) Act. Members approved the legislation 387 to 35, just days before the November 7 presidential election in Nicaragua. The Senate approved the RENACER Act earlier this month; the legislation will now proceed to President Joe Biden for [...]
The US Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) on Wednesday promulgated a final rule adding four foreign companies, including Israel’s NSO Group, to the Entity List. According to the Bureau, the Entity List identifies companies that are or may become involved in “activities contrary to the national security or foreign policy interests [...]
The High Court of Australia found on Wednesday that the higher tax rate for working holiday makers breached a treaty with the UK and was discriminatory. In December 2016, the Australian Parliament established a new tax rate applicable to persons holding working holiday visas, added to the Income Tax Rates Acts 1986. This meant that individuals [...]
One of the female law students filing for JURIST from Taliban-ruled Afghanistan has written the following open letter to law students in the United States. We are publishing it here in its entirety with minimal editing, so as to preserve the author’s voice. I’m writing from 7000 miles away from you. Yes, I’m writing from [...]
The Supreme Court of the United States on Wednesday heard oral arguments in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, a case involving a 108-year-old handgun-licensing law. The law requires any person who desires a license to carry a concealed handgun to show “proper cause” for the license. According to New York courts, [...]
A federal district court in Washington state ruled against a Tacoma for-profit immigration detention center in a minimum wage suit Tuesday, ordering its owners to pay $5.9 million in unlawful gains earned against single-dollar wages since 2005, as well as $17.3 million in back wages owed to detainee workers. The detention center’s owners, The GEO [...]
An unprecedented crisis has recently beset Nepal’s top court with some in the country’s legal fraternity calling for the Chief Justice to step down in the face of a series of controversies. Nepalese law student Smriti Pantha of Kathmandu University School of Law reports files this exclusive report for JURIST from Kathmandu. The Chief Justice [...]
The Delhi High Court Tuesday issued an injunction against various generic pharmaceutical companies, preventing them from manufacturing or selling Valsartan and Sacubitril tablets used to treat cardiovascular diseases. The court said that the generic companies’ manufacturing or selling of these tablets may amount to infringement of a patent owned by major pharmaceutical company Novartis AG. [...]
A report published by the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on Wednesday found that there are reasonable grounds to support a finding that the parties to the Tigray conflict committed crimes against humanity and war crimes. The report identified that the conduct giving rise to [...]
Pakistani journalists’ freedom of expression is under threat as criminal defamation charges are being brought against journalists, according to a report published by media rights watchdog Freedom Network on Tuesday. The report, entitled “Criminalizing Online Dissent through Legal Victimization,” analyzed case law and other legal actions taken against journalists between 2019 and 2021, focusing on [...]
