The Delhi High Court on Monday dismissed a petition filed by Google LLC against the Competition Commission of India (CCI) after the CCI concluded that no confidential information was leaked and recommended the establishment of a committee to examine how such information came to be reported widely by news outlets. Google’s alleged in its petition [...]

Three more regional councils in Poland voted to repeal motions declaring their provinces “LGBT-free” areas on Monday, according to the state-run news agency Polska Agencja Prasowa (PAP). The southeastern regions of Podkarpackie, Lubelskie, and Małopolska join Swietokryskie in recanting the self-described designation. The moves come less than a week after the first polish region to drop the [...]

The US District Court for the District of South Carolina blocked the state’s mask mandate ban on Tuesday, determining that the mandate discriminates against children with disabilities. Proviso 1.108, implemented in May of this year, placed a ban on mandating mask-wearing for teachers and school children. It was written into the state school budget with [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit rejected a lawsuit against Google, Facebook and Twitter on Monday, concerning the 2016 Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando. Plaintiffs, a group of victims of the massacre, sought damages against the social media giants. The plaintiffs made two arguments. The first was that the companies violated anti-terrorism [...]

The UK Government announced on Monday that it will temporarily exempt the fuel industry from competition laws in response to the fuel crisis causing shortages across the country. Over the past week, a lack of delivery drivers interrupted the supply chain and caused mass petrol shortages. While the shortages were not due to an overall [...]

“History is an illustrious war against death.” – José Ortega y Gasset, Man and Crisis (1958) Afghanistan and “Palestine”: Newly Emerging Linkages At first glance, there are no obvious connections between the Taliban victory over the United States in Afghanistan and Palestinian terrorism against Israel. Upon closer inspection, however, the recent Taliban triumph reflects more [...]

Swiss citizens voted on Sunday to amend the Swiss Civil Code to legalize same-sex couples’ right to marry and to adopt children. Voters accepted the proposal in a 64 to 36 percent vote. The Swiss Federal Council and Parliament called for a referendum and endorsed same-sex marriage. They explained that although same-sex Swiss couples could [...]

California prosecutors on Friday charged Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) — one of the largest investor-owned utilities in the US — with involuntary manslaughter, finding a connection between the utility’s equipment and the deaths of four people in the 2020 Zogg Fire. “We have sufficient evidence to prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that is [...]

A panel of three judges from the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit lifted Monday a temporary injunction that halted a New York City mandate requiring all teachers to receive a COVID-19 vaccination. A preliminary injunction on the mandate was denied on Thursday, but a temporary injunction pending expedited review by the three [...]

JURIST EXCLUSIVE – Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the fall of Kabul to the Taliban. Here, a law student in Kabul offers his latest observations and perspective. For privacy and security reasons we are withholding his name and institutional affiliation. The text has been [...]