US President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Friday calling for the declassification of some documents related to investigations carried out by the FBI on the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the US. President Biden released a statement regarding the order saying that he made a campaign promise to ensure transparency regarding the attacks. This [...]
A grand jury on Thursday indicted former Georgia prosecutor Jackie Johnson on two charges related to her alleged mishandling of the fatal shooting of 25-year old Ahmaud Arbery. Johnson, formerly the Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney, is accused of violating her oath of office and obstruction of law enforcement. Arbery was fatally shot in February [...]
Russia’s communications watchdog, Roskomnadzor, on Thursday issued warnings to Apple and Google that the tech giants will be subject to fines if they do not remove an app associated with jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny from their digital marketplaces. Roskomnadzor released the statement via the Russian Interfax News Agency, saying the app “is used to [...]
The Sackler family on Wednesday won immunity from opioid lawsuits linked to Purdue Pharma, their privately owned company, and its OxyContin medication when a federal judge approved a bankruptcy settlement to resolve thousands of opioid lawsuits. OxyContin is a prescription painkiller that is stronger than morphine. Nearly all 50 states filed lawsuits against Purdue Pharma [...]
JURIST EXCLUSIVE – Law students 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 only lightly [...]
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 female law student in Herat in western Afghanistan offers her latest observations and perspective. For privacy and security reasons we are withholding her name and institutional affiliation. The text has [...]
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to block a Texas law banning abortions as early as six weeks into pregnancy, keeping intact the most restrictive anti-abortion law in the US. Senate Bill 8 (SB 8), signed by Governor Greg Abbott in May, has banned abortion when an ultrasound can detect a “heartbeat,” which is [...]
The European Union’s (EU) highest court Thursday ruled that the zero-tariff plans offered by internet access providers are contrary to the regulations on Open Internet Access and incompatible with EU law. Zero-tariff is a commercial plan offered to attract customers in which data used on specific applications offered by partners of that access provider will [...]
The Madras High Court Tuesday observed that queerphobia is being affirmed in the curriculum of the country’s medical courses, leading to judgement and prejudice against LGBTQIA+ communities. The court was hearing a petition from a lesbian couple seeking court protection from their relatives who disapproved of their relationship and had filed “missing girl” complaints with [...]
Fourteen Republican lawmakers filed a complaint on Tuesday with the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania challenging Act 77, which established universal mail-in voting in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in October 2019, as unconstitutional. All the 14 lawmakers (“plaintiffs”) are members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives: Timothy Bonner of Mercer County; Mike Jones of York County; [...]
