The Supreme Court of Virginia on Tuesday affirmed an injunction reversing the suspension of a Loudoun County teacher who spoke against the school’s gender policy. Tanner Cross, a gym teacher at a Loudoun County Elementary School, criticized a proposed district policy that would ensure equal treatment of transgender students. Cross declared during a May 25, [...]
Facebook has been in and out of the spotlight for over ten years. It has been a place to connect with old friends, share event photos, and even find a community through one of the millions of Facebook Groups. In order to provide such a service, the company collects, processes, and uses data from its [...]
A Colorado grand jury on Wednesday formally indicted three police officers and two paramedics in the 2019 killing of Elijah McClain, a young Black man who died while in police custody after he was stopped when walking home from a store. One former police officer and two current officers of the Aurora Police Department as well [...]
The Texas legislature on Tuesday passed a bill containing a set of new voting restrictions that will tighten the state’s already strict voting rules, which is considered some of the strictest in the nation. Senate Bill 1, titled Election Integrity Protection Act, explicitly states the legislative intent to “reduce the likelihood of fraud in the [...]
South Korea passed an amendment to its Military Court Act on Tuesday that will see members of the country’s military accused of homicide and sex crimes tried in civilian courts. Before the amendment, such cases were heard in specialized military courts. According to activists, this compromised the independence of trials. Military commanders had influence over [...]
China’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection called for increased regulation of food outlets on Monday after revealing the compromised food safety of certain outlets that have been overwhelmed by internet popularity. According to the Commission, food safety outlets whose reputation, scale and number of locations are responses to online popularity has led to compromised food [...]
A Texas law banning abortions as early as six weeks into the pregnancy took effect at midnight Tuesday, becoming the most restrictive anti-abortion law in the US. Senate Bill 8 (SB 8), signed by Governor Greg Abbott in May, will allow any private citizen to sue abortion providers for up to $10,000 per person involved. [...]
JURIST EXCLUSIVE – Myanmar law students continue to report for JURIST on challenges to the rule of law in their country under the military regime that took power from the civilian government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February. In recent months, armed resistance to the military junta has grown in some northern regions and [...]
Virginia Governor Ralph Northam on Tuesday granted posthumous pardons to the Martinsville Seven, a group of young Black men who were tried, convicted and executed in 1951 without sufficient due process and given the death sentence by a racially biased all-White male jury. The pardon comes 70 years after the men were executed by electric [...]
Twenty states filed a lawsuit on Monday seeking to overturn Biden administration’s guidance allowing transgender employees and students to use bathrooms and locker rooms corresponding to their gender identity. The plaintiffs, who filed in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee, are a coalition of GOP-run states. The state of Tennessee is [...]
