JURIST EXCLUSIVE – A Friday on-the-ground update from another of our law student correspondents in Myanmar, filed before the military’s “daily” Internet shutdown that began at 1 AM MMT Saturday (1:30 PM EST Friday): We don’t know when the internet cut off is anymore. They will just cut off whenever they want. Some say the [...]

Four conservative lobbyists filed suit in federal court on Wednesday seeking to block Nevada Governor Stephen Sisolak’s COVID-19 emergency orders. The lawsuit calls the shelter-in-place order a “draconian” restriction on Nevadans’ rights, alleging violations of plaintiffs’ due process rights under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments and plaintiffs’ right to petition under the First Amendment to [...]

US lawmakers on Thursday introduced a comprehensive immigration bill creating an eight-year pathway to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented individuals residing in the US. Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) formally introduced the US Citizenship Act of 2021, which co-sponsored by 11 other Democratic lawmakers. Under the bill, the Secretary of Homeland Security has the authority [...]

South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster signed a bill on Thursday that prohibits an abortion if a physician detects a fetal heartbeat. The bill will only take effect if the US Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade. The General Assembly passed the South Carolina Fetal Heartbeat and Protection from Abortion Act with a 79-35 vote. The law [...]

A Delhi trial court on Wednesday acquitted journalist Priya Ramani in a criminal defamation case brought by former Union Minister MJ Akbar relating to sexual harassment allegations that Ramani made against him during the 2018 #MeToo movement. Ramani had written an article on sexual harassment for Vogue in 2017 and subsequently had tweeted accusing Akbar [...]

Facebook on Wednesday barred Australians from seeing or sharing news content on Facebook. The move came in response to the Australian government’s proposed media bargaining law that would force Facebook and Google to pay to use content from Australian media companies. Facebook described its decision to “restrict the availability of news on Facebook in Australia,” [...]

Taxi app firm Uber must classify its drivers as workers, entitling tens of thousands of drivers to minimum wage and holiday pay, the UK Supreme Court held on Friday. Under s. 230(3) of the Employment Rights Act 1996, a “worker” is anyone employed (a) under a contract of employment or (b) any other contract, whether [...]

JURIST EXCLUSIVE – A Friday update from one of our law student correspondents reporting for JURIST in Myanmar, sent just before the now-daily military-imposed Internet blackout from 1 AM – 9 AM MMT (1:30 PM – 9:30 PM EST): Today, there was no bad news except from what happened in Myitkyina, in the northern part [...]

The European Commission took the first step in commencing legal proceedings against Hungary on Thursday, following the country’s failure to change a controversial 2017 law requiring foreign-funded non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to disclose their donors to authorities or face fines. The move comes as a result of Hungary’s failure to repeal its controversial Law on the [...]

The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) found in a landmark decision released Wednesday that the Jamaican government is responsible for violating the human rights of two of its nationals within the LGBT community. The Human Dignity Trust (HDT), a charity composed of international lawyers championing LGBT rights, brought the case in 2011 on behalf [...]