Indigenous activists from regions of the Amazon in Brazil and Colombia, along with environmental groups from France and the US filed suit in a French court on Wednesday against a supermarket chain for selling beef produced by companies that are responsible for mass deforestation and land grabs. The lawsuit claims that French grocery retailer Casino [...]
The US Supreme Court ruled 7-2 Thursday to limit the scope of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by expanding the deliberative process privilege exception to the Act’s disclosure requirement to include “in-house drafts of biological opinions that are both predecisional and deliberative, even if the drafts reflect the agencies’ last views about a proposal.” The case, [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Thursday dismissed a contempt of court finding against human rights attorney Steven Donzinger, the latest ruling in a years-long legal battle between Donzinger and international energy company Chevron. The issue originated in 2011, when an Ecuadorian court rendered a $9.5 billion judgment against Chevron for [...]
The Indian Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a civil writ petition against Dr Farooq Abdullah, a Member of the Lok Sabha (lower house of Parliament) from the Jammu & Kashmir National Conference party and a former Chief Minister of the erstwhile state of Jammu & Kashmir. The petition had made a plea for terminating the [...]
The US House of Representatives passed legislation on Wednesday seeking to expand voting rights and curb government corruption. The “For the People Act” passed mostly along party lines with a vote of 220-210. Representative Bennie Thompson of Mississippi was the lone Democrat who voted against the measure. The 791-page bill includes gerrymandering reform that requires [...]
JURIST EXCLUSIVE – International concern grew Friday for Myanmar lawyers and law students arbitrarily detained in the wake of the February 1 military coup that deposed the civilian government and prompted mass pro-democracy street demonstrations that continue despite the killing of over 50 protestors by security forces in the last two weeks. In London, the [...]
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the consolidated cases of Davis v. Saul and Carr v. Saul on Wednesday. Both cases seek to address the issue of whether a claimant seeking disability benefits under the Social Security Act must first raise an issue before the Social Security Administration (SSA) if they wish to [...]
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice found a man guilty of murder on Wednesday for driving a van into a crowd in Toronto, killing 10 and injuring 16 people. The court refused to name the man, calling him John Doe instead, because he committed the act of violence in order to achieve fame. Thus the [...]
The Biden administration Thursday announced that it would impose trade sanctions on Myanmar’s military coup leaders following the country’s overthrow of democratically elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi on February 1st. The Commerce Department stated that it would restrict Myanmar’s Ministry of Defense and Home Affairs along with Myanmar Economic Corporation and Myanmar Economic Holding [...]
Philadelphia and three other municipalities, filed suit against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania legislature on Wednesday, claiming the legislature unconstitutionally deprived the municipalities of their right to pass ordinances on single-use plastics. Lower Merion, Narberth, West Chester and Philadelphia are challenging the legislature’s use of the annual fiscal code amendment—”a must-pass omnibus-style bill [...]
