The Cowessess First Nation announced the discovery of 751 unmarked graves near the site of the Marieval Indian Residential School, approximately 160km east of Regina, Saskatchewan, on Thursday. The bodies were found using ground-penetrating sonar across an area of 44 000 square meters. The site is believed to have been a cemetery for victims of [...]

The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday in Collins v. Yellen, that the decision to restrict the President to remove the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) director violated the separation of powers. The 7-2 ruling formed in two parts addressed the issues of whether Congress could limit the President’s ability to remove the FHFA director from [...]

Canada’s House of Commons approved a bill on Tuesday that amends the Criminal Code to criminalize certain activities associated with LGBTQ+ conversion therapy in order to discourage and denounce it. The lower house passed the bill by a vote of 263 to 63 and, it defines “conversion therapy” as “a practice, treatment or service designed [...]

The ECOWAS Court of Justice on Tuesday ordered the Nigerian government “to refrain from imposing sanction on any media house or harassing, intimidating, arresting and prosecuting” Nigerians for the use of Twitter and other social media platforms, pending its determination of a substantive suit filed by NGOs challenging the ban. The order comes as a result of [...]

US Secretary of Defense Llyod Austin released a statement on Tuesday announcing that he will support changes to the military justice system that would allow independent military lawyers to handle sexual assault cases, removing the cases from the chain of command. Austin’s statement is in response to a report from the Independent Review Commission (IRC) [...]

JURIST EXCLUSIVE – As India’s COVID-19 infection rate continues to fall from its grotesque levels in early June, India correspondent Neelabh Bist takes a look at some of the impacts that the second wave of COVID-19 has had on India, its legal profession, and its court system. Still he notes that with vaccination levels very [...]

The Vatican has delivered a protest to Italy’s embassy over a bill intended to combat homophobia, the Corriere della Sera confirmed Tuesday. The “Zan Bill,” named after Democratic legislator Alessandro Zan, is a response to rising homophobic crime that would criminalize discriminatory conduct on the basis of sex, gender, sexual orientation and gender identity. The [...]

The controversy surrounding the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 seems to have taken a global stage. WhatsApp, a California-based Facebook unit and also the most widely used social messaging platform in India, has filed a legal complaint in Delhi High Court against the Indian government seeking to block the [...]

The US Supreme Court held Wednesday in Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassaid that a California regulation granting labor organizations a “right to take access” to an agricultural employer’s property to solicit support for unionization constitutes a per se taking. The case stems from a decades-old California regulation that allows union organizers to meet with farmworkers [...]

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled unanimously in Lange v. California that, under the Fourth Amendment, pursuit of a fleeing misdemeanor suspect does not always or categorically qualify as an exigent circumstance justifying warrantless entry into a home. Arthur Gregory Lange was driving home when a California highway patrol officer began following him with the [...]