Three student loan borrowers Monday filed a petition to try to force the servicing arm of loan giant Navient into bankruptcy. The three plaintiffs all claim that their own student loan debts were discharged through their own bankruptcies, but they accuse Navient of attempting for the last decade to get them to repay the already-discharged [...]

Over-the-top (OTT) platforms such as Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hotstar, and others, are subscription-based audio or video hosting services that are majorly involved in streaming feature films, web series, documentaries, etc. These platforms offer a wide range of content and modify the suggestions according to viewers’ choice by using Artificial Intelligence (AI). They generate revenue by [...]

JURIST EXCLUSIVE – Protests against the February 1 coup that installed a military government in Myanmar continued Wednesday as authorities released most people detained in Tuesday’s large-scale protests in defiance of a military ban on public gatherings. The protests were peaceful. Although police kept a close watch, demonstrations were not broken up with water cannon [...]

Twitter announced Wednesday that it would reimplement restrictions on some Indian accounts following its receipt of a non-compliance notice and threat of legal action by the Indian government. Following legislation passed in September concerning the government’s role in agriculture and state protections for farmers, thousands of farmers have protested. The UN Office of the High Commissioner [...]

A group of more than 50 legislators representing 16 legislatures called Monday on HSBC Holdings Chairman Mark Tucker to unfreeze Hong Kong activist Ted Hui’s accounts. Ted Hui is a former lawmaker from Hong Kong’s pro-democracy camp. In December, after announcing he was seeking asylum status in the UK, he said that he no longer [...]

The parents of a deceased amateur investor sued the financial trading app Robinhood Monday for the wrongful death of their son, Alex Kearns, who committed suicide last June mistakenly believing that he had lost $730,000 in a trade on the app. According to the lawsuit, Kearns’ last written words were, “How was a 20-year-old with [...]

El gobierno de Colombia y el Alto Comisionado de la ONU para los Refugiados anunciaron el pasado lunes que Colombia brindará una nueva forma de estatus legal a los 1,7 millones de venezolanos desplazados en Colombia, brindándoles seguridad básica esencial mientras vivan en este país como refugiados. La nueva iniciativa ofrece un estatus temporal de [...]

UN human rights experts expressed grave concern Monday over Thailand’s increasingly severe use of lèse-majesté laws to curtail criticism of the monarchy, singling out a 43-year sentence for an elderly woman convicted for insulting the royal family. Anchan Preelert, a 60-year-old former civil servant, was on January 19 last year handed what is viewed as [...]

David Correia, a former business associate of Rudy Guiliani, was sentenced Monday to one year and one day in federal prison, having pleaded guilty to a charge of defrauding investors. Correia was accused of collecting investments ranging from $200,000 to $500,000 for a start-up company, Fraud Guarantee. Correia, along with Lev Parnas, is accused of [...]

UN human rights experts Monday urged 57 countries to repatriate more than 10,000 displaced women and children associated with Daesh fighters from Syrian camps. The experts expressed grave concern over deteriorating conditions at Al Hol and and Roj camps located in northeast Syria, citing a recent uptick in violence and security threats within the camps. The [...]