Here’s the domestic legal news we covered this week: President Trump announced new tariffs Thursday in two separate proclamations, one for imports of steel and one for aluminum . The Florida House of Representatives on Wednesday approved Bill 7026 , the “Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act,” 67-50 in order to to provide [...]

Judge Pablo Llarena of Spain’s Supreme Court denied on Friday the requested release of former president of the Catalan National Assembly (ANC) Jordi Sànchez. The request was filed to allow Sànchez to attend the investiture debate in Parliament next week for the new leader of Catalonia. Sànchez has been in custody since October over charges [...]

Lawmakers in Mississippi have passed a bill banning abortion after 15 weeks of gestation. The bill passed in the Senate 35-14 after lawmakers removed provisions imposing criminal penalties on physicians. The House then approved the revised bill 75-34 . Calculated from the first day of the woman’s last menstrual period, the only exceptions the bill [...]

Eleven countries including Japan, Australia, and Canada signed a trade agreement Thursday known as The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) . The deal will span a market of nearly 500 million people, making it one of the world’s largest trade agreements. The CPTPP serves as an update to the Trans-Pacific Partnership , [...]

President Trump announced new tariffs Thursday in two separate proclamations, one for imports of steel and one for aluminum . Trump says the tariffs’ main purposes are national security, as well as economic growth, and that they will take effect in 15 days, and continue until the tariffs are expressly reduced, modified or terminated. The [...]

The Supreme Court of India on Friday upheld the verdict of the Constitutional Bench which upheld the removal of life-support for individuals who are terminally ill or in incurable comas, otherwise known as passive euthanasia. The Supreme Court of India upheld the right to die with dignity as a fundamental right. The 538 page judgement [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Dr. Charles Lugosi of Crease Harman, LLP, discusses how Canadian prime ministers’ evasive answers during the Question Period expose deeper constitutional issues… All Canadian citizens, regardless of personal political preferences, are the heartbeat of parliamentary democracy. Together we vote to choose the political party that will exercise the powers of the executive [...]

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Wednesday released his annual report concerning global human rights in which he criticized global politicians for acting to further their own political ambitions “at the expense of vulnerable humans.” Al Hussein began the report acknowledging the celebration for Nelson Mandela’s one-hundredth birthday and his [...]

The Florida House of Representatives on Wednesday approved Bill 7026 , the “Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act,” 67-50 in order to to provide stricter guidelines on firearms safety. The bill, approved by the Florida Senate on Monday, states that the intended purpose of the legislation is to, “reduce deaths and injuries as [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Wednesday struck down an employee termination based on the employee’s transgender identity, despite the employer’s strong religious beliefs. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) pursued the claim on behalf of Aimee Stephens, a former employee of Defendant-Appellant R.G. and G.R. Harris Funeral Homes, Inc. . [...]