A key organizer of the Freedom Convoy protests that paralyzed Canada’s capital city for a month in 2022 was sentenced on Wednesday to three months of house arrest. Ontario Superior Court judge Charles Hackland also sentenced organizer Pat King to 12 months of probation, to begin once King’s house arrest ends. The sentence additionally includes [...]

US conservation groups filed a lawsuit against the administration of President Donald Trump on Wednesday, claiming the administration violated the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act by issuing an executive order reversing withdrawals of oil and gas leases. The conservationists filed the suit in the US District Court for the District of Alaska, alleging that the [...]

A Montana judge on Wednesday struck down a state law defining sex in binary terms, finding that the law violated the Montana Constitution’s guarantees of equal protection and privacy. Judge Leslie Halligan of the Montana Fourth Judicial District Court, Missoula County, denied the state’s motion for summary judgment and held that the plaintiffs, a group [...]

Media companies tied to US President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit Thursday against Brazillian Federal Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, accusing him of violating a US-based far-right commentator’s right to free speech when issuing orders suspending social media accounts for spreading disinformation. The lawsuit, filed by Rumble Inc. and Trump Media & Technology Group, [...]

The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child stated on Thursday that children are facing extreme violations of rights in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The committee, established to help protect child rights in its signatory states, including the DRC, has expressed concern over violence, abduction and military recruitment of children in the [...]

Amnesty International on Thursday condemned the US government for systematically violating the right to seek asylum at the US-Mexico border, asserting that current policies violate both domestic and international human rights obligations. In its briefing titled “Lives in Limbo: Devastating Impacts of Trump’s Migration and Asylum Policies,” Amnesty International detailed how executive actions and increased [...]

The US Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas announced on Tuesday that the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas sentenced former Guatemalan lawmaker Jose Armando Ubico Aguilar to 18 years in prison for international drug trafficking. US District Judge Michael Truncale rendered the verdict on February 11 after Ubico Aguilar pleaded [...]

In 1996, when Professor Bernard Hibbitts first established JURIST, few could have foreseen the impact the project would have. Whether measured in terms of the individual lives it has touched, its global reach, or the impressions it has left on the landscape of online legal news coverage, JURIST’s role cannot be overstated. What began as [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit declined Tuesday to overturn a lower court’s injunction that blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order abrogating birthright citizenship. The rejection stated that the federal government had not made a “strong showing that they are likely to succeed on the merits,” as required by law. Circuit Judge [...]

The New York Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court, upheld the constitutionality of the state’s Commission on Ethics and Lobbying in Government on Tuesday, in an action brought by former governor Andrew Cuomo, whom the commission is investigating. Cuomo was involved in establishing an enforcement agency to implement the state’s ethics and lobbying laws [...]