JURIST

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

A Netherlands appeals court overturned a landmark 2021 ruling requiring Shell to cut its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030 on Tuesday. The court cited the company’s duty of care to mitigate climate change risks. The case has been closely watched as a potential precedent for corporate climate accountability.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2025

The Taliban accused the ICC of political bias and failing to hold foreign occupiers accountable for wartime atrocities committed during the US-led War in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2021. However, the Taliban, which ousted the previous government and took power in August 2021, has declared that decision to be now devoid of any legal backing.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2024

The governments of the Republic of Chile, the Republic of Costa Rica, the Kingdom of Spain, the French Republic, Luxembourg, and Mexico referred Afghanistan for further investigation to the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday for violation of women’s rights in Afghanistan.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled Tuesday that Google’s decision to deny developer Enel’s JuicePass app access to Android Auto’s platform was an abuse of market power. The post Top EU court affirms Italy antitrust decision on Google Android case appeared first on JURIST - News.

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MARCH 24, 2025

The Supreme Court on Monday morning declined to decide when a statement that is made out of court to an agency responsible for making bail recommendations is the kind of testimonial statement to which the Sixth Amendment applies. The courts order denying review in Franklin v. Washington.

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JURIST

JANUARY 19, 2025

CNN reached a legal settlement with a security contractor on Friday after the Florida First District Court of Appeal ruled the network liable for defamation. The Court of Appeal upheld the trial court’s decision, awarding Young and his company Nemex Enterprises $5 million in compensatory damages. .

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JANUARY 29, 2025

India’s Supreme Court strongly criticized the Allahabad High Court on Monday for failing to grant bail in a case involving alleged forced religious conversion. The court stated that the decision created an impression of bias and ignored well-established legal principles. The Supreme Court bench comprising Justice J.B.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

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 congressman Jose Armando Ubico Aguilar to 18 years in prison for international drug trafficking.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2025

DunixeBerlanas , CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons The EU General Court on Wednesday upheld a significant financial penalty against Poland, amounting to approximately 320 million, due to non-compliance with EU laws through its judicial reforms enacted in 2019.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

WhatsApp Ireland Ltd has appealed a €225 million ($236 million) fine to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on Tuesday, the European Union’s highest court of appeal. WhatsApp took this step after its 2022 challenge of the decision was rejected by the General Court of the CJEU. billion fine in May 2024.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The US Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear Alaskan residents’ challenge against a ballot measure that requires public disclosure of political donations. ” Whether the respective provisions of Ballot Measure 2 violate the First Amendment remained in the plaintiff’s petition to the US Supreme Court.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit granted a stay barring constitutional challenges against a controversial Texas law criminalizing “ vote-harvesting ” until after the November 5 presidential election. Accordingly, the court enjoined Texas from implementing the prohibition.

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JANUARY 14, 2025

Ending one skirmish amid the legal battles at Tesla over excessive compensation, a Delaware Chancery Court on January 8 approved a deal that Teslas board of directors struck 18 months ago to return roughly $919 million to the company. Additionally, they will forego stock option compensation from 2021 to 2023 worth as much as $184 million.

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JURIST

JUNE 29, 2024

The UK Court of Appeal ruled Thursday that the UK National Crime Agency’s (NCA) refusal to investigate the importation of Uyghur forced labour cotton from China was unlawful. In November 2021, GLAN and WUC initiated judicial review proceedings against the UK authorities for not halting imports.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

A Washington DC judge sentenced on Friday multiple members of a far-right nationalist group known as the Proud Boys for their role in the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot. The jury found that Nordean and several other members of the Proud Boys conspired to prevent the US Congress from carrying out the vote certification on January 6, 2021.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney temporarily suspended a rule on Tuesday requiring paper ballots to be hand-counted in Georgia in the upcoming US federal election. ” Similarly, hand-counting can be expensive, as seen in Mesa County, Colorado, which cost the county $80,000 for one week of hand-counting votes in 2021.

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OCTOBER 11, 2024

Human Rights Watch also critiqued the resolution on Wednesday, stating that the women’s rights crisis in Afghanistan has only deepened in the years since the Taliban regained power in 2021. The Taliban seized control in Afghanistan in 2021, becoming the de facto authority of the country.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 19, 2023

” The lawsuit was initiated by two Victorian drivers, Chris Vanderstock and Kathleen Davies, shortly after the ZLEV Charge Act was passed in 2021 on the basis that s 7(1) of the ZLEV Charge Act imposes a duty of excise within the meaning of section 90 of Australia’s Constitution and is thereby constitutionally invalid. .”

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JURIST

MARCH 1, 2024

The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit ruled Friday that enhancements were improperly applied to the sentencing of a participant in the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot. The court applied sentencing enhancements to his conviction on the basis that his crimes were a “substantial interference with the administration of justice.”

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JURIST

AUGUST 15, 2022

A Myanmar court Monday sentenced former State Counsellor and democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi to an additional six years in prison after she was found guilty of corruption charges, according to state media. Several corruption cases have been filed against Aung San Suu Kyi since the military coup in February 2021.

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JURIST

JUNE 2, 2024

The Kansas Supreme Court held Friday that there is no fundamental right to vote in the state’s constitution in a complex ruling related three 2021 election laws concerning false representation of election officials, verification of advance ballots and limitations on their collection.

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JURIST

AUGUST 12, 2024

The US District Court for the District of Columbia on Friday sentenced California resident David Nicholas Dempsey to 20 years imprisonment for attacking police in the course of rioting at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. On September 4, 2021, Dempsey traveled by flight from California to Michigan where he met up with two individuals.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The Ohio Supreme Court Tuesday unanimously overruled a judgment of the Ohio Second District Court of Appeals and moved that there must be “direct” physical loss or physical damage in the company’s computer software for insurance policy coverage.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 22, 2023

The US Supreme Court declined on Friday to block a district court ruling that a Missouri law that attempts to invalidate federal firearm law within the state is unconstitutional. Missouri applied to Justice Brett Kavanaugh to stay the lower court ruling. 30, 44 (2021). In July 2021, Missouri Governor Michael L.

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JURIST

AUGUST 8, 2024

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reinstated a claim brought by landlords on Wednesday who argued that the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) nationwide eviction moratorium during the COVID-19 pandemic constituted a “taking” under the Fifth Amendment , entitling them to compensation.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

She now faces two counts of transmitting insulting messages via a computer system under Sierra Leones Cybersecurity and Crime Act 2021. Hunt, 42, was arrested on December 22, 2024, while appearing as a contestant on the popular reality show House of Stars. Offences such as libel and defamation should be decriminalized.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini was acquitted by a Sicilian court Friday on charges of kidnapping and dereliction of duty over his refusal to allow a boat carrying migrants to dock in Italy. The trial against Salvini was first initiated in April 2021. The ship carried 147 rescued migrants, of whom 27 were minors.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled on Tuesday in favor of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation’s dispute with the state of Idaho regarding the tribe’s hunting rights on US land. Sung noted that the court must interpret treaties in the context that the parties would naturally understand.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Russian authorities arrested Marc Fogel in August 2021 for drug trafficking. For example, government officials may not represent a wrongfully detained person in overseas courts or serve as a translator. Fogel’s attorney revealed that the Department of State made the designation in October.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

The sentence was handed down by Judge Richard Berman of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. He pleaded guilty to terrorism charges in 2016 and was sentenced to 40 years in prison, which was affirmed by the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

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JURIST

JANUARY 23, 2025

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled on Thursday that France violated Ms. The Court highlighted that consent to marriage cannot be implied as consent to future sexual relations, and the very existence of such a marital obligation interferes with Ms. .’s The applicant, Ms. for over 20 years, sharing four children.

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JURIST

AUGUST 3, 2024

A Tunisian court on Friday sentenced four women to jail after they were convicted of buying endorsement signatures for a potential rival to President Kais Saied in the upcoming presidential elections. The court also deprived all four women of their right to vote for 10 years.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) announced on Wednesday the release of French-Afghan journalist Mortaza Behboudi by a Taliban court in Afghanistan. The post Taliban court frees French-Afghan journalist after 284-day imprisonment appeared first on JURIST - News. He was immediately released from Pul-e-Charkhi prison in Kabul.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The German Constitutional Court on Tuesday ruled a law allowing double jeopardy in criminal cases where new evidence was available was unconstitutional. In 2021, the Bundestag added a fifth provision. However, the court found the 2021 reform conflicted with Article 103 of the Basic Law.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Tunisia’s Independent High Authority for Elections (ISIE) rejected on Monday a decision of the country’s Administrative Court reinstating three candidates for its presidential election on October 6. These elections will mark the first presidential vote since President Kais Saied’s self-coup in 2021.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Amnesty International ultimately called for the referral of the situation in Myanmar to the International Criminal Court and emphasized that all parties involved in the conflict must abide by international humanitarian law. The conflict in Myanmar dates back to 2021 when the country’s military seized power following a coup.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The decision comes only a few weeks after the US Supreme Court rejected a petition from the state government, which sought to appeal a court order prohibiting the use of gerrymandered congressional maps in Alabama elections. ” The new map is attached to the court order as “ Exhibit A.”

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