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AUGUST 10, 2021

“8th Circuit court partially upholds Iowa’s 2012 ‘ag-gag’ law; a new lawsuit challenges the state’s 2021 statute”: William Morris of The Des Moines Register has this report. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit at this link.

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MAY 2, 2025

Following the withdrawal of US and NATO forces in August 2021, the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan after the fall of Kabul on August 15. The Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue reaffirmed its commitment to rights protections under a 2021 decree that would uphold women’s rights.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit Thursday instructed the District Court for the Northern District of Georgia to dismiss Marjorie Taylor Greene’s lawsuit over a challenge to her congressional candidacy. Greene asked the district court to bar the challenge.

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MARCH 18, 2025

The ruling party submitted the bill to the parliament on Monday, seeking to prohibit events violating child-prohibiting statutes and to authorize police to use facial recognition technology to identify participants. In 2021, Hungary banned the “promotion of homosexuality” to those under 18.In

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MARCH 7, 2022

The District Court of Stockholm convicted a woman Friday for failing to prevent her 12-year-old son from being used as a child soldier in the Syrian civil war. The district court’s judgment rested on the finding of a crime by omission. The court sentenced the woman to 6 years in prison.

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APRIL 20, 2022

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Tuesday sent lawsuits by six California cities and counties accusing ExxonMobil, Chevron Corp and other energy giants of fueling climate change back to state court after the US Supreme Court required the court reexamine the cases. Other lawsuits are still pending.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The Minnesota Supreme Court Wednesday upheld a state law prohibiting convicted felons from voting while on probation or parole in a 3-1 ruling. The court rejected this argument. Justice Thissen’s opinion also held that the statute did not create the racially disparate impact of felony disenfranchisement.

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JURIST

JANUARY 24, 2023

In court, Mackey argued that he did not commit, engage in, or link with anyone within the EDNY. However, the court held the historical procedures have long recognized that the “interpretative dynamism [is] necessitated by the rapid technological change.”

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JURIST

JUNE 24, 2023

The US Supreme Court ruled Friday in US v. Justice Amy Coney Barrett, writing for the majority, criticized the lower court ruling , which called the law “overbroad,” saying: Properly interpreted, this provision forbids only the intentional solicitation or facilitation of certain unlawful acts. Hansen that 8 U.S.C.

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MARCH 31, 2021

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Monday denied the federal government’s motion to stay a district court decision striking down the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) eviction moratorium. Congress extended the moratorium to January 31, 2021, and the CDC further extended it to March 31.

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JURIST

JUNE 22, 2023

The Supreme Court of the State of Colorado struck down the state’s Child Sexual Abuse Accountability Act (CSAAA) on Tuesday, ruling that the law violates the state constitution and is “unconstitutionally retrospective.” M árquez authored the opinion of the court. ” Justice Monica M.

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MAY 3, 2021

20-1396 (Supreme Court 2021). Rather than reaching the merits, the district court dismissed the case on procedural grounds. The district court ruled that Tormasi lacked the capacity to sue and the Federal Circuit then affirmed. New Jersey has a statute on point: “Every person who has reached the age of majority.

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JURIST

JANUARY 23, 2025

International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim AA Khan announced on Thursday that his office filed two applications for arrest warrants before the Pre-trial Chamber against two Taliban officials accused of committing crimes against humanity.

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JURIST

MAY 16, 2022

The US Supreme Court Monday granted both Jones v. The Supreme Court previously denied Jones certiorari but granted it after the Eighth Circuit affirmed a lower court’s dismissal of his habeas petition in August 2021. The court is anticipated to hear arguments in these two cases in the fall. ” Jones v.

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JURIST

JULY 11, 2024

In a unanimous decision, the Utah Supreme Court decided Thursday that Utah citizens have a constitutional right to reform their government in response to past redistricting efforts to divide Salt Lake City into four congressional districts, resulting in Republicans winning by a large margin.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

New York Supreme Court Justice Thomas Marcelle ruled Monday in the case Cuomo v. Here, the Legislature has done by statute what was required to be done by constitutional amendment. ” The case began in 2021 when former Governor Andrew Cuomo stepped down amid allegations of sexual harassment.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2022

The Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC) Wednesday submitted a request to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for the opening of a preliminary examination into the role of the Islamic Republic of Iran (Iran) and the armed groups in Syria it controls in crimes committed during the conflict in Syria.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2023

A US Circuit Court Thursday declared the law preventing those subject to a domestic violence restraining order from owning a gun, unconstitutional. Rahimi , the US Appeals Court for the Fifth Circuit found that the law was an unconstitutional restraint on Americans’ Second Amendment rights to own a firearm.

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MAY 17, 2024

The Supreme Court of India ruled Thursday that any acquisition of private property by the state must meet a set of criteria under Article 300A of India’s Constitution, which includes being carried out for a public purpose, following the law, and following proper procedure. This incident prompted Shah to petition the Calcutta High Court.

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MARCH 16, 2024

INIRR was formed in 2021, a first-of-its-kind initiative formed by the Conference of Bishops of France in response to the CIASE report, which found over 216,000 victims of abuse in France from 1950-2020. Most abuses occurred during youth events, Catechism, in school or in priest’s homes.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2021

India’s Ministry of Law and Justice released Friday the Draft Mediation Bill, 2021 , inviting comments and suggestions from all stakeholders. As of date, in the absence of a separate statute, Section 89 of the Civil Procedure Code , as well as the rules framed by several high courts under that section, govern mediation in India.

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JUNE 8, 2023

Yolande Mukakasana, a writer and survivor of the 1994 genocide, criticized the ruling, stating that “[t]he decision by the court is likely to undermine the spirit of reconciliation going on in Rwanda. He was first indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in 1997 before being transferred to the IRMCT.

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JANUARY 30, 2021

The Arizona Statute of Limitations Applicable to Collection Lawsuits and Non-Judicial Trustee’s Foreclosure Sales of Real Property, article by Larry O. Folks, Folks Hess, PLLC (1/2021). Current Date: 1/2/2021. Furthermore, as was fully discussed above, the Arizona Supreme Court, in Mertola, LLC v. Short answer: No.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Whereas 2020 ended with a newfound sense of the possible, 2021 ends with us still not knowing what is ahead, and therefore which way to turn. Whereas 2020 ended with great promise for regulatory reform, 2021 ends with little further progress on that front – and even retreats to some extent. Do courts fully reopen or not?

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MAY 2, 2025

The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has relisted for its upcoming conference. The Supreme Court continues its recent streak of promoting relists to granted cases, as the court granted review in The Hain Celestial Group, Inc. A short explanation of relists is available here.

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OCTOBER 2, 2021

” The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court states that a war crime includes the “conscription, enlistment, or active use of children under 15 years old in active hostilities during armed conflict.”

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JUNE 1, 2023

The Federal Criminal Court of Switzerland on Thursday upheld former Liberian warlord Alieu Kosiah’s 20-year prison sentence for war crimes and convicted him of crimes against humanity, the first such conviction in Switzerland. Kosiah was initially convicted and sentenced for war crimes by the Trial Chamber of First Instance in 2021.

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JULY 19, 2022

The sedition law is a statute from the colonial era when India was controlled by the United Kingdom. Senior researchers for HRW stated: While the courts ultimately dismiss most sedition cases, the process itself becomes the punishment. The current law was reviewed by the Indian Supreme Court in 1962 and found to be constitutional.

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JANUARY 22, 2024

Tuesday reaffirmed on Tuesday that the country would not cooperate with the investigation undertaken by the International Criminal Court (ICC) into the previous administration’s “war on drugs” led by its former president Rodrigo Duterte, which allegedly took the lives of over 12,000 Filipinos.

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JUNE 29, 2022

” New York Attorney General Letitia James filed the lawsuit in New York Supreme Court’s Commercial Division. For the public nuisance claim, James is invoking a New York public nuisance statute passed in July 2021.

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MARCH 29, 2024

The Court of Appeals of the Second Appellate District of Texas threw out a voter fraud conviction Thursday that would have put a Texas woman accused of voting while on supervised release after being convicted of a felony behind bars for five years. The ballot contained language putting former felons on notice of possible legal ramifications.

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JUNE 18, 2024

Under the current international law, such as the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court , persecution on the basis of gender is impermissible and considered a crime against humanity. After, it continuously highlighted the discrimination imposed by the Taliban after it again took over Afghanistan in 2021.

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JANUARY 15, 2022

In June 2021, the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty filed a lawsuit on behalf of two Wisconsin residents, challenging the legal status of the drop boxes. Judge Michael Bohren agreed with the plaintiffs, finding no explicit authorization for drop boxes in the statute governing absentee ballots.

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JULY 3, 2021

.” Judge Hinkle held that while social media platforms are not entirely indistinguishable from newspapers or other traditional mediums for First Amendment purposes, they still exercise editorial scrutiny and engage in speech, thus subjecting the Florida statute to First Amendment scrutiny. Town of Gilbert, Ariz.

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OCTOBER 25, 2021

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (the “Federal Circuit”), of course! Like patent office cases, when decisions of the Veterans Administration (“VA”) are appealed to the federal court system, the cases are not heard in your everyday district courts, but instead in everyone’s favorite court with nationwide jurisdiction.

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APRIL 15, 2021

Here is a rundown of what’s happening with US Supreme Court cases: Decided : The court recently decided Google LLC v. The court made no determination as to whether the API was actually copyrightable in the first place. ” Argued : On March 1, 2021, the court heard oral arguments in US v.

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OCTOBER 13, 2023

Armenia made submissions to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Thursday. In response, Azerbaijan asked the court to reject Armenia’s requests. Azerbaijan launched an attack on Nagorno-Karabak in mid-September, shortly after Armenia’s National Assembly considered ratifying the Rome Statute.

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