JURIST

MARCH 31, 2025

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday for a Wisconsin Catholic charity requesting a religious exemption from an unemployment insurance tax. ” The court will make a final ruling on the case during the 2024-2025 term. She prompted the petitioners to look to the legislative history of the federal provision.

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JURIST

APRIL 22, 2025

The US Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge Monday to the appellate court decision that struck down Minnesota law prohibiting adults aged 18-20 from obtaining a permit to own guns and carry them in public. The court supported its decision by a 2022 US Supreme Court decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations (UN), commenced hearings on the obligations of States concerning climate change on Monday. The oral proceedings are scheduled from Monday, December 2, to Friday, December 13, 2024, at the Peace Palace in The Hague.

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JURIST

MARCH 26, 2025

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday over a challenge to Louisiana’s recently redrawn voting map and its two Black-majority districts. But this has became life as usual for the states under this Court’s voting cases.” It is unclear how the court will rule in the case.

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JURIST

MARCH 11, 2025

According to the Philippines Presidential Communication Office, INTERPOL Manila arrested Duterte at the airport upon his arrival from Hong Kong, after receiving the arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court (ICC) on the same day. The arrest has also triggered protests at the airport from his supporters.

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JURIST

JULY 30, 2024

A US federal court dismissed a Republican National Committee (RNC) challenge on Sunday to a Mississippi law that allows validly cast mail-in votes to be counted for up to five business days after election day. The post US federal court dismisses lawsuit against counting of mail-in ballots after election day appeared first on JURIST - News.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The US Supreme Court, in a split decision, issued a brief statement on Thursday refusing to reinstate a Florida law that targets drag shows. A lower court order previously prohibited the law from coming into effect. The post US Supreme Court refuses to reinstate a Florida law targeting drag shows appeared first on JURIST - News.

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Day on Torts

JANUARY 24, 2025

Where the defendant in a car accident case received several citations for violations of city traffic laws, the statute of limitations was not extended to two years because the citations were civil in nature, not criminal. 19, 2024), the plaintiff and defendant were involved in a car accident. The Court of Appeals reversed this ruling.

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JURIST

JANUARY 30, 2025

Plaintiff Felix Kolotinsky brought the class action lawsuit with a demand for a jury trial in the US District Court for the Northern District of California San Francisco Division on behalf of a group of California residents who claim the company’s data collection practices violate California law. and 502 of the California Penal Code.

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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

JULY 19, 2024

A US appeals court on Thursday dismissed a challenge to a Tennessee law that restricts drag performances, reversing a lower court’s decision that blocked the law from taking full effect. ” FOG, however, said it was “shocked and disappointed” by the court’s decision on Thursday.

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JURIST

AUGUST 7, 2024

23 states have either renewed or amended their declarations of intervention in the ongoing International Court of Justice (ICJ) case brought by Ukraine against Russia concerning allegations of genocide in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, according to a Tuesday ICJ press release.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 24, 2025

Share At oral arguments earlier this week the Supreme Court was skeptical of the Food and Drug Administrations effort to block a North Carolina-based company from challenging the denial of its application to market e-cigarettes in the conservative U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, based in Louisiana.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 11, 2025

In New York, a lawsuit challenging regulations that were promulgated by a state agency to implement the siting law was finally defeated in November 2024, after multiple appeals. In Michigan, a similar challenge is pending before the Michigan Court of Appeals.

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JURIST

MAY 9, 2024

The cases of murder, torture, persecution, and forcible transfer of the civilian population could amount to crimes against humanity as defined in Article 7 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Khan in January 2024 during a statement. This was confirmed by ICC prosecutor Karim A.

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JURIST

MARCH 19, 2025

In April 2024, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled that the Peruvian state violated the rights of 80 residents in the city of La Oroya due to pollution of air, water, and soil caused by mining and metallurgical activities.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 17, 2025

Cornell University will not go into the history books as one of the most important 30 decisions of the 2024-25 term. The case involves a technical problem about pleading standards under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, and the courts resolution of the problem was, in a word, technical. Share Cunningham v.

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JURIST

MAY 15, 2024

International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim Khan announced his plans to complete the investigations into war crimes committed in Libya by the end of 2025 on Wednesday at the Security Council. The first phase will be dedicated to completing investigations between May 2024 and the end of 2025.

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JURIST

MARCH 5, 2024

Pre-Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Court (ICC) held on Monday that a hearing on charges against Joseph Kony, a fugitive Ugandan militant who founded the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), can take place in his absence in October 2024.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 1, 2023

Natural Resources Defense Council , the Supreme Court ruled that courts should defer to a federal agency’s interpretation of an ambiguous statute as long as that interpretation is reasonable. On Monday, the Supreme Court agreed to reconsider its ruling in Chevron. Share Nearly 40 years ago, in Chevron v.

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JANUARY 1, 2024

One of the biggest players in Illinois politics faces a criminal racketeering trial, a host of lawsuits filed under a decades-old genetic information privacy law will advance and the state's high court is expected to further weigh in on insurance coverage for litigation under the state's biometric privacy statute in some of the Illinois cases to watch (..)

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JULY 23, 2024

United States , 603 U.S. _ (2024), the U.S. Supreme Court held that 18 U.S.C. Facts of the Case As the Court explained in its opinion, Federal and state law distinguish between two kinds of payments to public officials—bribes and gratuities. As enacted in 1984, the statute at issue in the case, 18 U.S.C. In Snyder v.

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JURIST

MARCH 14, 2025

” According to the court, NetChoice also adequately showed that the use and dark pattern restrictions in the Act are likewise impermissibly vague, and the age estimation requirement also invalid on its face. The court applied the Supreme Court’s four-factor test from Winter v. Council, Inc.

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Day on Torts

OCTOBER 18, 2024

A third complaint filed more than one year after dismissal of the original complaint did not fall within the savings statute and was time barred. 23, 2024), plaintiff filed a complaint alleging several tort claims, including assault, battery, and trespass. Defendant filed a motion to dismiss based on the statute of limitations.

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JURIST

JUNE 18, 2024

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Monday granted an en banc rehearing for a case about procedures for Ohio citizens proposing Ohio constitutional amendments through ballot initiatives. ” The district court denied their injunctive relief request and they appealed to the Sixth Circuit. .”

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Day on Torts

OCTOBER 18, 2024

A third complaint filed more than one year after dismissal of the original complaint did not fall within the savings statute and was time barred. 23, 2024), plaintiff filed a complaint alleging several tort claims, including assault, battery, and trespass. Defendant filed a motion to dismiss based on the statute of limitations.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System , 603 U.S. _ (2024), the U.S. Supreme Court held that a claim under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) does not accrue for purposes of 28 U.S.C. 2401(a) ’s default six-year statute of limitations until the plaintiff is injured by final agency action. In Corner Post, Inc.

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Day on Torts

MARCH 19, 2025

A legal malpractice claim filed eighteen months after the Court of Appeals affirmed the underlying conviction was time-barred. 21, 2025), the Court of Appeals affirmed dismissal of a pro se legal malpractice complaint based on the statute of limitations. Richardson , No. M2024-01130-COA-R3-CV (Tenn. Continue reading

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Share The Supreme Court on Friday issued orders from its so-called “long conference” – the justices’ private conference in the last week of September, at which they met for the first time since the end of June to add new cases to their docket. The trial court rejected that argument, and the California Court of Appeals agreed.

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JURIST

JULY 18, 2024

As a general conclusion, the paper found advances in the fields of verdicts, reasoning and reasonable time for courts to consider the cases. Furthermore, in the substantive part, the association made a warning for courts using the Rome Statute as a source of international law in order to establish war crimes under the Ukrainian criminal code.

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Conflict of Laws

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Regarding the integration of video conferences in this context, we underscore that in July 2024, a Special Commission was held to review the implementation of various Conventions, including the taking of evidence. The regulation in Argentina In Argentina, the Order of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (CSJN) 20/2013 is relevant.

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SCOTUSBlog

JANUARY 5, 2024

Share A pair of challenges to controversial social media laws in Texas and Florida and a dispute over whether to freeze the Environmental Protection Agency’s plan to reduce ozone levels across the United States headline the Supreme Court’s February 2024 argument calendar , which was released on Friday morning. Bissonnette v.

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JURIST

APRIL 12, 2025

The Trust Fund for Victims (TFV) at the International Criminal Court (ICC) welcomed on Friday the decision of the court to award victims 52.4 The chamber also dismissed arguments on overlapping claims in Ugandan courts, asserting that compensation claimed or taken in national courts is distinct from reparations under the ICC framework.

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Patently O

MARCH 31, 2025

The case presents important questions about statutory interpretation in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. 369 (2024), and could significantly impact the ability of the Office of Personel Management (OPM) to determine the scope of its own power. United States , No. Raimondo , 603 U.S.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 9, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for a Pennsylvania county to count mail-in ballots that do not comply with a state law requiring voters to write the date on the ballot’s envelope. Migliori , stemmed from a race last fall for three positions on the Lehigh County Court of Common Pleas. The dispute, Ritter v.

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SCOTUSBlog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Share The Supreme Court will kick off its 2023-24 term on the traditional first Monday in October. The court’s October argument session will feature six arguments over five days, on topics ranging from federal sentencing laws to voting rights. A three-judge panel of the U.S.

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JURIST

MAY 19, 2024

The Taiwan Constitutional Court held that other government branches acting within their constitutional powers are not subject to the legislature’s investigative power. However, the DPP, as the ruling party, failed to maintain a legislative majority in the 2024 election.

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