JURIST

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The oral proceedings are scheduled from Monday, December 2, to Friday, December 13, 2024, at the Peace Palace in The Hague. Article 65 of the ICJ Statute further establishes the court’s jurisdiction to provide advisory opinions. Although non-binding, they serve as authoritative statements of international law.

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JURIST

MARCH 11, 2025

The prosecution of the crimes against humanity is based on Article 7 of the Rome Statute , with the alleged acts of murder, torture or inhumane acts, imprisonment, enforced disappearances, and sexual and gender-based crimes. ’ Relatedly, the Philippines criminalized the crime against humanity domestically in 2009.

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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. In Sandridge v. Henderson , No. Code Ann.

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JURIST

JANUARY 23, 2025

Karim AA Khan stated that his office collected solid evidence suggesting that the Supreme Leader of the Taliban and the Chief Justice of the “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan” committed the crime of persecution on gender grounds, violating Article 7 (1) (h) of the Rome Statute.

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JURIST

JANUARY 30, 2025

In August 2024, a class action lawsuit brought against communications company Twilio alleged that the company’s SDK violated multiple statutes, including the CDAFA. The plaintiff claims that the collecting and selling of such sensitive information violates 638.51 and 502 of the California Penal Code.

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JURIST

MARCH 31, 2025

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson questioned whether the “religious purposes” part of the statute is not really about the motivation of the activity, but instead the types of activities the organization undertakes. ” The court will make a final ruling on the case during the 2024-2025 term.

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JURIST

AUGUST 7, 2024

The ICJ in its judgement on February 2, 2024 , affirmed its jurisdiction to hear Ukraine’s claims and confirmed its authority to adjudicate the dispute under the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

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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

APRIL 22, 2025

In July 2024, the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled that the state’s ban on young adults carrying handguns was unconstitutional. ” Earlier in January, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit similarly struck down a federal statute that only allows people to purchase handguns after they reach the age of 21.

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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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JURIST

MAY 15, 2024

The first phase will be dedicated to completing investigations between May 2024 and the end of 2025. The case was unanimously referred to the ICC by the Security Council as Libya is not a party to the Rome Statute. So far, the investigation has resulted in three cases, with five arrest warrants issued.

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JURIST

MARCH 26, 2025

The Civil Rights Era statute aimed to end voter suppression practices in southern states and specifically prohibits “ the denial or abridgment of the right to vote on account of race or color.” Plaintiffs claimed that the map violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA). It is unclear how the court will rule in the case.

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JURIST

JULY 30, 2024

The judge ruled that Mississippi state statute is “consistent with federal law and does not conflict with the Elections Clause , the Elector’s Clause or the election day statutes.” Judge Louis Guirola Jr. The Elections Clause, located in Section 4 of the US Constitution, gives Congress the power to regulate national elections.

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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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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. The local governments argue that this interpretation is not supported by the statute and that they should be allowed to impose other types of restrictions.

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FDA Law Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

However, as we suggested in a recent blog post , the statute did not actually provide any limitations on FDAs authority to grant rare pediatric disease designations , only its authority to grant vouchers. In an earlier press release on December 19, 2024, Arbor Biotechnologies had announced FDAs clearance of its IND for PH1.

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Day on Torts

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

10, 2024), plaintiff child was injured when she cut her foot on a broken metal pipe under the surface of a state-owned lake. The State filed a motion to alter or amend, arguing that the Recreational Use Statute provided immunity here. In Gordon v. State of Tennessee , No. W2023-01012-COA-R3-CV (Tenn.

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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. She observes that the exemptions for reasonably priced transactions are set forth in a different part of the statute and so do not impose additional pleading requirements to set out a claim. Share Cunningham v.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Hamburger Mary also claimed that the law violated of the US Constitution’s First Amendment and that the statute was too vague to be properly enforced. The district court blocked the Protection of Children Act from coming into effect with a preliminary injunction, ahead of a trial scheduled for June 2024.

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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

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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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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Day on Torts

JANUARY 27, 2025

In a Tennessee health care liability (HCLA)d case based on the defendants failure to disclose CT scan results to the plaintiffs, the plaintiffs could not rely on fraudulent concealment to toll the statute of repose where the defendants were unaware of the undisclosed test results. The plaintiff patient in Estate of Rowe v.

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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. 2401(a) ’s default six-year statute of limitations until the plaintiff is injured by final agency action. The complaint challenged Regulation II on the ground that it allows higher interchange fees than the statute permits. In Corner Post, Inc.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The 10th of February 2024 was a particularly dark day for the citizens of Myanmar. At 8:00 PM, the Ministry of Information under the ruling State Administration Council (SAC) issued a significant notification regarding the People’s Military Service Law, a compulsory military service statute originally enacted in 2010.

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JULY 23, 2024

United States , 603 U.S. _ (2024), the U.S. As enacted in 1984, the statute at issue in the case, 18 U.S.C. First, the majority found that the statutory text strongly suggests that §666—like §201(b)— is a bribery statute, not a gratuities statute. But the gratuities statute for federal officials, §201(c), does not.

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JURIST

JULY 19, 2024

.” The court therefore found that FOG did not “demonstrate that its shows are arguably adult-oriented performances that lack serious value for a reasonable 17-year-old” and that the plaintiff “cannot rely on the argument that the statute might be misconstrued by law enforcement.”

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JURIST

JULY 18, 2024

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. Therefore, the publication instructed judges to use the statute merely as an additional documentation for qualification under domestic law.

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Day on Torts

MARCH 19, 2025

21, 2025), the Court of Appeals affirmed dismissal of a pro se legal malpractice complaint based on the statute of limitations. The trial court accordingly found that the legal malpractice complaint filed in June 2024 was time-barred, and the Court of Appeals affirmed. Richardson , No. M2024-01130-COA-R3-CV (Tenn. Continue reading

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APRIL 16, 2024

However, in a quirk of history, Congress created a patent-law specific venue statute in the 1800s that severely limits where a patent case can be filed. This portion of the bill is entitled the “ Venue Equity and Non-Uniformity Elimination Act of 2024 or VENUE Act.” See 28 U.S.C. A newly proposed bill, S.4095, 1391(c)(3).

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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. Consultation date: 10/11/2024. [7] Consultation date: 10/11/2024. [9] Consultation date: 04/09/2024. [11]

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JURIST

MARCH 14, 2025

Net Choice in 2024 clarifying the standard for analyzing a facial challenge to a statute under the First Amendment. California appealed that injunction to the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. While that appeal was pending, the Supreme Court decided Moody v.

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MARCH 31, 2025

369 (2024), and could significantly impact the ability of the Office of Personel Management (OPM) to determine the scope of its own power. Courts initially gave their fairly broad interpretation of the statute, but OPM later implemented narrow regulations that cut-off substantial overtime pay. Raimondo , 603 U.S.

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JURIST

MAY 19, 2024

Nonetheless, the Judiciary and Organic Laws and Statutes Committee refused to review the version proposed by the minority party, also preventing this version from being deliberated by the legislature. However, the DPP, as the ruling party, failed to maintain a legislative majority in the 2024 election.

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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. Raimondo , is likely to be argued in the fall, with a decision to follow sometime in 2024. Share Nearly 40 years ago, in Chevron v. Circuit.

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MARCH 18, 2025

2024 was the hottest year on record , and the planets 10 warmest years since 1850 have occurred in the past decade. These statutes could impose liability on mCDR project proponents who violate the laws by failing to comply with the relevant statutory requirements. judge-made) law.

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JURIST

APRIL 12, 2025

In February 2024, the Trial Chamber of the ICC ordered reparations to approximately 49,772 direct and indirect victims of Ongwen’s crimes, concluding that they had suffered “serious and long-lasting physical, moral and material harm.” The reparations can be issued either individually or collectively.

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