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FEBRUARY 11, 2024

The High Court of Australia dismissed the Catholic Church’s bid to avoid paying damages to the father of a choirboy allegedly sexually abused by Cardinal Goerge Pell. ” The Archdiocese then appealed the court’s decision to the Victorian Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, which was rejected. .”

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APRIL 12, 2024

The Supreme Court of Canada found Friday that the government acted dishonestly when it reneged on an 1877 treaty to an Alberta indigenous community and allowed for declaratory relief. Because of this, the Court reasoned that the Blood Tribe could be entitled to declaratory relief.

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MARCH 31, 2024

A Thai court acquitted 67 individuals on Friday of terrorism charges for protests that caused two airports to shut down in 2008. The Bangkok Criminal Court issued the 51-page ruling at around 10:00AM local time. The Bangkok Criminal Court issued the 51-page ruling at around 10:00AM local time.

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DECEMBER 1, 2023

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk condemned on Thursday the Russian Supreme Court’s decision to outlaw the LGBTQ+ movement in the country and label proponents of the movement “extremists” under new legislation.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2023

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Tuesday became the first US appeals court to propose a new rule requiring lawyers to certify that they either did not use generative artificial intelligence (AI) programs, like Chat GPT, to draft filings or that humans reviewed AI-generated material.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The Peru constitutional court moved Wednesday to affirm a 2017 pardon granting the release of ex-President Alberto Fujimori despite an Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) ruling that required the release be blocked. After an appeal the annulment was overturned by the Constitutional Court.

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JANUARY 25, 2024

The US Supreme Court and Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit on Wednesday refused Kenneth Smith’s application for a stay of his execution by nitrogen hypoxia. While no recorded dissent or explanation was given by the Supreme Court, the 11th Circuit Court cited the Supreme Court opinion in Glossip v.

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MARCH 21, 2024

India’s Supreme Court intervened on Thursday in the ongoing dispute over the government’s Fact-Check Unit (FCU) and temporarily halted its operation following concerns raised by various parties, according to Live Law. However, the move faced opposition, resulting in a legal battle that has now reached the nation’s highest court.

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MARCH 19, 2024

The US Supreme Court has lifted a stay that prohibited the enforcement of a Texas law that criminalizes illegal entry into the state from other countries, allowing the law to go into effect. The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit later blocked that injunction, allowing the law to go into effect.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The US Supreme Court announced a code of ethics Monday amid ethics scandals and public pressure. The new code claims to respond to the “misunderstanding that the Justices of [the Supreme] Court, unlike all other jurists in this country, regard themselves as unrestricted by any ethics rules.”

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MARCH 20, 2024

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday on the case Gonzalez v. The case is an appeal from the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which ruled against the councilwoman. Much of Wednesday’s oral arguments focused on the Supreme Court case Nieves v.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The Federal Court of Canada urged the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) to “do better” in fulfilling its duty owed to the court, according to a decision handed down by Chief Justice Crampton in October. The decision was declassified on Tuesday.

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JULY 11, 2023

A Kenyan appeals court declared Monday that mandatory life sentences are unconstitutional. The Court of Appeal at Malindi Kenya found that mandatory life sentences are “an unjustifiable discrimination, unfair and repugnant to the principle of equality before the law under Article 27 of the Constitution.”

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FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Moscow’s Basmanny District Court ordered Monday for the arrest of Andy Stone, Meta Platforms spokesperson, in absentia for charges relating to terrorism offenses and inciting extremist activities. The court also announced that Stone has also been placed on international and domestic wanted lists.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the UN’s court, issued an interim order on Thursday directing the Syrian government to “take all measures within its powers” to prevent torture. Syria boycotted the ICJ’s October hearing, and it is uncertain how it will respond to the court’s Thursday orders.

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DECEMBER 10, 2023

The Texas Supreme Court placed an administrative stay on Friday on a lower court’s temporary restraining order (TRO) that barred the enforcement of the state’s strict abortion bans on a pregnant woman whose fetus was recently diagnosed with a fatal condition. This is not the only abortion-related case in the Texas Supreme Court.

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MARCH 2, 2024

The Supreme Court of Canada ruled 5-4 on Friday that Canada’s Constitution protects Canadians’ internet protocol (IP) addresses from unreasonable search. In 2018, the European Court of Justice was similarly tasked with considering whether IP addresses constitute personal data in Benedik v Slovenia.

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MARCH 26, 2024

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange “ lives to fight another day” according to his brother Gabriel , as the UK High Court halted his potential transfer to the US on Tuesday due to inadequate assurances on his treatment if extradited to the US. The court’s decision (Para 9-11) clearly states: 1.

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MARCH 16, 2024

The US Supreme Court ruled Friday that public officials can be sued for blocking users on social media if the official posts about state matters and is authorized to speak for the state. The Supreme Court crafted this test after hearing two cases in which public officials blocked social media users. In one, Lindke v.

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MARCH 23, 2024

The Irish High Court ruled Friday that a decision made by the country’s Minister for Justice in 2020 to declare the UK a “safe country” to send asylum seekers back to during processing was “unlawful as a matter of EU law.” The UK has yet to respond to the ruling.

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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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DECEMBER 15, 2023

The US Supreme Court refused to block Illinois’ assault weapon and high-capacity magazine ban on Thursday. This decision comes after the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit allowed the ban to go into effect in November. ” The court also declined to block the ban in May.

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DECEMBER 14, 2023

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Thursday in a 5-2 vote that a Polish court violated a woman’s right to private and family life by forcing her to travel abroad to receive an abortion due to a fetal anomaly.

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APRIL 1, 2024

The Islamabad High Court granted an appeal to former Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday, suspending his 14-year sentence for the conviction on graft charges, according to a statement from his political party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. The appeal pertains to the Toshakhana corruption case , in which Khan was accused of selling state gifts.

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APRIL 26, 2024

Advocate General (AG) Athanasios Rantos of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on Thursday issued an opinion , largely siding with an Austrian lawyer and privacy activist who sued Meta for misusing his personal data to send him targeted advertisements.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2024

A New York appeals court ruled that a New York City law granting non-citizens the power to vote was unconstitutional. It was estimated that the law would allow more than 800,000 non-citizens the ability to vote in New York City local elections, prior to the court’s Wednesday ruling. The municipal legislation, Int.

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MARCH 16, 2024

The Supreme Court of Canada clarified on Friday the scope of judicial review for tribunal decisions, holding that judicial review is available even when a statutory right to appeal from tribunal decisions is limited to pure questions of law. The court refused to accept her application as it was time-barred.

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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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JANUARY 18, 2024

Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court invalidated on Wednesday, for the first time ever, a presidential pardon to former member of Parliament Duminda Silva. In a unanimous ruling, the court found that there was “no legal basis or even a factual basis to uphold the decision made by” former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to pardon Silva.

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MARCH 28, 2023

The US Supreme Court Monday declined to hear Steven Donziger v. He also raised the point that the appointment “allowed the district court to assume the ‘dual position as accuser and decision making’–a combination that ‘violates the due process’ rights of the accused.”

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FEBRUARY 17, 2024

US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito granted a stay order Friday to appellants contesting the terms of a $2.46 A settlement was approved by a bankruptcy judge in September of 2022 and upheld by a federal court in March of the following year. billion settlement between sexual abuse victims and the Boy Scouts of America (BSA).

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APRIL 21, 2024

An Italian court on Friday dismissed a long-running case against the rescue ship crews of three humanitarian organizations, who previously stood accused of aiding and abetting migrant smugglers while they were helping to rescue thousands of migrants off the coast of Libya and in the Mediterranean Sea.

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MARCH 20, 2024

The US Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Yonas Fikre’s challenge to his previous placement on the No Fly List can proceed, rejecting the government’s claim that his removal from the list rendered the lawsuit void. The Supreme Court, which granted certiorari in October, agreed.

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APRIL 14, 2023

The US Supreme Court Friday issued a 9-0 opinion in Axon Enterprise, Inc. Federal Trade Commission , holding that separate legal challenges to the structure of the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) may proceed in federal court. In the cases before the court, the commission chose the latter.

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