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OCTOBER 30, 2024

The Supreme Court of Kenya reversed the Court of Appeal ruling on Tuesday that declared the Finance Act 2023 unconstitutional. President Ruto signed the Finance Act 2023 into law on June 26, 2023, but it was later contested for unconstitutionality in the High Court.

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DECEMBER 22, 2024

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Friday partially revived a suit alleging improper FBI surveillance of Muslim residents of Southern California. The case was heard on remand from the United States Supreme Court and decided on the findings of the District Court. In the present case, Fazaga v.

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APRIL 30, 2025

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Monday in a disability-rights appeal brought on behalf of a student and her parents against their school district, alleging their child did not receive fair accommodations for their child’s disability. The court is expected to decide on the case before the end of June. ” Lisa S.

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APRIL 13, 2025

The North Carolina Supreme Court issued an order on Friday in the election protest raised by state Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin. In a 4-2 decision, the ruling partially upholds and partially reverses an April 4 order entered by the state’s Court of Appeals.

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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. Originally, the law allowed four reasons for reopening a case: forgery of documents, false statements by a witness, judicial negligence or valid confessions post-trial.

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JUNE 6, 2022

The US Supreme Court announced Monday it would hear Wilkins v. Wilson deals with the QTA’s 12 year statute of limitations for claimants and asks whether the statute of limitations is a jurisdictional rule or a claim-processing rule. However, a claim-processing rule allows for exceptions and more discretion for courts.

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JURIST

AUGUST 21, 2024

The Verkhovna Rada (Parliament) of Ukraine voted on Wednesday to ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court , making Ukraine a state party. The Foreign Minister of Ukraine, Dmytro Kuleba, claimed that ratifying the Rome Statute demonstrates Ukraine’s “unwavering commitment to strengthening international justice.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Amnesty International submitted on Monday a petition to the Pre-Trial Judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) requesting an end to the ICC Prosecutor’s delay in starting the court’s investigation against Nigeria. The letter by Amnesty International alleges a possible violation of Article 15(3) of the Statute.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

Meeting in Vienna and Riga, the Core Group, comprising representatives from various countries, welcomed Ukraine’s ratification of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, which includes the Kampala Amendment on the crime of aggression.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Armenia officially became the 124th State Party to the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday after Ambassador Mher Margaryan deposited Armenia’s accession documents in a ceremony held at the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs, where Margaryan presented the instrument of ratification to the Director of the Treaty Section.

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JURIST

JANUARY 29, 2022

The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania Friday declared unconstitutional Pennsylvania’s “no-excuse mail-in voting law,” which permits voters to cast their ballots by mail without providing an excuse for their absence. ” In its decision, the court stated: Approximately 1.38

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JURIST

JUNE 20, 2021

The US Supreme Court on Thursday reversed a ruling that allowed several individuals to sue food corporations Nestlé USA and Cargill over child slavery claims, limiting corporate liability under the Alien Tort Statute. The case which the Supreme Court decided was Nestlé USA, Inc. Doe I, consolidated with Cargill, Inc.

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MARCH 31, 2021

The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled Monday that Missouri is not barred from enforcing a state law that criminalizes misleading advertisements of vegan food products as containing meat. The companies alleged that the statute violated their First Amendment and due process rights, as well as the Dormant Commerce Clause.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The Supreme Court of Illinois Thursday ruled that individuals have a five-year period to launch a claim under the Biometric Information Privacy Act. This ruling reverses an appellate court decision that allowed for only a one-year period on claims relating to unlawful handling of people’s data under the act. Black Horse Inc.

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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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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 19, 2024

“Bonus 113: Tick Tock for TikTok; The justices’ decision to hear expedited argument on the constitutionality of the TikTok statute makes a lot of sense; It’s also a good foil for a broader debate about when / how the Court intervenes.”

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FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Share The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that a group of Virginia drivers challenging a state motor vehicle law was not entitled to reimbursement of their attorneys fees even though a federal district court issued an order in their favor that temporarily prohibited the state from enforcing the law and the states legislature repealed the law.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 28, 2024

In the complaint, Krasner argues that this petition violates the State Lottery Law by organizing an unauthorized lottery. Accordingly, Krasner invites the court to issue an injunction to restrain the petition. ” At this time, the civil lawsuit is in its early stages, but Krasner is planning to litigate the issue in court.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 27, 2025

The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to weigh in on the bid for compassionate release by a New York man convicted of murder for hire a quarter-century ago. Both denials spurred dissents from the denial of review by some of the courts conservative justices. Fernandez came to the Supreme Court last fall, asking the justices to weigh in.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The report concluded by condemning the crimes against humanity and serious human rights violations and calling on Russia to immediately cease its aggression and bring its practice in line with international law. Outside of judicial accountability, he also hopes the report serves the purpose of truth-telling for reparations and prevention.

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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. ” Anyone found to be in violation fo the law would be charged with a misdemeanor.

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JURIST

MARCH 21, 2025

Central to the commission’s findings was Rule 7 of the Rome Statute , which states that forced disappearance and torture constitute crimes against humanity when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack against any civilian population.

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MAY 31, 2022

Managing an increasing volume of cases and court deadlines– sometimes in multiple jurisdictions – is one of the biggest time management challenges for law firms. . The statute of limitations ran out due to his forgetting the deadline. The firm had filed a voluntary dismissal back in 2014.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The Montana Supreme Court on Wednesday affirmed a lower court’s ruling that a state law violated the youth plaintiffs’ right to a clean and healthful environment under the state constitution. ” The court also ruled against the state’s argument that the plaintiffs lacked standing in the case.

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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

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 law at issue, Minn. The appellants, two convicted felons, argued that the law violates Article VII , Section 1, of the Minnesota Constitution.

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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. At the district court level, US District Judge Brian C.

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 1, 2025

The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that an air traffic controller who was called up to serve on active duty in the U.S. By a vote of 5-4, the court rejected the governments narrower interpretation of the law at issue in the case, which would make it harder for reservists like Coast Guard reservist Nick Feliciano to recover differential pay.

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JURIST

JUNE 24, 2023

The US Supreme Court ruled Friday in US v. 1324(a)(1)(A)(iv) , a federal law that criminalizes the encouragement of illegal immigration, does not violate the First Amendment of the US Constitution. ” The US government filed a petition for a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court in 2022. Hansen that 8 U.S.C.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 14, 2023

On Sunday, President Vahagn Khachaturian signed the Armenian parliament’s decision to ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court ( ICC ) into law , placing the Caucasus country under the Hague-based institution’s jurisdiction despite warnings from its longtime ally Russia.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Yet, the defendant parties continued their informational campaign, constituting common law negligence. The post Maine attorney general sues big oil companies over climate change appeared first on JURIST - News.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The US Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 opinion Thursday that mistakes of law—and not only mistakes of fact—could protect parties from losing their copyrights on grounds of inaccurate registration. Unicolors, a fabric design company, sued fashion giant Hennes & Mauritz (H&M) for copyright infringement in 2020.

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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 Mississippi law requires that mail-in ballots be sealed and postmarked on or before election day.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The US Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal from North Carolina on Monday over the constitutionality of a state law allowing employers to sue employees working as undercover investigators. The challenged statute, N.C. The court stated that the law substantially “burden[ed] newsgathering and publishing activities.”

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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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JURIST

JUNE 29, 2023

A Pennsylvania state court rejected Tuesday a challenge to Act 77 , a law that amended the state’s Election Code to expand mail-in voting options. However, the Commonwealth Court was unconvinced by the challenge. In 2022, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania rejected an argument attacking the constitutionality of the law.

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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. Article 65 of the ICJ Statute further establishes the court’s jurisdiction to provide advisory opinions.

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