JURIST

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development confirmed to German public broadcaster Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) last week that four local Afghan employees of the German government aid organization Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) office in Afghanistan have been arrested by the Taliban-backed Afghan government.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 29, 2021

Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote the majority opinion, adopting a rigid interpretation of a federal statute that requires the government to serve a “notice to appear” in order to trigger the “stop-time” rule. That rule can foreclose access to immigration relief by preventing noncitizens from accruing the time required for eligibility.

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JUNE 3, 2021

Share The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected the government’s broad interpretation of a federal law that makes it a crime to “exceed authorized access” on a computer. The post Justices narrow federal computer-fraud statute appeared first on SCOTUSblog. Check back soon for in-depth analysis of the opinion.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

A Russian court convicted political activist Anastasia Shevchenko Thursday, finding that she had violated the country’s “undesirable organizations” law through her involvement with a pro-democracy group. Officials first brought the case in January of 2019, when the government contended Shevchenko violated Article 284.1

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JURIST

JULY 22, 2024

The Law Society of Kenya issued a statement on Monday condemning an increase in the government’s road maintenance levy, calling the Ministry of Roads and Transport’s conduct “unconstitutional and procedurally flawed.”

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JURIST

JUNE 24, 2023

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. It does not “prohibi[t] a substantial amount of protected speech”—let alone enough to justify throwing out the law’s “plainly legitimate sweep.” Hansen that 8 U.S.C.

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

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Myanmar law students are reporting for JURIST on challenges to the rule of law in their country under the military junta that deposed the civilian government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021. Women who stand to be conscripted have been especially worried and devastated by this law.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

A federal appeals court threw out Rodney Reed’s federal civil rights lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Texas law governing DNA testing, explaining that Reed had filed his suit too late. But in a case in which the TCCA does grant rehearing, he added, the statute of limitations would start to run then.

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JURIST

JUNE 23, 2021

” The panel recommends adding “(e) the crime of Ecocide” to Article 5(1) of the Rome Statute with the following definition: Article 8 ter. The “ecocide” amendment would remedy this problem, and give the ICC authority to hold business and government leaders for their actions in times of peace.

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JURIST

AUGUST 6, 2023

Chin ruled that the plaintiff’s First Amendment Free Exercise Clause challenge to the law failed because the law is neutral and satisfies rational basis review. Chin found that the law’s legislative history does not contain “hostility” to religious believers. Circuit Judge Joseph F.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Share At oral arguments on Monday it was not clear how the Supreme Court will rule in the case of a Philadelphia-area government contractor found guilty of fraud after it failed to comply with a contract provision intended to promote diversity. The case arises from two major government construction projects in the Philadelphia area.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

In 2017, Oklahoma sued J&J, Purdue Pharma and Teva Pharmaceuticals under the state’s public nuisance statute alleging that the drug manufacturers deceptively marketed opioids within the state. This plan appropriated money to 21 government programs to combat opioid abuse statewide.

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JURIST

MARCH 24, 2023

The court’s finding rejected the argument of the plaintiff in the case, the Law Offices of Crystal Moroney P.C., The Appropriations Clause states, “No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.” In the US, Congress, instead of the executive branch, controls government funding.

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JURIST

JANUARY 22, 2024

The Philippines became a party to the Rome Statute , the founding treaty of the ICC, in November 2011. However, it withdrew from it in 2018 in accordance with Article 127 of the statute. Following the commencement of the preliminary examination, the Philippines subsequently withdrew from the statute.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 13, 2021

AllRise claims that the Bolsonaro administration has directly and negatively affected climate change, arguing they “systematically remove[d], neuter[ed], and eviscerate[d] law agencies and individuals that serve to protect the Amazon.” The Rome Statute lays out the “crimes against humanity” for which the ICC is its sole adjudicator.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Yassir Fazaga and other plaintiffs had initially filed a putative class action suit against the US Government, the FBI, and various FBI personnel in their official and individual capacities. Reynolds , wherein the Government asserted that the case should be dismissed to safeguard state secrets was not appropriate.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The government will now only be able to prosecute the company for failure to report suspicious prescriptions after October 2018, when the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) was amended. US District Court Judge Jerry Pappert limited the liability of opioid distributor Cencora (previously known as Amerisourcebergen) on Monday in the case US v.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 26, 2024

Share The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that a federal anti-bribery law does not make it a crime for state and local officials to accept a gratuity for acts that they have already taken. who was convicted and sentenced to 21 months in prison for violating the federal law at the center of the case, known as Section 666.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The company alleged that the bill was retaliation to their opposition to DeSantis’ policies, specifically Florida’s “ Don’t Say Gay ” law. Disney alleged that lawmakers passed the statute as retaliation for their opposition to Florida’s Don’t Say Gay law.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Although the request was submitted in accordance with Article 15 of the Rome Statute and Syria is not a State Party to the Rome Statute, jurisdiction over the alleged crimes can still be considered because the victims were forced into Jordan, a country that is a State Party to the Rome Statute.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 15, 2020

The US Supreme Court refused Monday to review an appeal seeking to reinstate Kansas’ voter identification law. The appeal cited an Indiana voter identification law requiring a photo identification presented when voting in person as justification for Kansas’ requirements: This Court’s decision in Crawford v.

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JURIST

APRIL 29, 2021

Commissioners investigated 43 cases of police murder, including the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Tamir Rice, as well as Jacob Blake, who was left paralyzed by law enforcement. However, this would require ratification of the ICC’s Rome statute by the closely divided US Senate, which is unlikely.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 16, 2023

Share The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the Department of Justice has broad, but not unfettered, authority to dismiss whistleblower lawsuits filed under the False Claims Act’s qui tam provision even when the government initially elected to allow the whistleblower to proceed with the action.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 3, 2021

United States provides the court’s first serious look at one of the most important criminal statutes involving computer-related crime, the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s opinion for a majority 0f six firmly rejected the broad reading of that statute that the Department of Justice has pressed in recent years.

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JURIST

JANUARY 17, 2024

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Wednesday in two cases involving a requirement for herring fisheries to pay for the observers the government used to monitor overfishing. At the heart of the two cases was a debate over the court’s current deference to executive branch agencies in interpreting ambiguous language in federal laws.

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JURIST

JUNE 8, 2022

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Tuesday ruled that a Honduran man’s conviction in California for possession of a forged social security number card (SSN) with a counterfeit government seal is grounds for deportation as a crime of moral turpitude.

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JURIST

JANUARY 17, 2023

Deputy Solicitor General Eric Feigin spoke on behalf of the US and referenced that the plain text of the relevant statutes supported his argument. ” The second is that nothing in the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act nor the common law immunizes Halkbank against criminal prosecution.

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JURIST

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. The lawsuit contended that state law is clear on the issue of absentee ballots, and that they must be either mailed to the county clerk’s office or delivered in person.

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JURIST

JANUARY 9, 2025

The inquiry, which examined classified military records, whistleblower accounts, and survivor testimonies, uncovered a disturbing pattern of behavior that raises serious questions about accountability and the rule of law in armed conflict. Equally significant is the protection of individual rights.

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JURIST

MAY 1, 2022

The ICC investigation focuses on alleged crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in Libya since the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi’s government in February 2011. Libya is not a party to the Rome Statute. The investigation also includes three unexecuted arrest warrants issued by the ICC.

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JURIST

AUGUST 23, 2023

The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ruled Tuesday that the state police (PSP) must disclose its social media monitoring policy to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Pennsylvania under the state’s right-to-know law (RTKL). The case is an appeal from the Commonwealth Court of Pennslyvania. Justice David N.

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JURIST

APRIL 24, 2021

The issues in both cases involves the federal law that prohibits felons from possessing firearms, 18 USC §922(g). The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard oral arguments in two cases involving one of its own precedents regarding felony firearms possession. Two years ago in Rehaif v.

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JURIST

JANUARY 25, 2024

The court reasoned that even though Malaysia had a valid original title to Pedra Branca, Malaysian authorities demonstrated no intention to claim ownership of the island from the British colonial government in 1953. However, the then Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad dropped the application in 2018.

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SCOTUSBlog

MARCH 24, 2023

1324(a)(1)(iv) , the federal law that criminalizes “encouraging or inducing unlawful immigration,” violates the First Amendment’s guarantee of free of speech. The federal government came to the Supreme Court, which in December agreed to weigh in. Hansen , the Supreme Court will consider whether 8 U.S.C. unnecessary.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 4, 2021

Independence in no shape or form means that the lawyers or the lawyers’ association will not be responsive toward the government; rather it means that lawyers will kept away from political pressure and thus work in the best possible manner toward ensuring justice to the public.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2023

City of New York , a 2022 lawsuit brought by a group of cooperative apartment and other building owners seeking to invalidate Local Law 97 of 2019 , New York City’s building performance standard to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the City’s largest buildings. But it also offers a broader primer to local governments elsewhere.

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