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The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled Wednesday that police officers who conducted a no-knock raid on a house and injured four unarmed people were not subject to qualified immunity, a type of immunity that protects individual government officials from being sued over acts in the course of their duties. In [...]

A Michigan jury unanimously found Jennifer Crumbley, the mother of the Oxford High School shooter who killed four fellow students in 2021, guilty of four counts of involuntary manslaughter Tuesday. Crumbley will be sentenced at a later date but faces up to 15 years in prison under Michigan law. Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald announced [...]

A three-judge panel from the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Monday overruled a lower court decision that blocked a California law requiring individuals seeking to buy ammunition to undergo a background check, allowing the state to mandate background checks for ammunition buyers. The 2-1 decision by Judges Richard Clifton and Holly [...]

A federal judge blocked a California law on Wednesday which would have required background checks for individuals seeking to buy ammunition. The judge found that the California law, known as Proposition 63, violated the US Constitution’s Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. In 2016, California voters passed Proposition 63, which established background check [...]

The head of the UN Drug and Crime Office (UNODC) Ghada Waly, briefed the UN Security Council Thursday raising concerns about increasing gang violence in Haiti leading to increasing violence across the Caribbean. Waly told the Security Council that there has been a marked uptick in gang violence in Haiti, spurred on by arms trade [...]

The US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals held Tuesday that a Maryland county regulation requiring firearms dealers to provide suicide prevention literature at the point of sale is constitutional under the US Constitution’s First Amendment. Anne Arundel County, Maryland, declared suicide a public health crisis and in January 2022 passed an ordinance directing the county’s [...]

William Hibbitts is JURIST’s Deputy Editorial Director. He files this report from Halifax, Nova Scotia. A Canadian Federal Court judge ruled Tuesday in Ottawa that the Canadian government exceeded its authority and violated some protesters’ constitutional rights by invoking the federal Emergencies Act in response to the 2022 Freedom Convoy protests, which brought Canada’s capital [...]

The European Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday against Greece in Alkhatib and others v. Greece. The court ruled that the Greek coast guard used force that was not “absolutely necessary” within the meaning of Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) in shooting a Syrian man while attempting to intercept a [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit dissolved a previous stay on Saturday that allowed a California law to go into effect prohibiting concealed carry permit holders from carrying firearms in most public places, blocking the law. With this order, the California law will no longer take effect in January 2024. In a [...]

The Indian Ministry of Home Affairs issued a notification Monday that declared Canada-based Satwinder Singh, alias Goldy Brar, as an “individual terrorist” under the anti-terror law Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 (UAPA). This designation occurred due to his alleged associations with Pakistan-based Babbar Khalsa International which is a recognized terrorist organization. The notification stated that [...]