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The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) found Switzerland guilty of three human rights violations Tuesday. The ECHR determined that Swiss courts failed to adequately address the question of whether racial profiling was at play when police subjected Mohamed Shee Wa Baile, a Swiss national, to an identity check at Zürich station while on his [...]

Judge Arthur Engoron of the New York Supreme Court found former president Donald Trump liable for falsifying business records, issuing false financial statements and conspiracy to commit fraud and insurance fraud on Friday, fining Trump and his business nearly $355 million, subject to interest. Trump was also banned from serving as an officer in any New York [...]

Amnesty International released a statement on Wednesday warning of the Indian government’s disproportionate restrictions on the right to peaceful protest to quell the “Dilli Chalo” farmers protest. In response to farmers’ protests against agricultural policies, Indian authorities imposed limitations on group gatherings, barricaded along the route of the protest march and deployed tear gas and [...]

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 South Carolina woman, Taylor Shelton, sued the state on Monday after she was denied an abortion at around six weeks of pregnancy. She brings this suit along with Planned Parenthood South Atlantic (PPSAT) against the state because of its alleged ambiguous language in  Senate Bill 474 (SB 474), also known as the Fetal Heartbeat [...]

In what proved to be a constitutionally fraught week, the Governor of the State of Texas, Greg Abbott, stated on January 26 he will oppose any measure to infringe on Texas’s placing of razor wire on the US-Mexico border, a move that has bolstered Texas nationalists and increased calls that Texas should secede from the [...]

The US Supreme Court on Friday denied an anti-affirmative action organization’s emergency application to block the US Military Academy, known as “West Point,” from using race in its admissions process. In September 2023, Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), the group that recently won the significant case of SFFA v. Harvard, challenging the constitutionality of race-based [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit blocked on Thursday prison inmates’ lawsuit against Oregon Governor Kate Brown and others for putting the inmates on the lowest tier of priority for access to the COVID-19 vaccine. The court found that the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act immunized state officials and the vaccine [...]

A federal judge in Florida dismissed Disney’s lawsuit against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and the Secretary of Commerce on Wednesday for lack of standing and failure to state a claim. Disney sued DeSantis, the Secretary and and the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District (CFTOD) for alleged violations of the company’s First Amendment right to free [...]

The Arrangement on Reciprocal Recognition and Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters by the Courts of the Mainland and of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, which allows for specific court rulings from mainland China to be enforced in Hong Kong, officially came into effect on Monday. Hong Kong implemented the arrangement by [...]