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University of Kansas (KU) chemical engineering professor Feng “Franklin” Tao was convicted by a US federal jury Thursday for concealing ties to China while he was doing research funded by the US government at KU. Tao was found guilty on three counts of wire fraud and one count of false statements after he concealed that [...]

Ian Profiri is JURIST’s Staff Correspondent for Canada. He files this dispatch from Calgary.  Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart released a statement Friday evening clarifying his and his city’s position on the copycat “Freedom Convoy” protests that materialized in major cities across Canada this past weekend in the wake of ongoing protests in Ottawa. “As the [...]

The State of Texas submitted a complaint Thursday in the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas demanding Planned Parenthood repay $10 million in Medicaid reimbursements. Attorney General Ken Paxton submitted the complaint claiming that Planned Parenthood improperly avoided reimbursement of Medicaid funding after it was terminated from the program. The Texas Medicaid [...]

The US Supreme Court Monday heard oral arguments for Gallardo v. Marstiller on whether the “federal Medicaid Act provides for a state Medicaid program to recover reimbursement for Medicaid’s payment of a beneficiary’s past medical expenses by taking funds from the portion of the beneficiary’s tort recovery that compensates for future medical expenses.” The court [...]

On Friday, Morgan Stanley agreed to pay $60 million as a preliminary settlement of a class action lawsuit brought against it for allegedly failing to secure customers’ personal data before retiring old information technology, Reuters reported. The settlement offer awaits the approval of New York District Judge Analisa Torres.  The lawsuit was filed on behalf [...]

The United States Supreme Court Wednesday announced that it will be holding a special hearing next month to assess the legality of two federal mandates implemented by the Biden Administration mandating COVID-19 vaccines in the workplace. The hearing will cover cases involving two of the Biden Administration’s three federal vaccine mandates: the mandate issued by [...]

The Minnesota Supreme Court on Wednesday held that federal law preempts a state Workers’ Compensation (WC) law requiring employers to reimburse injured employees for medical marijuana. Two respondents filed lawsuits seeking to have their former employers reimburse them for prescribed medical marijuana, which was prescribed to treat their work-related injuries. Justice Anderson delivered the court’s [...]

The Supreme Court of India ruled Friday that if the fundamental right to education under “Article 21A of the Constitution has to become a reality,” then the needs of underprivileged children “to receive adequate access to online education cannot be denied.” The court passed the order while issuing notice in a special leave petition against [...]

US President Joe Biden announced a six-pronged plan on Thursday to combat COVID-19 at a time when the Delta variant is rapidly spreading throughout the country. The first part of the plan is to vaccinate as many of the 80 million unvaccinated Americans as possible. To meet this goal, Biden asked the US Department of [...]

In October 2020, the World Trade Organization (WTO) representatives from India and South Africa submitted a proposal for the waiver from the “implementation, application and enforcement” of certain sections of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS Agreement) in relation to prevention and treatment of COVID-19. Further to this, some countries have [...]