New Zealand justice minister resigns following careless driving charges
New Zealand justice minister Kiri Allan resigned from her position on Monday after she was charged with careless driving and resisting arrest. Allan was taken into custody by police Sunday night after she was involved in a vehicle collision with a parked car in Wellington. Police attended the accident and Allan returned a breath test [...]
US military member in North Korea custody after crossing demilitarized zone
The UN Command announced Tuesday that a US citizen on a tour of the Joint Security Area (JSA) of the demilitarized zone (DMZ) between North and South Korea crossed the border into North Korea and is believed to be in North Korean custody. US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin confirmed that the US citizen was [...]
Thalia Clerveau is a 3L at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. She files this dispatch from Accra. This is one in a seasonal series of columns by JURIST law student staff and correspondents discussing their summer work in support of justice, human rights and the rule of law, in their own countries and [...]
Judge temporarily blocks abortion ban in Iowa as abortion providers' suit proceeds
A district judge in Iowa issued a temporary injunction on the state’s new “fetal heartbeat law” Monday following a suit by abortion providers to block the strict abortion ban, formally known as House File (H.F.) 732. As a result, the law is blocked from taking effect while the lawsuit continues and abortion up to 20 [...]
Kenya dispatch: more demonstrations over high cost of living prompt brutal police crackdown
Aynsley Genga is a JURIST Senior Correspondent in Kenya. She files this dispatch from Nairobi. On Wednesday, 12th July, Kenyans once again took to the streets to demonstrate against the tax-laden Finance Bill and the current high cost of living. The demonstrations took place under the guidance of Raila Odinga, Azimio party leader and the [...]
Justin Lindsay is a US National Correspondent for JURIST, and a rising 3L at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. On Monday, July 10th, two top US Senate Democrats announced they would be pushing forward a bill meant to close perceived loopholes in the federal judiciary. The Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act [...]
Israel’s Knesset voted Monday to advance a bill seeking to restrict the Supreme Court’s powers by limiting their ability to overrule governmental decision-making. Having cleared its first reading, the bill must now be passed through two more Knesset votes before becoming law. The bill at issue is Netanyahu’s ruling coalition’s new “scaled down” reform bill, [...]
Israel 'scaled back' judicial reform bill passes out of committee
Israeli lawmakers in the Knesset, Israel’s supreme state legislative body, made an initial reference on Tuesday to a new bill limiting the Supreme Court’s power to rule against the government. In a 9-6 vote, lawmakers in the Constitutional Law and Justice Committee voted in favor of a bill limiting “reasonableness” as a standard of judicial [...]
US Supreme Court narrows employer's ability to deny religious accommodations to employees
The Supreme Court of the United States ruled Thursday in Groff v. DeJoy that challenges under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act for religious accommodation in the workplace would require employers to show substantially increased costs. The Court used this case to clarify a precedential case often relied on in Title VII cases, and [...]
The US Supreme Court effectively ended affirmative action, which allowed US colleges and universities to consider race in their admissions programs. In a consolidated case brought by Students for Fair Admissions, Inc., the court found that Harvard University—a private university—and the University of North Carolina (UNC)—a public university—violated the US Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause by [...]
