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Federal judges and magistrates in Mexico voted to end their nearly two-month strike on Friday against judicial reforms implemented by former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador which made judges elected rather than appointed. Although the National Association of Circuit Magistrates and District Judges (JUFED) announced that judicial proceedings will recommence, the judges and magistrates have [...]

Iran’s Supreme Court ordered a retrial of labor rights activist Sharifeh Mohammadi who had been sentenced to death for treason, according to local media that spoke to her lawyer on Saturday. The order lifts her death sentence while she awaits a retrial. In the Revolutionary Court conviction, Mohammadi’s alleged membership in the National Labor Unions [...]

The Supreme Court of Canada on Friday restored the conviction of Stuart Sabiston on firearms offenses originating from his 2019 arrest. The court upheld a trial judge ruling that allowed evidence discovered from an unlawful arrest to be admissible. At trial, the Crown relied on a loaded sawed-off shotgun as evidence to charge Sabiston with [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on Friday vacated a previous ruling that dismissed a lawsuit brought by the Oklahoma-based Muscogee (Creek) Nation, which challenged the construction of a casino in Alabama on land they claim as a sacred burial ground. The three-judge panel ordered the trial judge to conduct a “claim-by-claim” [...]

US District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan on Thursday approved the release of redacted evidence against former President Donald Trump in his federal election interference case. The order’s timing is significant; it comes less than one month prior to the 2024 elections, in which Trump is the Republican candidate, and in the aftermath of a US [...]

The Supreme Court of Canada reserved its decision on Wednesday in a case challenging the constitutionality of Saskatchewan’s prison disciplinary procedures, which were said to violate inmates’ rights under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The John Howard Society of Saskatchewan (JHSS) challenged section 68 of the procedural rule, which allows correctional workers to [...]

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday considered whether the murder conviction of Richard Glossip, a death row inmate in Oklahoma, should be set aside due to a witness having given false testimony in court and state prosecutors having failed to disclose key information about the witness. In 1997, a hotel maintenance worker named Justin Sneed [...]

Ernesa Shala is a JURIST staff correspondent in Kosovo and a recent graduate of the University of Pristina Faculty of Law.   The much-anticipated trial of the individuals accused of orchestrating the 2023 terrorist attack in Banjska, in which poice Sergeant Afrim Bunjaku was killed, commenced on Wednesday at the Basic Court in Pristina. Defendants Blagoje [...]

The Global Government Affairs team of X Corp. (formerly Twitter) announced on Tuesday the resumption of its operations in Brazil after the country’s supreme court ordered the company’s reinstatement. Justice Alexandre de Moraes of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), had instituted the ban on X on August 30 for the failure of the company to [...]

The US Supreme Court rejected the Biden administration’s appeal to review a lower court decision that bars emergency abortions violating Texas’ strict abortion ban on Monday, leaving in place restrictions on emergency abortion care in the state. The Supreme Court’s decision not to intervene in the case contrasts with its earlier action in the Idaho [...]