On Thursday, the Tribunal Oral Federal 5 de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires sentenced multiple people involved in the Escuela de Mecánia de la Armada (ESMA) case. ESMA was the top clandestine detention center in Argentina during the last military dictatorship. It was the site of more than 800 crimes including torture, kidnapping, and [...]

Hong Kong’s High Court on Thursday denied another bail application made by Beijing critic and pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai Chee-ying, according to the South China Morning Post. Lai was arrested under national security law in August 2020 when authorities raided his newspaper’s headquarters. The decision comes just a week after the Court of Final Appeal overturned [...]

The Dutch House of Representatives on Thursday both drafted and approved several amendments to the country’s COVID-19 curfew legislation in an attempt to reinstate it after a trial judge granted a preliminary injunction invalidating the law earlier this week. The trial judge held that the law was impermissible, arguing that there is no “acute emergency” [...]

The Ugandan People’s Defense Forces (UPDF) on Thursday sentenced seven soldiers for attacking journalists outside of the UN High Commissioner of Human Rights office in Kampala on February 17. Flavia Byekwaso, the spokesperson of the UPDF, called the sentences a “deterrent measure to other members of the force not to engage in acts prejudicial to [...]

The North Dakota House of Representatives approved legislation Wednesday that would exempt some locally made guns from federal regulations and laws. House Bill 1272, which passed with a 69-23 vote, provides that any “personal firearm, firearm accessory, or ammunition manufactured commercially or privately in the state and which remains within the state is not subject [...]

The Berlin Regional Court upheld a preliminary injunction against a German historian that favored the heirs of the German monarchy Thursday, the latest development in nearly a decade of litigation from the Hohenzollern family seeking to recover royal property seized both before and after World War II. The action was brought by Crown Prince of [...]

On Wednesday, the Utah House of Representatives passed the controversial HB302 Bill, “Preserving Sports for Female Students,” effectively banning transgender athletes from female sports. The Bill, which was introduced by Representative Kera Birkeland and passed 50-23, would now require public schools in Utah to designate athletic activities based on “sex,” and not “gender,” a move [...]

JURIST EXCLUSIVE – A Friday on-the-ground update from another of our law student correspondents in Myanmar, filed before the military’s “daily” Internet shutdown that began at 1 AM MMT Saturday (1:30 PM EST Friday): We don’t know when the internet cut off is anymore. They will just cut off whenever they want. Some say the [...]

Four conservative lobbyists filed suit in federal court on Wednesday seeking to block Nevada Governor Stephen Sisolak’s COVID-19 emergency orders. The lawsuit calls the shelter-in-place order a “draconian” restriction on Nevadans’ rights, alleging violations of plaintiffs’ due process rights under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments and plaintiffs’ right to petition under the First Amendment to [...]

US lawmakers on Thursday introduced a comprehensive immigration bill creating an eight-year pathway to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented individuals residing in the US. Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) formally introduced the US Citizenship Act of 2021, which co-sponsored by 11 other Democratic lawmakers. Under the bill, the Secretary of Homeland Security has the authority [...]