The US Supreme Court, on Thursday in a 5-3 decision, voted to reinstate the execution of John Marion Grant, allowing Oklahoma to commit its first execution in six years. A shortage of the traditionally accepted lethal injection drug cocktail has led states to experiment with new combinations. In 2014 and 2015, the state of Oklahoma [...]
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Health Canada, and the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) released ten guiding principles for the use of machine learning in medical device development. Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technologies have become increasingly important in health care. According to FDA, these technologies have the potential [...]
Facebook employees have warned for years that the company was failing to police abusive content in countries where it was likely to cause harm, according to a report by Reuters. In recent years, Facebook has faced legal action for its role in enabling violence in certain countries. In 2021, the Gambia brought a genocide claim [...]
A German steelmaker argued before the US Court of International Trade (CIT), a specialized trial court, that the US had improperly classified an EU and German climate change program as an illegal subsidy. The US Department of Commerce (DOC) placed duties on German forged steel fluid end blocks in May 2020. The steel products are imported [...]
Following Pakistan’s victory over India in a league game of the ongoing ICC Men’s T20 Cricket World Cup, police in the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan arrested several Muslim citizens for allegedly celebrating Pakistan’s win. Arch-rivals India and Pakistan played their first match of the 2021 world cup on Sunday. Pakistan won the [...]
The US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Thursday sanctioned three Lebanese individuals for involvement in corruption in Lebanon. The designated individuals are two businessmen, Jihad al-Arab and Dany Khoury, and a member of parliament, Jamil Sayyed. The individuals named by OFAC were added to the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list, which bars US [...]
The US Justice Department’s Civil Division announced on Thursday that it reached an agreement to settle civil cases with 14 plaintiffs, relating to the 2015 Charleston, South Carolina church mass shooting. Settlements range between $5 million to $7.5 million per claimant. The plaintiffs filed suit in 2016, alleging that “the FBI was negligent when it [...]
JURIST EXCLUSIVE – Law students and lawyers in Afghanistan are filing reports with JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. Here, a Staff Correspondent for JURIST in Kabul offers observations on the current posture of Afghanistan’s troubled banking system under the Taliban. For privacy and security reasons we are withholding his name and [...]
At a hearing before the UK Court of Appeal on Wednesday, US authorities assured that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange could serve any prison sentence imposed upon him in his native Australia in exchange for his extradition to the US. A lower court refused an American extradition request over the publication of US military documents related to [...]
The Italian Senate on Wednesday blocked a proposed amendment that sought to punish violent acts against members of the LGBTQ+ community through a secret vote, according to the Italian newspaper The Local. The law, informally known as “DDL Zan” (disegno di legge Zan), named after the member of parliament that proposed it, was brought to [...]
