The World Justice Project (WJP) Wednesday released its 2022 Rule of Law Index. For the fifth year in a row, the majority of countries experienced a decline in the rule of law. 85 out of 140 countries, accounting 61 percent and 4.4 billion people, saw a decline in rule of law. 52 countries, or 39 [...]
Marisa Wright is a US National Correspondent for JURIST, and a 2L at Harvard Law School. The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments next Monday in a case that could have major implications for racial equality and college admissions. The case, Students for Fair Admissions Inc. v. President & Fellows of Harvard College, [...]
Law students and law graduates in Pakistan are reporting for JURIST on events in that country impacting its legal system. Rabia Shuja holds an LLM in International Human Rights Law from Griffith College, Dublin and is Chief Correspondent for JURIST in Pakistan. She reports from Islamabad. Two weeks ago, on October 10th, a day after the [...]
JURIST staffers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law are filing dispatches on various aspects of the November 2022 midterm elections in Pennsylvania. Here, Pitt Law 1L JP Leskovich reports on how the counting of mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania is complicated and delayed by the absence of legislative authorization for “pre-canvassing”. Monday was the [...]
Jimmy Lai, a pro-democracy activist and media entrepreneur, Tuesday was found guilty of fraud charges in a Hong Kong district court. Lai also faces charges of collusion under Hong Kong’s National Security Law and sedition. Lai is already serving a prison sentence in Hong Kong for his participation in a vigil commemorating the victims of [...]
A Russian court Tuesday upheld US Women’s National Basketball Association player Brittney Griner’s nine-year prison sentence for possession and smuggling cartridges of cannabis oil, according to Russian state news agency TASS. Griner appealed her nine-year sentence on the grounds that she regretted her mistake and had no malicious intent at the time she was arrested. [...]
President of the Central African Republic Faustin-Archange Touadéra Monday fired the President of the Constitutional Court, Danièle Darlan by presidential decree, local news outlets reported. Presidential decree number 22.454, signed on Monday and promulgated on national radio and television on Tuesday, specifically orders Darlan’s removal from office. At the time of her removal, Darlan was [...]
France’s national financial crime agency Parquet National Financier (PNF) Monday reached a settlement with Credit Suisse to resolve an ongoing probe into accusations of money laundering. PNF began the investigation in 2016 when it suspected Credit Suisse of helping account holders avoid taxes and allowing clients to harbor undeclared, untaxed foreign bank accounts. The Swiss [...]
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office criminal fraud case against the Trump Organization Monday began jury selection in a New York court. The Trump Organization is charged with scheming to defraud federal, state and local authorities to avoid taxes from 2005 through 2021. Jury selection began Monday in a courtroom at the Supreme Court of New York. [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Monday upheld a district court order reducing an award for an Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) violation pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291, calling the lawsuit “abusive ADA litigation.” James Shayler filed suit against PCH, LLC (PCH) in 2020, alleging a violation of the ADA and [...]
