Australian law students are reporting for JURIST on law-related events in and affecting Australia. Gwendolyn Devoy is a law student at Newcastle University. She files this dispatch from Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. After the closing of the third block of hearings of the Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme earlier this month, it has [...]
A Georgia Superior Court judge Thursday released portions of a Georgia special purpose grand jury report regarding alleged 2020 general election interference. Though most of the report remains sealed, the three released portions show that a Georgia grand jury unanimously agreed that “no widespread fraud took place in the Georgia 2020 presidential election that could [...]
Organizations including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) Wednesday urged a Somali court to dismiss charges against journalist Abdalle Ahmed Mumin. The groups also claimed that the government’s decision to apprehend Mumin was an attempt to victimize strong-willed Somali journalists. In a letter to Somalia’s attorney general, the groups [...]
The Lancet medical journal released a report Wednesday revealing that 54 people who underwent Utah’s eugenic sterilization program are still surviving. An estimated 830 people were subjected to the state-sanctioned practice, which started in 1925 and ended in 1970. The report blamed the state’s eugenicists for the introduction of the program. Eugenicists believed that the [...]
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) of the United Kingdom Wednesday confirmed in a press release that the Labour Party made changes to address breaches of the Equality Act 2010. These changes are stipulated in the Labour Party’s agreed-upon action plan. The changes follow a legal notice the EHRC served to the party for [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report Wednesday accusing the United States and the United Kingdom of crimes against humanity for actions in the Chagos Islands 60 years ago. The two countries collaborated in the forced removal of the Chagossians, an indigenous population from the Islands, from 1965 to 1973. The Chagossians were forced from [...]
The Minnesota Supreme Court Wednesday upheld a state law prohibiting convicted felons from voting while on probation or parole in a 3-1 ruling. The law at issue, Minn. Stat. § 609.165 (2022), restores a felon’s right to vote upon the “discharge” of their sentence, meaning that a felon is only able to vote in the [...]
The Biden administration Wednesday announced new policies aimed at achieving the administration’s “ambitious” goals to combat climate change by building a national network of electric vehicle (EV) chargers. The guidelines build on the administration’s plans initiated under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act. The Department of Transportation finalized standards to ensure that [...]
The European Commission Wednesday referred Poland to the Court of Justice of the European Union for rulings by Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal that the Commission argues violate EU law. The Commission expressed deep concern about rulings that challenged the primacy of EU law in Poland, which they allege breach Article 19(1) TEU provisions that “ensure effective [...]
Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen Wednesday announced the passage the Climate Change Response Act, codifying the nation’s goal to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. The act passed its third reading in January and aims to establish a more well-rounded coping mechanisms in response to climate change while minimising and monitoring the emission of greenhouse gases. [...]
