David DePape Tuesday pleaded not guilty to state charges brought against him for allegedly attacking Paul Pelosi, US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband. DePape is charged with attempted murder, burglary, elder abuse, assault with a deadly weapon, false imprisonment of an elder, and threatening a public official. On October 28, DePape allegedly broke into the [...]

The Supreme Court of Canada Friday declared the country’s national sex offender registry unconstitutional. Section 490.012 of Canada’s Criminal Code requires mandatory registration on a national sex offender registry, and section 490.013 requires lifetime registration for offenders convicted of two or more sexual offenses. The court found the criminal statutes violate Section 7 of Canada’s Charter [...]

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 [...]

JURIST law student 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 2L David DeNotaris reports on campaign financing and the race between Mehmet Oz and John Fetterman for one of the two Pennsylvania seats in the closely-divided [...]

A federal judge Thursday dismissed a Republican-led challenge to President Joe Biden’s plan to cancel billions of dollars in student debt. US District Judge for the Eastern District of Missouri Henry Autrey the claim brought by Nebraska, Missouri, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas and South Carolina for lack of standing. Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, and South Carolina attempt [...]

Several citizens groups Tuesday sued the City of Buffalo, alleging their redistricting “failed to meet the basic requirements of the law.” The complaint states that the city of Buffalo engaged in “non-compliance and arbitrary process” in its redistricting, and that the Citizens Commission, elected officials charged with redistricting, violated both New York state law and the [...]

The US Justice Department (DOJ) Thursday released a report detailing how prosecutors and sheriffs in Orange County, California, improperly used a jailhouse informant program in ways that routinely violated the constitutional rights of criminal defendants. The report determined, “there is reasonable cause to believe that the Orange County District Attorney’s Office (OCDA) and the Orange [...]

The European Commission (EC) Wednesday recommended Bosnia and Herzegovina be granted candidate status for accession to the European Union (EU). In a press release, the EC announced Bosnia and Herzegovina’s candidate status. The EC emphasized that the candidate status dictates that Bosnia and Herzegovina take steps towards reinforcing democracy, functionality of state institutions, rule of [...]

The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a motion with the US Supreme Court requesting the court not intervene in the ongoing dispute over documents seized from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago, Florida, residence. In their motion, the DOJ argues that Trump is unable to demonstrate that he is irreparably harmed by a September 21 order [...]

US President Joe Biden Friday signed an executive order to implement a data privacy framework between the European Union and the US. The order on “Enhancing Safeguards for United States Signals Intelligence Activities” outlines the steps the US will take to implement the privacy framework agreed upon in March after the EU Court of Justice [...]