A regional court in Halle, Germany fined Björn Höcke, a prominent member of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, €16,900 on Monday for publicly using a slogan associated with the Nazi party. Höcke posted a video on X (formerly Twitter) announcing the fine. During an AfD event in December 2023, Höcke used the phrase “Alles [...]

Law students and young lawyers in Afghanistan are reporting for JURIST on the situation there after the Taliban takeover. For privacy and security reasons, we are withholding the name of  our correspondent filing this dispatch.   The Doha Meeting on the situation in Afghanistan brought together representatives from 25 countries as well as 5 major international [...]

India’s three new post-colonial criminal codes have been came into force Monday, marking the beginning of a new era in the country’s criminal justice system. The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023 replaced the colonial-era Indian Penal Code (IPC) which was promulgated by the British in 1862. The decades-old Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (CrPC), which [...]

The US Supreme Court on Monday vacated and remanded lower court rulings regarding the constitutionality of statutes enacted by Florida and Texas to regulate large social media companies’ content moderation practices. Both Florida and Texas passed laws in 2021 aimed at combatting what they saw as the stifling of conservative voices on major social media [...]

Toronto police announced Sunday that they are investigating two “suspected hate motivated mischief” incidents, after rocks were thrown through the windows of two synagogues in Canada’s largest city early Sunday morning. Criminal mischief is the willful destruction or damage of property. Under Canada’s Criminal Code, mischief relating to religious property that is “motivated by bias, [...]

The European Commission announced preliminary findings Monday that social media company Meta was in violation of the Digital Markets Act over its “pay or consent” advertising model. Meta, Facebook’s parent company, introduced a new option for EU Facebook and Instagram users to choose between a paid ad-free version or free alternative with personalized ads in [...]

A coalition of Louisiana parents and civil rights organizations has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the new state law (House Bill 71) that mandates the display of the Ten Commandments in all public school classrooms, saying it violates the First Amendment by imposing religious beliefs on students. The bill was signed into law on June [...]

The Delaware General Assembly on Sunday passed a constitutional amendment proposal restructuring the Delaware bail system. Senate Substitute 1 for Senate Bill 11 passed in the Delaware House of Representatives by 32 – 8 after it passed the Delaware Senate unanimously. The proposed constitutional amendment amends Article 1, Section 12 of the Delaware Constitution. The [...]

In a split decision, the Supreme Court ruled Monday that former US presidents are immune from criminal prosecution for actions taken within their constitutional purview, thus clearing a path for Donald Trump to challenge a federal indictment accusing him of conspiring to sabotage the 2020 elections. The case, US v. Trump, centers on the former [...]

Two days of UN-organized talks on the situation in Afghanistan began in Doha on Sunday, marking the first time the Taliban was present. Human rights activists expressed anger and concern over the decision to exclude women from the meeting and to consider the Taliban as the representatives of the country, despite their lack of recognition [...]