The North Carolina Supreme Court Friday struck down a gerrymandered legislative district map unconstitutional under the North Carolina state constitution. In August 2021, North Carolina’s General Assembly released its proposed redistricting criteria. The proposed criteria mandated a race-blind approach to redistricting and was criticized for not complying with the Voter Rights Act (VRA). In November [...]

Canadian Justice Minister David Lametti Thursday announced that the federal government will delay the expansion of its medical assistance in dying (MAID) law to patients suffering solely from mental illness. Enacted on March 17, 2021, Canada’s MAID law includes a temporary exclusion for patients whose only ailment is a mental illness. The exclusion was set [...]

Twitter early Saturday lifted bans against several journalists covering Twitter owner Elon Musk whose accounts had been banned Thursday for alleged “doxxing”, but it maintained restrictions on the Twitter account of VOA Chief National Correspondent and JURIST Journalist in Residence Steve Herman. Account suspensions for journalists from the Washington Post, CNN, the New York Times [...]

The Ohio Court of Appeals for the First District Friday rejected the state of Ohio’s request to remove an injunction against its anti-abortion law. The court rejected the claim on jurisdictional grounds. It made no statement on the merits of the claim, but rather argued that the appellate court lacked jurisdiction to overturn the preliminary [...]

“To have this happening to American journalists in the United States by an American with an American social media platform…has been raising eyebrows around the world,” said Steve Herman, Chief National Correspondent for Voice of America (VOA) and JURIST’s 2022-2023 Journalist in Residence, in an interview with JURIST Friday about his sudden ban from Twitter [...]

Twitter’s decision to ban VOA Chief National Correspondent and JURIST Journalist in Residence Steve Herman is an affront to freedom of the press, Twitter’s professed championing of free speech, and the public good. As a team of law student journalists reporting from 22 countries around the world, we know all too well that self-serving and [...]

The European Parliament Thursday voted 507 to 12 to officially recognize the Holodomor famine as a genocide of Ukrainians “inflicted by Stalin”. The resolution states: Having regard to the 2003 Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada resolution declaring the deliberate famine as an act of genocide, to the Ukrainian Law of 28 November 2006 on the ‘Holodomor in [...]

Indian law students are reporting for JURIST on law-related developments in and affecting India. This dispatch is from Nakul Rai Khurana, a law student at Jindal Global Law School.  Last week, on 9th December, a Member of Parliament from the ruling Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) introduced a private member bill on India’s Uniform Civil Code [...]

National Health Service (NHS) nurses in Britain Thursday staged their first ever national walkout and strike. The industrial action comes in the wake of unsuccessful efforts to negotiate pay with the government to match quickly rising inflation. Royal College of Nursing (RCN), the nurses’ union, maintains that nurses have faced “real-terms pay cuts” of 20 [...]

Steve Herman (@W7VOA), the Chief National Correspondent for Voice of America (VOA) and JURIST’s 2022-2023 Journalist in Residence, was among a group of high-profile journalists suspended from Twitter late Thursday. According to VOA Seoul Bureau Chief William Gallo, “It appears @W7VOA’s suspension is related to his posts about the now-banned @ElonJet account, which used publicly [...]