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MAY 10, 2025

A US federal judged on Friday ordered the release of Turkish national and PhD student Rmeysa ztrk. ztrk was detained by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in March after her student F-1 visa was revoked and has remained in custody for several weeks. In April, US District Judge William Sessions in Burlington, Vermont, ordered her return to Vermont , the jurisdiction in which her habeas petition was transferred after having been filed in Massachusetts.

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by Dennis Crouch This is a follow-up on my recent discussion of Ingenico v. IOENGINE , a potentially groundbreaking decision that appears to have unintentionally upended fundamental principles of IPR estoppel. The Federal Circuit’s ruling threatens to undermine Congressional intent and, as a consequence, dramatically shift the AIA balance in favor of IPR challengers and against patent owners.

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MAY 10, 2025

A group of UN independent experts has called for the international community to act urgently to help those fleeing conflict in Sudan. The joint statement was made on Thursday in response to reports of severe human rights violations taking place in the Zamzam and Abu Shuk refugee camps in North Darfur. The experts, composed primarily of UN Special Rapporteurs, have called for the establishment of humanitarian corridors, enhanced protection for women and children, and support for “accountabi

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Many of us have been waiting for the arguments on May 15th before the Supreme Court in the birthright citizenship case to see if the justices will put long-needed limits on district courts issuing national injunctions. Critics object that Democratic groups are going to blue states in open forum-shopping to secure such injunctions from favorable judges — a record number of injunctions for an Administration that only just passed its 100th day mark.

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MAY 10, 2025

A group of 31 legal scholars from various European universities on Friday criticized the European Union (EU)’s proposal to reform corporate sustainability regulations, known as the Omnibus Simplification Package. The signatories expressed concerns that the proposed reform would undermine the clarity of the European corporate sustainability rules and lead to an increase in climate-related lawsuits against companies.

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MAY 10, 2025

The Indian Supreme Court on Friday overturned a lower court’s order directing the Wikimedia Foundation to remove a page detailing a defamation lawsuit filed by Indian news agency Asian News International (ANI), upholding the fundamental right to free speech under Article 19 of the Indian Constitution and public scrutiny. A Supreme Court bench comprising Justice Abhay S Oka and Justice Ujja Bhuyna ruled against the Delhi High Court’s takedown directives, deeming them to be “disp

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MAY 10, 2025

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemned India on Friday for its alarming censorship of news media amid escalating military tensions with Pakistan. Head of the RSF South Asia Desk Clia Mercier stated: At a time of extreme military tensions with Pakistan, blocking online media and social media accounts is a dramatic violation of the right to reliable information.

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MAY 10, 2025

Moltiply, Italy’s price comparison platform, filed a 2.97 billion damages claim against Alphabet’s Google Friday, alleging anti-competitive conduct and abuse of dominance that favored Google Shopping between 2010 and 2017. Moltiply alleged that its subsidiary 7Pixel, which operates the comparison site Trovaprezzi.it, was harmed by Google’s self-preferencing practices, which abused its market dominance to suppress competition and hinder the growth of 7Pixel by favoring its shopp

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MAY 10, 2025

Foreign ministers from Ukraine, the UK , and several European states announced their support for the establishment of a special tribunal to prosecute Russian officials for the crime of aggression against Ukraine on Friday. The countries in support include at least 37 states alongside Ukraine, and these states will have the power to hold accountable Russian political and military leaders, deriving their jurisdiction from that of Ukraine.

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MAY 10, 2025

The European Commission on Tuesday referred Hungary to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) for failing to comply with EU law regarding penalties for migrant smuggling. The case concerns Hungary’s Decree 148/2023 , adopted in April 2023. The law allows people convicted of migrant smuggling to leave prison early and serve the rest of their sentence under a system called “reintegration detention.” Under this regime, convicted individuals are released from prison shor

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MAY 10, 2025

Human Rights Watch on Friday called for the immediate release of Trinh Ba Phuong, a prominent Vietnamese human rights activist, condemning what it described as an intensifying campaign by the Vietnamese government to silence peaceful dissent. Phuong, who is already serving a 10-year prison sentence under Article 117 of Vietnams penal code for criticizing the state, now faces new charges under the same provision after prison authorities accused him in April 2025 of creating protest signs while in

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MAY 10, 2025

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Friday called for the immediate release of Russian journalist Veronika Orlova, who was sentenced to 13 days of administrative detention after filming the aftermath of an anti-Putin protest in Moscow earlier this week. Orlova, a reporter for independent outlet SOTAvision, was arrested Tuesday near Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge, where she had been filming emergency crews responding to activist Grigory Saksonovdetained after jumping into the river with a

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MAY 10, 2025

An international coalition of states on Friday formally endorsed the establishment of the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine within the Council of Europe. The endorsement came during a high-level event in Lviv attended by Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal , European Commissioner Michael McGrath , High Representative Kaja Kallas , and representatives from the Council of Europe and over 40 supporting nations.

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MAY 10, 2025

United Nations (UN) human rights experts urged on Wednesday that the international community must act immediately to end the intensifying violence in Gaza. The experts argued that since the end of the ceasefire, which started on January 19 and ended on March 18, there have been harsher attacks on the population in Gaza. They stated: Escalating atrocities in Gaza present an urgent moral crossroads and States must act now to end the violence or bear witness to the annihilation of the Palestinian p

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MAY 10, 2025

Amnesty International called on the US and other governments Thursday to secure funding to support education in Myanmar following the removal of USAID programs that are vital for students and teachers in the war-affected country. The organization reports that the reduction in foreign aid is already having a severe impact on learners and warns of the potential “lost generation” without prompt action.

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JURIST

MAY 10, 2025

The attorneys general for 15 US states sued the Trump administration on Friday over President Donald Trump’s executive order declaring the US is in an national energy emergency. Executive Order No. 14,156 , titled “Declaring a National Energy Emergency,” was signed by Trump on his first day in office. The order directs agencies to utilize all emergency permit approval policies at their disposal to facilitate expedited harvesting and utilization of all energy sources domesticall

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