The Supreme Court could control the future of 600,000 DACA recipientsThe Supreme Court could decide within the next year whether to hear a case about the legality of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy. In September 2023, Judge Andrew Hanen, a federal judge in the US Southern District of Texas, who issued…

An apparent push by India's government to consider implementation of the Uniform Civil Code, essentially a common set of personal laws for all Indian citizens, has raised concerns that the ruling party is trying to split society along communal lines. After Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said last week that the country could not…

White & Case Tech Newsflash Welcome to the first edition of our AI Legal News Summer Roundup! With both the temperature and artificial intelligence developments heating up, the time is ripe to provide periodic updates this summer on recent legal developments in the quickly changing landscape of AI, including generative AI. A slight change…

In this post, our Roundup lawyers will give you: an update on where things stand in the Roundup class action lawsuit in December 2023 (including updates from the last four trials, including the new $1.5 billion verdict on November 20, 2023, and the latest $2.25 billion verdict in Philadelphia on January 26, 2024).  the…

Eagle Pass, Texas — A federal judge in Austin on Thursday blocked Texas state officials from implementing a sweeping immigration law that would have allowed them to arrest, jail and prosecute migrants who crossed into the US illegally.The Justice Department and the American Civil Liberties Union had challenged the law known as SB4which was…

White & Case Tech Newsflash In the first edition of this series, we discussed the surge of class action litigation in the U.S., along with coordinated efforts by various governmental bodies around the world collaborating, consulting, and seeking feedback on regulation and rules concerning generative AI. As highlighted in this second edition, this flurry…

Ministers need to “immediately” update the law to recognize that computers are fallible or risk a repeat of the Horizon scandal, legal experts say.In English and Welsh law, computers are assumed to be “reliable” unless proven otherwise. But critics of this approach say this reverses the burden of proof normally applied in criminal cases.Stephen…

A day after announcing guarantees for women across India, the Congress released five guarantees for the farmers of the country. The five guarantees include the promise of legalizing the Minimum Support Price (MSP) and amending Goods and Services Tax (GST) rules in favor of farmers. The announcement comes ahead of the Lok Sabha Elections…