Constitutional Law

The Central Election Commission opened Sunday's general election. Dodik is banned from office and still leads SNSD. New scanners delayed stations in Republika Srpska.

Lawyers told a court that Tennessee death-row inmate Christa Pike was unconscious, intubated and on a ventilator Thursday night after a failed lethal injection.

The royal palace said Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri was appointed on Tuesday after her liberal-centrist party finished first in the 23 September election.

The clerk said he will not continue in the Boulder climate-liability case set for Oct. 5. The call is that he remains off that bench, at 0.78, until a later sitting or a new notice says otherwise.

On Sunday Aleksandar Vucic formally left Serbia’s presidency before his second term ended, and Al Jazeera records the move as a bid for the prime minister’s post in a snap parliamentary election on October 25.

The prison terms in the Tiananmen-vigil case turn commemoration into a matter of legal consequence, while leaving the private life of memory beyond the record.

The company supports mandatory national requirements, but California's endorsed package is divided between chaptered bills and measures still with the governor.

BBC said the government is to set out restrictions on buying goods made in West Bank settlements, with Ed Miliband expected in the Commons today. Guardian reporting points to goods and some services, but the legal vehicle is still unresolved.

A Boston federal injunction blocks new ballot-envelope and voter-list requirements while the administration asks higher courts to let USPS enforce them.

Federal lawyers seek R$500 million in collective moral damages and product changes after a two-week TAC negotiation collapsed. The case puts age assurance, parental controls and moderation before a judge.

Nevada, the Colorado River Commission of Nevada and the Southern Nevada Water Authority filed in Las Vegas to vacate Interior’s Post-2026 decision. Near-term guidelines cut Nevada by 50,000 acre-feet. The complaint says a 3.6 million acre-foot shortage would take about 71 percent of the state’s entitlement. Interior had not answered by the freeze.

Supreme and Constitutional Court gates in Lusaka were closed on 24 August. No Mundubile or NRPUP registry number had surfaced by the freeze. Article 269 counts 24 August as day six of seven. The Judiciary’s 2026 guide says there is no time extension.

ICPC chair Musa Aliyu told State House correspondents that a National Brands Development and Made-in-Nigeria Special Project Office had been allocated space inside the SGF complex without presidential authorisation. The president ordered the promoter arrested and three permanent secretaries suspended.

Cameroon’s 93-year-old president and the first lady landed at Nsimalen from Geneva on 20 August after a private stay in Europe that ran more than ten weeks. The civil cabinet posted the return. No medical bulletin came with it.

People of the State of California v. Meta is in evidence in Oakland after openings on 18 August. An eight-person advisory jury sits with Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers. The states say the product was built to hold minors. Meta says the research does not show a clear causal harm.

David Morens pleaded guilty on 18 August to one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States. The stipulation describes Gmail routing of NIAID work after NIH terminated a bat-coronavirus grant. Sentencing is set for 12 November.

Electoral Commission chair Mwangala Zaloumis declared Hakainde Hichilema president-elect on 18 August. The official polling-station forms and a machine-readable constituency file were still unpublished at the freeze.

The state cancelled JSSC-CGL and every exam, result and selection tied to TDPL after a 16-day hunger strike. It ordered a CID probe, left the CBI demand unanswered and published no transition for selected candidates.

At 01:10 CAT, ECZ had announced 192 of 226 constituencies and no winner. Hichilema led by 969,245 votes while the government and opposition disputed an election-night raid without a public court record.

The first phase opens 2 November with fixed prices and police intake points. The Commonwealth framework still has one participating state, NSW estimates that up to 274,000 guns could be affected, and the final bill remains unsettled.

Osun declared Ademola Adeleke the winner after its public result portal paused with 471 polling units outstanding and later resumed. The certified arithmetic matched Yiaga’s parallel sample; INEC had not published the backend log needed to explain the interruption.

The Council struck Article 1 while the under-15 policy remains politically alive, leaving lawmakers with the constitutional defect it exposed: an age-proof system whose terms were unspecified even as every adult would have had to pass through it.

ECZ halted counting nationwide after attacks on poll workers and theft of marked ballots, then restarted the process after consulting law enforcement. The harder question is what the pause preserved and what only a published station reconciliation can repair.

Two executions were complete by the edition cutoff while Alabama’s warrant window remained open for a proceeding expected later. The shared date was national; the legal machinery that produced it remained state by state.

A 396-page judgment gives Atef Najib an immediate appeal and gives the Assad brothers sentences in absentia. The same ruling carries two very different kinds of legal force.

The Supreme Court dismissed two challenges as moot after the House transmitted the impeachment articles against Vice President Sara Duterte. The Senate, already convened as an impeachment court, is now the venue for trial.

The amendment raises penalties and orders states to create special courts for day-to-day trials. Central timelines and machinery fall on state budgets, yet missing the investigation deadline carries no automatic sanction.

The proposal pairs a broad, retrospective eligibility ban with seven-year renewable terms. Two 60% votes stand between the draft and a constitutional candidate filter, and the FSLN already controls the chamber.

Keiko Fujimori became Peru’s first popularly elected woman president after winning by 49,641 votes. Her party enters the restored bicameral Congress as its largest minority.

The Philippine president said cases against former Speaker Martin Romualdez were near filing and reaffirmed the 2016 maritime award. The public record still contains neither a criminal information nor a new operating order.

Public evidence-taking under Rule 129M is frozen while the president’s review proceeds, but preparatory work may continue. The majority saw irreparable harm; the dissent saw an intrusion on Parliament.