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Pandemic lays bare constitutional power struggle in Brazil
The Supreme Court has become a thorn in the side of President Jair Bolsonaro
World Economy News
16 May 2021 • 4 min read
It took just five days for Brazil’s supreme court to spring into action when the Jair Bolsonaro administration last month cancelled the census, citing the Covid-19 pandemic and budgetary constraints.
Justice Marco Aurélio ordered the government to reverse course and conduct the constitutionally mandated decennial survey, which had already been postponed once last year. “It is up to the supreme court to impose the adoption of measures to make the demographic research feasible,” he said.
Breaking: Brazil SC rules patent extensions unconstitutional
In a nine to two ruling, justices decided in Direct Action 5,529 to remove the guarantee of a 10-year minimum term for successful drug patent applicants May 07 2021
The Brazil Supreme
Court yesterday removed the guarantee of a 10-year minimum term for
successful pharmaceutical patent applicants.
Ruling nine to two in Direct Action 5,529, the court rendered the sole paragraph of Article 40 of Brazil s Industrial Property Law unconstitutional.
The court will come together again next Wednesday, May 12,
to decide whether the ruling should have retroactive effect.
If the justices decide that it does, granted patents for
Mauricio Savarese April 08, 2021 - 6:26 PM
SAO PAULO - A Brazilian Supreme Court justice ordered the Senate on Thursday to investigate the government s handling of the coronavirus crisis and the full court ruled that churches can be barred from reopening during the pandemic, threatening to further strain tensions between President Jair Bolsonaro and the judiciary.
The order by Justice Luis Roberto Barroso for a Senate probe came only minutes after the whole court upheld the power of local authorities to prevent churches and other houses of worship from opening.
Bolsonaro has downplayed the threat of the coronavirus while arguing that the economic and emotional impacts of shutdowns would harm more Brazilians than the pandemic. He has at times bristled at the checks and balances from other branches of government, and has repeatedly criticized the Supreme Court for upholding the power of governors and mayors to establish restrictions on economic and pers
Brazil top court orders probe of Bolsonaro s pandemic steps
MAURICIO SAVARESE, Associated Press
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