BrazilConfirmed
On 28 August 2026 the STF's president, Edson Fachin, put ADPF 618 and ADPF 642 on the plenary calendar for 30 September. The merits judgment opened in a virtual session in 2025 and has been suspended twice by justices asking to study the file; the dockets record two justices' positions. Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania and the Associação das Testemunhas Cristãs de Jeová are admitted friends of the court in ADPF 618.
· August 28, 2026 · 10 min read
ScotlandConfirmed
Lord Braid's opinion of 20 August 2026 covers three petitions that reached Scotland's highest civil court within about two weeks. In two, brought by Greater Glasgow Health Board, Jehovah's Witness parents had refused blood; the court authorised a transfusion only if the treating clinician judged it necessary to avoid serious harm including death. The third, from Borders Health Board, records no religious objection: parents who prefer natural remedies refused a tetanus jab after the family dog bit their daughter. The judge recorded that all three sets of parents were “loving parents.”
· August 20, 2026 · 18 min read
ArgentinaConfirmed
Río Negro's legislature approved the bill 28–15 on 6 August, the first of two votes its constitution requires before it can become law. The bill's operative text never mentions Jehovah's Witnesses; the explanatory findings filed with it name them, and recite three cases, two of them refusals a judge overrode.
· August 6, 2026 · 9 min read