Overview

• Fachin assumed the presidencies of the STF and CNJ in a low‑key ceremony and selected a modest protocol to signal a more discreet tenure.
• He set weekly meetings to choose cases collectively and reiterated that the Court should avoid stepping into the legislature’s domain.
• On Wednesday, the plenary will take up whether app drivers can be recognized as employees of digital platforms, including a case Fachin kept as rapporteur.
• O STF also scheduled discussion of the Ferrogrão railway dispute for Wednesday, a project frozen since 2021 after a PGR challenge and tied to roughly R$20 billion in private investment.
• Outgoing president Luís Roberto Barroso will decide in October, after a spiritual retreat, on possible early retirement and has called recent U.S. Magnitsky‑based visa actions against ministers unreasonable.